Beckham County, OK - Obits: Rigdon Lee Roy Black, 1927
01 Sep 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BLACK, RIDGON LEE ROY
(14 Jul 1927, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, Ok):
Rigdon Lee Roy Black was born at Brown, Oklahoma, June 10, 1895, and died
at the Elk Sanitarium, Elk City, Oklahoma, July 9, 1927, at the age of 32
years, 29 days, after an illness of four weeks.
He professed religion at Goree, Texas, in the summer of 1914, and joined
the First Baptist Church at that place, where he has retained his
membership.
He enlisted in the United States army June 21, 1918, and served for 13
months, 9 months of which were spent overseas.
He was married to Miss Mary Willis of Hastings, Oklahoma, December 26,
1920, to which union was born two sons, Lowell, age 4, and Odell, age 2.
He leaves to mourn his loss his wife and two sons, mother and father, four
sisters and four brothers, all of whom were present at the time of his
death.
Funeral services were held in the chapel of Geo. Grubitz & Son mortuary
Sunday, July 10, at 4 p.m., Rev. Walker of Delhi, Oklahoma, officiating.
Burial was made in Fairlawn Cemetery, Geo. R. Grubits & Son in charge.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank the kind doctors, nurses and friends who were so faithful
during the illness and death of our loving husband, son and brother, Mr.
Roy Black.
Mrs. Roy Black,
Mr. and Mrs. R. Black,
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Carothers,
Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Coburn,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hendricks,
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Black,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Black,
Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Black,
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Davis,
Mr. John Black.