King, Grace Mitchelson

Obituary -- Mrs. Grace Mitchelson King, 77, longtime resident of this area, died at 8 am today in the home of a sister, Mrs. Charles Bergen, in Wichita Kansas. She had been ill the past six months and before going to Wichita resided at the Care nursing home in Miami. Mrs. King and her late husband, Hal Mitchelson owned and operated the Mitchelson funeral home in Commerce Oklahoma from 1925 to 1957. Mrs. King served two years in the House of Representatives in Oklahoma City Oklahoma in the late 1940's. She was a member of the First Baptist church, Miami. Also surviving is another sister, Mrs. Walker Wells, Washington State. Arrangements will be announced by Jim Thomas funeral home of Commerce.

Obituary -- Services for Mrs. Grace Mitchelson King, 77, who died Tuesday morning in Wichita Kansas, will be held at 10 am Thursday in the Jim Thomas funeral home chapel, Commerce, with Dr. Weldon E. Marcum of the First Baptist church, Miami officiating. Burial will be in G.A.R. cemetery, Miami. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight at the funeral home chapel. Pallbearers will be J. C. Jeffery, Leon Waller, Bussie Corbus, Jack Thomas, Jim Thomas and Clifford Foster.