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Obit of Izora Elizabeth Phillips McWhorter - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Sandi Carter   SandKatC@aol.com 
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The Verden News
September 18, 1936



Mrs. Izora Elizabeth Phillips McWhorter was born in Butts county, GA, 
September 6, 1846 and died in Verden, Oklahoma, September 10, 1936. Age 
90 years and four days.

Mrs. McWhorter professed faith in Christ as the age of eleven years and 
united with the Methodist church South. On December 24, 1869 she was 
united in marriage with Mr. Paul Thomas McWhorter in Atlanta, Georgia. 
Her husband responded to a call to preach early in life, and in 1878 he 
joined the Alabama Conference of the Methodist church South. Sister 
McWhorter gladly accepted her lot as the wife of a traveling preacher 
and served the church in that capacity in Alabama, Arkansa and Oklahoma. 
One half of their active ministry was spent as pioneers in Western 
Oklahoma, a ministry which called for a self denial and a sacrifice 
little known to most of us who are here today. On april 14, 1922 Brother 
McWhorter went away to his final reward leaving sister McWhorter in the 
care of their children who cared for her as tenderly as a mother could 
care for her child and there is no doubt but that their tender care 
added years to the long life which she enjoyed. Sister McWhorter's body 
grew weak with the passing of the years but her faith in God remaining 
strong even to the end of her long and eventful life. When death came 
she was in the midst of her five daughters who had ministered to her 
continually during her long illness.

She leaves six daughters, Mrs. Mary Lamb, Mrs. A. Martinez, Mrs. Maud 
Hostick, Mrs. Claudia Barrick, Mrs. Edna Wilson and Mrs. Joe Hildebrand, 
and 16 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, 1 great, great 
granddaughter, and a host of other relatives and friends who will mourn 
her departure but they mourn not as those who have no hope.


Submitted by Sandi Carter