Beckham County, OK - Obits: Carrie Estes, 1924
24 Jan 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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ESTES, CARRIE
(Aug 1924, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
A GOLD STAR MOTHER DIES IN ARKANSAS.
Last Tuesday, August 26, a telegram was received by Earl Estes, living ten
miles northwest of Rankin, Okla., saying that Mrs. Estes was dying in Hot
Springs, Ark., where she had gone for treatment of cancer of the liver. 
Their oldest daughter, Juanita, left that same evening for Arkansas, and
with the youngest daughter, Evelyn, brought the corpse home last Saturday,
by way of Elk City, Okla.
The funeral services were held the next day, Sunday noon, Aug. 31, at the
Rankin M. E. Church, conducted by her Pastor, Elder George F. Martin, of
Dempsey, Okla., and burial in Rankin Cemetery.
Carrie Bates Estes was born in Indiana, Nov. 5, 1877, and died in Levi
Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., Aug. 26, 1924, aged 46 yrs., 9 mo. 21 days. 
She was married to Earl Estes, April 29, 1894.  They were the parents of
eight children, two boys dying in infancy, and Orville, the oldest, killed
in France, Sept. 14, 1918; and two boys, Forrest, who is married and lives
near the old homestead, and Gayle and Roxie and two girls above named,
with their father survive her.  She became a Christian sixteen years ago,
and was always true to the faith as she was able to see it.
Mr. and Mrs. Estes with Orville and Forrest, settled on their homestead
nearly twenty-two years ago, after about a year's stay in Weatherford,
Okla.  Their first home was near Martinsville, Illinois.

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