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Enid Corrine “Corky” Batterton, 88, died on January 9, 2019 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was born on August 18, 1930, on a farm near Lovell, Oklahoma, to Charles and Ethyl Ray, as the third of four girls. She graduated from Dover High School in 1947 after having skipped a grade.

She met her husband, Merle Batterton, an oil field worker, in Crescent. They were married on January 6, 1948, and lived in Crescent until 1957, when they moved to Cherokee with the oil boom there. They had two children, Clinton Ray Batterton and Karen Elaine Batterton Roberts. In 1960 she and her husband started the...