Emily Marvel (Ward) Fikes (1900 - 1991)

Born 15 Mar 1900 in Coluncil Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., IA

Ancestors

Wife of Milton Kenneth Culver — married 15 Jun 1925 in Dickinson, Stark, North Dakota, USA

Died 16 Mar 1991 at age 91 in Wimberly, Hays, Texas, United States

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Biography

Find A Grave

Huh! Buried twice!??!?! One of these gravesites (I suspect the former) has to be just a memorial. She could not be buried in both places. Hollenbeck-72 07:07, 7 December 2015 (EST)

Find A Grave Memorial #1

Birth: 1906

Death: 1991

Burial:

Dickinson Cemetery

Dickinson, Stark County, North Dakota, USA

Plot: G. -. 4. 18 ^[1]

Find A Grave Memorial #2

Birth: Mar. 15, 1900

Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA

Death: Mar. 16, 1991

Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA

Marvel Ward Culver Fikes, 91, passed away in Houston, March 16, 1991. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, she and her parents, Arthur Sinclair Ward and Lulu E. McCarty moved to Billings and Stark County, North Dakota in 1907. She received her elementary and high school education in Belfield, North Dakota, later attending Carleton College and McPhail's College of Music in Minnesota. After graduation, she became a public school music teacher in Minnesota and North Dakota schools. Following marriage to Marvin [Milton] Kenneth Culver in 1925, they moved to Thorndale, Texas, and later to Houston where Marvel became an instructor of piano for approximately 20 years. Prominent in Houston music circles, she was a member and Past President of Tuesday Musical Club. She possessed a trained voice and was a soloist in various churches in Houston and the surrounding areas. She was a member and Past President of Chapter BB of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, a member of Mu Phi Epsilon International, a professional music fraternity. A descendant of Revolutionary War patriot Benjamin Ward and a member of the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Houston. Following the death of her husband in 1955, she remarried in 1971 to Oyd Fikes and moved to Wimberley, Texas. She is survived by her sister Elizabeth (Betty) Ward Kennedy, three grandchildren Susan, David and Don VanVelzer and one great-grandchild, Donald Kenneth VanVelzer. She was preceded in death by a son, Donald Ward Culver and a daughter, Carolyn Marvel Van Velzer. Funeral services will be held at 11am Monday March 18, 1991 in the Settegast-Kopf Chapel, with interment to follow in Forest Park Lawndale. -- from the Houston Chronicle, March 17, 1991.

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Spouses:

Milton Kenneth Culver (1893 - 1955)

Oyd Marion Fikes (1896 - 1987)

Children:

Donald Ward Culver (1928 - 1955)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:

Forest Park Cemetery

Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA

Plot: Section 20, Lot 394, Space 2 ^[2]

Sources

• Find A Grave Memorial# 68055126

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68055126

1. ↑ Created by: High Plains; Record added: Dec 19, 2012; Find A Grave Memorial# 102363293; URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102363293
2. ↑ Created by: Brian Knoff; Record added: Apr 07, 2011; Find A Grave Memorial# 68055126; URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68055126