Obit of Boggess, Tressie L Walton - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Submitted by: William S. Boggess 28 Dec 2008 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== Here is an obituary from th Daily Oklahoman, 4 April 1956 page 11 with additional info by submitter.        Boggess Rites Set for Monday Mrs. T.H. Boggess of 1309 NE 13, died Friday in a local rest home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the Louise Pritchard chapel at the First Baptist church. Burial will be in [Park cemetery] Carthage, Mo. She [Reverend Tressie L Walton] was born in Shell City, Mo. and graduated from Louisville Baptist seminary in Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Boggess came to Oklahoma City in 1940 from Iowa. Her husband, Rev. Tom Boggess, a Baptist preacher, died in 1938. Mrs. Boggess was active in church work in the First Baptist church and was a member of the DN chapter of PEO. Surviors are a foster daughter, Evelyn Black, of the home, and a sister, Mrs. D.B. Hitt of 2444 NW 38. Street and Draper funeral home is in charge of arrangements. The family requests that instead of flowers, friends who wish may make donations to the Mission scholarship fund at the First Baptist Church.               <>------------<>-------------<>     Additional Comments: Reverend Tressie L Walton, born June 1881 in Schell City, Vernon County, Missouri married Thomas Howard Boggess (1876WV-1938IA) in Oranogo, Jasper county, Missouri 20 Sep 1905 with 1st church in Carthage, Hancock county, Illinois 1908 till moving to Kansas City, Wyandotte county, Kansas in 1915, raising eight orphaned children, moving to Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska 1928 until 1935 move to Mount Iry, Ringgold county, Iowa, then to Okahoma City following husbands death in 1938. Her death was from Broncho Pneumonia, buired 7 April 1956 in Block 33, Lot 98, Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri with husband and his brother, S C Boggess' family. see husband's obit; http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/jasper/obits/b/boggess8ob.txt --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html