Beckham CO. OK - Mr. Ely

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Former Sayre  Resident Mr. Ely Dies                                 ?????
Funeral Services Were Held For Mr. Eli Who Died In An Amarillo Hospital

 A girls quartette sang Will The Circle Be Unbroken, In The Garden, and Abide 
With Me. Mrs. Herbert Peoples was the organist.
Interment was in Memorial Park cemetery at Dalhart Texas.
Mr. Ely , son of Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Ely of six miles northeast of  Dalhart was 
born at Crowell Texas March 25 1913. He moved with his parents to Oklahoma
in 1921, then to Dallam, County Texas early in 1941. He married Miss
Florene Branson October 21 1933 in Sayre Oklahoma.
They have one daughter, Launnua Jean, five.
At the age of fourteen Mr. Ely became a member of  the Methodist Church at New
Liberty near Sayre. He remained an active church worker as long as his health 
would permit.
He was in ill health three years before his death.
Besides his parents, wife and daughter, survivors include four brothers Eunas 
of Sayre, Oklahoma, Paul of Cone, Texas, Otto of  Dalhart ,Texas, and Eschol of
 Amarillo, Texas, One sister, Mrs. Claude Roper  of Dalhart, several nieces and
 nephews.