The Norman Transcript
May 1, 1988
Services for Robert O. Sumter, 84, a longtime Norman resident, are pending with Mayes Funeral Directors after he died Saturday afternoon in Hillcrest Living Center in Moore.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.Robert O. Sumter, he was born Jan. 16, 1904, in the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory and attended school in Atoka and the Haskell Indian Institute in Lawrence Kan. He received
a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma in foreign languages, and played foorball at both OU and Haskell.
Sumter ended a longtime teaching career in 1969 in Norman, where he had moved in the early 1960's. Prior to that he had taught Spanish at Atoka and Southeastern State Teachers College in Durant,
served as principal in the Atoka and Nowata schools, and worked as a foreign language consultant for the Oklahmoa Department of Education.
He married Vera Katherine Morgan and, following her death in 1959, married Charlotte M. Sorrells in 1960 in Coalgate. He was a member of the First christian Church of Norman and was a Navy
veteran from World War II>
Survivors include his wife Charlotte, of the home; two sons, William P. Sumter of Littleton, Colo., and the Rev. Ronald O. Sumter of Huntsville, Texas; and four grandchildren.
The Norman Transcript
May 2, 1988
Graveside services for Robert O. Sumter, 84, Norman, will be at 3 p.m.
Tuesday in the IOOF Cemetary with the Rev. Ronald Sumter officiating.
Mayes Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
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