Poling, Elsie Christine Starkey, blessed our world with her birth on January 7, 1911 in Perry, OK. After traveling by train to Indiana to visit family, she returned to Oklahoma in a covered wagon at the age of 7. Elsie married Chester Ray Poling, Sr. at the age of 15 on November 18, 1926 in New Kirk, OK. They resided in Locust Grove, OK, until 1943, when they moved to Tulsa, OK. Elsie proudly served our country during WWII by working in the Douglas Aircraft plant as a Rosie the Riveter. After WWII she worked for the Coca Cola Bottling Company in Tulsa, OK, as a bottle inspector. She was the first woman to operate a bottle washing machine west of the Mississippi River. She and her husband moved to Oklahoma City in 1956, where she worked for the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company, also as a bottle inspector. The Mountain Dew beverage was bottled in the Oklahoma City Pepsi plant (circa 1964) had on the bottle "filled by Chester and Elsie". Elsie and Chester celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary prior to his death in 1991. She is preceded in death by her husband, daughter, Lois Maydene Cale; 1 grandchild, 3 great-grandchildren; and 2 brothers Guy Cass and George Cass. She is survived by: sister, Alice Powell of Spencer, OK; son, Chester Ray Poling, Jr. and wife, MaryAnn of Tulsa, OK; daughter, Georgia Beaugene Roberts of Oklahoma City, OK; daughter, Inabelle Christine Rist and husband, Richard of Colorado Springs, CO; daughter, Roberta Maxine Poling and husband, Perry of Oklahoma City, OK; 15 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great-grandchildren. Elsie entered eternity on January 11, 2005. She was a beloved wife, mother grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother who, will be forever missed. Our family and community are a much better place because of her presence in our lives.


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