Beckham CO. OK NELL REEVES Posted by Joan (DeFore) Garvey for Elk City and Sayre Libraries ************************************************************************ 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/ *********************************************************************** July 15, 1992 Newspaper Beckham Co., OK NELL REEVES (RHONDA LANELL REEVES) Nell Reeves was born Nov. 21, 1909 in Weatherford and died July 12 in the Blount memorial Hospital in Maryville, Tenn. at the age of 82. Nell was attending Southwestern State College when she met and married Thomas Tillman REEVES on Nov. 2, 1929 in Weatherford. They moved to Sayre to make their home and bought the Globe Cleaners in 1963. Nell had also worked at Lawrence's Dept. Store for a number of years. After Tillman died in 1986, Nell moved to Maryville, Tenn. to be near her daughter. She was a member of the Everett Hills Baptist Church in Maryville, Tenn. and had been a Sunday school teacher and superintendent of the Intermediate Dept. for a number of years at the Sayre First Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband. Survivors include: on(e) daughter Lou Beth GIVENS, Maryville, Tenn.; 2 sons, Gene REEVES, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and Glenn REEVES, Odessa, Texas; one brother, Paul M. VERHINES, Weatherford; 9 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Sayre First Baptist Church officiated by Albert WARNKEN and assisted by Lynn HEARD. Interment will be in the Lone Oak Cemetery under direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Home.