Services for Sallie E. Messick Browers will be at the Stroud United Methodist Church Thursday, May 12 at 10:30 a.m. The Rev. J. W. Browers, Jr. will officiate. Interment will be in the Stroud Cemetery.

Mrs. Browers was born April 2, 1892 at Paradise, Texas, the daughter of Richard and Janie Messick.

She died May 10 in Stroud.

Mrs. Browers moved with her family to Oklahoma as a small child and grew up to adulthood near Mt. Park, Oklahoma. There she met and married John Walter Browers on September 29, 1909.

A few years later, Walter Browers entered the Methodist ministry that resulted in their living almost all over the state of Oklahoma. They retired after fifty years in the ministry.

Five small children preceded Mrs. Browers in death.

Survivors include her husband, John Walter Browers of the home in Stroud, five sons, Arville B. Browers of Oklahoma City, Richard E. Browers of Richmond, California, J. Walter Browers Jr. of Lubbock, Texas, Clyde E. Browers of Sand Springs, Oklahoma and Bill E. Browers of Kingston, Oklahoma, three daughters, Janie Sowards and Dollie Mercer, both of Stroud and Lucretia Beverage of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, twenty grandchildren, twenty four great grandchildren, four great great grandchildrenand other relatives and friends.

Published May 12, 1983.