© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, November 7, 1956
Elbert Oliver Sawyer
Fort Cobb Man Dies Saturday; Funeral Monday
FORT COBB-- Funeral services for Albert Oliver Sawyer, Fort Cobb, were
held at 2 p.m. Monday in the chapel of the Fort Cobb funeral home.
Rev. Clair Payette officiated and burial was held in Oak Grove
cemetery.
Mr. Sawyer, pioneer Caddoan, owned and operated the Sawyer Hardware
store in Fort Cobb for many years.
He suffered a stroke four years ago. Death came about 1:30 p.m.
Saturday while enroute to a hospital following a sudden
illness.
He was born December 8, 1884, in Arkansas and was married April 8,
1908, in Anadarko to the former Miss Ethel Mae Miller.
He moved from a farm near Cement to one north of Fort Cobb in 1917 and
from there into Fort Cobb.
He was a member of the Methodist church.
Survivors include the wife of the home in Fort Cobb; three sons, Gene
of Carnegie, Dale of Floyd, New Mex. and Glen of Los Angeles; one
daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Jackson of Fort Cobb; three sisters, Mrs. Tom
Deas of Berkley, Mrs. R.E. Dunkle of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Rose
Spurlin of Riverside, Calif.; five brothers, Jess of Oakland, Arthur
of Detroit, George of San Francisco, Will of San Francisco and Harry
of Los Angeles. |
