1913
Anna
2016
Anna Irene Van Eaton
November 11, 1913 — June 29, 2016
Anna Irene Ratliff Van Eaton - 11/11/1913 to 06/29/2016
On November 11, 1913, the hand of God delivered the first offspring from his children Urban Elza Ratliff and Alice Sabrilla Wilson Ratliff to the pioneer town of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. Anna Irene Ratliff was the oldest of seven- four brothers-Leonard, Fred, Floyd, and David, and, later on, two sisters-Gladys and Lavada.
Irene pursued a life-long love of education, as she attended Chickasha Women's College and taught in a one room school in Sugden, Oklahoma, and then in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Those were the days when a degree was not required to teach, but Irene landed the job because she could play piano.
In 1938, she married Sidney Samuel Van Eaton and they began their life together in Carnegie, Oklahoma. They survived war and the depression and she helped him build income and farms. Later in life Irene completed her degree at Southwestern State College and began teaching 3rd and 4th grades in Carnegie. She was a Bible scholar and natural teacher-and indeed, a voracious reader. She spent many an hour with children and adults alike who wanted to learn to read. She was a friend to the Kiowa people whom she respected and honored.
Sid and Irene had three daughters-Alice, Mary Lynn, and Gala. She was a great fifties' Mom, sewing dresses for her girls and her nieces. Her meticulous quilting was always 12 stitches to the inch and she quilted for all her kids and grandkids. She nurtured her girls with the best of all kinds of music.
That everlasting divine hand lovingly and carefully escorted her to the land that is fairer than day very early on June 29, 2016, at the age of 102 where she will reunite with so many saints and continue her life unburdened, safe, and in unbroken, joyful peace.
Irene, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and dear friend, we will look for you in
unblemished Oklahoma sunsets,
hours of fun with family,
care and compassion in heartache,
the nourishment of country cooking,
and the very red earth from which you were formed.
On November 11, 1913, the hand of God delivered the first offspring from his children Urban Elza Ratliff and Alice Sabrilla Wilson Ratliff to the pioneer town of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. Anna Irene Ratliff was the oldest of seven- four brothers-Leonard, Fred, Floyd, and David, and, later on, two sisters-Gladys and Lavada.
Irene pursued a life-long love of education, as she attended Chickasha Women's College and taught in a one room school in Sugden, Oklahoma, and then in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Those were the days when a degree was not required to teach, but Irene landed the job because she could play piano.
In 1938, she married Sidney Samuel Van Eaton and they began their life together in Carnegie, Oklahoma. They survived war and the depression and she helped him build income and farms. Later in life Irene completed her degree at Southwestern State College and began teaching 3rd and 4th grades in Carnegie. She was a Bible scholar and natural teacher-and indeed, a voracious reader. She spent many an hour with children and adults alike who wanted to learn to read. She was a friend to the Kiowa people whom she respected and honored.
Sid and Irene had three daughters-Alice, Mary Lynn, and Gala. She was a great fifties' Mom, sewing dresses for her girls and her nieces. Her meticulous quilting was always 12 stitches to the inch and she quilted for all her kids and grandkids. She nurtured her girls with the best of all kinds of music.
That everlasting divine hand lovingly and carefully escorted her to the land that is fairer than day very early on June 29, 2016, at the age of 102 where she will reunite with so many saints and continue her life unburdened, safe, and in unbroken, joyful peace.
Irene, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and dear friend, we will look for you in
unblemished Oklahoma sunsets,
hours of fun with family,
care and compassion in heartache,
the nourishment of country cooking,
and the very red earth from which you were formed.
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