Corrina Harjo
Corrina Carol Harjo, age 46 and a resident of Sasakwa, OK, departed from this life on Friday, October 14, 2022, at Integris Health Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City.
Corrina was born July 6, 1976, to Katherine Harjo of Sasakwa, OK. She was baptized by Rev. George Jesse on May 9, 1987 and was a member of Spring Baptist Church. Corrina was Alligator clan, a tribal member enrolled with the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and a member of the Tallahassee band.
Corrina enjoyed OU football, watching horror movies, going on road trips, taking selfies with her loved ones, and visiting with family. She also enjoyed listening to Mvskoke hymns and reminisced with her family often about missing listening to sermons in the Mvskoke language. One of her favorite past times also was going to spend time at stomp dance and particularly watching the East/ West ballgame during last dance at Alabama ceremonial ground, where she would cheer for the East side.
Her family was her life. She loved her mother, aunties, and children, cherished her grandbabies, and she never missed an opportunity to spend time with her closest male cousins, who she claimed as her brothers. She was also blessed with a huge extended family that consisted of friends she met over the years. Although Corrina experienced hardships and sickness, she didn’t often complain and would on many occasions go on to help her family and friends to get through their own hardships by offering encouraging words to look to the Lord for guidance. She believed it would be a happy day when she would see her Grandpa, Grandma, her brother and her Aunties once again in Heaven. Corrina was a firm believer in her Lord, the strength in her traditional teachings, her language, and in her own spirituality.
She was strong willed, quick witted and even though she sometimes had a short fuse, she was quick to find her grace and find a way to make herself laugh her signature infectious laugh, which often caused everyone else around her to laugh. She would always make a priority to visit her loved ones in the hospital and would offer her help in whatever form she was able to give. To those who didn’t know her, Corrina seemed to have a cold, hard exterior from a lifetime of struggle, but those who knew her best knew she had a servant’s heart full of warmth for those who she loved. She will be remembered for all the love she shared and will be missed by all those who came to know and love her.
Preceding her in death are her grandparents, Rev. George W. Harjo, and Cora Davis Harjo, and two aunts, Francis Pauline Harjo and Elsie Tecumseh. She is survived by two sons, Kendrick Ahaisse Harjo, and Antwane King Harjo, of Sasakwa, OK; one daughter, Kendra Paige Harjo, also of Sasakwa, OK; two grandchildren, Noah Kenji Harjo and Kaitlynn Skye Harjo; one brother, Christopher George Harjo, Sasakwa, OK; her mother, Katherine Harjo, Sasakwa, OK; one uncle, Willie Dean Harjo, Sasakwa, OK; five aunts,
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Lucy Harjo, Wewoka, OK; Wisey “Crickett” Harjo of Sasakwa, OK; Amanda Gipson and Bill, Sasakwa, OK; Polly Owl of Stillwell, OK; and Toni Fixico of Wewoka. Corrina is also survived by her spouse and companion, Quinton Thomas, whom she loved very much.
Pallbearers are Dale Harjo, David Harjo, Brandon Harjo, Patrick Harjo, Brian Wyatt Harjo, Lelus Spottedcrow, Nathaniel “Hank” Harjo, John Harjo, Wyatt Wolf and Hvtvlkeyahola Deere. Honorary Pallbearers are Willie Dean Harjo, Chris Harjo, Quinton Thomas, Russell Harjo, Eddie Harjo, Ronald Gipson, Bear Gipson, Nathan Harjo, Joe W. Harjo, and James O’Brian.
A wake service will be held on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 from 5-7pm at Stout-Phillips Funeral Home in Wewoka, OK. Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 1pm at Stout-Phillips Funeral Home in Wewoka, OK. Officiating the funeral will be Rev. Frank Moppin and Rev. Houston Tiger. Burial will be at Davis Family Cemetery in Sasakwa, OK. Supper will be served after the burial at Spring Baptist Church in Sasakwa, OK.