McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT: HAROLD WYNN CHANDLER Submitted by: Sandie Welch sandiewe@verizon.net Return to McCurtain County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/mccurtain/mccurtai.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Holly Creek Cemetery--Holly Creek OK McCurtain County Local Newspaper: November 1, 1928 HAROLD CHANDLER WAS BURIED SUNDAY. The pall of gloom was cast over our little city Saturday morning, October 27th when it was learned that the Death Angel had again visited our community and took from among us one of Broken Bow's noblest and finest young men, Harold Wynn Chandler. Harold Chandler was born May 10, 1903 at De Queen, Arkansas. Several years ago he moved with his parents to this city where he resided until his death Saturday morning at 5:00. Harold was working at Seminole when he was stricken with typhoid fever. He immediately came to the home of his brother, Rex Chandler, in this city, where everything that loving hands and medical skill could do, was done. He fought a gallant fight for his life during the twenty-five days that he lingered between life and death, but God, the giver of all good, who doeth things in His own way, said: "Harold, you have fought a good fight, you have won a crown and laid up for yourself treasures in Heaven, come, now, and enjoy the fruits of your labor," and Harold passed on to the life beyond. In 1923 Harold professed faith in Christ and united with the First Christian church of Broken Bow. Since that time, as well as before, he lived a model Christian life. Harold graduated in the Broken Bow high school from the class of 1924. Several members of his class attended his funeral in a body. Harold was a very popular young man among the baseball boys of Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. He first won his fame as a baseball player with the Broken Bow Arrows, of which team he was a member for several years. Last season he started with the Western League but soon changed to the Lone Star League of Paris, Texas. In speaking of his brother Rex said that few men were as kind and devoted to their mother as was his brother Harold. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:00 at the First Christian church, by the pastor, Rev. M.L. Dickey, after which the body was laid to rest in the Holly Creek cemetery, beside his father, the late W.H. Chandler, who preceded him in death some five years ago. Pallbearers were: Bill Boyce, Leon Shipp, Bill Edwards, Frank Shipley, Cortez Moore and Elbert Cook. As a tribute to the beautiful life he had lived and as a last respect to one of the town's favorite sons, the funeral was attended by the largest crowd perhaps that ever attended a funeral in this city. the floral offerings were beautiful and many, requiring the service of a special car to transfer them from the church to the cemetery. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mattie J. Chandler, Broken Bow; one sister, Miss Mary Chandler, who is attending C.I.A. College, Denton, Texas, and two brothers, Herbert Chandler, of Marble Falls, Texas, and Rex Chandler, Broken Bow. Out-of-town relatives attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Granville Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Jones, Caddo Gap, Arkansas; Dr. T.J. Jones and wife, Little Rock, Ark.; Mrs. Grace Palmer, Miss Dorothy Palmer and Mrs. Jessie White, Amity, Arkansas; Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Chandler and Mr. and Mrs. E.R. Chandler, Texarkana, Arkansas; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williamson and family and Miss Pearl Allen, De Queen, Arkansas. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to McCurtain Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/mccurtain/mccurtai.htm