Obit of Hunt, Irving - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 24 Jul 2005 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Hunt, Killough, Hammonds, Thompson, Thurmond Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5995 After an illness of several months and the last month spent in a Shattuck hospital Irvin Hunt succumbed last Monday, October 31, 1938 from what was pronounced ulcers of the stomach. About sixteen days ago he underwent an operation and for a time it was thought he would get well, but last week he grew weaker and blood transfusions were given but to no avail. Funeral service were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Methodist church of Cheyenne with Rev. J.W. Carlson, Baptist minister of this city delivering the sermon. Rev. Carlton was assisted by ___________ newely assigned Methodist pastor of this city. Interment was made in the Cheyenne Cemetery. A large fcrowd of friends at the funeral and the very fine floral offering bore testtimony to the high esteem in which Mr. Hunt was held by neighbors anfd friends. Mr. Hunt was born December 11, 1878 in Texas. He came to Roger Mills County in 1892 and has resided in this vicinity for the past forty-six years. He was married to Miss Lottie Killough in 1904 and to this union were born two children, both of whom, with the mother, survive. They are William Hunt and Mrs. Opal Hammonds, both of Cheyenne. He is survived by two sisters and two brothers who are Mrs. Charles Thompson of Cheyenne, Mrs. Bob Thurmond of Elk City; D.N. Hunt, of Clinton, and R.L. Hunt of Cheyenne. Mr. Hunt was a member of the local Methodist church. Irvin Hunt was a good man, one who attended to his own affairs and one upon whom his friends could always rely. He was quite and unassuming in his manner but one who lived true to his convections. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 3-Nov-1938 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html