NAME:
HILLIKER, Marjorie Olive(1919-2008)
Daughter of William J. HILLIKER (1873-1922)+ and Margaret Isabelle BOWES (1890-1966)+
BIRTH: 17 MAR 1919
PLACE: Picher, Ottawa, Oklahoma, USA
DIED:4 Sep 2008
PLACE:Hugo,Choctaw,Oklahoma, USA
BURIED:8 Sep 2008
PLACE: Neodesha, , Kansas, USA
SPOUSE # 1:Ralph GREER (1904-1964)
MARRIAGE DATE 29 June 1940
PLACE: Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri
SPOUSE # 2 Leonard JACKSON
MARRIAGE DATE: 1966
PLACE:
SPOUSE # 3 Howard HAWKINS
MARRIAGE DATE: 1969
PLACE:
PARTNER:Raymond WREN
SIBLINGS:
Sarah Belle HILLIKER (1908-1963)
Lydia Moore HILLIKER (1910-1945)+
Arbinnie Ruth HILLIKER (1912-1983)+
Florence Margaret HILLIKER (1914-1935)
Irene Elizabeth HILLIKER (1916-1975)+
Nora Ruby HILLIKER (1921-1996)+
Biography of Marjorie Olive Hilliker
(Told in her own words).
I was born in Picher, Oklahoma March 17, 1919 to William and Margaret Hilliker.
I was the sixth girl, so I'm sure they were real happy with another girl. (ha). Then we moved to Sycamore, Kansas. and my youngest sister was born. I don't remember this either, but older girls said neighbors said, " you'd think they never had a sister." (ha).
The first I remember was living in the country out of Anderson, Missouri. That's where we lived when my dad died. I remember the house and some things that took place there but I don't remember my dad.
The next thing I remember was a long trip to Colorado where my Grandpa, John Henry and Grandma, Janie Elizabeth Bowes lived. They had one son, William Orvel Bowes, still living at home.
Uncle Bill (William) Bowes took mom and five of the girls. My oldest sis was married and another older sis was living with Uncle Henry and Aunt Jessie Williams Bowes. I was about five as I had started school in Colorado.
My grandparents and Uncle Bill left us out there. I remember mom topping beets in the fields. Next thing I remember was mom and we four girls went back to Tulsa by train. My older sister, Lydia, had a job and stayed in Colorado.
We lived on Marshal Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended Lowell School.
When I was about eight years old, I went to stay with Uncle Robert and Aunt Gladys Bowes. Then we moved to Oologah, Oklahoma.
Their daughter, Jessie, and I walked two miles to North Lawn School down Highway 75. We stayed there about two years before moving to Cooper Town which was really the North side of Neodesha.
In 1930 when I was almost 11 years old I went back to live with mom. I think I did that because I was homesick and was wanting to go home. I went to a one room school house and learned to sew in the fifth grade.
Nora, Irene and I went to Lowell School again. In February 1940 Nora and I went to live with our sister, Sarah, and her husband, Bill Wise, living in Jennings, Oklahoma.
I didn't stay long with Sarah and Bill Wise when I moved in with the Tucker family. They lived in the country and Mr. Tucker wanted someone to help out with his wife and two small boys.
Sarah and Bill took Nora and I back to Tulsa, Oklahoma where Arbinnie (my sister) and her husband Wid Bostic lived. Arbinnie and Wid took Nora, and Aunt Gladys and Uncle Robert took me back.
I was about 12 years old then and still in the 5th grade. I had moved so many times that they wouldn't pass me.
I was going to Dawson School (North of Tulsa). I got through 6th grade there, then went to the 7th and 8th grade at Cleveland Junior High in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I quit school and went to work in peoples' homes. I got paid $1.50 per week with room and board. I did that for about two years. Then my sister, Nora, married Conrod Scharff and was expecting her first child. I went to stay with them to help out. I got a job in laundry and then they decided to move back to Tulsa, so I quit my job and went with them.
In 1936 I had gone to work in a home again and Nora and Conrod decided to go back to Eureka, Kansas. I didn't go that time, so that's why I wasn't present when the baby was born. It was a girl and they named her Ruby Loretta Scharff.
Later they came back to Tulsa to live and were expecting their second child. I went with them this time. We stopped off at Neodesha to see some of the Scharff's. There was a big mixup and Conrod went to Eureka.
I sent Nora on the bus in February 1938 and I hitchhiked the next day, so, I was with Nora when her second girl was born. They named her Barbara Marea Scharff. I stayed with them until the baby was about three weeks old.
I met Ralph Greer while there in Neodesha and had a date set for Saturday night. I didn't keep the date and later Ralph always said that I stood him up.
I went back to Neodesha and dated Ralph a few times and went on to Antlers, Oklahoma because another sister Arbinnie had a baby due in June. They were twins Boyce Lee and Joyce Lucille Bostic born June 17.
I stayed with them until the 4th of July then went back to Neodesha and continued dating Ralph for two years.
We were married June 29th 1940 at Sedalia, Missouri. Ralph was a carpenter foreman for N.J. Smart Company. He traveled a lot for the company building warehouses
We got a small metal trailer that we could pull behind car and lived in that for two years living in apartments after that.
We went to Neodesha in 1943 and we stayed there and bought a home in 1944. We adopted Ernest Ralph Evans in 1945. He was son of my sister, Lydia Evans, who was killed on Inter Urban on Sandspring Railroad Tracks.
Adopting Ernest completed our family and we were very happy.
I joined the P.T.A. while Ernie was in grade school and was secretary treasurer for a couple of years.
I joined the First Christian church in about 1952. I was treasurer for Sunday School class for a year.
I also joined the Rebecca Auxilary Lodge about the same time. Rebecca Auxilary of ( I. O. O. F) ( Independent Order of Odd Fellows ). I was in the marching group.
We initiated for our Lodge and surrounding towns. We marched and formed the letters I.O.O.F
I enjoyed that very much.. I also belonged to Canasta Club for a few years.
We lived in that home for 16 years.
In 1960 we bought 80 acres with a home on it in the country. We had to do a lot of remodeling on the house and also had to put in some new fences around the property. We bought some cows and were doing fine until Ralph got sick in 1964 and went into the hospital. He died suddenly of a heart attack in the hospital.
I had gone to work in 1954 at a sewing factory in CherryVale, Kansas. I continued working there for another year after Ralph's death. The right to work bill passed in Kansas and members dropped out of the Union.
It was H.D. Lee pants and shirts we made and they were union.
Next I bought a mobile home and moved back to Hugo, Oklahoma. I worked in the glove factory a little while. Then worked in motel. I moved back to Tulsa, Oklahoma and worked in a donut shop. Afterwards working at Brians infant wear.
I married Len Jackson in 1966 and divorced him in 1968.
I married Howard Hawkins in 1969 and that was when my troubles began. I divorced him in 1975. I really wasn't sorry for marrying Howard because I gained a family and still have them.
I was living at Fort Smith, Arkansas and worked in a furniture factory.
Next , I worked at a shirt factory in Fort Smith with my sister Nora.
Nora decided to go back to California and so we both went to California in 1975. . She and I managed apartments in Roseville, California.
After being there for six months, Nora went back to her former husband, Elmer Brower. And I decided that I wanted to go back to Hugo, Oklahoma.
I lived at Hugo until about 1978 working at a dress factory. I moved to Oklahoma City and worked at a drapery place.
In 1979 I retired and moved back to Hugo. I lived there until 1988 when I met Raymond Wren. In 1986 we decided to move in together. We loved to dance and have a lot of fun. We bought a mobile home together and had it established on his acreage in Nashoba and have been together now 17 years. In a couple of months it will be 18 years.
We have both slowed down a lot and still happy we're together.
This is October 25, 2004
2008 Aunt Marge was diagnosed with Cancer. The doctor's aren't sure it is Cancer because they can't get a biopsy of it.
She is 89 years old and they say that it would be worse to do an exploratory surgery because of her age. They agree that it would be treated the same if they found out that for sure that it is Cancer. They are 99% sure that it is.
There are three spots on the brain, which she is taking radiation treatments for. They say that it is in her liver, spleen, kidneys, and lungs. They think that it originated from the lungs.
Marea flew back to Oklahoma to be with her and help her in anyway she could. Norma and Charles JAMES live next door and they help her tremendously. Marea DEROSA could only stay for 3 weeks because she has family in California.
Between Norma and Marea, they tried to get help for her so, it would lift some of the burden off of relatives. Marge can't hardly get around anymore by herself. She has to have someone with her at all times. Norma got her assigned to a rehabilitation Center just before Marea had to leave for California and while Marge was there, she fell on her way to bathroom.
She seemed to be O.K. so, the nurses decided to put a potty by her bedside so she wouldn't have to get up to go to the bathroom. During the night, she had to go, so she reached over to get herself on the potty and fell again. This time breaking her hip.
July 17, 2008 The ambulance took her to the Hospital in Paris, Texas. Doctor GOLDIE and Doctor Jeff NIELSON did surgery on her hip called Hemiarthroplasty( hip replacement socket) and she seems to be doing fine.
One of her doctors were Doctor Pabalonia. He was the one that ordered the x-ray. They found a large hyperechoic mass in right lobe of the liver with increased vascularity within mass. The finding is consistant with Hemangioma. Enlarged spleen. (splenomegaly)
This is September 4th 2008 and Norma JAMES called Marea DEROSA from Oklahoma and told her Marge GREER died last night. This is really the best thing because she was in so much pain. Norma was staying all night at the center every night and someone would stay with her during the day attending to her needs. Norma was exceptional in taking care of her. She wouldn't leave her side. Maybe, to just go home and change clothes. Charles would help out also.
Marge had gotten so bad that the pain was intense. Pain medicine wouldn't ease the pain.
Aunt Marge didn't want a funeral service so, Norma had a showing only. It was suppose to be very nice. Anyone that wanted to come and see Aunt Marge at the funeral home was welcome too. They had a little movie of her in different stages of her life that would run constantly with music of her and Uncle Raymond's songs that they liked to dance to.
The name of the funeral home was Prater- Lampton - Mills & Coffey Funeral Home. She was going to be buried where Uncle Ralph was buried. Right next to him. The date today is Sept. 6, 2008. She had her plot already picked out and paid for.
United States Obituary Collection about Marjorie Olive Greer
Name of Deceased: Marjorie Olive Greer
Age at Death: 89
Death Date: 9 Apr 2008
Obituary Date: 6 Sep 2008
Newspaper Title: Paris News, The
Newspaper Location: Paris, TX, Us
Birth Date: abt 1919
Locations Mentioned in Obituary: Hugo, OK
Other Persons mentioned in Obituary: Obituary
Marjorie Olive Greer
HUGO, Okla. ? Marjorie Olive Greer, 89, of Hugo, Okla. died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.
Obituary - September 5, 2008
HILLIKER, Marjorie Olive(1919-2008)
Daughter of William J. HILLIKER (1873-1922)+ and Margaret Isabelle BOWES (1890-1966)+
BIRTH: 17 MAR 1919
PLACE: Picher, Ottawa, Oklahoma, USA
DIED:4 Sep 2008
PLACE:Hugo,Choctaw,Oklahoma, USA
BURIED:8 Sep 2008
PLACE: Neodesha, , Kansas, USA
SPOUSE # 1:Ralph GREER (1904-1964)
MARRIAGE DATE 29 June 1940
PLACE: Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri
SPOUSE # 2 Leonard JACKSON
MARRIAGE DATE: 1966
PLACE:
SPOUSE # 3 Howard HAWKINS
MARRIAGE DATE: 1969
PLACE:
PARTNER:Raymond WREN
SIBLINGS:
Sarah Belle HILLIKER (1908-1963)
Lydia Moore HILLIKER (1910-1945)+
Arbinnie Ruth HILLIKER (1912-1983)+
Florence Margaret HILLIKER (1914-1935)
Irene Elizabeth HILLIKER (1916-1975)+
Nora Ruby HILLIKER (1921-1996)+
Biography of Marjorie Olive Hilliker
(Told in her own words).
I was born in Picher, Oklahoma March 17, 1919 to William and Margaret Hilliker.
I was the sixth girl, so I'm sure they were real happy with another girl. (ha). Then we moved to Sycamore, Kansas. and my youngest sister was born. I don't remember this either, but older girls said neighbors said, " you'd think they never had a sister." (ha).
The first I remember was living in the country out of Anderson, Missouri. That's where we lived when my dad died. I remember the house and some things that took place there but I don't remember my dad.
The next thing I remember was a long trip to Colorado where my Grandpa, John Henry and Grandma, Janie Elizabeth Bowes lived. They had one son, William Orvel Bowes, still living at home.
Uncle Bill (William) Bowes took mom and five of the girls. My oldest sis was married and another older sis was living with Uncle Henry and Aunt Jessie Williams Bowes. I was about five as I had started school in Colorado.
My grandparents and Uncle Bill left us out there. I remember mom topping beets in the fields. Next thing I remember was mom and we four girls went back to Tulsa by train. My older sister, Lydia, had a job and stayed in Colorado.
We lived on Marshal Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended Lowell School.
When I was about eight years old, I went to stay with Uncle Robert and Aunt Gladys Bowes. Then we moved to Oologah, Oklahoma.
Their daughter, Jessie, and I walked two miles to North Lawn School down Highway 75. We stayed there about two years before moving to Cooper Town which was really the North side of Neodesha.
In 1930 when I was almost 11 years old I went back to live with mom. I think I did that because I was homesick and was wanting to go home. I went to a one room school house and learned to sew in the fifth grade.
Nora, Irene and I went to Lowell School again. In February 1940 Nora and I went to live with our sister, Sarah, and her husband, Bill Wise, living in Jennings, Oklahoma.
I didn't stay long with Sarah and Bill Wise when I moved in with the Tucker family. They lived in the country and Mr. Tucker wanted someone to help out with his wife and two small boys.
Sarah and Bill took Nora and I back to Tulsa, Oklahoma where Arbinnie (my sister) and her husband Wid Bostic lived. Arbinnie and Wid took Nora, and Aunt Gladys and Uncle Robert took me back.
I was about 12 years old then and still in the 5th grade. I had moved so many times that they wouldn't pass me.
I was going to Dawson School (North of Tulsa). I got through 6th grade there, then went to the 7th and 8th grade at Cleveland Junior High in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I quit school and went to work in peoples' homes. I got paid $1.50 per week with room and board. I did that for about two years. Then my sister, Nora, married Conrod Scharff and was expecting her first child. I went to stay with them to help out. I got a job in laundry and then they decided to move back to Tulsa, so I quit my job and went with them.
In 1936 I had gone to work in a home again and Nora and Conrod decided to go back to Eureka, Kansas. I didn't go that time, so that's why I wasn't present when the baby was born. It was a girl and they named her Ruby Loretta Scharff.
Later they came back to Tulsa to live and were expecting their second child. I went with them this time. We stopped off at Neodesha to see some of the Scharff's. There was a big mixup and Conrod went to Eureka.
I sent Nora on the bus in February 1938 and I hitchhiked the next day, so, I was with Nora when her second girl was born. They named her Barbara Marea Scharff. I stayed with them until the baby was about three weeks old.
I met Ralph Greer while there in Neodesha and had a date set for Saturday night. I didn't keep the date and later Ralph always said that I stood him up.
I went back to Neodesha and dated Ralph a few times and went on to Antlers, Oklahoma because another sister Arbinnie had a baby due in June. They were twins Boyce Lee and Joyce Lucille Bostic born June 17.
I stayed with them until the 4th of July then went back to Neodesha and continued dating Ralph for two years.
We were married June 29th 1940 at Sedalia, Missouri. Ralph was a carpenter foreman for N.J. Smart Company. He traveled a lot for the company building warehouses
We got a small metal trailer that we could pull behind car and lived in that for two years living in apartments after that.
We went to Neodesha in 1943 and we stayed there and bought a home in 1944. We adopted Ernest Ralph Evans in 1945. He was son of my sister, Lydia Evans, who was killed on Inter Urban on Sandspring Railroad Tracks.
Adopting Ernest completed our family and we were very happy.
I joined the P.T.A. while Ernie was in grade school and was secretary treasurer for a couple of years.
I joined the First Christian church in about 1952. I was treasurer for Sunday School class for a year.
I also joined the Rebecca Auxilary Lodge about the same time. Rebecca Auxilary of ( I. O. O. F) ( Independent Order of Odd Fellows ). I was in the marching group.
We initiated for our Lodge and surrounding towns. We marched and formed the letters I.O.O.F
I enjoyed that very much.. I also belonged to Canasta Club for a few years.
We lived in that home for 16 years.
In 1960 we bought 80 acres with a home on it in the country. We had to do a lot of remodeling on the house and also had to put in some new fences around the property. We bought some cows and were doing fine until Ralph got sick in 1964 and went into the hospital. He died suddenly of a heart attack in the hospital.
I had gone to work in 1954 at a sewing factory in CherryVale, Kansas. I continued working there for another year after Ralph's death. The right to work bill passed in Kansas and members dropped out of the Union.
It was H.D. Lee pants and shirts we made and they were union.
Next I bought a mobile home and moved back to Hugo, Oklahoma. I worked in the glove factory a little while. Then worked in motel. I moved back to Tulsa, Oklahoma and worked in a donut shop. Afterwards working at Brians infant wear.
I married Len Jackson in 1966 and divorced him in 1968.
I married Howard Hawkins in 1969 and that was when my troubles began. I divorced him in 1975. I really wasn't sorry for marrying Howard because I gained a family and still have them.
I was living at Fort Smith, Arkansas and worked in a furniture factory.
Next , I worked at a shirt factory in Fort Smith with my sister Nora.
Nora decided to go back to California and so we both went to California in 1975. . She and I managed apartments in Roseville, California.
After being there for six months, Nora went back to her former husband, Elmer Brower. And I decided that I wanted to go back to Hugo, Oklahoma.
I lived at Hugo until about 1978 working at a dress factory. I moved to Oklahoma City and worked at a drapery place.
In 1979 I retired and moved back to Hugo. I lived there until 1988 when I met Raymond Wren. In 1986 we decided to move in together. We loved to dance and have a lot of fun. We bought a mobile home together and had it established on his acreage in Nashoba and have been together now 17 years. In a couple of months it will be 18 years.
We have both slowed down a lot and still happy we're together.
This is October 25, 2004
2008 Aunt Marge was diagnosed with Cancer. The doctor's aren't sure it is Cancer because they can't get a biopsy of it.
She is 89 years old and they say that it would be worse to do an exploratory surgery because of her age. They agree that it would be treated the same if they found out that for sure that it is Cancer. They are 99% sure that it is.
There are three spots on the brain, which she is taking radiation treatments for. They say that it is in her liver, spleen, kidneys, and lungs. They think that it originated from the lungs.
Marea flew back to Oklahoma to be with her and help her in anyway she could. Norma and Charles JAMES live next door and they help her tremendously. Marea DEROSA could only stay for 3 weeks because she has family in California.
Between Norma and Marea, they tried to get help for her so, it would lift some of the burden off of relatives. Marge can't hardly get around anymore by herself. She has to have someone with her at all times. Norma got her assigned to a rehabilitation Center just before Marea had to leave for California and while Marge was there, she fell on her way to bathroom.
She seemed to be O.K. so, the nurses decided to put a potty by her bedside so she wouldn't have to get up to go to the bathroom. During the night, she had to go, so she reached over to get herself on the potty and fell again. This time breaking her hip.
July 17, 2008 The ambulance took her to the Hospital in Paris, Texas. Doctor GOLDIE and Doctor Jeff NIELSON did surgery on her hip called Hemiarthroplasty( hip replacement socket) and she seems to be doing fine.
One of her doctors were Doctor Pabalonia. He was the one that ordered the x-ray. They found a large hyperechoic mass in right lobe of the liver with increased vascularity within mass. The finding is consistant with Hemangioma. Enlarged spleen. (splenomegaly)
This is September 4th 2008 and Norma JAMES called Marea DEROSA from Oklahoma and told her Marge GREER died last night. This is really the best thing because she was in so much pain. Norma was staying all night at the center every night and someone would stay with her during the day attending to her needs. Norma was exceptional in taking care of her. She wouldn't leave her side. Maybe, to just go home and change clothes. Charles would help out also.
Marge had gotten so bad that the pain was intense. Pain medicine wouldn't ease the pain.
Aunt Marge didn't want a funeral service so, Norma had a showing only. It was suppose to be very nice. Anyone that wanted to come and see Aunt Marge at the funeral home was welcome too. They had a little movie of her in different stages of her life that would run constantly with music of her and Uncle Raymond's songs that they liked to dance to.
The name of the funeral home was Prater- Lampton - Mills & Coffey Funeral Home. She was going to be buried where Uncle Ralph was buried. Right next to him. The date today is Sept. 6, 2008. She had her plot already picked out and paid for.
United States Obituary Collection about Marjorie Olive Greer
Name of Deceased: Marjorie Olive Greer
Age at Death: 89
Death Date: 9 Apr 2008
Obituary Date: 6 Sep 2008
Newspaper Title: Paris News, The
Newspaper Location: Paris, TX, Us
Birth Date: abt 1919
Locations Mentioned in Obituary: Hugo, OK
Other Persons mentioned in Obituary: Obituary
Marjorie Olive Greer
HUGO, Okla. ? Marjorie Olive Greer, 89, of Hugo, Okla. died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.
Obituary - September 5, 2008
NAME:
HILLIKER, Marjorie Olive(1919-2008)
Daughter of William J. HILLIKER (1873-1922)+ and Margaret Isabelle BOWES (1890-1966)+
BIRTH: 17 MAR 1919
PLACE: Picher, Ottawa, Oklahoma, USA
DIED:4 Sep 2008
PLACE:Hugo,Choctaw,Oklahoma, USA
BURIED:8 Sep 2008
PLACE: Neodesha, , Kansas, USA
SPOUSE # 1:Ralph GREER (1904-1964)
MARRIAGE DATE 29 June 1940
PLACE: Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri
SPOUSE # 2 Leonard JACKSON
MARRIAGE DATE: 1966
PLACE:
SPOUSE # 3 Howard HAWKINS
MARRIAGE DATE: 1969
PLACE:
PARTNER:Raymond WREN
SIBLINGS:
Sarah Belle HILLIKER (1908-1963)
Lydia Moore HILLIKER (1910-1945)+
Arbinnie Ruth HILLIKER (1912-1983)+
Florence Margaret HILLIKER (1914-1935)
Irene Elizabeth HILLIKER (1916-1975)+
Nora Ruby HILLIKER (1921-1996)+
Biography of Marjorie Olive Hilliker
(Told in her own words).
I was born in Picher, Oklahoma March 17, 1919 to William and Margaret Hilliker.
I was the sixth girl, so I'm sure they were real happy with another girl. (ha). Then we moved to Sycamore, Kansas. and my youngest sister was born. I don't remember this either, but older girls said neighbors said, " you'd think they never had a sister." (ha).
The first I remember was living in the country out of Anderson, Missouri. That's where we lived when my dad died. I remember the house and some things that took place there but I don't remember my dad.
The next thing I remember was a long trip to Colorado where my Grandpa, John Henry and Grandma, Janie Elizabeth Bowes lived. They had one son, William Orvel Bowes, still living at home.
Uncle Bill (William) Bowes took mom and five of the girls. My oldest sis was married and another older sis was living with Uncle Henry and Aunt Jessie Williams Bowes. I was about five as I had started school in Colorado.
My grandparents and Uncle Bill left us out there. I remember mom topping beets in the fields. Next thing I remember was mom and we four girls went back to Tulsa by train. My older sister, Lydia, had a job and stayed in Colorado.
We lived on Marshal Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended Lowell School.
When I was about eight years old, I went to stay with Uncle Robert and Aunt Gladys Bowes. Then we moved to Oologah, Oklahoma.
Their daughter, Jessie, and I walked two miles to North Lawn School down Highway 75. We stayed there about two years before moving to Cooper Town which was really the North side of Neodesha.
In 1930 when I was almost 11 years old I went back to live with mom. I think I did that because I was homesick and was wanting to go home. I went to a one room school house and learned to sew in the fifth grade.
Nora, Irene and I went to Lowell School again. In February 1940 Nora and I went to live with our sister, Sarah, and her husband, Bill Wise, living in Jennings, Oklahoma.
I didn't stay long with Sarah and Bill Wise when I moved in with the Tucker family. They lived in the country and Mr. Tucker wanted someone to help out with his wife and two small boys.
Sarah and Bill took Nora and I back to Tulsa, Oklahoma where Arbinnie (my sister) and her husband Wid Bostic lived. Arbinnie and Wid took Nora, and Aunt Gladys and Uncle Robert took me back.
I was about 12 years old then and still in the 5th grade. I had moved so many times that they wouldn't pass me.
I was going to Dawson School (North of Tulsa). I got through 6th grade there, then went to the 7th and 8th grade at Cleveland Junior High in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I quit school and went to work in peoples' homes. I got paid $1.50 per week with room and board. I did that for about two years. Then my sister, Nora, married Conrod Scharff and was expecting her first child. I went to stay with them to help out. I got a job in laundry and then they decided to move back to Tulsa, so I quit my job and went with them.
In 1936 I had gone to work in a home again and Nora and Conrod decided to go back to Eureka, Kansas. I didn't go that time, so that's why I wasn't present when the baby was born. It was a girl and they named her Ruby Loretta Scharff.
Later they came back to Tulsa to live and were expecting their second child. I went with them this time. We stopped off at Neodesha to see some of the Scharff's. There was a big mixup and Conrod went to Eureka.
I sent Nora on the bus in February 1938 and I hitchhiked the next day, so, I was with Nora when her second girl was born. They named her Barbara Marea Scharff. I stayed with them until the baby was about three weeks old.
I met Ralph Greer while there in Neodesha and had a date set for Saturday night. I didn't keep the date and later Ralph always said that I stood him up.
I went back to Neodesha and dated Ralph a few times and went on to Antlers, Oklahoma because another sister Arbinnie had a baby due in June. They were twins Boyce Lee and Joyce Lucille Bostic born June 17.
I stayed with them until the 4th of July then went back to Neodesha and continued dating Ralph for two years.
We were married June 29th 1940 at Sedalia, Missouri. Ralph was a carpenter foreman for N.J. Smart Company. He traveled a lot for the company building warehouses
We got a small metal trailer that we could pull behind car and lived in that for two years living in apartments after that.
We went to Neodesha in 1943 and we stayed there and bought a home in 1944. We adopted Ernest Ralph Evans in 1945. He was son of my sister, Lydia Evans, who was killed on Inter Urban on Sandspring Railroad Tracks.
Adopting Ernest completed our family and we were very happy.
I joined the P.T.A. while Ernie was in grade school and was secretary treasurer for a couple of years.
I joined the First Christian church in about 1952. I was treasurer for Sunday School class for a year.
I also joined the Rebecca Auxilary Lodge about the same time. Rebecca Auxilary of ( I. O. O. F) ( Independent Order of Odd Fellows ). I was in the marching group.
We initiated for our Lodge and surrounding towns. We marched and formed the letters I.O.O.F
I enjoyed that very much.. I also belonged to Canasta Club for a few years.
We lived in that home for 16 years.
In 1960 we bought 80 acres with a home on it in the country. We had to do a lot of remodeling on the house and also had to put in some new fences around the property. We bought some cows and were doing fine until Ralph got sick in 1964 and went into the hospital. He died suddenly of a heart attack in the hospital.
I had gone to work in 1954 at a sewing factory in CherryVale, Kansas. I continued working there for another year after Ralph's death. The right to work bill passed in Kansas and members dropped out of the Union.
It was H.D. Lee pants and shirts we made and they were union.
Next I bought a mobile home and moved back to Hugo, Oklahoma. I worked in the glove factory a little while. Then worked in motel. I moved back to Tulsa, Oklahoma and worked in a donut shop. Afterwards working at Brians infant wear.
I married Len Jackson in 1966 and divorced him in 1968.
I married Howard Hawkins in 1969 and that was when my troubles began. I divorced him in 1975. I really wasn't sorry for marrying Howard because I gained a family and still have them.
I was living at Fort Smith, Arkansas and worked in a furniture factory.
Next , I worked at a shirt factory in Fort Smith with my sister Nora.
Nora decided to go back to California and so we both went to California in 1975. . She and I managed apartments in Roseville, California.
After being there for six months, Nora went back to her former husband, Elmer Brower. And I decided that I wanted to go back to Hugo, Oklahoma.
I lived at Hugo until about 1978 working at a dress factory. I moved to Oklahoma City and worked at a drapery place.
In 1979 I retired and moved back to Hugo. I lived there until 1988 when I met Raymond Wren. In 1986 we decided to move in together. We loved to dance and have a lot of fun. We bought a mobile home together and had it established on his acreage in Nashoba and have been together now 17 years. In a couple of months it will be 18 years.
We have both slowed down a lot and still happy we're together.
This is October 25, 2004
2008 Aunt Marge was diagnosed with Cancer. The doctor's aren't sure it is Cancer because they can't get a biopsy of it.
She is 89 years old and they say that it would be worse to do an exploratory surgery because of her age. They agree that it would be treated the same if they found out that for sure that it is Cancer. They are 99% sure that it is.
There are three spots on the brain, which she is taking radiation treatments for. They say that it is in her liver, spleen, kidneys, and lungs. They think that it originated from the lungs.
Marea flew back to Oklahoma to be with her and help her in anyway she could. Norma and Charles JAMES live next door and they help her tremendously. Marea DEROSA could only stay for 3 weeks because she has family in California.
Between Norma and Marea, they tried to get help for her so, it would lift some of the burden off of relatives. Marge can't hardly get around anymore by herself. She has to have someone with her at all times. Norma got her assigned to a rehabilitation Center just before Marea had to leave for California and while Marge was there, she fell on her way to bathroom.
She seemed to be O.K. so, the nurses decided to put a potty by her bedside so she wouldn't have to get up to go to the bathroom. During the night, she had to go, so she reached over to get herself on the potty and fell again. This time breaking her hip.
July 17, 2008 The ambulance took her to the Hospital in Paris, Texas. Doctor GOLDIE and Doctor Jeff NIELSON did surgery on her hip called Hemiarthroplasty( hip replacement socket) and she seems to be doing fine.
One of her doctors were Doctor Pabalonia. He was the one that ordered the x-ray. They found a large hyperechoic mass in right lobe of the liver with increased vascularity within mass. The finding is consistant with Hemangioma. Enlarged spleen. (splenomegaly)
This is September 4th 2008 and Norma JAMES called Marea DEROSA from Oklahoma and told her Marge GREER died last night. This is really the best thing because she was in so much pain. Norma was staying all night at the center every night and someone would stay with her during the day attending to her needs. Norma was exceptional in taking care of her. She wouldn't leave her side. Maybe, to just go home and change clothes. Charles would help out also.
Marge had gotten so bad that the pain was intense. Pain medicine wouldn't ease the pain.
Aunt Marge didn't want a funeral service so, Norma had a showing only. It was suppose to be very nice. Anyone that wanted to come and see Aunt Marge at the funeral home was welcome too. They had a little movie of her in different stages of her life that would run constantly with music of her and Uncle Raymond's songs that they liked to dance to.
The name of the funeral home was Prater- Lampton - Mills & Coffey Funeral Home. She was going to be buried where Uncle Ralph was buried. Right next to him. The date today is Sept. 6, 2008. She had her plot already picked out and paid for.
United States Obituary Collection about Marjorie Olive Greer
Name of Deceased: Marjorie Olive Greer
Age at Death: 89
Death Date: 9 Apr 2008
Obituary Date: 6 Sep 2008
Newspaper Title: Paris News, The
Newspaper Location: Paris, TX, Us
Birth Date: abt 1919
Locations Mentioned in Obituary: Hugo, OK
Other Persons mentioned in Obituary: Obituary
Marjorie Olive Greer
HUGO, Okla. ? Marjorie Olive Greer, 89, of Hugo, Okla. died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.
Obituary - September 5, 2008
HILLIKER, Marjorie Olive(1919-2008)
Daughter of William J. HILLIKER (1873-1922)+ and Margaret Isabelle BOWES (1890-1966)+
BIRTH: 17 MAR 1919
PLACE: Picher, Ottawa, Oklahoma, USA
DIED:4 Sep 2008
PLACE:Hugo,Choctaw,Oklahoma, USA
BURIED:8 Sep 2008
PLACE: Neodesha, , Kansas, USA
SPOUSE # 1:Ralph GREER (1904-1964)
MARRIAGE DATE 29 June 1940
PLACE: Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri
SPOUSE # 2 Leonard JACKSON
MARRIAGE DATE: 1966
PLACE:
SPOUSE # 3 Howard HAWKINS
MARRIAGE DATE: 1969
PLACE:
PARTNER:Raymond WREN
SIBLINGS:
Sarah Belle HILLIKER (1908-1963)
Lydia Moore HILLIKER (1910-1945)+
Arbinnie Ruth HILLIKER (1912-1983)+
Florence Margaret HILLIKER (1914-1935)
Irene Elizabeth HILLIKER (1916-1975)+
Nora Ruby HILLIKER (1921-1996)+
Biography of Marjorie Olive Hilliker
(Told in her own words).
I was born in Picher, Oklahoma March 17, 1919 to William and Margaret Hilliker.
I was the sixth girl, so I'm sure they were real happy with another girl. (ha). Then we moved to Sycamore, Kansas. and my youngest sister was born. I don't remember this either, but older girls said neighbors said, " you'd think they never had a sister." (ha).
The first I remember was living in the country out of Anderson, Missouri. That's where we lived when my dad died. I remember the house and some things that took place there but I don't remember my dad.
The next thing I remember was a long trip to Colorado where my Grandpa, John Henry and Grandma, Janie Elizabeth Bowes lived. They had one son, William Orvel Bowes, still living at home.
Uncle Bill (William) Bowes took mom and five of the girls. My oldest sis was married and another older sis was living with Uncle Henry and Aunt Jessie Williams Bowes. I was about five as I had started school in Colorado.
My grandparents and Uncle Bill left us out there. I remember mom topping beets in the fields. Next thing I remember was mom and we four girls went back to Tulsa by train. My older sister, Lydia, had a job and stayed in Colorado.
We lived on Marshal Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended Lowell School.
When I was about eight years old, I went to stay with Uncle Robert and Aunt Gladys Bowes. Then we moved to Oologah, Oklahoma.
Their daughter, Jessie, and I walked two miles to North Lawn School down Highway 75. We stayed there about two years before moving to Cooper Town which was really the North side of Neodesha.
In 1930 when I was almost 11 years old I went back to live with mom. I think I did that because I was homesick and was wanting to go home. I went to a one room school house and learned to sew in the fifth grade.
Nora, Irene and I went to Lowell School again. In February 1940 Nora and I went to live with our sister, Sarah, and her husband, Bill Wise, living in Jennings, Oklahoma.
I didn't stay long with Sarah and Bill Wise when I moved in with the Tucker family. They lived in the country and Mr. Tucker wanted someone to help out with his wife and two small boys.
Sarah and Bill took Nora and I back to Tulsa, Oklahoma where Arbinnie (my sister) and her husband Wid Bostic lived. Arbinnie and Wid took Nora, and Aunt Gladys and Uncle Robert took me back.
I was about 12 years old then and still in the 5th grade. I had moved so many times that they wouldn't pass me.
I was going to Dawson School (North of Tulsa). I got through 6th grade there, then went to the 7th and 8th grade at Cleveland Junior High in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I quit school and went to work in peoples' homes. I got paid $1.50 per week with room and board. I did that for about two years. Then my sister, Nora, married Conrod Scharff and was expecting her first child. I went to stay with them to help out. I got a job in laundry and then they decided to move back to Tulsa, so I quit my job and went with them.
In 1936 I had gone to work in a home again and Nora and Conrod decided to go back to Eureka, Kansas. I didn't go that time, so that's why I wasn't present when the baby was born. It was a girl and they named her Ruby Loretta Scharff.
Later they came back to Tulsa to live and were expecting their second child. I went with them this time. We stopped off at Neodesha to see some of the Scharff's. There was a big mixup and Conrod went to Eureka.
I sent Nora on the bus in February 1938 and I hitchhiked the next day, so, I was with Nora when her second girl was born. They named her Barbara Marea Scharff. I stayed with them until the baby was about three weeks old.
I met Ralph Greer while there in Neodesha and had a date set for Saturday night. I didn't keep the date and later Ralph always said that I stood him up.
I went back to Neodesha and dated Ralph a few times and went on to Antlers, Oklahoma because another sister Arbinnie had a baby due in June. They were twins Boyce Lee and Joyce Lucille Bostic born June 17.
I stayed with them until the 4th of July then went back to Neodesha and continued dating Ralph for two years.
We were married June 29th 1940 at Sedalia, Missouri. Ralph was a carpenter foreman for N.J. Smart Company. He traveled a lot for the company building warehouses
We got a small metal trailer that we could pull behind car and lived in that for two years living in apartments after that.
We went to Neodesha in 1943 and we stayed there and bought a home in 1944. We adopted Ernest Ralph Evans in 1945. He was son of my sister, Lydia Evans, who was killed on Inter Urban on Sandspring Railroad Tracks.
Adopting Ernest completed our family and we were very happy.
I joined the P.T.A. while Ernie was in grade school and was secretary treasurer for a couple of years.
I joined the First Christian church in about 1952. I was treasurer for Sunday School class for a year.
I also joined the Rebecca Auxilary Lodge about the same time. Rebecca Auxilary of ( I. O. O. F) ( Independent Order of Odd Fellows ). I was in the marching group.
We initiated for our Lodge and surrounding towns. We marched and formed the letters I.O.O.F
I enjoyed that very much.. I also belonged to Canasta Club for a few years.
We lived in that home for 16 years.
In 1960 we bought 80 acres with a home on it in the country. We had to do a lot of remodeling on the house and also had to put in some new fences around the property. We bought some cows and were doing fine until Ralph got sick in 1964 and went into the hospital. He died suddenly of a heart attack in the hospital.
I had gone to work in 1954 at a sewing factory in CherryVale, Kansas. I continued working there for another year after Ralph's death. The right to work bill passed in Kansas and members dropped out of the Union.
It was H.D. Lee pants and shirts we made and they were union.
Next I bought a mobile home and moved back to Hugo, Oklahoma. I worked in the glove factory a little while. Then worked in motel. I moved back to Tulsa, Oklahoma and worked in a donut shop. Afterwards working at Brians infant wear.
I married Len Jackson in 1966 and divorced him in 1968.
I married Howard Hawkins in 1969 and that was when my troubles began. I divorced him in 1975. I really wasn't sorry for marrying Howard because I gained a family and still have them.
I was living at Fort Smith, Arkansas and worked in a furniture factory.
Next , I worked at a shirt factory in Fort Smith with my sister Nora.
Nora decided to go back to California and so we both went to California in 1975. . She and I managed apartments in Roseville, California.
After being there for six months, Nora went back to her former husband, Elmer Brower. And I decided that I wanted to go back to Hugo, Oklahoma.
I lived at Hugo until about 1978 working at a dress factory. I moved to Oklahoma City and worked at a drapery place.
In 1979 I retired and moved back to Hugo. I lived there until 1988 when I met Raymond Wren. In 1986 we decided to move in together. We loved to dance and have a lot of fun. We bought a mobile home together and had it established on his acreage in Nashoba and have been together now 17 years. In a couple of months it will be 18 years.
We have both slowed down a lot and still happy we're together.
This is October 25, 2004
2008 Aunt Marge was diagnosed with Cancer. The doctor's aren't sure it is Cancer because they can't get a biopsy of it.
She is 89 years old and they say that it would be worse to do an exploratory surgery because of her age. They agree that it would be treated the same if they found out that for sure that it is Cancer. They are 99% sure that it is.
There are three spots on the brain, which she is taking radiation treatments for. They say that it is in her liver, spleen, kidneys, and lungs. They think that it originated from the lungs.
Marea flew back to Oklahoma to be with her and help her in anyway she could. Norma and Charles JAMES live next door and they help her tremendously. Marea DEROSA could only stay for 3 weeks because she has family in California.
Between Norma and Marea, they tried to get help for her so, it would lift some of the burden off of relatives. Marge can't hardly get around anymore by herself. She has to have someone with her at all times. Norma got her assigned to a rehabilitation Center just before Marea had to leave for California and while Marge was there, she fell on her way to bathroom.
She seemed to be O.K. so, the nurses decided to put a potty by her bedside so she wouldn't have to get up to go to the bathroom. During the night, she had to go, so she reached over to get herself on the potty and fell again. This time breaking her hip.
July 17, 2008 The ambulance took her to the Hospital in Paris, Texas. Doctor GOLDIE and Doctor Jeff NIELSON did surgery on her hip called Hemiarthroplasty( hip replacement socket) and she seems to be doing fine.
One of her doctors were Doctor Pabalonia. He was the one that ordered the x-ray. They found a large hyperechoic mass in right lobe of the liver with increased vascularity within mass. The finding is consistant with Hemangioma. Enlarged spleen. (splenomegaly)
This is September 4th 2008 and Norma JAMES called Marea DEROSA from Oklahoma and told her Marge GREER died last night. This is really the best thing because she was in so much pain. Norma was staying all night at the center every night and someone would stay with her during the day attending to her needs. Norma was exceptional in taking care of her. She wouldn't leave her side. Maybe, to just go home and change clothes. Charles would help out also.
Marge had gotten so bad that the pain was intense. Pain medicine wouldn't ease the pain.
Aunt Marge didn't want a funeral service so, Norma had a showing only. It was suppose to be very nice. Anyone that wanted to come and see Aunt Marge at the funeral home was welcome too. They had a little movie of her in different stages of her life that would run constantly with music of her and Uncle Raymond's songs that they liked to dance to.
The name of the funeral home was Prater- Lampton - Mills & Coffey Funeral Home. She was going to be buried where Uncle Ralph was buried. Right next to him. The date today is Sept. 6, 2008. She had her plot already picked out and paid for.
United States Obituary Collection about Marjorie Olive Greer
Name of Deceased: Marjorie Olive Greer
Age at Death: 89
Death Date: 9 Apr 2008
Obituary Date: 6 Sep 2008
Newspaper Title: Paris News, The
Newspaper Location: Paris, TX, Us
Birth Date: abt 1919
Locations Mentioned in Obituary: Hugo, OK
Other Persons mentioned in Obituary: Obituary
Marjorie Olive Greer
HUGO, Okla. ? Marjorie Olive Greer, 89, of Hugo, Okla. died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.
Obituary - September 5, 2008
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