Beckham County, OK - Obits: Willie E. Henson, 1917
11 Mar 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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HENSON, WILLIE E.
(24 Aug 1917, The Carter Express, Carter, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. K. T. Henson, wife of Mr. K. T. Henson, postmaster here at Carter,
died at the hospital in Elk City Wednesday afternoon about seven o'clock.
The entire population in and around Carter was thrown into sorrow when the
sad news came from Elk City Wednesday morning that Mrs. Henson was dying,
and then late in the afternoon when the announcement came that she was
dead.
Mrs. Henson was carried to the hospital at Elk City last Saturday, but she
had been ill for several days prior to that time.  But on that day her
condition became so alarming that it was decided to carry her to the
hospital that evening.  She gained no permanent relief however, although
her husband and physicians thought she was some better on Tuesday morning,
but on Wednesday morning it could be seen that she was sinking.
Mrs. Henson had stayed in the post office quite a lot, besides clerking
for different firms in the city, consequently she was well known
throughout the whole country around and she will thus be sorely missed by
the people generally as well as by her own immediate family.
She leaves a husband and five children, four girls and one boy as follows:
 Marie, Gertrude, Earnest, Amy Beth and Dorothy.  The two oldest and the
two youngest are the girls.  In the estimation of the writer, one of
saddest things that we are ever called upon to witness in this life is to
see a mother taken away in the prime of life, leaving young girls behind
to grow up without the guiding hand of a mother's love.
As this is written the funeral and burial rites have not yet taken place. 
We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the grief stricken family.

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