Beulah Lee Straw

  General Notes:

per sister Ruby's obit of April 2003: "She is survived by sister, Beulah Brownson of Cherokee, OK"

BEULAH BROWNSON
Published in Enid, OK. News
Saturday, August 20, 2005 (with picture)
Submitted by: Sylva Rhodes <mailto:rhosyl@sbcglobal.net>
BEULAH BROWNSON
Cherokee, OK. -- Funeral services for Beulah Brownson, 81, will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, August 21, 2005 at the Cherokee Friends Church with the Revs. John Havens and Gail Edmison officiating. Burial will be in the Cherokee Municipal Cemetery under the direction of the Goodwin Funeral Home of Cherokee. Visitation at the funeral home will be Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. with the family present from 5 to 7 p.m.
She was born October 14, 1923 in Cherokee, OK. to Frank and Nancy Sallee Straw and died August 17, 2005 in Enid, OK.
She attended Short Springs Rural School. She worked for Dr. Dunnington before her marriage to Charles A. Brownson in Cherokee, OK. on September 15, 1940. Soon after their marriage he entered the military service and she lived with family members in Oklahoma and California until his discharge when they returned to Cherokee to establish their home.
She worked for various businesses in Cherokee. The most recent the Fashion Cottage where she worked until her retirement.
She was a member of the Cherokee Friends Church.
Surviving are one daughter, Nancy and her husband Ron Bliss of Enid, OK.; two sons, Frank Brownson of Midland, TX. and Charles Brownson of Joliet, IL.; five grandsons, Christopher Brownson of Joliet, IL., Craig Brownson and family of Houston, TX., Chuck Brownson of Houston, TX., Travis Bronson Bliss of Tulsa, OK., Theron J. Bliss of Tulsa, OK.; a granddaughter, Natalie Bliss of Stillwater, OK.; four great-grandchildren; a sister, Margie Puthuff of Enid, OK. and a brother, Frank Straw of Crescent City, CA.
She was preceded in death by her husband on January 27, 2004, three sisters, Betty Gannon, Lila Krob and Ruby Nutter and a brother Chester Straw.
Memorials may be given to the Cherokee Friends Church through Goodwin Funeral Home.

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Beulah married Charles Ambrose Brownson, son of Franklin Brownson and Mamie Hero, on 14 Sep 1940 in Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. (Charles Ambrose Brownson was born on 14 Jun 1920 in Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, died on 27 Jan 2004 in Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma and was buried in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.)