Beckham County, OK - Obits: Charley Payne, 1956 Monday, 9 July 2007 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ PAYNE, CHARLEY (The Elk City Daily News, Elk City, Beckham, Ok, 12 Oct 1956) Charley Payne Rites Set Here for Friday. Services for Charley Payne, 80 year old retired farmer of 620 W. Ave. C, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Elk City Methodist church with Rev. Louie Marsh, pastor, officiating. Mr. Payne was born March 10, 1876, in Hamilton County, Tex., and died at his home here Wednesday Oct. 10, from a heart attack after an illness of two years. He was married to Sarah Lou Frama in 1897 at Brownsville, Tex., and she preceded him in death on Nov. 30, 1952. He was married a second time to Mrs. Ada Gilbow in Elk City on Dec. 18, 1953. He filed on a farm 3 ½ miles north of Carter in 1898 and had been a resident of Elk City for the past 11 years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ada Payne, home address; four sisters and three brothers. He was preceded in death by two sons and his first wife. Burial will be in the Carter cemetery with Martin-Hullum funeral home directing arrangements.