Beckham County, OK - Obits: Minnie Van Vacter, 1923
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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VAN VACTER, MINNIE
(16 Aug 1923, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Mr. B. B. VanVacter
Mrs. Ben VanVacter passed away at her home near Carter last Sunday August
12, at 1:30 a.m., after an illness of three years of lymphatic lukemia
(sic).  No expense was spared to give her the best of medical attention
but from the first of her illness the doctors gave no hope.  She was taken
to Mayo Brothers who corroborated the opinions of the doctors here.  The
family did everything they could for her comfort, one daughter, Mrs.
Maybain Kesler leaving her own home in Grandfield most of the time to be
with her mother and care for her, giving her every attention.  All during
her illness she never called for her children but they responded
immediately.  The grief of the loved ones was pitiful to see, when they
realized that mother was gone never to return.
Mrs. VanVacter's name before her marriage was Minnie McDonnell.  She was
born in Bowie county, Texas, and was fifty-one years old last September. 
Mr. and Mrs. VanVacter moved to Beckham county twenty-six years ago and
were counted among the pioneers of Western Oklahoma.  She had been a
member of the Baptist church for thirty years and was a woman of beautiful
character, patient and self sacrificing, a faithful wife and mother, ever
thinking of the interests of her loved ones and while death had no terrors
for her, she wished to live that she could be with her family and look
after them.  She was the mother of six children, Mrs. Bert Kesler,
Grandfield, Oklahoma, Joe and Leon VanVacter, Jester, Oklahoma, and Marie,
Johnny and Billie at home.
Her aged parents live near Bowie, Texas, and it was there the body of the
loved wife and mother was taken to be laid, Monday by the side of her
kindred in the private family burying ground on the old home place, the
farm on which Mrs. VanVacter was born.  Besides the husband and family,
her brother, Joe McDonnell and Miss Pagel, who had been nursing her
accompanied the remains.  Her aged father paid a beautiful tribute to her
in saying that she had never caused them a moment of trouble or anguish
and had ever been a loving daughter.
(17 Aug 1923, Carter Express, Carter, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. B. B. VanVacter, for many years a well known resident of this
country, died at her home four miles south of Carter on last Saturday
night.
Mrs. VanVacter had been in very bad health for a long time, her family
having been told two or three years ago that she could not live long,
however, her health seemed to get better until a short time back when she
began failing again and continued to grow worse until death relieved her
sufferings on Saturday night last.
The remains were prepared for burial and shipped to her old home at Bowie,
Texas, for interment, the funeral party leaving on Sunday.
(24 Aug 1923, Carter Express, Carter, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. A. E. Kesler returned to her home at Grandfield, Saturday after being
here during the late illness and death of her mother, Mrs. B. B.
VanVacter.

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