Category: Obituaries

Mrs. Maude Goff, wife of A. Goff, of near Redmoon, died last Thursday after an illness of only an hour. On Thursday night, November 23, 1916, she retired, showing not feeling any symptoms of ill health, but sometime in the fore part of the night she was stricken with apoplexy and before sixty minutes had…

Last Sunday night, December 3, 1916, a team drawing a buggy came into the yard of Mr. Hiatt, east of this city. After investigation was made it was found that a dead man was in the vehicle. It proved to be John Ackley, a resident of Sandstone. Mr. Ackley went to Strong City on Saturday…

On Wednesday, December 6, 1916, A.L. Squires of near Sweetwater met with a serious accident. He was on his wagon loaded with hogs on his way to Erick when a run a way team of Mr. Clevenger’s struck the back end of his wagon, knocking him off and then trampled him under foot. He was…

M. W. Squires of near Sweetwater, who was knocked off his wagon by a runaway team a few days ago, died at his home last Monday morning, December 11, 1916,  at three o’clock from the injuries received in his accident. The direct cause of his death was a broken rib, that penetrated his lungs, which…

Information was wired to R.N.Higgins, of this city, Sunday, December 24, 1916, that his eldest sister, Mrs. Brashear, was killed in an auto accident at Mountain Park, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Brashear and a Mrs. Thrasher had been invited to take dinner with a friend in the vicinity of the city. The man at whose…

Mrs. R.M. Harper of Oklahoma City, daughter of A.F. Pierce, died last Thursday, December 14, 1916 at Oklahoma City of tuberculosis. Mrs. Harper has been suffering from this dread disease for several months, slowly getting weaker, thus becoming less able to withstand the ravages of the malady that was causing her to waste away. Most of…

The death of Grandma Payne occurred in this city Tuesday night, December 26, 1916, due to dropsy, after an illness of only about seven weeks, which is considered a very brief period for this disease. Mrs. Payne has been a resident of this county for a number of years and during that time she has endeared…

Funeral services for Charles Edward Martin were held Tuesday, May 13, 1997 at 10:30 a.m. in the Martin Funeral Chapel with Bro. Truman Teel officiating. Charles Edward Martin was born July 12, 1916 in Elk City, OK and passed away Saturday, May 10, 1997 at the age of 80 years. Ed grew up in the…

Funeral services for Thelma Mae Turner will be held Wednesday, May 14, 1997 at 2:00 pm. in the Rose Chapel with Tom Cooksey officiating. Thelma, the daughter of Mollie Belle and John Milton Higgins was born September 27, 1906 in Lone Oak, OK and passed away May 11, 1997 in the Sayre Memorial Hospital at…

Funeral services for Clarence Ewton were held Saturday, May 10, 1997 at 10:00 a.m. in the Rose Chapel with Joe Peery officiating. Clarence, the son of Effie and Joe Ewton, was born August 15, 1909 in Berlin, OK and passed away May 8, 1997 in the Sayre Memorial Hospital at the age of 87 years,…

Funeral services for Helen Brookshire were held Tuesday, January 20, 1997 at 10:00 a.m. in the Martin Funeral Chapel, Elk City with Rodney Minor officiating. Ilda Helen, the daughter of Joe and Alta (Eggleston) Barnes, was born January 15, 1905 in Berlin, OK and passed away Saturday, January 18, 1997 at the age of 91.…

William Walter Viers was born August 22, 1910 in Sayre, Oklahoma and passed away January 6, 1989 in the Sayre Memorial Hospital at the age of 78 years, four months and fifteen days. Walter, the son of Thomas Jefferson and Irena Viers, married Hilda Fern Barnes, February 25, 1934 in Sayre, Oklahoma and they lived…