Beckham County, OK - Obits: Doyle Stratton, 1924 14 July 2007 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ STRATTON, DOYLE (The Elk City Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, Ok, 16 Dec 1924) MEMORY OF DOYLE STRATTON Doyle Stratton, son of Mr. And Mrs. Edgar Stratton, was born near Carpenter, Okla., July 21st 1907, and died at his home in Hammon, Okla., December 12th, 1924, the result of a few days illness from an attack of typhoid-pneumonia. The major portion of his life was spent in the community of Carpenter, but during the latter part of August of this year, he moved with his parents to Hammon, where he enrolled in the Senior Class, of the Hammon High School. Formerly he was a student in the Elk City High School, driving to town each morning from his home in Carpenter, and returning each evening. Doyle was a favorite in school, as he was in the circle of friends who knew him best. Indeed he was a youth whom to know was to love. On the night of October 14th 1922, at the age of fifteen, and during the revival meeting held in the M. E. Church South of Elk City at that time by Rev. DeVore with Mr. Houston assisting, Doyle became a christian. This is the most comforting thot (sic) that when Death laid claim to him, he could say to those who stood by, "Don't worry about me, I'm alright." Funeral services were held in the M. E. Church South of Hammon which was crowded to its fullest capacity with relatives and friends, desiring to show their love and respect for the youth so suddenly called from this earth by the One who will one day summon each of us into the unknown. Beautiful floral offerings, furnished by the Hammon High School, the Senior Class Basket Ball Squad of which Doyle was an enthusiastic member, and friends and relatives, were banked about the casket. Rev. C. Perry McArthur, pastor of the M. E. Church South of Cloud Chief, Okla., and 'pal' as he chose to say it, conducted the last services for this, his beloved friend and brother in Christ, and spoke words of comfort to the bereaved parents, relatives and host of friends gathered to bid farewell to all that was mortal by Doyle. To those whose hearts are broken with grief and who mourn the deceased, it is hard to understand why one so young and with the prospects of such a bright future ahead of him in life, should be cut down at this untimely age. But there is consolation in the knowledge that God's will, tho past human understanding, is best and that he doeth all thing well. What would Heaven be like if there were no children or young folk there? It would not be so enticing if all the saints in Gloryland were the aged. Besides his father and mother, Doyle leaves a host of relatives, a little brother and sister and many friends to mourn his leaving.