Oklahoma Farm Bureau

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For the 1963 Farm Family award, the OKFB Women designed the contest to honor the state’s pioneer farm families who fought floods, dust bowl days, and the depression in order to remain on the farm. One of the requirements was that the family, or the family’s parents, must have farmed in Oklahoma prior to 1900. The George Lasley family from Eakley was the winner of this special Oklahoma Pioneer Farm Family of the Year award. Both of the Lasleys’ parents originally came to Oklahoma in covered wagons in 1899. In the photo is Mr. and Mrs. Lasley, with the two youngest of their eight grandchildren, Gay and Lloyd.