Beckham County, OK - Obits: Bessie Maud Sppitzer, 1989 14 July 2007 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ SPITZER, BESSIE MAUD (The Elk City Daily News, Elk City, Beckham Co, Ok, 18? May 1989) Bessie Maud Spitzer was born Nov. 12, 1903, in Hammon, Okla., and passed away May 14, 1989 in the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital at the age of 85 years, 6 months and 2 days. Bessie, the daughter of Andrew and Edna May Armstrong, married S. C. (Tig) Spitzer on Oct. 22, 1922, in Hammon, Okla., and they lived in Hammon for 2 years before moving to Elk City in 1924. In the fall of 1926 they moved near Hammon and then near Kiowa in 1930. In 1932 they moved to Cheyenne and on March 22, 1932, they built the store known as Spitzer Corner in the Rose Hill community. In 1959 they moved to the farm near Rose Hill where they lived until the present time. Bessie met the Lord at the age of 16 and was a member of the Kiowa Baptist Church for a number of years. She was preceded in death by her parents, 1 son and 1 brother. She is survived by her husband, S. C., of the home; a daughter, Gayle Kilpatrick of OKC; a son and daughter-in-law, J. D. and Joan Spitzer of Tulsa, Okla.; a brother Walter Armstrong of Elk City, Okla.; 5 grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral service was Wed., May 17, 1989 at 2:00 p.m. at the Cheyenne First Baptist Church with A. L. Martin and Ken Shiplet officiating. Burial was in the Berlin Cemetery under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service of Sayre.