Beckham County, OK - Obits: Emma Rilla Steele, 1921
Friday, 12 December 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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STEELE, EMMA RILLA
(4 Aug 1921, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. Rilla F. Steele, mother of Postmaster C. E. Steele, died at 1 o'clock
Thursday afternoon at the home of her son, on Fourth street.  The funeral
services were held from the house on Sunday afternoon, with Rev. H. O.
Moore officiating.  The interment was at the Doxey-Sayre cemetery.
Rilla Fletcher Steele was born May 10, 1854, at Fredonia, Kentucky, moving
with her parents, at the close of the civil war, to Tennessee, where she
married and reared her family, consisting of two daughters, Mrs. Hattie
Sardin, of McGhee, Arkansas, Mrs. H. H. Adams of Sunnyside, Utah, and one
son, C. E. Steele, of this city.
During the past fifteen years she has really made her home with her son in
this city, although spending a portion of the time with her daughters. 
During the past year she has been in very poor health, being confined to
her room the greater part of the time, and her death was not unexpected. 
The patience and fortitude with which she met her suffering won the
friendship of all who knew her.
She became a christian in early life, uniting with the Baptist church, of
which she was a member at the time of her death.

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