McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    M. C. Hastings

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::Crown Hill Cemetery--Broken Bow OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper:

Sept. 25, 1925

A PROMINENT CITIZEN DIED TUESDAY
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MORNING AT THE PARIS SANITARIUM -- WAS BURIED HERE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

M.C. Hastings, prominent citizen of Golden, died at the Paris Sanitarium
Tuesday morning, September 23, after an operation for gall stones.  His
body was brought to this city for burial.  Funeral services were held at
the First Baptist Church, Wednesday afternoon at 3:30, the Rev. W.W. Starnes,
pastor of the First Christian Church of Idabel, conducting the ceremony.
Interment in the Crown Hill cemetery near town, followed.

Mr. Hastings was a member of the Christian Church and was one of McCurtain
county's best citizens.  He had lived at Golden for many years and was
justice of the peace there several years.

The deceased is survived by a wife, three daughters, Mrs. T.E. Bennett,
Pleasant Hill; Mrs. Jim Bennett, Marietta, and Miss Elizabeth Hastings,
Golden; four sons, Joe Hastings, of near Broken Bow; Price and Mack Hastings,
Golden; and Frank Hastings.  He was also a brother of J.P. Hastings, of this
city.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge here and the Masons had charge of the
body at the funeral.  Several Masons from Idabel were in attendance.

The floral offerings were beautiful and numerous.
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