Obit of Gordie Belle Beach - McClain County, Oklahoma

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The Purcell Register - December 27, 1956

Final Rites Held for Mrs. Beach 
     Pioneer Resident Dies Saturday
 
     Final rites for Mrs. Gordie Belle Beach, 65, were conducted Monday 
afternoon in the First Baptist church, of which she was a member.  Mrs. 
Beach died Saturday afternoon at the Purcell convalescent home after an 
extended illness.
     Mrs. Beach, who was born March 5, 1891, in Crystal Falls, Tex., and 
her husband, George, have been residents of Purcell and vicinity since 
before statehood.  Saturday was their 47th wedding anniversary.
     Services were held at 2 p.m. with Rev. Carlos Berry officiating.  
Burial was in Hillside cemetery with Primrose Funeral home, Norman, in 
charge.
     Survivors in addition to her husband are one daughter, Mrs. Margaret 
Sade, Ft. Stockton, Tex.; three sons, Carnius Beach, Wheeler, Tex., Rondell 
C. Beach, with the U.S. air force in Anchorage, Alaska, and Birdenell Beach, 
with the U.S. army at Ft. Sill.
     Also three brothers, Earl Simpson, Lexington, Lloyd Simpson, Purcell, and 
Glen Simpson, Oklahoma City, and two sisters, Mrs. Floy Ware, route 2, Moore, 
and Mrs. Willie Jones, Oklahoma City.

     Bearers were Bethel Cobb, Bill Hays, Curtis Melton, J.C. Nance, Roy Munn 
and C.L. Winchester.  Honorary bearers included Albert Ferguson, Jack Hays, 
Bud Kappel, L.F. Pennington, H.R. Stephens and George Tippit.