Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Bessie McCain Young

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Obit for Bessie McCain Young

Bessie McCain Young, the daughter of Louis Montgomery McCain and Judith McConnell 
McCain, was born June 4, 1888 at Salina, Saline County, Kansas and departed this 
life February 11, 1968 at the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital, Cheyenne, Roger Mills 
County, Oklahoma.

On March 27, 1911 she was married to Orville A. Young, at Aransas Pass, Texas.  To 
this union, six children were born.  The family moved to this county in 1917 and to 
the Crawford community in 1920 where they have made their home continuously since 
that time.  A member of the Baptist Church, Bessie was a charter member of the 
Crawford Home Demonstration Club and for the past several years has been an 
honorary member of that organization.  She has lived a dedicated life of service 
to others.

Survivors are her husband, Orville A. Young, of Crawford, one daughter, Mildred 
Love, Phillips, Texas and three sons, James of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Clair, of 
oklahoma City, and Willard of Crawford, nine grandchildren and four great 
grandchildren.  Also survivros are three sisters, Georgia Parsona and Helen 
Trout, Bakersfield, California, Marie Hollingsworth, Las Vega, Nevada; one 
brother, Frank McCain, Woody, California.  One daughter and one son preceded
her in death, Alice Flue in 1933, and Elmo N. Young in 1946.

Interment in the Silent Home cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Ok