Beckham County, OK - Obits: Fleeta May Andrews, 1930
29 July 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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(20 Nov 1930, Thursday, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 oclock in the first
Christian church, for Mrs. Calvin Andrews, 21, who was killed when the car
she was driving turned over near Vici, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews were on their way to Wichita, Kansas Sunday afternoon
when the accident occurred.  Mrs. Andrews was driving the car.  She
attempted to apply the brakes when the car struck a sand bed and it was
believed that the brakes locked.  The car turned over a number of times.
At the time of the accident they were four miles west of Vici.  They were
both rushed to the Shattuck hospital where Mrs. Andrews died several hours
later.  Andrews was only slightly injured.  The car was completely
demolished.
The Litteral-Moore ambulance was called to Shattuck Sunday evening for the
removal of the body from the hospital to the local undertaking parlor. 
They were in charge of all arrangements.
Mrs. Andrews had been a resident of Sayre nearly all her life.  She was
born in Texas but came here with her father and mother when she was a
baby.  She attended school in Sayre until about two months ago when
Andrews bought a clothing store in Cheyenne and she moved with him there
to assist him in the business.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Andrews is survived by her mother, Mrs. Linnie
Nichols, her father, J. S. Cook of Glendale, Arizona, and a sister Eula
Cook of Sayre.  Rev. A. J. Bradshaw, pastor of the Christian Church, was
in charge of the funeral service.  Burial was made in the Sayre-Doxey
cemetery.
ANDREWS, FLETA MAY
(20 Nov 1930, Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Roger Mills Co, OK):
Mrs. Calvin B. Andrews of this city lost her life in an accident that
occurred near Vici last Sunday and Mr. Andrews was injured.  As no one saw
the accident it is not definitely known just how it occurred.  It seems
that the car turned over throwing Mr. Andrews from the car rendering him
unconscous (sic).  When he came to Mrs. Andrews was pinned beneath the
car.  He was digging the dirt away so as to release her when another car
came along and assisted him.  She was rushed to the Shattuck hospital for
aid.  Her lower limbs were paralyzed, her back was broken, and she
suffered other injuries.  After living some six hours after the accident
she passed away at six o'clock in the evening.
Mr. Andrews suffered only minor injuries and was able to be up Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews had started to Wichita, Kansas where he was shipping
cattle and were driving a new car.
Mrs. Andrews was buried Wednesday afternoon in the Sayre cemetery in the
presence of a large crowd of friends from Sayre, Berlin and Cheyenne where
she had resided.  Rev. Bradshaw, pastor of the Christian church of which
she was a member, preached the funeral sermon.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews moved to Cheyenne several months ago where Mr.
Andrews was engaged in the buying of livestock.  Mrs. Andrews was
associated with Mrs. George Burns in a Beauty Shop.  During the time she
resided in Cheyenne she had made a host of friends who are grieved by her
tragic death.
Mrs. Andrews was twenty one years of age and is survived by her husband,
father, mother, one sister, besides other relatives and a host of friends.