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Since all but two of the Berry siblings are gone,  I'm trying to give you this information in a different sense.  Not just by pictures of the people but by pictures of their grave sites and where they are located.  This all came about while working with my late nephew, Ed Brown, when I told him I wanted to get headstones put on some graves in Oklahoma.  That led me down the path of wanting to locate as many people as I could in the Berry Family by way of their burial place.  It has been  interesting.  Please feel free to post any comments or additional information you may have or feel is interesting.  Enjoy.

From left to right:  Ronnie Franklin, Richard Bruce, Dorothy Darlene, Virgil Rush. Vencil Lowell. LeRoy Ivan, Lenore Ann, Burness Cecile, Helen Vondell, Fern Maxine, Byrl Ray and Vernitta Veloise.

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RAY L. WARD

This is Ray L. Ward.  Although he wasn't a member of the Berry Family he was a part of it.  By that I mean that he spent a lot of years living with us.  During World War II we were living on our farm just south of Dove Creek.  Dad and Virgil were the only two running two different farms and the work load was too much for them.  So, Dad went to Dolores to hire some help.  He came home with Ray.  He was only about 15 or 16 at the time and he lived with us until 1955.  He was like a brother to me and the only brothers I spent more time with was Virgil and Bruce.  Having him as part  of the family really meant a lot to all of us.  And, being a good little brother, whenever he told me to do something or gave me advice I listened to him.  Many fond memories.  I feel he needs to be recognized as part of our family.

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VARIOUS RELATIVES

 Uncle Herb

 Uncle Melvin
Aug. 24, 1888
May 8, 1906

 Cousin Eldon & wife Mary

Cousin Forrest, son of Uncle Herb

Eunice, wife of Forrest

Flora was Uncle Herb's 2nd wife

Probably a Great Aunt.

Cousin Irwin.  Believe he is son of Uncle Herb

Aunt Amy, Mom's sister

Cousin Dean on Mom's side

Cousin Lyle, Dean's brother

Aura & Loyd

Loyd is brother to Dean & Lyle

This is Mary's funeral notice posted in Enid

May 2014.  Wife of Cousin Eldon.

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RONNIE FRANKLIN BERRY

Alive and well in Tucson, AZ
I have two children:
Rhonda Cheryl Coghill,
Gregory Wayne Berry.
Rhonda has three children, Rebecca Charmaine Sellers, Micah Allen and Chance Lane Coghill.
Becca has three children, Kyrsten Faith,  Zachary James, and Briana Paige Sellers.
Micah has one child, Lillian Tatum Coghill.
Chance has three children, Delilah Grace, Adrian Lane and Judith Kelly Coghill.
Greg has one child, Kattiya Laurita Berry

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RICHARD BRUCE BERRY

Bruce was born April 23, 1937 and lives in Dolores.  His wife Ernie passed away in 2014.

They had four children:

Richard Bruce jr (deceased)
Alicia Lynn  (deceased)

Charles Bruce

Perry James

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LENORE ANN PINKARD

Ann is buried in Broken Bow, OK.  She was born November 6, 1934 and passed away just before her 80th birthday.

  Will try to have more pictures and information upcoming.

Ann was married to Howard Pinkard from Broken Bow.

They had four children:

 Russell Dean 

Michelle Anne

Kelley Denise

 Howard Kimball

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HELEN VONDELL

Vonnie is buried at Memorial Gardens in Farmington, New Mexico. At the time of her death she was married to Doug Florance.  She always hated the name Helen Vondell and insisted that when she died she was going to known as Vonnie B. Florance.  

Vonnie and Jack had one son: John Carmichael Cauthen III.
Vonnie and Gene had two girls: Teresa Jean and Holly Vondell Hall.

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BYRL RAY

Byrl Ray is buried in the Riverside National Cemetery in California.  Riverside is a military cemetery located across from March Air Force Base.  Byrl is a twin of Myrl Ray that died at birth in1925.  He named his second son after his twin.  He was a Tech Sergeant in the Army during WWII.  When the war was over he married Pauline Gray, his childhood sweetheart from Dolores.   They lived in Dove Creek, Dolores and Farmington before moving to California in the early '50s.  He went to night school and became a machinist when the aircraft industry boomed, as well as the space program, making parts for the new jet age and for the space rockets and eventually the Space Shuttle.  He was very well know as one of the top men in the machinist field.  Had a lot of good, fun times with Byrl.

Byrl and Pauline had three children:  Kathy Jean, Dennis Ray (deceased) and Myrl Ray (deceased).

I was unable to obtain a photo of his headstone marker and I don't have any good photos of him.  If someone has any let me know and I will update this when I get them.

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DOROTHY DARLENE

Dorothy Darlene McCarty

Birth: 2 Aug 1923; Death: 7 Jan 2008 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; Civil: California; U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

Darlene was married to Jimmy McCarty and no children.

They lived in  the Salt Lake City area since the early sixties.

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VIRGIL RUSH

Virgil is buried in the Summit Ridge Cemetery in Dolores, CO.

Sorry I didn't have better pictures of him.

Virgil was married to Maureen and divorced, no children.  Then married to Marion.  

One daughter, Virgie Ray Landowski

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VENCIL LOWELL

Vencil and wife Velma are buried in Pleasant ridge Cemetery in Carmen, OK. 

Vencil was born October 10, 1919.

They had four children:  Lance Edward Berry, Launa Diane Jenlink, Bruce Clayton and Bradley Dee Berry
Vencil was my fishing buddy, along with Virgil.  Vencil taught me how to river fish on the good old Dolores River where I spent so many happy hours.

                                        

                                         

                                         




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LEROY IVAN

Roy is buried in the Summit Ridge Cemetery in Dolores.

Roy was married to Doris Noe.

They had two children, Cheryl Lynn Stackhouse and Johnny (?) Berry.

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BURNESS CECILE

Cecile and Merton Taylor are buried in the Summit Ridge Cemetery in Dolores.  Before moving to Dolores I remember her living in and running the telephone office in Dove Creek in the 1940s with her two boys.  She later met and married Merton Taylor.  Not sure of the year.  Cecile was very active in the community and was one of the people responsible for getting the Anasazi Ruins and Heritage Center developed.  
Cecile and Merton didn't have any children.  Cecile had two boys from a prior marriage:  Cecil Dean and Oscar Eugene Gustin.

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FERN MAXINE

Fern and husband Homer Roush are buried in the Eagle Chief Cemetery southwest of Carmen, Oklahoma.  Fern was the second eldest of  the twelve.  Even tho I didn't know her very well, she always seemed to be a a fun loving person.  Wish I could have spent more time with her like I did with Vonnie and Ann.
Fern and Homer lived in Oklahoma City, for as long as I knew them, and had 4 kids, all boys.  Don & John (twins), Jerry and Gary Gene.  (Sorry I didn't have a picture.)

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VERNITTA VELOISE

Vernitta and Faris Brown are buried in Wichita, Kansas. She is the eldest of the 12 siblings.  They moved to Wichita where both of them worked for, and retired from ,Dole Packing Company,.  She was first and I was last.  There was a 27 year age gap between us so I didn't get to know her as well as I would have liked to.  Spoils of a large family.
Vernita and Faris had one son, Eddie Dean Brown.  (Deceased)

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CHILDREN OF GARRISON CEMETERY

The following children of B.C. and Alice Berry are buried in the Garrison Cemetery in Oklahoma.  These graves went unmarked up until 2010.  I don't know why there was never any markers put on them.  I always thought it was a shame for them to be remembered is this manner and I always got a weird feeling when I thought about them being there but not known.  So I started researching death records of Alfalfa County and recruited the help of my late nephew, Ed Brown.  The only death record was for Elsie Pauline when she died in an accident and the remaining three were found by searching cemetery records.  I found their records but no dates to go with them.  Thankfully Ed's mother, Vernita, had kept records of all of them, names, month and year.  Ed had to do a lot of searching through things Vernita had left but finally we came up with everything.  Along with that, Ed, God bless his soul, made four or five trips from Wichita to the Garrison Cemetery and met with the caretakers  for us to make the final arrangements for these headstones to be put on them.  I couldn't have completed all of this without Ed's help.  Alva Monument was exceptionally nice to us and even gave us a special price when he found out what we were doing.  Anyhow, now they are very nicely marked and will always be remembered.

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BURNESS CECIL & ALICE SCRILDA BERRY

Burness Cecil and Alice Berry are buried at the Sunnyside Cemetery (Summit Ridge) in Dolores, Colorado.  They were married June 12, 1909 in Yewed, OK.  Mom was only 15  and my dad turned 21 in August.  My mom's whole life was about having kids  and raising a family, she had her first child at age 15 and her last at age 45.  They are the beginning of our immediate family that produced 16 children and so many grandchildren I don't even know the count.  The one count I do know is, there are 29 first cousins.  Dad had four brothers, Herbert, Melvin, Loren and Clint.  Mom had one sister, Amy (Rush) Delano.
They moved to Dolores in the winter of 1947/48 and we lived on the northeast corner of 9th Street and Hillside Avenue in Dolores.  Whenever I look at these pictures I see two people that were very humble, but proud and gracious.  My mom's eyes reflect the love she always had and my dad's seem to reflect the sadness and hardships in his life.

1964

50th Wedding Anniversary 1959

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