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© The Verden News Verden, Oklahoma 19 January 1934 1861 ~ 1934 Thomas E. Otey succumbed to bronchial pneumonia at his home northwest of Verden Thursday morning at 130 o'clock. Mr. Otey had been ill a few days, when death came. His wife was quite ill with the same malady, but is recovering. Mr. Otey is an old citizen of this community having lived south of Verden a number of years but the past year or more he has lived northwest of town. The funeral services were held at 230 Thursday afternoon at the Methodist church with the pastor Rev. N. T. Peak officiating. Interment will be made in the Verden cemetery with the Hansen Funeral Home in charge of burial arrangements. Mr. Otey was 72 years, 7 months, and 29 days old at his departure. He is survived by his wife, three sons and four daughters; sons are Leonard, Thomas and Edward; the daughters Mrs. Ruth Talkington, Mrs. Ruby Patton, Lois and Blanche Otey. |
© The Chickasha Star Chickasha, Oklahoma Thursday, January 11, 1968
February 11, 1877 ~ January 9, 1968 Services for Gertrude Mattie McGiven, 1316 Idaho Avenue, were conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the chapel of Brown Funeral Home with Dr. Eldon Scamans officiating. Mrs. McGiven passed away January 9 at a local nursing home. She was born February 1l, 1877 at Sweetwater, Texas, and had lived 70 years in the Verden and Chickasha area. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Ruby Townsend, Mrs. W. P. [Lois] Dill, both of Chickasha, Mrs. Ruth Talkington, Verden, and Mrs. Blanche Green, Talara, Peru; two sons, Thomas Otey, Walters, and Edward Otey, Anadarko; ten grandchildren 27 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild; one sister, Mrs. M. M. Grimmitt, Haskell, Oklahoma; one brother, Ben White, Cement, one foster brother, Harley White, Chickasha. Interment was in Verden Cemetery under the direction of Brown Funeral Home. |