An 81-year-old woman who said she lost “everything” in a mobile home fire June 28 owns three other homes in Muskogee, according to relatives and county records.

One of the homes Mary Hammons owns is a three-bedroom brick home with a two-car garage on West Davis Field Road that was last assessed for $91,918 in March 2006. A large metal storage building housing antiques also is on the property, said Hammons’ stepdaughter, Peggy Miller of Muskogee.

Miller and a stepgrandaughter, Jodi Downum of Oktaha, questioned Monday whether Hammons sought help under false pretenses. Hammons said she didn’t.

Hammons said she doesn’t plan to move into any of her houses. She said she has one on Emporia Street that she has up for sale because she decided not to give it to her daughter.

She agreed with relatives that she had some clothes in the Davis Field house, but said they weren’t good clothes.

She said she plans to will the Davis Field house to one of her nieces, Connie Brown, who has taken care of her when she was ill.

“She’s overly earned it,” Hammons said.

And her house at 1008 Wood she rents out, she said.

The American Red Cross gave Hammons a debit card after the fire. Director Hope Margarit was not at the office Monday and didn’t know what help Hammons received.

Margarit said Monday the Red Cross gives those in need emergency funds “whether you have money or don’t have money.”

She added people often can’t access money in the bank at the time of a crisis.

The amount of a debit card given to applicants for immediate relief depends on what they say they need and tell a volunteer they lost, she said. The Red Cross is not an investigative agency, she said.

“We believe what someone tells us,” Margarit said.

Miller said she was with Hammons about two or three years ago when she bought a Cadillac and wrote a $35,000 check for it.

Hammons said Monday she paid about almost $40,000 for the 2005 Cadillac. It burned in the recent fire, but it was insured, she said.