Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Mr. Tim R. Cockrell

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Obit for Mr. Tim R. Cockrell

Services for Mr. Tim R. Cockrell, died May 29, 1959,  were held in the Durham 
community building, 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Mary 31, 1959.  Services were 
conducted by ministers, Harold Knight and John Murphy of Amarillo, Texas.

Committal was in the Silent Home cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma 
under the direction of Scroggins Funeral Home of Cheyenne.

Tim Cockrell was born July 5, 1904, near Lawrence, Kansas.  The Cockrell family 
moved to Durham, Oklahoma in February 1909 where Mr. Cockrell had resided since 
that time.

He was united in marriage to Helen Sadler, April 9, 1927. at Canadian, Texas.  
To this union were born seven children, five sons and two daughters, Roy Eugene 
who died at birth, Leo Cockrell of Alamorgorda, New Mexico, Dale Cockrell of 
Cheyenne, Mrs. Hershel Higgins of Amarillo, Texas, Mr. Donald Cockrell of 
Wichita, Kansas, Mrs. Glen Cockrell of the home address, and Mrs. Wanda Estes 
of Amarillo, Texas.

He is also survived by six grandchildren, Sandra, Judy and Ricky Higgins, 
Dennis and Craig Cockrell and Gary Cockrell.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father, two brothers and one 
sister.  He is survived by a brother, Clint Cockrell of pampa, Texas, 
a sister, Mrs. Warren Selby of Reydon, and a host of close relatives.

He obeyed the gospel, and was baptized into the Church of Christ under 
the preaching of Brother McGaughery in 1954.  He has attended church at 
Durham since that time.  

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Ok