Obit for: Robert B. Munns (m520) - Payne County OK

Posted to Payne Co. OK Archives 12/12/2002
Submitted by: Pam Hodges Crain, pcrain58@pldi.net
Transcribed by: Betty Jean Cook Tautfest
Payne Co. Archivist: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com

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Robert B. Munns Dies on Sunday

80-Year Old Resident Dies After Long Illness;
Funeral set Wednesday

Robert B. Munns, 80 died at the home of his son, Elza A. Munns, at 124 
West 2nd Street at 4:30 Sunday morning following a long illness.

The funeral service will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in the 
Memorial Chapel of the Davis Funeral Home. Major John Courtols of the 
Salvation Army will conduct the service.

He was born in Knox county, Missouri, Aug. 25, 1869, and came to Oklahoma 
with his mother and family in 1893 and homesteaded on a farm two miles 
north of Cushing on Highway 18. Later he moved to a farm 10 miles 
southeast of Cushing, where he resided until his death. He was married to 
Mary Elizabeth McCauley at Stillwater, Feb. 19, 1894. He was a member of 
the Cushing Masonic lodge and was given a life membership in the lodge in 
1933.

Relatives who survive are his wife Mrs. Mary E. Munns of the home, two 
sons, George D. Munns of Kansas City, Kan. Elza A. Munns of Cushing, four 
daughters, Mrs. Ethel Ritter of Fallis, Okla., Mrs. Edna Meyer of Avery, 
Mrs. Mammie Dahlke of Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Ruth Rodebush of Bristow, one 
sister, Mrs. Dora Branstetter of Cushing, 13 grandchildren, 13 great 
grandchildren, and other relatives.

Burial under direction of the H. A. Davis Funeral Home, will be made in 
the New Zion cemetery on the family lot.
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