Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Hubert Valentine, 1930
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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VALENTINE, HUBERT
(16 Jun 1930, Monday, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Sand Stone Creek, near the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Volentine
(sic), 3 miles east and 4 miles north of Berlin claimed the life of 5 year
old Hubert Volentine early Wednesday morning.
Young Volentine had gone with his mother to the cotton field early in the
afternoon.  He was playing in the field and slipped away from his mother
to play in a ravine near the field.  In the course of his playing he
wandered down the ravine to the water edge and removed his shoes and
stockings.  His father was working in the field on the other side of the
water and it is believed that the little boy was trying to get to his
father when he stepped into the hole and drowned.
The body was recovered immediately.  It was located by finding his cap
floating on the surface of the water.  Help was immediately called and the
body recovered at once.  Mrs. Volentine and an uncle of the boys were
within a hundred feet of the water when Hubert was drowned.
The body was immediately rushed to the Tisdal hospital in Sayre but all
efforts to save his life were in vain.  A lung motor was used but it
failed to bring life to the drowned boy.
Hubert Pierce was born September 8, at the family home near Berlin.  He
died near the family home Wednesday June 11, 1930, at the age of 5 years,
9 months and 3 days.  He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Volentine (sic), a grandmother, Mrs. Lizza Potter, two half
sisters Rosala and Edora Volentine and a host of other relatives and
friends.
Funeral services were held at the Sand Stone school Thursday afternoon at
3 o'clock with Rev. Carl Covey of the First Church of Christ in Elk City
officiating.  Burial was made in the Grandview cemetery under the
direction of the Killough-Hullum funeral home.

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