| Tim Roosevelt Cockrell |
| © Cheyenne Star |
| Submitted by: Wanda Purcell |
Services for Mr. Tim Roosevelt Cockrell who died May 29, 1959, were held in the Durham community building, 2:30 Sunday afternoon, May 31, 1959.
Services were conducted by ministers, Harold Knight and John Murphy of Amarillo, Texas.
Committal was in the Silent Home cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills county, Oklahoma under the direction of Scroggins Funeral Home of Cheyenne.
Tim Cockrell was born July 5, 1904 near Lawrence, Kansas.
The Cockrell family moved to Durham, Oklahoma in February 1909 where Mr. Cockrell had resided since that time.
He was united in marriage to Helen Sadler, April 9, 1927 at Canadian, Texas. To this union were born seven children, five sons and two daughters, Roy Eugene who died at birth; Leo Cockrell of Alamogordo, New Mexico; Dale Cockrell of Cheyenne; Mrs. Hershel Higgins of Amarillo, Texas; Mr. Donald Cockrell of Wichita, Kansas; Mrs. Glen Cockrell of the home address; and Mrs. Wanda Estes of Amarillo, Texas.
He is also survived by six grandchildren, Sandra, Judy and Ricky Higgins, Dennis and Craig Cockrell and Gary Cockrell.
He was preceded in death by his mother and father, two brothers and one sister.
He is survived by a brother, Clint Cockrell of Pampa, Texas; a sister, Mrs. Warren Selby of Reydon; and a host of other relatives and friends.
He obeyed the gospel, and was baptized into the Church of Christ under the preaching of Brother McGaughery in 1954. He has attended church at Durham since that time.
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