Beckham County, OK - Obits: John Buchanan, 1917
Friday, 29 June 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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Obituary: Elk City newspaper, Elk City, Beckham co, Ok, 14 Feb 1917:
BUCHANAN, JOHN
DEATH OF JOHN BUCHANAN.
John Buchanan, lately from Shamrock, Texas, and whom we spoke of recently,
having been given a life membership in the Masonic lodge at that place,
was taken ill last week with pneumonia at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
R. L. Brown, where he with his wife were spending the winter.  From the
time he was taken sick, it was known he was in a serious condition, and
relatives away from here were sent for, and while everything was done for
him that was possible to do, he kept getting worse, when death relieved
him of his sufferings on Tuesday morning.  He would have been
seventy-eight years old next Saturday.  He was born in Caven Co., Ireland,
coming to this country when about ten years of age.  He was a member of
the Episcopalian church, to which he was a devoted member.  We had met him
several times and enjoyed so much conversing with him, for he was very
bright mentally and it was truly a pleasure to talk with him.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon, under the auspices of the
Masonic order, which he loved so devotedly, and of which he had been a
member for nearly fifty years.  Rev. Boyse spoke words of comfort to the
bereaved ones, after which the remains were laid to rest in the Fairlawn
cemetery, Grubitz and Son being in charge.
The deceased leaves a wife and four daughters and two sons who have the
deepest sympathy of the Elk City people in the death of this noble husband
and father.