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Benjamin Tahmahkera

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cache, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Death: November 13, 1976 (78)
Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Place of Burial: Cache Kiowa Comanche Apache Intertribal Cemetery, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Immediate Family:

Son of Louis Tamahkera and Weyodee 'We-yoh-Dee' Tamahkera (born Parker)
Brother of Private First Class Samuel W Tahmahkera; Sophia Mahsetky; Cynthia Ann Tahmahkera; Wilson W. Tahmahkera; Lewis E. Tahmahkera and 2 others

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About Benjamin Tahmahkera

Grandson of Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief
The Comanche Nation

Lawton Constitution
Monday, November 15, 1976

Ben Tahmahkera
Indiahoma (Staff) – Services for Ben Tahmahkera, 77, Indiahoma, who died Saturday in a Lawton hospital following a lengthy illness, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Post Oak Indian Church here. Rev. Sherwood Tsotigh and Rev. Robert Coffee will officiate. A prayer service will be at 7 p.m. today in Huddleston Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in the Cache Indian Tribal Cemetery.

Mr. Tahmahkera was born Jan. 6, 1898, in Cache. He married Virginia Poahway March 19, 1923, in Lawton. He was a member of the Cache Indian Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife of the home; a son, Franklin, Cache; two daughters, Lucille Wesori, Cicero, Ind., and Leatrice Cable, Indiahoma; two brothers: Vance and Lewis, both of Indiahoma, and a sister, Sophia Mahsetky, Apache.

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Benjamin Tahmahkera's Timeline

1898
January 6, 1898
Cache, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
1976
November 13, 1976
Age 78
Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
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Cache Kiowa Comanche Apache Intertribal Cemetery, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA