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Submitted: 2/22/21 • Approved: 2/23/21 • Last Updated: 2/26/21 • R391887-G391886-S3
1909-1977
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
A marriage of unusual interest was solemnized at Tulsa July 26, when Miss Iola Bond, accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joy Bond, of Tulsa, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bond of Butler, was wedded to Mr. John Lafoon(sic). The bride's parents formerly resided in Butler, the young lady attended the local schools and is well known in this city and community. The society columns of The Tulsa Tribune contained the following account of the wedding.
The wedding of Miss Iola Bond, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joy C. Bond of 631 East Zion street, and Mr. John Lafoon(sic) of Tulsa, was celebrated quite simply on Friday evening at 9 o'clock in the home of the bride's parents.
The Rev. Mr. W. O. Anderson, pastor of the First Baptist church, read the ceremony, for which about 50 quests were in attendance.
Decorations of Ophelia rosebuds in the tints of pink and foliage adorned the rooms of the home. The bride wore a wedding gown of flesh chiffon made with full shirt and eneven(sic) hemline over a rose satin foundation. She carried a shower bouquet of yellow roses and lilies of the valley.
Mr. and Mrs. Lafoon will reside with the bride's parents until after September 1. The bride, who is an accomplished pianist, graduated from the Tulsa College of Music last week.
Out of town guests in attendance at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McCullough of Bartlesville, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bond of Butler, Okla., the uncle and grandparents of the bride.
The Butler Herald, Thursday, August 15, 1929
Lafoon(sic)-Bond
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Iola Laffon Kennedy, 68, of 501 Austin, died at 1 p.m. Thursday in North Plains Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Minton Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of Bible Baptist Church, officiating.
Interment will be in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton Mortuary.
Mrs. Kennedy was born Oct. 3, 1909 in Butler, Okla., and had been a Borger resident since 1942. She was a retired public stenographer, and operated the Hutchinson County Business College from 1952 until 1962. She was a member of Altrusa Club, Borger Toastmistress Club, and was executive secretary for the United Fund Organization for many years.
Survivors include her husband, Roy; two sons, John D. Laffoon of Ottawa, Canada, and Jerry D. Kennedy of Albuquerque, N.M.; one daughter, Mrs. Martha Jane Goodenough of Longmont, Colo.; one brother, Claude Bond of Benton, Ark.; and six grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Friday, December 9, 1977)
Contributed on 2/22/21 by neldapat
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