Beckham County, OK - Obits: Raymond Tesmar, 1925
Friday, 06 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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TESMAR, RAYMOND
(18 Jun 1925, Elk City News Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
A cloud of sorrow was spread over Elk City Monday morning when the friends
of Raymond Tesmar learned of his death.
Raymond Edward, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Tesmar, was born March
29, 1905, at Elk City, Okla., and passed away June 15, 1925, after a short
illness of typhoid fever.
He and Miss Margaret McComas were married October 1, 1924 and their lives
together were very happy.
Raymond had spend almost all of his life in the vicinity of Elk City and
was widely known.  Everyone who knew him could not help but love him for
his excellent character and happy disposition.  He was never seen without
a smile and a cheerful greeting.  Many have said that he was a friend to
everybody and had no enemies.  At the time of his death he was employed at
the Marland Filling Station in Elk City.  His host of friends, who loved
him so dearly and will miss him so much, extend the very deepest of
sympathy to his broken-hearted wife, parents, and sister, Mrs. Jack
Peyton, of Oklahoma City, whom he leaves to mourn his loss.
The funeral service will be held Thursday afternoon at the Presbyterian
church at 3 o'clock conducted by Rev. John Tracy and interment will be in
Fairlawn cemetery.
(25 Jun 1925, Elk City News Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
A YOUNG MAN'S LIFE
A brief obituary has already been printed of Raymond E. Tesmar who died
June 15th just past.  But as he was essentially an Elk City product in
character, his life has added significance as showing what these new,
western towns can create in an admirable type of youth.  Except for the
six months he spent at Morris, Oklahoma, wither he took his bride, all his
life was spent in the home town.  In company with others he finished his
education with the 1923 class of St. Mary's Institute.  On October 1st of
the same year he married a fellow student of St. Mary's, Miss Margaret
McComas.  Last Thursday he was placed at rest in Fairview (Fairlawn)
Cemetery, only a boy just past his 20th year.  A life all too short we
believe; yet it had its points worthy of remembrance and imitation.
Raymond liked to work, to work with his hands and with tools; by nature a
mechanic, his skill fostered in his father's shop on 5th street.  When but
twelve, he constructed for his own use an automobile, the little yellow
car christened "Yellow Jaundice," which he drove till his removal to
Morris.  And while for the present he was in other employment, eventually
he planned to go back to his first love as a worker in iron.
In his home he was considerate of other members, far above the average boy
proverbially careless.  Those intimately familiar with his ways describe
him as regardful, respectful, affectionate.  And it is because of these
traits, his departure creates the so sad void his parents and wife can not
fill.  He was especially attentive to and beloved by his grandmother Bird
of Canute, an attitude in strong contrast with the forgetfulness youth too
often accords an older generation.
And his attainments would have enlarged and ripened with the years had he
been allowed to live longer.

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