Beckham County, OK - Obits: Helen Hodges, 1928
28 Mar 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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HODGES, HELEN
(1 Mar 1928, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Miss Helen Hodges, who is well known here, died Wednesday afternoon at the
St. Anthony Hospital, at Oklahoma City, at about 3 o'clock.  She had been
there for about 10 days.  The body was to be shipped back to Sayre, for
interment at the Doxey-Sayre Cemetery, on the Wednesday night freight
train.  As yet, no funeral arrangements have been made.
(8 Mar 1928, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
The community was saddened to receive the message of the death of Helen
Hodges, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hodges, of this city, at
St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City, Wednesday afternoon, February 29.
Helen Verbenia Hodges was born August 10th, 1916, on the family homestead
near Prentiss, Oklahoma, and while quite young moved with her parents to
this city where she attended public school.  Being a diligent, faithful
student she was advanced beyond her years, having attained the seventh
grade at the time she was stricken with her last illness.  Helen was of an
amiable quite (sic) disposition, hence greatly beloved of her teachers and
playmates.
After Christmas she suffered a breakdown, and her parents deemed it wise
to take her out of school to rest and recuperate the rest of the year, but
serious complications set in some two weeks before her death which
necessitated her removal to the hospital where everything that medical
skill and tender care could devise was employed to save her, her mother
and sister, Fern, being in almost constant attendance at her bedside.
She leaves to mourn her loss besides her parents, five sisters, Fern, Mrs.
Ira Cain, Fairy, Birdie and Dorothy, also four brothers, Alfred, Phillip,
Paul and Franklin.
The funeral was held from the Presbyterian church, Rev. J. T. Means
preaching the sermon.  The seventh grade and Camp Fire Girls of which
organization she was a member attended in a body, after which she was laid
to rest in the Doxey-Sayre cemetery.

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