Bessie Bird

© Enid Morning News

03-1974

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Bird, 89, who died early Saturday morning in a local nursing home, will be at 10 AM Tuesday in the Chapel of the Henninger – Allen Funeral Home. Doctor John Russell will officiate and burial will be in the Enid Cemetery.

She was born in Dennison, Texas, where she attended grade school. She moved to Ft. Worth at the age of 14, and came to Enid from St. Louis in the early 1900s where she was employed in the millinary department of the Kennedy Mercantile Company.

Mrs. Bird was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Mrs. Bernice Parrish.

Mrs. Bird is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Stanford (Beryl) Todd, Donna, Texas; Mrs. Joe (Lynette) Haygood, Houston, Texas; one brother, Leslie E. Askew, Phoenix, Arizona; three grandchildren and one great – grandchild.

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