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From the "Perkins Journal" newspaper, Perkins, OK, August 8, 1985, page 7, cols. 1 & 2---
"Lay Services Held Monday
Funeral services were held for Nellie Lovina Lay, 93, on Monday, August 5, 1985 in the First United Methodist Church, Owasso. Interment was in the Luther Cemetery under the direction of Morris Funeral Home of Owasso.
Mrs. Lay died August 3, 1985 at the Collinsville Manor Nursing Home where she had resided for the past three years.
Mrs. Lay was born January 21, 1892 in Fredonia, Kansas, the daughter of Frank and Helen Booker. When she was one year old they moved to the Oklahoma Territory, settling in Fallis, Oklahoma and later moving to a farm southeast of Perkins. In 1904 they moved to Luther where she grew to womanhood.
She married William Leroy Lay on March 27, 1912 at Luther. To this union was born three children. In 1920 they moved to the same farm where she had spent her childhood. They resided there until her husband's death in 1950 when she moved to Stillwater and in 1968 to Owasso to be near her daughter.
She was a member of the Owasso United Methodist Chruch and a lifetime member of United Methodist Women and W.C.T.U.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her two sons, Leroy and Maurice.
She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Ted (Nell) Allison, a daughter-in-law, Elva Lay, two granddaughters, Theresa Sanders and Wanda Nash, all of Owasso and a grandson, Ted W. Allison of Catoosa; six great-grandchildren, three sisters, Mildred Collier of Wellston, Thelma Saulsberry, Shawnee, and Ruth Clymer of Oklahoma City; two brothers, Carl and Floyd Booker of Luther and a host of nieces and nephews."
From Mahlon Erickson's "Payne County Cemetery Index", buried in Perkins cemetery--
Maurice B. Lay, b. 5 Sept 1913, d. 4 Feb 1981 "H of Elva Williams"
Elva E. Lay, b. 18 Nov 1915, d. 23 Apr. 1989 "W of Maurice".
There is also a Carl Lay burial in Payne County, OK.
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