Obituary for Rebecca Hara

Rebecca S Hara

April 22, 1941 – June 17, 2023

Rebecca “Susie” was born April 22, 1941 in WhiteEagle, the daughter of Alonzo Hinman and Edna (Redleaf) Hinman. She attended Chilocco Indian School and graduated in 1962. Trained as a dental technician, she enlisted in the United States Navy. After technical school, she was stationed at NAS Lemoore, California.

She married Eloy Hara, a career sailor, and became a homemaker, traveling the continental USA, Hawaii, Guam, Japan, Canada, and Mexico. She had three children, Edward, Leslie, and LouEdith. She and the children were stationed with Dad in many Navy bases in California, Hawaii, and Rhode Island, as well as a couple of installations in Oklahoma and Texas. She always took advantage of each base’s location, taking the children, by local bus mostly (she wasn’t a driver) to museums, zoos, parades, open air markets, festivals, cultural events, anything of interest such as the base airshows, and shopping!

She enjoyed sewing. As a homemaker, she sewed all the young family’s clothes, ultimately sewing the family’s Ponca regalia as her children grew older and entered the arena. She also made and beaded their moccasins as well.

She enjoyed crochet. She was always in search of vintage Japanese magazines that featured patterns for her to learn and use. Many a crochet afghan or doily sets has been gifted.

She enjoyed reading history and publications such as Readers Digest, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Architectural Digest, and Navy Times. She eagerly awaited her daily Ponca City paper in the mail and was on a first name basis with her mail carrier. She was an avid letter writer, corresponding regularly with friends and family for decades.

And finally, when she wasn’t following baseball by radio or on the TV, she was taking care of her pets: stray dogs, stray cats, a couple of goats, a few chickens, ducks, geese, and the others whose space she lived in, the opossums, the armadillos, the skunks, a raccoon, a bobcat, and all the birds, butterflies and dragonflies.

Rebecca was the grandchild of Chief Leslie Red Leaf and Ethel White Eagle, and Richard Hinman and Margret DeLodge. Her great-grand parents were Chief Red Leaf and Anna Big Kansas, Chief White Eagle and Julia Primeaux (Iron Shoe), Samuel Hinman and Mona (Neoma) Raise-The-Others, and John DeLodge and Susie White Shirt.

Immediate surviving family members are her children Edward Hara, Leslie Hara and Lou Hara.

Rebecca was preceded in death by her parents, sisters; Edith Lou Brown and Claudina Hinman, and brother; Clyde Hinman.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary’s Catholic School Foundation, 415 S. 7th, Ponca City, OK 74601.

Source: Trout Funeral Home