Beckham County, OK - Obits: William Dewey Gibson, 1918
13 Feb 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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GIBSON, WILLIAM DEWEY
(5 Dec 1918, Thursday, Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
William Dewey Gibson was born in Popular Springs, Tenn., March 11, 1898. 
He moved from there with his parents to Oklahoma in 1900 where he remained
until Nov. 3, 1918, where he was called to the government service and went
to Louisville, Ky. to work in the Cantoonments where he took the Spanish
Influenza and afterward the pneumonia.  Returned home Nov. 18, 1918 and
died Saturday morning Nov. 30, 1918, at seven forty-five.  He has left to
mourn his loss, father and mother, five (sisters) and one brother, all of
Erick, Okla., and a host of friends who regret his loss.
Funeral services were held at the Delhi Cemetery Nov. 30, 1918 at
four-thirty p.m., by Rev. J. L. Davis of Sayre and the remains were laid
at rest in the Delhi Cemetery at five-thirty p.m.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to express our sincere thanks to the good people of Erick and the
surrounding country who so kindly assisted in the sickness and death of
our dearly beloved son and brother.  Also for the beautiful flowers which
were given him.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Gibson, Miss Ethel Gibson, Mrs. Luther Ervin, Mrs. Emmett
Hance, Mrs. Arthur Sullivan, Mrs. Ike Head and Mr. Carley Gibson.

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