Obit of Nettie French Bryce (b620) - COUNTY County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Bryce <Gbryce3839@aol.com>  13 Sep 2002
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This is from the Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 5, No. 3, Page 348; 
September 1927:

Secretary J. Y. Bryce, of the Oklahoma Historical Society, has been 
called upon to mourn the death of his wife, which occurred at 
Durant, Sunday morning August 14th, 1927. 

Nettie French was born at Leon, Iowa, February 10, 1863. Her youth 
was spent in Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated from the 
high-school. Her parents subsequently moved to Texas and, in 1883, 
they settled at Canadian, Indian Territory. She engaged in teaching 
at Kiowa. In what is now Pittsburg County, where she met her 
husband, then a young man just entering the ministry of the 
Methodist Church. They were married at Canadian, November 15, 1885. 
The following year, with her husband, she entered Southwestern 
University, Georgetown, Texas, where they labored together as fellow 
students for two and a half years. Returning to the Indian 
Territory, her husband resumed active work in the Indian Mission 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Throughout 
nearly forty years of active service in that ministry she was at 
once the light of the home, the inspiration of her husband’s 
efforts and his ever ready fellow laborer and, at the same time, a 
community leader in all that made for the advancement and upbuilding 
of the spiritual, intellectual and civic life of the vicinity. 
Endowed with a gracious personality, a keen mind and a heart filled 
with charity, she won her way through life by the compelling power 
of love rather than by stern precept and words of rebuke. Called 
upon to undergo great suffering during the last days of her life, 
she faced it calmly and courageously like the splendid pioneer wife 
and mother that she was. 

To Mr. and Mrs. Bryce there were born six sons and two daughters, of 
whom three sons and the two daughters survive. Her remains were laid 
to rest in the Highland Cemetery, at Durant. Secretary Bryce has the 
profound sympathy of his fellow workers on the Society’s staff of 
employees and also of its Board of Directors, in the bereavement 
which he and his family have been called upon to undergo.