Obit of Conrad, Blanche Marguerite Flack (c563) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 21 Apr 2001 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Conrad, Flack Never do we hear of the death of a young person in the first beautiful years of married life but what the hearts of all the community are filled with sorrow and sympathy for the bereaved. This was especially true when the Rankin people learned that Mrs. Blanche Flack Conrad had passed from this earth. As a wee little girl of five when she first came here, up until last Friday she has been making friends who came on Saturday afternoon-came until the church was more than filled-came with flowers and tears and loving words of sympathy and deeds of helpfulness to do all they could to show the high esteem in which they held this friend. Blanche Marguerite, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Flack, was born December 12, 1896, in Perry, Iowa. Moved to El Reno, Oklahoma, in 1901, then to Roger Mills County in 1902. She was converted at Rankin January, 1908 and joined the Rankin M.E. Church of which she was a member until her death. Those few words sound barren to us compared to our knowledge of her faithful service-never refusing any task assigned. A beautiful living of the Christ life, sweet and unobstrusvie but always ready to testify for her Master both in deed and word. She was married January 17, 1915, to James Conrad and they made their home four and one half miles east of the Rankin Church for a short time. Her health growing more deligate she was moved to her mother's at Foss, Oklahoma, then to Elk City and from there to Rankin April 20th, 1916, just twenty days before her death from tuberculosis which occured May 19, 1916, age 19 years, 5 months, 7 days. She leaves to mourn her loss in the immediate home, a husband, father, mother and sister, Mrs. Laura Conrad. The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, May 20, 1916 at the Rankin M.E. church Elder G.F. Martin speaking words of comfort and cheer from the Holy Scripture especially of the resurrection. This last beautiful Eaaster Sunday, Blanche joined with us in our services. From now it will be Easter to her forevermore and only her little frail body no longer racked by pain, rests In the "Silent City" on the hill east of the little church she loved. Burial in the White Rose Cemetery, Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html