Beckham County, OK - Obits: Bessie Faye Fannon, 1927
27 Jan 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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FANNON, BESSIE FAYE
(28 Jul 1927, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Bessie Faye Fannon was born in Beckham county, northwest of Elk City, in
the year 1907, on the 20th day of February, her mother's birthday.  She
died on the 22nd day of July, 1927, aged 20 years, 5 months and 2 days.
She was raised and educated near her birthplace, and went to high school
in Cheyenne.
She was a true and devoted Christian.  She joined the Methodist Church in
the month of July, 1923, and was a faithful church worker and was the
leader in all her church work for her friends.  She did not feel like she
was doing as much work for her Lord and suffering humanity as she should,
and entered the nursing profession, and has been lending a helping hand to
the suffering since two years ago this August.  She was a nurse at the
Border Hospital in Mangum most of the time, where she was at the time of
her death.
She leaves to mourn her loss a devoted mother and father, four sisters and
three brothers, who names are Mrs. Hannah Nagle, Mrs. Eupha Hunt, Mrs.
Olive Walker, Mrs. Mary Wilson, Earl Fannon, William Fannon, Wayne Fannon
and three nephews and one niece.
She was assisting with the sick last Sunday morning.  She helped operate,
and little did she think she would lay a corpse today.  She was stricken
down last Sunday night about 2:30, operated on Monday morning, and the
Lord saw fit to cease her suffering.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. W. Newman of Butler at the
Broadway Methodist Church, where a large crowd assembled to pay their last
respects to this, their friend.
Her remains were laid to rest in Fairlawn Cemetery to await the judgment
morn.  - A Friend.
Obituary.
Bessie Faye Fannon was born northwest of Elk City, Oklahoma on February
20, 1907, her mother's birthday, and died at the Border Hospital in
Mangum, Oklahoma, on Friday evening, July 22, 1927, age 20 years, 5
months, 2 days.
She attended high school in Cheyenne, then entered the Tisdal Hospital for
training to become a nurse, and from there she went to Mangum, where she
had been in training for eighteen months and where she was at the time of
her death.
Funeral services were held on Sunday, July 24, 1927, at the Broadway
Methodist Church in Elk City, by Rev. J. W. Newman of Butler, who made
such a comforting talk and told of how sweet a Christian girl she was. 
Gentry-Killough were in charge of the funeral arrangements.
There were so many pretty flowers banked around her casket, which showed
the high esteem in which she was held.
She leaves to mourn her passing her loving father and mother, four sisters
and three brothers, whose names are Mrs. Hugo Nagle, Mrs. Eupha Hunt, Mrs.
Olive Walker, Mrs. Mary Wilson, Earl, William and Wayne Fannon, and three
nephews and one niece.
Her mother was too sick to attend the funeral, which made it so hard on
the mother, as Faye was the baby girl of the family.

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