Beckham County, OK - Obits: Ray Anderson, 1919 30 July 2007 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ ANDERSON, RAY (22 Mar 1919, Thursday, Southwest Press, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK): ATTENDS FUNERAL Mrs. Belknap returned home Monday from Wichita Falls, where she had been to attend the funeral services of her great grand-son, Ray Anderson, aged ten months. The father, for whom the child was named, has been in France for over a year. The mother died when the babe was seven days old, and by the request of her husband, her body was buried in a vault. She requested that if anything happened to the babe, that its body be kept till the return of its father. Its body was kept for about six weeks, but after a cablegram was received from him, stating that he did not know when he would get home, it was laid to rest in a vault also, that he may see both of his loved ones if he wishes to when he does return. This is the fourth great grand-son of Mrs. Belknap's that has died of influenza in less than a year.