Beckham County, OK - Obits: Leah Kaucher, 1910
06 June 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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KAUCHER, LEAH
(9 Feb 1910, Wednesday, Elk City Record, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
DIED.
Miss Leah Kaucher died in San Antonia, Texas, Feb. 4, 1910.
She was a sister of Mrs. George Clark of Spring Creek community, with whom
she made her home.
Well known in educational circles, being for several years past one of
this county's leading teachers.  She had been employed in Sayre School
over two years, having resigned her position there last fall on account of
ill health.
She had gone to San Antonia in hopes of recovery - consumption.
She was a faithful Christian, member of the M. E. Church, South.
Her remains will be buried at the old home in Missouri.
Mrs. Geo. Clark left Saturday to attend the funeral.
(10 Feb 1910, Thursday, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Miss Leah Koucher (sic), who was for several years a teacher in the Sayre
public schools, died Friday, February 4th, in a sanatarium at San Antonio,
Texas, where she (had) gone with the hope of recovering her health. 
Consumption was the cause of her death.  Her health had been bad for some
time, and last fall she was obliged to resign her position in the high
school.
Miss Koucher was a sister of Mrs. Geo. Clark of the Spring Creek
community.  She was a member of the Methodist Church.  Her untimely death
is greatly regretted by her many friends in the county, especially in the
community where she lived and among the teachers and patrons of the Sayre
school.  Resolutions of regret and condolence were adopted Sunday by the
Spring Creek Sunday school, of which she was a member.
The body was sent to her old home in Missouri for interment.  Mrs. Geo.
Clark of this county attended the funeral.

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