Beckham County, OK - Obits: Myrtis Arlitt, 1917
31 July 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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ARLITT, MYRTIS
(31 May 1917, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. O. W. Arlitt Passes Away
Last Friday morning after an illness of many months, the spirit of Mrs.
Arlitt took it's flight into the Unknown.  Death came not unexpectedly. 
For weeks it seemed she was on the very threshold to the Eternity and her
passing away was a relief to her intense suffering.
Myrtis King was born May 29, 1894, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., married October
29, 1911 to O. W. Arlitt at Harlingen, Texas, where they were both living
at that time.
On March 27, 1916, Mr. Arlitt was transferred by the Railroad Co., to Elk
City, where he now holds the position of station agent, for the Wichita
Falls and North Western Railroad, and here they have lived for more than a
year.
Last October Sister Arlitt was seriously ill.  Her husband took her to
Galveston to the hospital where she underwent a very serious surgical
operation, and during her stay there had four minor operations.  All that
surgical and medical skill could do had been accomplished and about two
weeks ago, her husband went to Galveston and brought her to Elk City where
she could be with him.
Bro. Arlitt has counted no sacrifice too great - money, time, care have
been lavishly spent, that the companion of his heart and life might be
restored to health, but God had deemed it best to relieve her of earth's
sufferings, and on the morning of Mary 25th, 1917, at 6 o'clock, He said;
"It is enough, come higher."
She was an intense sufferer.  A few days ago she said to me, "Bro. Houck,
only God and myself know how I have suffered."
Sister Arlitt was converted in her youth and united with the Methodist
Episcopal church.  She was ever an earnest consecrated christian.  She
united with the First M. E. Church of this city in April 1916.  She loved
her church and she loved her Christ.
Her husband, father and mother, Harligen (sic), Texas; one sister (Mrs. T.
J. Knight, Gonzoles (sic), Texas); and one brother Aubrey King, Harligen
(sic), Texas, survive her.
Most of us knew Sister Arlitt but a short time, yet long enough to
recognize and appreciate her worth.
Rev. E. R. Houck.