Lilburn Ellis Cochran

Lilburn Ellis Cochran was born on April 22, 1922 to Lilburn Keel and Cora Alice (Curtis) Cochran near Jacktown, Oklahoma. He died on December 5, 2013 at Golden Rule Senior Housing in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Ellis was born and raised in the Jacktown, Oklahoma community. Ellis attended White Rock schools graduating in 1940. He lived on the family farm until 2008 when he moved to Meeker Senior Housing. Ellis was a carpenter and farmer. Numerous houses, barns, and buildings in and around Meeker and Jacktown were built, remodeled or repaired by Ellis including the parsonage of the Meeker First Christian Church. He was especially proud of his grape vines and his grape juice, the pecan trees that he had grafted to produce paper shell pecans, his peach trees, and his Duroc hogs. Ellis was the caretaker at Jamison cemetery for many years. Ellis was a long time member of the Meeker First Christian Church. Ellis was preceded in death by his parents, Lilburn and Cora Cochran, as well as his three brothers, Trillis, Truman, and Chester; two sisters, Vivian Majors and Roberta McGee-Williams; niece, Mary Sue Morris; nephew, Daryl “Abe” Cochran; and special friend, Velma Stine. Survived by nieces, Jeanne Majors Riggs and husband, Gary of Yukon, Carol Majors Manaugh and husband, Craig of Oklahoma City, Norma Majors Whitehurst and husband, Daniel of Longview, Texas, Teresa Cochran Bottoms and husband, Darryl of Bethany, Terry Cochran O’Neil of Oklahoma City, and Marilyn Cochran Carpenter of Oklahoma City; nephews, Val Cochran of Okeene, Mike McGee-Williams and wife, Shirley of Walnut Creek, CA and David McGee-Williams and wife, Gayle of Montague, CA; sister-in-law, Betty Cochran of Oklahoma City and close family friends, Page and Lillian Farmer. Interment will be at the Jamison cemetery near Jacktown. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Friends of the Meeker Library, P.O. Box 305, Meeker, OK 74855 or Meeker First Christian Church, P.O. Box 218, Meeker, OK 74855.