Beckham County, OK - Obits: Hattie Joe Simmons, 1918
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SIMMONS, HATTIE JOE
(9 May 1918, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
DEATH OF HATTIE JOE SIMMONS
Many hearts were made sad Tuesday when it was learned that Hattie Joe
Simmons, niece of Mrs. A. L. Richards had died at Wichita Falls, Texas, on
Monday from scarlet fever.
Hattie Joe was in the Richards home in Elk City, for several months,
attending school here, and also was with them last summer in Weatherford. 
She had endeared herself to Mr. and Mrs. Richards and they loved her as
their own.  She made friends here and her little schoolmates are indeed
sad over death.  She was a lovely child and it seems so hard to give up
one so young.
She was nine years and an only child and her parents were giving her every
advantage, and had great hopes for her future.  The mother is very ill
with scarlet fever and the home is quarantined.  The funeral will not be
held until after the quarantine is raised.  The body is at an undertaking
parlor in Wichita Falls.  The burial will be at Denton, Texas, the birth
place of Hattie Joe.
The deepest sympathy of all is extended to the bereaved ones.

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