Beckham County, OK - Obits: Everett W. Freels, 1929
03 Feb 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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FREELS, EVERETT W.
(11 Apr 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Everett W. Freels was born in Tennessee on the 12th day of May, 1860, and
passed from this life, April 5th, 1929, at the age of 68 years, 10 months
and 24 days.  Although, Mr. Freels has not been in robust health for some
time, yet the end came very suddenly and unexpected, he being critically
ill only a few hours.
On December 18, 1886, in Scabrough County, Tennessee, he was married to
Miss Orpah Holloway and to this union were born six children, all of which
survive him.
Mr. and Mrs. Freels early married life was spent in Tennessee and Texas. 
Twenty-one years ago they came to Oklahoma and have resided here ever
since.  For these twenty-one years Oklahoma has had no finer citizen, no
more respected neighbor and no more loyal friend.  Mr. Freels was a very
devout Christian.  He was a member of the Hefner Methodist Episcopal
Church and life he lived daily was a fitting example of the true and noble
manhood.  The faults in others were always quickly laid aside for the
higher ideals.  No harsh could possible live in a heart so filled with
love for his family and friends.
Oh! how his wife will miss him, the dear wife to whom he was so tenderly
devoted, his constant companion, his soul-mate in all their sorrows, in
all their joys.  He was always ready to share with his children their
problems of life, their hopes, their fears, their defeats or their
triumphs.
Let us be glad, therefore, that he has left to us a memory that we may
cherish more and more as the years go by.  Mr. Freels leaves to mourn his
death, his loving and devoted wife, one son, Edgar of Canute, five
daughters, Ethel Collins, Canute, Nana Music, Canute; Nettie Moudy, Elk
City; Essie Whittenberg, Elk City; Edel Doty, Elk City; fourteen
grandchildren, one brother of Elk City and two sisters of Texas.
Funeral services were held in Elk City Methodist Church Sunday, April 7th
at 2 o'clock by Brother J. W. Newman of Butler.  Interment was made in Elk
City cemetery, Gentry-Killough having charge.

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