Beckham County, OK - Obits: Frances Lenore Elizabeth Orgain, 1930 Wednesday, 11 Sep 2008 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ************************************************ ORGAIN, FRANCES LENORE ELIZABETH (24 Dec 1930, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK): Funeral Today For Pioneer of Canute Vicinity Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Lenore Elizabeth Orgain, 74, a resident of the Canute community for 30 years, were to be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hefner Nazarine church. Rev. W. S. Rickey and Rev. Herbert Land conducted the final rites. Mrs. Orgain died at her home southeast of the city Tuesday afternoon. She had been ill for about four weeks, and had been in a city hospital for a part of that time. Mrs. Orgain was born in Mississippi, May 22, 1856, and moved to Texas, where she was married in 1875. Two sons who reside near Canute M. B. Orgain and Ebb Orgain and two daughters, Mrs. Eva Cotter and Mrs. Genery Spears and another son, R. D. Orgain, of Moorewood, survive the aged woman. Interment was made in the Canute cemetery (Washita County). Killough-Hullum funeral directors were in charge. --------------------------------------------------- Return to Beckham County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/beckham/beckham.html