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Edith A. Peterson was born in 1878 in New York. She and George Ballingall Boomer were married on 25 December 1900 in Omer, Arenac, Michigan.¹ She died after 16 April 1910.

Edith A. Peterson was a Clerk in Department Store.¹

Mary Doyle was born about 1879 in Canada. She and George Ballingall Boomer were married on 2 September 1916 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan.

Douglas V. Porter was born on 17 November 1929.¹ He died on 15 November 1994, at age 64, in Briley, Montmorency, Michigan.¹

Aretta Boomer was born in 1894. She died on 8 April 1900, at age ~6, in Bay City, Bay, Michigan.

Bess Bryan was born on 26 November 1911 in Morenci, Greenlee, Arizona.² She and Charles (Charlie) Albert Evans were married on 10 September 1932 in Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma.³ She died on 22 April 1976, at age 64, in Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma.² She was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum (Christus Garden, Lot 40, Section C, Space 2), Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma.²

Bess Bryan was educated in Oklahoma State University. Services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at Strode Chapel for Mrs. Bess B. Evans, who died Tuesday, April 20, 1976, at her home at 1814 W. Liberty Ave. She was 64. Rev. Lloyd Peters will officiate.
Strode Funeral Home is directing services.
Born at Morenci, Ariz., Nov. 26, 1911, she was the daughter of Jesse H. and Beaufort Bryan. She married Charles A. Evans Sept. 10,1932 in Stillwater.
A graduate of Pond Creek High School, Mrs Evans received her teaching certificate from Oklahoma State University. She lived with her husband in Drumright, Stigler, Okmulgee, Muskogee, and Bismark, N.D. After his retirement from the soil Conservation Service in 1973, the couple moved to stillwater. Mr. Evans survives.
Mrs Evans was a member of the First United Methodist Church, served on the official board of the Bismark Methodist Church, and was past president of the Womans Society of Christian Service in Bismark.
She is survived by a son, Charles A. "Bo" Evans Jr., Winters, Tex.,two grandsons and a sister, Mrs R.H. Simmons, Wichita, Kan.

Charles A. (Bo) Evans, Jr., was born on 25 October 1936 in Oklahoma.^2,3 He died on 13 December 1999, at age 63, in Buffalo, Harper, Oklahoma.³ He was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery (Section 9), Ada, Pontotoc, Oklahoma.³

Nadine Kerns was born on 1 February 1916 in Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma.¹ She and Charles (Charlie) Albert Evans were married on 19 February 1980 in Fort Bragg, Cumberland, North Carolina.² She died on 17 April 2008, at age 92, in Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma.¹ She was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum, Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma.¹

Nadine Kerns was educated in Oklahoma A&M. Stillwater News-Press April 19, 2008

Nadine Kerns Powell Evans, 92, of Stillwater passed away Thursday, April 17, 2008, in her home at Golden Oaks Village. Family will be gathered for visitation from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. on Sunday at Strode Funeral Home. Interment in Sunset Memorial Gardens is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Monday with funeral services following at 1:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Stanley M. Warfield, Jr. officiating. Strode Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Nadine was born Feb. 1, 1916 in Stillwater to Owen David and Lena May (Montgomery) Kerns. She was raised in Stillwater and graduated from Stillwater High School in 1934.

After attending Oklahoma A&M;, she married Harold "Wayne" Powell on Nov. 25, 1935, in Kingfisher. After Wayne's death on Jan. 15, 1973, Nadine married Charles Albert Evans on Feb. 19, 1980, at Ft. Bragg, N.C.

During her working years, she was secretary to Murl Rogers at the OSU Alumni Office, worked at the courthouse, and was the bookkeeper for Kerns Construction until her retirement.

She had been a member of Lahoma and cherished her friends at Twentieth Century Club, the Jim Richardson Sunday school class at the Methodist church and her card-playing buddies.

She was a volunteer at the Stillwater Medical Center until a few years ago and helped with dozens of dinners at the church in her younger years.

She loved to travel, garden, play bridge, sew clothes for her grandchildren when they were young, and cook family dinners. No one could fry chicken and okra like Nadine. Her butter horn roll recipe is in numerous cookbooks and recipe boxes.

She was "nana" to dozens of her children's and grandchildren's friends and always had a hug and a smile for everyone. She never met a stranger.

Nadine was predeceased by both husbands, her parents, a brother, Loren G. Kerns and his wife, Mitzi, and a great-grandchild, Kennedy Sherer.

She is survived by her son, Dick Powell and her daughter, Deanna Powell, and their spouses Carol Ann Powell and Gary Corser. Her grandchildren are Shelly Powell Sherer and her husband, Robert, Beth Glass Worley and her husband, Craig, from Stillwater, Malinda Powell Boswell and her husband, Jay, Weslaco, Texas, Jeff Glass and his wife, Lisa, Hurst, Texas, Christian Corser, New York City, Kevin Corser, Chicago, and Kent Corser and his wife Amy, Hoffman Estates, Ill. Her surviving great grandchildren are Ryan, Cole, and Krislyn Sherer, Brendan and Brooke Worley, Jayson, Tracia and Kylie Boswell, Tyler Fioresi, Morgan Glass, and Dylan Corser. She is also survived by a niece, Gwenith Piersall, and nephew, Bob Kerns, both of Stillwater and many great-nieces and nephews and cousins.

Memorial contributions can be made in Nadine's name to the First United Methodist Church, 400 W. Seventh, or Judith Karmen Hospice, PO Box 818, Stillwater, 74076.