Beckham Co. OK - Obit for Blanch Etta Penny Githens Submitted by: Wanda Purcell wpurc25758@aol.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Blanch Etta Penny was born October 6, 1893, at Newton, Kansas and died February 10, 1927, at her home Sweetwater, Oklahoma. At the age of eight she moved to this vicinity with her parents where she resided until she was married to Samuel Thomas Githens October 3, 1920. To this union were born three children: Zenoha Ilene, age 5 years, Robert Samuel age 3 years; Carl Willace, age 10 days. She and her husband were united with the Baptist Church of Texola, Oklahoma in 1922, and she was a faithful worker until the death angel came and called her home. She leaves a hubsand and three children, a father, mother, three sisters, one brother and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her death. Funeral services were conducgted at Roll Sunday by Rev. H.B. Donnell, pastor of the Baptist church of Cheyenne. Burial Silent Home Cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. (Cheyenne Star, Feb. 27, 1927)