Thursday, October 1, 2015
Wanada Parker
Birth: 1887
Oklahoma, USA
Death: Oct. 26, 1970
Lawton
Comanche County
Oklahoma, USA
The following obituary
was sent by Lisa Stalnaker (#46893021):
The Lawton Constitution
Wednesday, October 27,
1971
Page 18, columns 1-4
SERVICES PENDING FOR
WANADA PARKER PAGE
Services are pending at
Greenlawn Funeral Home for Mrs. Wanada Parker Page, 89, of Lawton. The last
surviving daughter of Comanche Indian Chief Quanah Parker, she died about 4
p.m. Tuesday in the U.S. Public Health Service, Lawton Indian Hospital.
Her death leaves only
one surviving child of Quanah, her half-brother, Tom Parker, of Apache.
She was born in 1882 in
Indian Territory. Her Indian name was Woon-ardy Parker. "Woon-ardy"
in Comanche means "Stand Up and Be Strong," because she was weak in
the limbs and had to walk on crutches for a long time. Mrs. Page had also been
given her mother's name, Weckeah.
She attended Chilocco
Indian School, then in 1894 was sent to Carlisle Indian School, Pa. where she
remained several years with her half-brother Harold (oldest of Quanah's sons)
and her half-sister Neda.
At Carlisle, her name
was spelled at first "Juanada" until it was objected that she was not
Mexican or Spanish. She was baptized under the name of "Annie" in
1895 at St. John's Episcopal Church in Carlisle, but nobody called her that.
Wanada attended the
Fort Sill Indian School for about a year, about 1903, living in a girl's frame
dormitory.
Mrs. Page was a charter
member of the Comanche Reformed Church of Lawton.
In 1908 she married
Walter Komah, a Comanche. They went to Mescalero, N.M., where he died of
tuberculosis in 1912. Wanada returned to Lawton shortly after that. She worked
at Fort Sill Indian School as assistant matron while her sister Alice was a
student.
In 1915 she became a
nurse's aide at the Fort Sill Indian Hospital and it was during her work there
that she met her future husband, Harrison Page. He was a white soldier in the
Medical Corps assigned to the Station Hospital at Fort Sill.
They commuted by street
car during their courtship and were married on Dec. 18, 1916.
He was discharged from
the service on a medical disability in November, 1917.
About 1919 Mrs. Page
was a feature actress in "Daughter of the Dawn." Her husband began
practice as a chiropractor in Apache in 1924.
From 1929 to 1933 both
Harrison and Wanada Page lived in Phoenix, Ariz., white Harrison attended C. H.
Cook's Bible School. After his graduation, they spent several months at a Yaqui
village in Arizona.
The Pages returned to
Oklahoma in 1934 and lived in various towns where Harrison served as a
chiropractor. The couple returned to Lawton in 1938 where Mr. Page worked as a
painter and contractor until his retirement in 1956.
In her later years,
Mrs. Page attended the first Parker Family Reunion at Fort Parker, Tex., in
1953, when the Indian Parkers of Oklahoma and the white Parkers of Texas held
their first annual get-together.
At the reburial of her
father, Chief Quanah, and his mother Cynthia Ann, in Fort Sill's Post Cemetery
in 1957 from the Old Post Oak Mission Cemetery near Cache, Mrs. Page was
designated by the family to receive the burial flag from the Army as the senior
of the children participating.
Mrs. Page spoke on
behalf [of] the Quanah Parker family during the unveiling of a sculptured bust
of her father at Quanah, Tex., in 1959. She was the only one of the children
who made a trip to Texas for the removal of Chief Quanah Parker's little sister
Prairie Flowers from Texas for reburial beside her mother Cynthia Ann in Post
Cemetery at Fort Sill in 1965.
After the reburial of
Prairie Flower, Mrs. Page took a leading part in a project to raise funds among
the Parker family and procure a grave monument for Prairie Flower that was an
exact replica one-half the size of Cynthia Ann's monument.
She was too ill to
attend the unveiling of the monument on July 18, 1970, and her sister, Mrs.
Alice Parker Purdy represented the children. (Mrs. Purdy died last Aug. 23.)
Wanada and Harrison
Page lived at 2313 I for several years and were looked after by Mrs. Page's
niece Theresa, Mrs. Albert Tahsequah and family. The couple moved to Orlando
Nursing Home in 1970.
Family links:
Parents:
Quanah Parker (1845 - 1911)
Weckeah Parker (____ - 1923)
Spouses:
Walter Komah (1884 - ____)*
Harrison Page (1892 - 1980)*
Siblings:
Esther Parker Tabbyyetchy (____ - 1919)**
Bessie Parker Asenap (____ - 1927)**
Lena Parker**
Cynthia Ann Parker Cox (1873 - 1946)*
Laura Neda Parker Birdsong (1877 - 1968)**
Knox A. Beall (1878 - 1958)**
Weyodee Parker Tahmahkera (1880 - 1965)*
Honnie Parker (1882 - 1919)**
Harold Parker (1883 - 1902)**
White Parker (1887 - 1956)**
Baldwin Parker (1887 - 1963)**
Johnnie Parker (1887 - 1922)**
Wanada Parker Page (1887 - 1970)
Len Parker (1888 - 1960)**
Thomas Parker (1889 - 1975)**
Mary Pache Parker Clark (1890 - 1952)*
Alice Parker Purdy (1894 - 1971)*
Kelsey Topay Parker (1899 - 1921)**
Goverson Parker (1904 - 1906)**
*Calculated
relationship
**Half-sibling
Burial:
Highland Cemetery
Lawton
Comanche County
Oklahoma, USA
Plot: Indian Section
Created by: Trapper
John
Record added: Feb 01,
2011
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Oregon marijuana shops begin sales to recreational users
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —
Oregon marijuana shops began selling marijuana Thursday for the first time to
recreational users, marking a big day for the budding pot industry.
Some of the more than
250 dispensaries that already offer medical marijuana in Oregon opened their
doors soon after midnight — just moments after it became legal to sell to
anyone who is at least 21.
At Portland's Shango
Premium Cannabis, co-founder Shane McKee said the first sale to an excited
customer came about a minute after midnight, with many others waiting.
"It looks like
there is about 60-70 in line out front," he said in a telephone interview
shortly after midnight. "They all seem extremely eager."
That first buyer, Davia
Fleming of Portland, said the sales launch was important.
"I was really
excited about that," said Fleming, who uses the drug for medicinal
purposes. "It's the end of a prohibition."
She described the
atmosphere inside the store as "beautiful. ... very friendly; everyone is
upbeat."
Store owners say
they're hopeful they can avoid the shortages and price spikes that followed the
start of legal sales last year in Washington and Colorado, the only other
states where the drug can now be sold for recreational use. Alaska could begin
retail sales next year.
Many stores in Oregon
were trying to lure customers with extended hours, food giveaways and
discounted marijuana.
McKee said his store
offered its first 25 customer a 35-40 percent discount. The store was also
handing out soda, coffee, juice and other refreshments.
But he also pointed to
what he considered the significance of the moment.
Customers line up
outside of Shango Premium Cannabis, in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Sept. 30,
2015. …
"I think it's not
only historical for folks in Oregon but nationwide — anytime people start
selling that as an alternative to alcohol or tobacco."
Shoppers have one more
incentive to buy early and often: Under Oregon law, pot purchases will be
tax-free until January — a savings of up to 20 percent.
One store was offering
a goody bag with T-shirts, but no free marijuana. Another will have a live band
and 10 percent discounts. The marijuana review site Leafly will set up with
food trucks at a handful of stores, giving away free meals to anyone who
promotes the service on social media.
Several stores have
erected billboards in Portland. A shop in Merlin is advertising on the radio.
"I'm just trying
to basically stock up for maybe four or five times what the normal volume would
be," said Chris Byers, owner of River City Dispensary in the southern
Oregon town of Merlin. Juliano Hamana, 24, samples the aroma of one of
the …
Juliano Hamana, 24,
samples the aroma of one of the offerings at Shango Premium Cannabis, in
Portlan …
Customers can buy as
much as seven grams at a time of dried marijuana flower and leaf — the part
that's generally smoked — plus plants and seeds. For the next year or so,
marijuana infused candy, cookies, oils and lotions will be available only to
people with medical marijuana cards as the state works on retail regulations
involving those products.
Oregon has a robust
supply system for marijuana that has supported medical marijuana users and the
black market. Companies have invested in massive warehouses in Portland to grow
the drug indoors, and southern Oregon has some of the nation's best conditions
for outdoor cultivation of marijuana.
Growers don't face
strict regulations yet, so the supply can more easily flow into retail stores
than it did in Washington and Colorado.
Still, there's concern.
Summer has historically been a time of marijuana shortages in Oregon, and most
of the outdoor crop isn't ready to harvest. Indoor growers have had minimal
time to ramp up production, since lawmakers only approved the Oct. 1 start date
three months ago.
"We have kind of a
seasonal growing market here in Oregon," said Jeremy Pratt, owner of
Nectar Cannabis, which has four stores in Portland. "We have lots of
product in the fall, and then it kind of gets tight this time of year
anyway."
Green Oasis, which has
two locations in Portland and more on the way, has prepared by trying to
cultivate strong relationships with growers. On Thursday evening, it will
entice customers with a band playing outdoors. People who spend at least $40 on
Thursday will get a 10 percent discount, co-owner Matthew Schwimmer said.
"We don't know of
anyone else doing a band, and we thought it was a good idea to give back to the
community," Schwimmer said.
Seavey reported from
Phoenix
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