Beckham County, OK - Obits: Fred McLerran, 1930
23 August 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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MC LERRAN, FRED
(14 Oct 1930, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
RITES READ FOR M'LERRAN YOUTH
Funeral services for Fred McLerran, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J.
McLerran, of near Carter, were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the
Church of Christ in Carter, with Rev. R. Taylor officiating.
Fred had suffered with a tumor of the knee for the past year, which was
the result of an injury received when he fell on gravel.  For a time he
was able to walk with the use of crutches.  Specialists to whom the boy
was taken pronounced the case extremely rare.  He died Monday at the home
of his parents, one mile east of Carter.
Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. McLerran, eight brothers and sisters
survive, six of whom live at home.  They are:  Miss Velda, Miss Opal, Miss
Amanda, Theo. Amos, Jo, Melvin and Mrs. Hilda Cason, of Gainesville,
Texas.
Interment was made in the Carter Cemetery, Killough-Hullum was in charge
of arrangements.
(17 Oct 1930, The Carter Express, Carter, Beckham Co, OK):
To our friends and neighbors we wish to give our deep appreciation for
their expressions of sympathy and acts of kindness, which were of the
greatest comfort to us in our great sorrow, during the illness and death
of our loved son and brother, Fred McClerran (sic).  Especially do we wish
to thank Mr. and Mrs. Edd Luthy.
B. P. McClerran and family.
Melvin McClerran and family,
Mrs. Otis Cason and family.

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