Beckham County, OK - Obits: Henry Thacker, 1930
Friday, 06 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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THACKER, HENRY
(15 Dec 1930, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
LAST RITES FOR HENRY THACKER
Services Held Yesterday Afternoon For Native of Tennessee.
Funeral services for Henry Thacker, 68, were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock at the Church of God, with Rev. G. S. Moad, pastor of that church
officiating.
Mr. and Mrs. Thacker came to Elk City about a year and a half ago from
Healdton, and have resided at 504 North Adams street.  Mr. Thacker had
been confined to the State Tubercular Sanitarium at Clinton for several
months.  He died here Saturday, December 13.
Mr. Thacker was born in Knoxville, Tenn., September 21, 1862, where he
lived until eighteen years of age when he went to Texas.  He came to
Indian Territory in 1889 and was married to Miss Pearl Taylor in 1893 at
Woolsey.
Mr. Thacker is survived by his widow, Mrs. Thacker and five children, four
of whom live in this city.  They are Mrs. C. L. Featherston, H. E.
Thacker, Jr., Miss Christine Thacker and Lester Thacker.  One son, L. P.
Thacker resides at Wilson.
Interment was made in the Fairlawn cemetery.  Killough-Hullum funeral
directors were in charge.

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