UPDATED: 12/14/2023
Please refer to the “Eastham Genealogy Information Project” link above.
Martha Leona (Eastham) Price (11/22/1887- 8/19/1980) married Dewitt Clinton Price, they had 4 children:
i Odie Price (7/16/1908-3/15/1990)
ii Owen “Cotton” Price (2/3/1914-6/14/1994)
iii Marvin “Dough” Price (10/10/1917 – 10/29/1989)
iv Chester “Check” Price (7/19/1920-6/10/2000)
Odie Andrew Price
Odie Andrews Price married (M1) Doris Jones on April 27, 1929 at Nowata. Dorise passed away on April 29, 1973. They had three sons and two daughters:
Charles A. Price
Harold Ray Price
Donald Joe Price Billie D. (Price) Enneking
Janet (Price) Doman
Odie married (M2) Verona Fry on June 13, 1977 at Miami.
odie’s obituary
Odie Andrew Price, 81, Nowata, died Thursday afternoon, March 15, 1990 in the Jane Phillips Nowata Health Center. Mr. Price was born July 16, 1908 at Alpena Pass, Arkansas, the son of Dee and Leona Eastham (Price).
As a young child, he moved from Arkansas to Centralia and then later moved to Lenpah in 1917. Price moved to Leavenworth, Kansas in 1942 and finally moved to Nowata in 1977. He was first married to Doris Jones April 27, 1929 at Nowata. She preceded her husband in death on April 29, 1973. He then married Verona Fry June 13, 1977 at Miami.
Price was a retired welding instructor for the Vo-Tech school at Atchinson, Kansas. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Verona Price, of the home; three sons, Charles A. Price, Wichita, Kansas; Harold Ray Price, Leavenworth, Kansas; and Donald Joe Price, Gladstone, Missouri; two daughters, Billie D. Enneking,Marion, Iowa; and Janet Doman, Chesterfield, Missouri; one adopted son, Ronald Lee Price, Fort Hood, Texas; and one adopted daughter, Ronda L. Hicks, Nowata, Oklahoma.
Other survivors include five stepsons, Keith Schonherr and Rick Schonherr, both of Nowata; Eddie Schonherr, Arizona; Willis Schonherr, Delaware; and Jim Bob Schonherr, McLough, Kansas; and two stepdaughters, Marietta Schonherr, Nowata; and Linda Modestino, Bethany.
Also, two brothers, Charles O. “Cotten” Price and Chester R. Price, both of Nowata; 16 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Mr. Price was preceded in death by two brothers, Marvin Price, who died Oct. 10, 1989; and by an infant brother. Funeral services for Mr. Price were held at 10a.m. Saturday, March 17 in the Benjamin Funeral Chapel with Dr. Allen Schneider officiating. Graveside funeral services followed at 10a.m. Monday, March 19 in the Mt. Muncie Cemetery, Leavenworth.
Owen “Cotton” Price
Owen “Cotton” Price married Belva Lee (Hancock) Price(12/3/1917-7/15/2015) on March 21, 1936. They had a son, Robert Gerald Price.
Belva lee (hancock) price obituary
Memorial services for Belva Lee (Hancock) Price were conducted on Saturday, July 18 at the First United Methodist Church of Nowata, with Pastor Jeffrey Rickman officiating. Interment was at Mount Washington Cemetery in Lenapah under the direction of Benjamin Funeral Service of Nowata.
She was born December 3, 1917, in Grandfield, OK to Maude Virginia (Bell) Hancock and Edward Hancock. She died July 15, 2015.
She graduated from Lenapah High School in 1935. She married Charles Owen Price, March 21, 1936. They lived in Lenapah until 1964, when they moved to Coffeyville. They moved to Nowata in 1975.
Survivors include Linda Patton and husband, Jim; two grandchildren: Melinda Bellatti and husband, Chuck and Jim Patton and wife, Traci; five great grandchildren: Lauren Bellatti, Nate Bellatti, Chase Patton, Isaac Patton, and Joseph Patton and her sister’s two children, Ginger White and Karen Bair.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Maude Virginia Hancock, her husband, Charles Price, a son, Robert Gerald Price, a sister, Mildred Wills, and a great granddaughter, Taylor Patton.
Marvin “Dough” Price
Marvin married Mary Elizabeth (Nicholson) Price (4/1/1922-1/18/2015) on June 12, 1945, and had one daughter, Sherri.
Marvin is buried in Mt. Washington Cemetery, Lenapah, Nowata County, Oklahoma.
mary elizabeth (nicholson) price obituary
Mary Elizabeth (Nicholson) Price passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 18, 2015, having lived in ten decades. Mary was born April 1, 1922 to Clarence Owen (Nick) and Sarah Melissa (Sadie) Nicholson. At that time they lived in an oilfield camp at Wild Horse (Osage County) Oklahoma between Prue and Hominy. She was very proud of her Cherokee heritage.
She was educated in Wann, Lenapah, and Bradley, Illinois schools and graduated from Wann High School in 1940. She was also a graduate of Marinello Beauty Academy in St. Louis, Missouri in 1942. Although she was hesitant to admit it until recently, she worked as a keypunch operator during World War II in Washington D.C. on the very first computer ever invented.
Mary and Marvin Robert (Dough) Price were married June 12, 1945 in Tyro, Kansas. He died October 29, 1989. They lived in Lenapah, Delaware, Nowata, and Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She owned beauty salons in Delaware and Nowata as well as worked at the Vanity Box and Kel-Mur Beauty Shops in Coffeyville.
Mary was a member of Sunrise Chapter #22, Order of the Eastern Star; Sunshine Court #26, Order of the Amaranth; and Bethel Shrine #3 of the White Shrine of Jerusalem. She was especially proud of being Worthy Matron of Tahlequah and Delaware Chapters of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Mary was preceded in death by her husband Marvin R. Price; her parents, Clarence and Sadie Nicholson; her sisters, Ida “Louise” Allen and Betsy Windhorst and her brother, David S. “Bud” Nicholson. She is survived by her sister Nola (Mrs. Paul) Ochman of Pennsylvania and numerous nieces and nephews. She is also survived by her son Billy Ray Hawk (Vickie) Beaver of Delaware and her daughters Merry Marlene Kincaide, Dee Anne Kester and Sherry Lynn Stoll (Raymond F.), all of Nowata and her special adopted daughter Chris Chisum (Tony) and her family of Oologah. She has many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She loved each of them and cherished them greatly. Her family was of utmost importance to her.
Funeral services will be held 10:00 A.M., Thursday, January 22, 2015 at the First Church of God, Pine and Seneca, Nowata, OK . Interment will follow at Mt. Washington Cemetery in Lenapah, OK. Visitation will be from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M., Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at Benjamin Funeral Service. Arrangements have been entrusted to Benjamin Funeral Service.
Sherri Price
Chester Ray “Check” Price
Chester married Eleanor Marie (Cranor) Price (8/31/1918-3/23/2009) on June 28, 1940 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They had one son:
i Gary Ray Price
They are buried in Mt. Washington Cemetery, Lenapah, Nowata Country, Oklahoma.
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