Beckham County, OK - Obits: Sarah Katheryn Loftiss, 1919
20 June 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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LOFTISS, SARAH KATHERYN
(30 Oct 1919, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
STEP-MOTHER DIES
Roy and J. B. Loftiss left Friday night for Springfield, Mo., having
received a message that their step-mother, Mrs. Frank Loftiss, had died
Thursday.  She was well known to a number of our citizens and beloved by
all who knew her.  The news of her death will cause much sorrow to
relatives and friends.
(4 Dec 1919, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
OBITUARY
LOFTISS - Sarah Katheryn Bodenhamer was born near Birmingham, Ill.,
February 8, 1848, and departed this life near Buffalo, Mo., Oct. 23, 1919.
 She had three brothers and six sisters all have passed on before except
three sisters and one brother who together with her husband and family are
left to mourn her departure.
The remaining sisters are Mrs. Hulda Tolane, Mrs. Charley Fergus of
Stafford County, Kansas, and Mrs. Nancy Melvin of Stronghurst, Ill.  The
brother, I. H. Bodenhamer of Birmingham, Ill.
The immediate family are two sons, L. B. and Roy of Canute, Okla.; two
daughters, Mrs. Meda Hanson of Colo., and grandchildren; one daughter,
Mrs. Della Bascow recently departed and husband Frank Loftiss.
In early life she united with the M. E. Church and ever after lived a
devoted christian life and was an active worker in Sunday School and
church.  She emigrated from Schuyler to Henderson county in the year 1880
and two years later to Stafford county, Kansas, where she homesteaded a
claim.  She was married to Frank Loftiss, August 30, 1890, and assumed the
part of a true and affectionate mother to the four small motherless
children by a former marriage and so earnestly and faithfully has she
filled her mission they call her memory blessed.  With the family she
moved to Canute, Okla., in 1898 where she lived until 1917 when with the
family she moved to Buffalo, Mo., where she resided until the time of
departure.
The funeral was conducted by Rev. V. L. Darby at 2:30 p.m., Monday from
the Emerson M. E. Church.  Burial was in the Neelands cemetery.

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