Obit of Bessie M Cochran - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Sandi Carter  SandKatC@aol.com  5 Apr 2000
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======================================================================The Verden News
March 1, 1940

Funeral services for Mrs. Marion Cochran were conducted from the home 
northeast of town Monday afternoon, with Rev. C. W. Taylor in charge.

Mrs. Cochran, who was formerly Bessie M. Slater, was born in Nebraska, 
September 5, 1888. She died at her home Sunday at the age of 51 years.

She came with her parents to Oklahoma in 1902 and made her home in the 
Meridian community. She was married to the late Marion Cochran Jan. 30, 
1911. Three children were born: Mary, who died at the age of 3 years; 
Muriel, a registered nurse at the Chickasha Hospital, and John, a marine 
stationed in San Diego, Calif. Her husband preceded her in death March 
10, 1938. Beside her son and daughter she leaves her father, Henry 
Slater; one sister, Mrs. C. M. Briggs, and two brothers, H. L. Slater 
and M. A. Slater.

Music was furnished by a quartet composed of Mrs. Kirby Whitley, Mrs. R. 
M. Caldwell, F. G. Ransbar....

Submitted by Sandi Carter