Contributed by Victoria Day-Cook
Email: PieOhNear@aol.com

Obituary: 

"Eve French Rites Set [her name was actually Eva French - newspaper error]
 
Graveside services for Eve [Eva] Curry French will be at 2 p.m. Monday at 
Glencoe I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Mrs. French died Saturday, Dec. 20, 1975, at 
Stillwater Nursing Center at the age of 92.

Virgil Calvert, Glencoe Baptist minister, will officiate, and services are 
under the direction of Strode Funeral Home.

Mrs. Curry [French] was born at Pawnee City, Neb., Sept. 2, 1883, and came to 
Oklahoma with her parents, Celestia Dewey and Louis White Curry, when she was 
seven. They lived 10 miles northeast in Oklahoma Territory until 1896, when 
the family settled in Stroud. She recieved her education at Sac and Fox 
Agency Schools in Chandler and taught school at Weatherford before coming to 
Glencoe to teach at Union Home School.

She was a member of the Methodist church in Stroud. She married Benjamin 
Marcus French in April 1908 and they lived 47 years on the homestead he took 
in the 1892 Cherokee Strip Run.

The couple's children include Bertha French Musgrave, and Ralph B. French, 
both deceased; Bessie French McCoy, Pasadena, Calif.; Hazel French Day, 
Glencoe; Vesta French Monroe and Kenneth R. French, Oklahoma City, and Curtis 
H. French, Ponca City.

Five brothers and three sisters and her husband preceded her in death.

She is survived by three sisters and a brother, Alma Hinds, Oklahoma City; 
Bertha Arnold, Stroud; Lucille Kornman, Drumright, and Dewey Curry, Chandler, 
as well as by eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. 

Friends may call until noon Monday at Strode Funeral Home."  --Source: 
Stillwater Newspress
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Contributed by: Victoria Day-Cook (Granddaughter of Eva Alzina Curry-French)