Obit of Minnie Ellen Powers (p620) - Payne County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Cindy Osburn 1/15/2002 Transcribe by: Bill Cook, Payne Co. Archivist Return to Payne County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payne.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== April 27, 1938 Headline Reads: Mrs. Powers Dies of Long Illness Native Oklahoman Dies at Home This Morning, Funeral tomorrow. Mrs. Minnie Ellen Powers, age 49, passed away this morning at 10 o'clock at her home, 301 1/2 south Central, following a lingering illness. The deceased was born in Oklahoma Territory, July 24, 1888, and has spent her entire life in this state. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2:30 o'clock in the First Baptist Church here, with Dr. J.W. Stone, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Tulsa, officiating. Mrs. Powers is survived by her husband Ralph V. Powers, one son, Floyd E., of Cushing, two daughters, Miss Doris Powers of Tulsa and Mrs. R.W. Robb of Houston, Texas, her mother, Mrs. E.J. Blackburn of Cushing and five brothers and one sister. The H.A. Davis funeral directors are in charge of the funeral arrangements and burial will be in the New Zion cemetery here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Payne County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payne.html