Zeta Frances Freeman

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Research of Ray and Mary Straw.

research of S. Freeman on www.rootsweb.com

[courtesy of P. Rogers on www.rootswweb.com]
The War Was Very Real to Young Girl( by Zeta Freeman)
Cappers Weekly February 9, 1985
"I was only 11 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, but the war was very real to me. Airplanes flew over our place daily. Some were in training and others were transfering. As we worked in the fields, we would stop to count the planes. Our cousins, uncles and neighbor's sons had all gone to war. Some were injured, some never came home, and several came home with their minds scarred forever or physically disabled. I wondered at night if it would ever end and sometimes I had bad dreams.
On the morning of August 14, 1945, Daddy had gone up to Grandpa's to get our mail. When he came home, he brought the news of the Japanese surrender. Mama cried, her youngest brother was in the South Pacific. I was only 15 years old then, but the war had made an impression on my life.
Daddy unharnessed the horses and turned them out to pasture. We did not work that day. Mama cooked a "Sunday dinner." She opened our last jar of canned beef which she had been saving for "special." After dinner, we walked across the river to the channel and went swimming. This was the way we celebrated the end of the War."

obit
BRENNON
BEAVER, Okla. -- Zeta Brennon, 69, died Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2000, at the Beaver County Nursing Home in Beaver, Okla.
She was born Sept. 27, 1930, to McKinley and Cordelia (Young) Freeman in Dewey County, Okla.
She attended the Church of God and was a homemaker.
She married Michael Brennon Aug. 12, 1966, in Beaver. He survives.
Other survivors include a son, Charles Peterman, Houston,Texas; three daughters, Brenda
Holcomb, Bella Vista, Ark., Tamara Bensch, Manhattan, and Melody Clark, Beaver; two brothers, Joe Freeman, Gage, Okla., and Cecil Freeman, Woodward, Okla.; six sisters, Daisy Gregory, Beaver, Alice Hull, Forgan, Okla., Lois Hoskinson and Rosemary Rock, both of Woodward, Carol Dunavant, Amarillo, Texas, and Sandra Reynolds, Athens, Texas; and many grandchildren.
* Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Beaver First Baptist Church.
Interment will be at Fairview Cemetery, Clearlake, Okla., under the direction of Clark Funeral Service, Beaver.
Fairview Cemetery, Clearlake, Beaver Co., OK

Zeta married Charles Henry Peterman, son of James Avery Peterman and Lillie Mae Straw, in Jul 1947 in Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma. (Charles Henry Peterman was born on 24 Jan 1920 in Oakwood, OK and died on 22 Oct 1994.)

Zeta next married Living