March 11, 2019

Reunion, museum planned at Oaks Indian Mission

Author: CHAD HUNTER

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OAKS – Former “mission kids” are planning to reunite in this small community next month, then open doors to a museum that will highlight nearly 100 years of history of the Oaks Indian Mission.
Mission alumni who attended between the 1940s and 1960s are leading the reunion effort. Sol Mockicin, 76, lived at the mission for 12 years with a host of brothers and sisters from the Bull Hollow community in southeastern Delaware County.
“There were 10 of us children who stayed here,” he said. “We