McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    BETTIE (LIGHTSEY) WATERS

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::Denison Cemetery--Idabel OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper:

October 25, 1938

MRS. C.W. WATERS DIED AT PARIS

All Idabel was saddened and bowed in grief last Friday morning when news was
received there announcing the death of Mrs. Clem W. Waters, one of Idabel's
beloved women, who died Thursday night about 10:30, following an operation that
morning at 9:00, at the St Joseph Infirmary at Paris, Texas, where she has
been confined for two weeks for treatment.  She had been in ill health the last
several months and had been in a Texarkana hospital for treatment before going
to the Paris Institution.

Funeral services were held Sunday morning at 11:00 at the First Baptist church
in Idabel by the pastor, Rev. Norris A. Gilliam.  Burial followed in the
Denison cemetery.  One of the largest crowds that ever attended a funeral in
Idabel was present Sunday morning to pay their last tribute to one who was
loved by everyone that knew her.  Mrs. Waters was before her marriage Miss
Bettie Lightsey.

The deceased is survived by her husband; mother, Mrs. J.L. Lightsey; three
sisters and two brothers, as follows:  Mrs. Della Taylor, Collinsville, Texas;
Mrs. Maurice Fulmer, Ozona, Texas;  Mrs. Bessie Jones, Honey Grove, Texas;
H.L. Lightsey, Wellington, Colo., and J.D. Lightsey, Idabel.

Mrs. Waters was well known in McCurtain county, having lived at Idabel for a 
number of years.  She was a magnificient Christian lady in all that the word
implies, and no woman ever lived in Idabel who was more respected or better
loved than she.

The heart of Idabel goes out to Mr. Waters and the other members of the family 
in this, their greatest bereavement.  In their sadness, each relative can take
satisfaction in the fact that she did her duty to her God, in a glorious manner
and left the world better by having lived in it.
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