Source: ``McCarty and other Southern Roots,''
Originally published in local McAlester, OK newspaper
Mrs. C. C. (Lottie) Ross
Funeral services for Mrs. C.C. (Lottie) Ross, 102, who died Wednesday, will be Friday.
Dr. Dan Day will conduct the memorial at 2:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of McAlester. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery under the direction of Mills Funeral Home of McAlester.
Active pallbearers will be former students of Mrs. Ross, Ray Helms, Daniel Boone, Gerald Ivey, Dan Tedrick, Earl Watts and Joe Watts. Honoraries also will be former students, Carl Albert, W.K. Anderson, Ray Anderson, Mack Hamilton, Lester Long, John Jennings, Noal Albert, Euel Perteet and Bill Presnell.
Mrs. Ross was born February 10, 1880, at Whitefield, in Indian Territory. At the age of 10, she and her parents moved to Ben Wheeler, Texas, where she attended grade and high school.
She was graduated from Alamo Institute in Texas, and came back to Indian Territory to teach in Indian schools. After statehood, she taught in public schools until she retired.
Mrs. Ross married Charles C. Ross on July 26, 1906, at Coalgate, I.T., and they established a home in Krebs. They came to McAlester, in 1928, where he was active in business, civic and religious work until his death in 1952.
Mrs. Ross spent two years of volunteer work rehabilitating the women at their ward in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, after a rebellious uprising among them.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church of McAlester; Order of the Eastern Star; Royal Neighbors and Retired Teachers Association.
Survivors include a daughter, Ethel Ross of McAlester; three nieces; two nephews and five great-nieces and nephews.
written and compiled by Etta Jackman
February 1982