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Obit of Mattie Lou Taylor - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Sandi Carter   SandKatC@aol.com 
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The Verden News
March 21, 1941

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Baptist 
church for Miss Mattie Lou Taylor with Rev. P. F. Harmon officiating, 
assisted by Rev. John Bishop and Rev. Hamilton.

Music for the service was furnished by Miss Jean Zipse, Miss Betty Hamrick, 
Miss Mary Fitzgerald, Miss Louise Ransbarger, Miss Denzil Lamar and Miss Ruth 
Adkisson, who sang "Sweet Hour of Prayer," "In the Garden," and "Asleep in 
Jesus." Miss Coleta Nuernberger played the piano accompaniment.

Flower girls were Miss Madge Pease, Miss Lillian Nath, Miss Charlotte 
Nowland, Miss Imogene Dayton, Miss Dorothy O'Neal, Miss Adeline MaGuire, Miss 
Carol Franklin and Miss Patsy Ruth Fowler.

Honorary pallbearers were Miss Valarie Monroe, Miss Mary Beauchamp, Miss 
Hazel Willis, Miss Bonnie Jo Dunlap, Miss Phoeba Ann Fowler and Miss Marjorie 
June Allen.

Pallbearers were Richard Talkington, Hugh Melton Bohannon, Allen Adkisson, 
Gerard Osborne, Johnny Whitley, Charles Kern, Bobby Fitzgerald and J. E. 
Sparks.

Mattie Lou, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emory Taylor, was born November 19, 
1926, three and one half miles west of Verden and departed this life at the 
Kiowa Indian Hospital, Lawton, Oklahoma, March 14, 1941 at the age of 14 
years, 3 months and 27 days.

She leaves to mourn her departure her father and mother, one sister, Georgia, 
two brothers, C. W. and Charles Curtis. Her grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. C. W. 
Taylor and a host of relatives, friends and classmates.
She was converted in the Baptist church in January 1939. She was graduated 
from the Verden Grade School May 1940, and was a member of the Freshman 
class. She was a member of the F. H. O. and the Glee Club.

* * *

The floral offerings surpassed in profusion and beauty anything ever seen 
here before. On a card appended could appropriately have been placed these 
words "These flowers, so typical of the life of her we mourn, mutely speak 
the pathis of a parting word, and are placed upon this casket by friends who 
loved the sweet sleeper. On these petals are tears for the parting, and hopes 
for the meeting beyond the gates."

Submitted by Sandi Carter