Beckham County, OK - Obits: Irene Rickert Brown, 1929 10 Oct 2007 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ BROWN, IRENE RICKERT (29 Apr 1929, Thursday, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK): Edith Bishop attended the funeral of her niece, Mrs. James Brown of Oklahoma City. The body was sent to Cheyenne, Oklahoma, and laid to rest there. (2 May 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK): Mrs. Irene Rickert Brown was born in Oklahoma April 24, 1908, and died at her home in Oklahoma City, April 11, 1929, at the age of 20 years, 11 months and 13 days. Funeral services were held at the Community Church at Rankin, Oklahoma, April 12, at 2:00 p.m., Rev. Lancaster officiated. Interment was made in the Rankin White Rose cemetery. Gentry-Killough funeral directors were in charge of arrangements. (Research: Census, 1930, Oklahoma, Beckham Co, Sayre (city), ED 19, pg 5A, #97/116 (T626-1893): Edith Bishop, age 38, b Tn; f/m b Pa; Manager/hotel; Divorced; Elmer E. Rickert, father, age 67, b Pa; f/m b Pa; widowed.)