Background
Shook, Tonya Norieta was born on November 28, 1935 in Duncan, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Clarence Estel Holmes and Dorothy Rose Dowell-Holmes.
(A little known Cherokee/Melungeon Shantyboat dweller's or...)
A little known Cherokee/Melungeon Shantyboat dweller's oral history reveals the life and times of the Trail of Tears, the Civil War in Arkansas, and experinces of the early day Texas cattle drives.
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Shook, Tonya Norieta was born on November 28, 1935 in Duncan, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Clarence Estel Holmes and Dorothy Rose Dowell-Holmes.
Advertising editor Herzstien's Department Store, Clayton, New Mexico, 1959—1961. Artist Homes-Shook Art Gallery, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1981—1984. Owner gift shop/gallery Peachtree Plantation, Waruika Lake, Oklahoma, 1989—1993.
Columnist Comanche Times, 1996. Owner gift shop/gallery Peachtree Plantation, Hastings, 1995—1997. Speaker in field.
(A little known Cherokee/Melungeon Shantyboat dweller's or...)
Organizer Paramedic First Responders Meeting, Wichita Falls, 1979. Town representative Tri-County Chisholm Trail Committee, Hastings, 1996. Charter member Waurika Lake Association, 1988.
Member of Wordwrite Christian Writer's Club, Oklahoma Inkwellers Wordwrite Club, Oklahoma History Society (life).
Married Clarence Wade Shook, December 25, 1977. Children: Randall Curtis Maxwell, Shanna Leigh Covington, Cheryl Ann Clark.