Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church for Mrs. Laura Belle Chitwood, 36, 1212 South 12th, who died at 5:32 p.m. Thursday in Blackwell General Hospital following an extended illness.
Rev. Harry Hembree pastor will officiate at the services and burial will be in IOOF cemetery under direction of Roberts and Sons Funeral Home.
Mrs. Chitwood was born Nov. 20, 1922 in Blackwell. She moved from Peckham to Blackwell in 1943 and was a member of the First Christian Church.
Survivors are her husband, Ermil; two daughters, Irene and Louise, and a son, Jerry Dale, all of the home; her father Arthur Shupe, Newkirk, and a half sister, Mrs. Thelma Stoll, Nardin.
Pallbearers will be Marion Bringham, Walter Dirham, Vernon Irons, Demar Fitzgerald, Royce Ballinger, Wayne Johns.
© Blackwell Journal Tribune
May 15, 1959