Beckham Co. OK - Obit for Leburn H. Matthews
   
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   Funeral services for Leburn H. Matthews who died Friday, July 22, 1977
   at  the Community Hospital were conducted from the Martin Funeral Home
   Chapel.  Monday,  July  25,  1977  at 2:00 p.m. with Bros. F.F. Conley
   minister  of the Second and Adams Street Church of Christ officiating.
   Burial  followed  in the Red Hill Cmetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County,
   Oklahoma.
   Mr.  Matthews  was  born, May 16, 1895 at Austin, Texas. He moved from
   Texas  to  Erick  when  he  was a small child. He joined the Church of
   Christ while living at Erick. In 1925 he moved to Hammon. He had lived
   in  the  Hammon  and  Elk  City  area  since.  He was a retired Plater
   Contractor.
   Survivors  include  3  sons:  L.H.  Matthews,  of  Oklahoma City; Milo
   Matthews  of  Arapaho;  and  Lawrence  Matthews  of Tuscon, Arizona; 1
   sister  Vila  of  Hutchison,  Kansas;  and 1 brother, J.H. Matthews of
   Lawton, OK. Also 8 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.