Minnie Lee Powers

Left to Right: Ida, Minnie, Willa Mae, Cora About 1918

Minnie Lee is a name that I found seemed to show up in the family a few times.  Minnie Lee Powers was the fourth child of William Houston Powers and Sophronia Elizabeth Cagle Powers born on February 21, 1893, in Birmingham, Alabama.

She married John William Rollins on December 4, 1912, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Born to Minnie and John were five children. 
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Minnie and John divorced before 1930.

Name:  Minnie Lee Powers
Birth:  February 21, 1893.  Birmingham, Alabama USA
Death: February 13, 1956. Sand Springs, Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
Buried:  Woodland Memorial Park Cemetery
Sand Springs, Tulsa, Oklahoma USA

Father: William Houston Powers
Mother:  Sophronia Elizabeth Cagle
Notes:
Married: December 4, 1912.  Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
Divorced before 1930

Spouse:  John William Rollins
Birth: March 22, 1892. Colorado City, Mitchell, Texas USA
Death: January 19, 1970. Baytown, Harris, Texas USA
Buried:  Deadwood Cemetery. Deadwood, Panola, Texas USA
Military:  Registered WWII Draft, Never served.

Father: William Alonzo Rollins. (1-3-1865 to 1-27-1921)
Mother: Gennie Ellen Moore (12-4-1872 to       )

Notes: 2nd Marriage: Lula La Grone
     Born: May 7, 1900
     Died: September 20, 1988
      Buried: Deadwood Cemeter
​      Deadwood, Panola, Texas USA

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Children:  Baby Rollins (1913 - 1913); Willa Mae Rollins (1917-2014); Rosemary Rollins (1919-1997); Johnnie Lee Rollins (1923 - 1996); Dorothy Nell Rollins (1925 – 2019)

Baby Rollins (1913-1913)

Willa Mae

Rosemary

Johnnie Lee

Dorothy Nell

Minnie Lee Powers Obituary
Mrs. Rollins had been ill the past five months.  She was a member of the local Methodist church and came to Sand Springs from Tyler, Texas in 1925.
Funeral services are pending at the Mobley funeral home for Mrs. Minnie Rollins, 63, of 216 N. Lincoln, who died early Wednesday morning at a Tulsa hospital. 
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Rosemary Posten, Sand Springs; Mrs. Willa Mae Street, Galen Park, Texas; Mrs. Johnny Lee Branam, Tulsa; and Mrs. Dorothy Mell Cullison, Odessa, Texas.  A brother., George Powers, Bothell, Washington; three sisters, Mrs. Ida Adams, Sand Springs; Mrs. Bertha Johnson, Hammond, Ind.; Mrs. Adeline McDougal, Oklahoma City and six grandchildren.

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John William Rollins

John William Rollins Obituary
When John William Rollins was born on 21 March 1892, in Colorado City, Mitchell, Texas, United States, his father, William Alonzo Rollans, was 27 and his mother, Geannie Ellen Moore, was 18. He married Minnie Lee Powers on 4 December 1912, in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Eddy, New Mexico, United States in 1900 and Sand Springs City, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. He died on 29 January 1970, in Baytown, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Deadwood Cemetery, Deadwood, Panola, Texas, United States.