Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Obit of Mrs. Esther Girton
From “The Maramec News” April 13, 1913

Submitted by Juanita Head Berly
Jberly@swbell.net
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/pawnee/obits/g6350001.txt
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Departed

Last Sunday night at the home of her son, Clarence, as Foss, Okla. where she was
visiting, Mrs. Esther Girton, whose home was at Valient, Okla, depart to her reward.

She came to Pawnee County from near Joplin Mo., during the opening with her husband
and children, and settled on a claim adjoining the townsite of Valley. Her husband died
about fifteen years ago, and was buried in the little cemetery on their place, and they
laid her at rest beside him.

She was a consistent Christian, and tried to live every day as tho, she knew it to be her 
last.  A better neighbor in sickness and bereavement, we never knew, always kind and
thoughtful.

She has gone to her reward, and while we grieve for a kind friend and a loving mother,
we know that our  loss is her eternal gain, and that she is now where sorrow and
suffering, such as she had known for so many years, never come, and where the songs of
the redeemed arise before the throne of God forever.

She leaves three sons and a daughter to mourn her loss: John, Russell and Clarence, and
Mrs. Myrtle Gowing, of Maramec, who have the sincerest sympathy of their many friends
in their bereavement.