McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    	Bessie (Sharrer) Alford

Submitted by:  Sandie Welch  sandiewe@verizon.net
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::Broken Bow Cemetery--Broken Bow OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper: August 2, 1928

MRS. J.P. ALFORD WAS BURIED HERE MONDAY P.M.

Mrs. J.P. Alford died at the Baptist hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, 
Friday night of last week at 10:00, following an operation for gall 
stones.  The body was brought to the home of Mr. and Mrs. V.C. Cole 
in Broken Bow, Sunday afternoon, where the funeral services were held 
Monday afternoon at 1:30, being conducted by Evangelist Hafley, 
Nazarene preacher, who is in charge of a revival meeting at Idabel.  
Burial followed in the Broken Bow cemetery.  The floral offerings 
were numerous and beautiful, and a large crowd was in attendance at 
the funeral.

Mrs. Alford, was before her marriage, Miss Bessie Sharrer, and was 
reared in this city.  Soon after her marriage to Mr. Alford, they 
moved to Fort Worth, Texas, to live.  She is survived by her husband, 
who accompanied the remains to Broken Bow; her mother, Mrs. J.H. 
Lemly, who lives four miles west of Idabel; one brother, Chester 
Sharrer, Broken Bow, and one sister, Miss Iola Shields and her 
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. V.C. Cole, of this city.

The News joins the friends of the bereaved family in extending 
sympathy.
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