Beckham County, OK - Obits: John N. Bader, 1920
01 Aug 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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BADER, JOHN N.
(16 Dec 1920, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
A wave of sadness was cast over the city last Friday at the death of John
Bader who for the past five years has been employed as baker at the
English Kitchen and Bakery.  Mr. Bader had been suffering for several
weeks from blood poisoning caused by an infection of a mere scratch on one
of his fingers.
Death came at about 7:30 last Friday night after he had been unconscious
for many hours.
Bader had many friends in and about Sayre.  Everyone who knew him liked
him and yet he was a complete stranger in our midst insofar as his past
life was concerned, only one person had been notified of his sickness and
this was J. A. Tax of Marlin, Texas.  Mr. Tax was notified of the death
and came to this city on Saturday night.  Upon his arrival he told Bader's
Sayre friends that he knew nothing more of Bader's relatives than was
known here and that he had been a personal friends for more than twenty
years.
After having the body prepared for burial by undertaker Lane, funeral
services were held at the Christian Church on Tuesday afternoon and
interment was made in the Sayre-Doxey cemetery.
It has been learned that Mr. Bader was married and that several years ago
the union was blessed with a son.  The little son died and since that time
Mr. Bader and his wife had become estranged and had not lived together,
the address of the wife is not known.
The respect shown to the deceased townsman by Sayre people is the way of
Sayre people.
(December, 1920, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Sheriff Francis was in telephone communication at midnight with Mrs. John
Bader in Kansas City, Mo.  Mrs. Bader informed Francis that she would
arrive in Sayre today.  A letter was also received yesterday afternoon by
Francis from a brother of Bader who lived in Terre Haute, Ind.
An insurance policy found in Bader's trunk after his death was drawn in
favor of a sister in the Indiana city.  The letter from Bader's brother
stated that a notice in one of the city's papers there had carried an
account of the death of John Bader in Sayre, Oklahoma.
(30 Dec 1920, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
CARD OF THANKS.
"To the many friends of my late deceased husband, John Bader, the father
of our darling little boy Zola; for the kindness shown to him in the care
and death of my husband John N. Bader, for him I, his widow wish to thank
you one and all."  MRS. MINNIE BADER.