Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Naomi Jean Ackley, 1929 18 July 2007 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ ACKLEY, NAOMI JEAN (22 August 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham County, OK): Naomi Jean Ackley. Naomi Jean Ackley was born in Oklahoma, April 15, 1928, died August 20, 1929, age 1 year, 4 months and 5 days. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church, August 21, at 9:30 a.m., Rev. Curtis officiating. Interment in Red Hill cemetery. Gentry-Killough, funeral directors, in charge. 22 August 1929: Baby Naomi Jean Ackley, sixteen months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ackley who live near Hammon drowned Tuesday when she fell into an ice cream freezer full of salt water. The freezer had been used the evening before and had been left standing with the salt water in it. The baby crawled upon the freezer and fell head forward into the salt water, drowning instantly.