Violet S. Kimbro

March 25, 1907 - November 18, 2000

Violet S. Kimbro, 93, of Oklahoma City, passed away on November 18, 2000 in Oklahoma City. Violet was born on March 25, 1907 in Bradley, Indian Territory. She was preceded in death by her husband, Finney Allen Kimbro also of Bradley, Oklahoma; By her father and mother, Walter Sidney and Margaret Elizabeth Spencer; brothers, Wesley Spencer, James Woodrow Spencer, Walter Eugene Spencer, and Melton Sidney Spencer; sisters, Irene Simms, Peggy Gosnell and LoRene Wilkerson; and one grandson, Joseph Preston Yadon III and one-great-granddaughter, Jamie Strawbridge. Survivors include three daughters, Peggy Yadon of Borne, Texas; Margaret Alford of Raleigh, NC; and Linda Giles of Oklahoma City; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren and her cherished nieces and nephews. Violet was raised on her parents farm in Bradley, which was her mother?s Chickasaw Indian allotment land. She graduated from Bradley High School and taught school at Sandy Grove until she married and left the area in 1929. After the death of her husband, Finney, Violet moved from North Carolina to Lindsay in 1965, then to Oklahoma City some years later. Violet was always proud of her families history in the settlement of Oklahoma and especially her Indian history. Recently learning about the first Chickasaw house in her family was that of In-Cur-No-Mar from the marriage of James Logan Colbert and his first Chickasaw wife?s daughter, Sally Colbert. Her grandfather, Adolphus H. Law had also taken a very prominent and active part in the public affairs of the Indian Territory, serving in Pickens County (now the Carter County area) as county clerk for eight years, county judge two years, and was also the first United States commissioner appointed at Ardmore, serving in the last-named position for fifteen months. Funeral arrangements are with B. G. Boydston Funeral Home in Lindsay, OK. A graveside service will be held in Green Hill Cemetery in Lindsay on Wednesday, November 22, 2000 at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Monty Baggett officiating, assisted by daughter, Linda J. Giles.