Beckham County, OK - Obits: Gladys Doraline Duke, 1929
13 Jan 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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DUKE, GLADYS DORALINE
(3 Oct 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. Gladys Burks Duke.
Gladys Doraline Burks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burks, was born on
March 11, 1909 at Grimes, Oklahoma and departed this life on Monday
afternoon at 3:30, September 30, 1929, at her home in Elk City.  In 1914
she moved with her parents to Elk City where she grew to young womanhood.
On June 2, 1928, she was united in marriage to Mr. Fuller Duke of Elk City.
She became a Christian on her thirteenth birthday uniting with the First
Christian Church of Elk City.  She was a regular attendant and a worker in
the Sunday school and Young People's Christian Endeavor Society, until
recent months when the condition of her health made it impossible for her
to attend.
Mrs. Duke leaves of her immediate family her husband, Fuller Duke; her
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burks, her brother Carl Burks and
her sister, Mrs. Laura Ellis, all of Elk City.  Besides these she leaves
many other relatives and a great host of friends, who will mourn her
death.
Rev. Carl V. Covey, pastor of the First Christian Church, conducted the
funeral services on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30, October 2nd, at the
Broadway Methodist Church.  Grubitz and Son were in charge of funeral
arrangements and interment was made in the Fairlawn Cemetery, Elk City,
Oklahoma.

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