Harmon Co. OK Obit for Henrietta (Massey) Garton 
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
For the Harmon County, OK. archives project:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmonobits.html 
11/28/2002 by Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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OCT. 28: 

Henrietta (Massey) Garton, 89, died Saturday at the Woodward Regional 
Hospital in Woodward. 

Services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Faith Baptist Church in Hollis with 
Rev. 

Bill Hall and Bob Garton officiating. 

Interment will follow at the Fairmount Cemetery under the direction of Patterson 
Greer Funeral Home. 

She was born Sept. 15, 1913 in Tuska to Fred and Lela (Forbes) Massey. 

The family moved to Harmon County in 1928. She met Car. D. Garton and they 
married Jan. 30, 1932, in Mangum. 

He preceeded her in death Dec. 23, 1998. They had been married for 66 years. 

She worked at Wilhite Cafe in Hollis for a number of years, then went to work at 
MacEndree Cafe until she went to work at Harmon Memorial Hospital. 

She retired when her health began to fail. 

She was a faithful member of the Faith Baptist Church. 

She is survived by three of her four children, Ruth Upchurch and husband Tom, 
Woodward, Max Garton and wife Sarah, Pampa, Texas, and Phillip Garton and wife 
Donna, Amarillo, Texas; sisters Lois True of Amarillo and Hazel Farrell of 
Vancouver, 
Oregon. 

She is also survived by ten grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren and three 
great-great grandchildren; daughter-in-law Glenda Garton of Lawton and a host of 
nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, son Don, 
sister Evelyn Hooks and brother Manuel Massey.