Obit of Whitten, Mary J - McCurtain County, Oklahoma

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::Ft Towson Cemetery--Ft Towson OK 

McCurtain Gazette Aug 1927

Good Lady Dies Wednesday Night

Has been a resident of Idabel For a number of years--

Burial at Ft. Towson Cemetery

At ten minutes past 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening, August 10 occured 
the death of Mrs. Mary J. Whitten.  Though in the seventy-first year 
of her age Mrs. Whitten had always been remarkably strong and had 
enjoyed exceptionally good health until the beginning of the illness 
which claimed her life about two weeks ago.

Her sickness was not at first thought to be of a serious character 
but when itwas realized that her condition was dangerous the members 
of the family livingaway from Idabel were summoned, and all her 
children were with her during her last daysof her life except for her 
oldest son Frank Whitten who himself is seriously ill at Shreveport 
LA.  Two of the daughters of Mrs. Whitten are trained nurses and they 
were able to give there mother extarordinary efficient care during 
her last days of her life.  This writer has never been more anxious 
and tender ministration to a sufferer upon a bed of pain than was 
given by the members of the Whitten family to their loved one.

Mary J. Whitten, nee Crenshaw, was born October 27, 1856 in the state 
of Tennessee.  She was married to W.F. Whitten December 27 1883 and 
of their union were born six children all of whom survive, two sons 
and four daughters.  One of the sons  Charles B. has been employed 
for years as dispatching clerk in the Idabel Post Office.  Mrs. 
Whitten entered the Southern United Methodist Church in her early 
girlhood and lived a devoted Christian life throughout her long 
earthly sojourn.Funeral services in her memory were conducted at Fort 
Towson Cemetery on Thursday afternoon August 11th, the Rev. Willmore 
Kendall of the First United Methodist Church of Idabel officiating, 
while extraordinary beautiful music was rendered by the Methodist 
Choir of Fort Towson. Numberless and profuse floral offerings 
testified to the universal love and esteem in which Mrs. Whitten was 
held by her neighbors and friends.

(Note: Mary J. Whitten Children are:  Francis "Frank" T. Whitten,  
Willie Lee Whitten,  Ida Whitten,  Charles Bruce Whitten,  Ruby 
Whitten and Kate Whitten)
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