Odie Mae (Eagle) Dick

Funeral Service for Odie Mae Dick (Eagle), 91, of Nicut, Oklahoma will be at 10:00 AM on Saturday, June 19, 2021 at Fellowship Baptist Church in Nicut, Oklahoma. Burial will follow at Bellefonte Cemetery in Nicut, Oklahoma under the direction of Agent Mallory Martin Funeral Service, Inc.
She was born on September 10, 1929 in Nicut, Oklahoma to Lila (Daugherty) Eagle and Israel Eagle and passed away on June 13, 2021 in Muldrow, Oklahoma.
Odie was referred to as Granny, and at times Miss Odie, by various friends and relatives. She was the beloved mother to six children, grandmother to 10 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren and 18 great great grandchildren. She was married to Eli Dick on June 5, 1948 in Van Buren, Arkansas. He preceded her in death on June 5, 2008. They had a loving marriage for 60 years.
Miss Odie was a full blood Cherokee and was a fluent language speaker. She dearly loved her family, friends, relatives, community and her church family at Fellowship Baptist Church. She was a friendly, outgoing person with a uniquely Cherokee sense of humor. Occasionally, she would tell stories of her childhood. She loved to just visit with people either on the phone or in person. In her younger years, she did what she could to care for relatives and friends who needed help. She enjoyed making quilts and gifted her grandchildren with her handmade quilts at their birth. Her most special gift was gardening. She possessed a magical green thumb and could grow practically anything she set her mind to. Miss Odie could take a poor, dried up twig in a pot home and miraculously love and nurture it back to life till it was lush and thriving.
Odie was a true Cherokee matriarch, plain spoken and at times more blunt than one would like to hear especially to her children and close relatives. But it was always in love. She loved the simple life, in her early years in raising a family, she always grew a large garden and canned her bountiful harvest to be stored in her smoke house and fed her family from it all winter long. In her younger years, she also foraged with her mom and sisters for wild onions, mushrooms, crawdads and wild greens. She would bring home grocery sacks full or buckets full and cook them for supper for her family the very same day.
She was such a big personality, she made a large impact during her lifetime and will be sorely missed by all who knew and loved her.

Survivors are:

3 daughters: Shirley (Dick) Reed of Nicut, OK, Julie Dick Moss and Pat of Tahlequah, OK and Susan Kennedy and Michael of Fort Smith, AR;

2 sons: Johnny Dale Dick of Sallisaw, OK and Michael Lee Dick of Nicut, OK;

10 grandchildren: Tammy Ann Franklin and Clay, Richard Dee Reed and Sue, Billy Joe “B.J.” Dick and Kristi, Brad Elliott Dick and Misty, Michelle Morrison and Danny, Nakwsi A. Moss, Brooke White, Chelsea King, Jonathan Dick and Shannon Dick;

17 great-grandchildren and 18 great-great-grandchildren;

2 sisters: Maggie Morrison and Lillian Denny both of Nicut, OK;

2 brothers: Levi Eagle and Johnny Lee Soap both of Nicut, OK;

daughter-in-law: Dixie Dick of Muldrow, OK;

special niece: Courtney Denny;

numerous other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, two sons, William her oldest son and by an infant son and two of four sisters, Evelyn Bush and Ruthie Mae Sevenstar; and one brother, George.

Active Pallbearers will be B.J. Dick, Brad Dick, Jonathan Dick, Kyle Deason, Nakwsi Moss and Tommy Lee Edwards.

Honorary Pallbearer will be Richard Dee Reed.

Viewing and Visitation Noon – 8 PM Thursday and 10 AM – 8 PM Friday at Agent Mallory Martin Funeral Home in Sallisaw, OK where the family will greet 6 – 8 PM Friday.