Hughes County,

Oklahoma

LOTTIE LEDBETTER

(Died Dec 12, 1989)

   Lottie LEDBETTER, longtime Holdenville resident, died Tuesday morning at Holdenville General Hospital at the age of 90.

   Services will be at Hudson Funeral Home Chapel at 1:30 p.m. Thursday with Larry BAILEY officiating.  Burial will be in Holdenville Cemetery under direction of Hudson Funeral Home.

   Lottie was born October 21, 1899 to Mr. and Mrs. George LRDBETTER in Webber’s Falls, Oklahoma.  She came to the Hulsey area as a young girl and was reared in the Holdenville and Calvin areas.

   Her mother died when she was 14 and her father soon afterwards.  Lottie, the oldest daughter became head of the family at 16.

   There were 11 kids, counting her five step-sisters.  The children ranged upward from three years of age.  She reared them and sent them to school and finally married off all but one brother, Elmo.

   The rearing she mentioned consisted of making a living for the family of 11 from a small acreage of rented farm land in the area south of Holdenville Lake.

   Miss LEDBETTER began to put her house together with one deserted room to a building she bought for $20 and got another one later almost as cheap.

   With the help of a brother, she put a ceiling in the rooms, patched them up, papered them and turned the collection of shacks into a home.

   Lottie was a member of the East Main Church of Christ.

   She is survived by three brothers, Harry LEDBETTER of Holdenville, Ollie LEDBETTER of Seminole and Ed LEDBETTER of Claremore; two step-sisters, Agnes PRITCHARD of Oklahoma City and Lola Ugie BANKS of Jacksonville, N.C., several nieces and nephews, and great-nieces and great-nephews.

   Lottie was preceded in death by one sister, Iva COWEN and two brothers, Elmo and Jim, two step-sisters Georgia MAXWELL and Willie COOK.

Submitted by Donna