Beckham County, OK - Obits: Bertha Burgess, 1918
30 Oct 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BURGESS, BERTHA
(31 Oct 1918, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
BERTHA SMOTHERMAN BURGESS DEAD.
Mrs. Bertha Smotherman Burgess was born near El Reno, Oklahoma, on August
9th, 1896, and died near Grimes, Okla., October 24th, 1918, aged 22 years,
2 months and 15 days.
Funeral services were held at the Fairlawn Cemetery at Elk City, Friday
afternoon, October 25th, conducted by Rev. M. T. Allen.  Beautiful songs
were sung by members of the choir, who had also sang that afternoon at the
graves of Mrs. VanAuken and little Gladys Gibbons.
Bertha Smotherman was married to Raymond Burgess September 2nd, 1916, and
to this union one little boy was born, little Francis, who is now a year
old.  The husband was seriously ill at the time of the funeral and unable
to attend.
Before her marriage Mrs. Burgess lived in Elk City several years and was a
member of the M. E. Church South, of this place, and while here was a
great worker in the S. W. C.  Before her death she fully realized her
condition and called the family to her bedside  and bade them all a final
farewell, telling them she was not afraid to go, and for all to meet her
in heaven.
Her father died several years ago in Elk City.  Besides her mother,
husband, and baby, five brothers and one sister are left to mourn her
loss.  Hugh Smotherman who is now in Mineral Wells, Texas, Charles
Smotherman of Elk City, Marvin Smotherman, Los Animas, Col., Francis
Smotherman who is now in France with Co. B., 343 M.G. Bn., Jim and Grace
Smotherman who live with their mother south of Sayre.
To the sorrowing ones, whose sunlight she was, we tender sincerest
sympathy, trusting that the broken circle of home may be united in the
home above.