OBITUARY: F. O. KEY, 2 Jul 1933 - Coke County, TX

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THE BRONTE WEEKLY ENTERPRISE
Vol. 15, Number 24
Bronte, Coke County, Texas, July 7, 1933

F.O. KEY DIES SUDDENLY

	The people of Bronte were appalled Sunday afternoon, as the news 
spread that F.O. Key was dead---that he had died suddenly at his home 
in the east part of town.  He was seen in town only a few minutes before 
the report that he was dead.
	
	Mr. Key complained to some friends that he was suffering with a 
pain in his heart and that he was going home.  Upon reaching home he 
advised Mrs. Key that he was suffering.  He instantly was stricken.  
Friends were called.  Dr. Leonard was absent from the city and hence 
no professional aid was available.  Friends rushed to the home but he 
died within a few minutes.

	Deceased was the third child of Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Key, deceased.  
He was born at Hubbard City, Texas, February 21m 1876, and departed this 
life July 2, 1933, making him to be fifty-seven years, four months and 
eight days when death claimed him.

	Deceased came with his parents to this section in 1890, making 
his family to be one of the truly old pioneer families of this part of 
the West.

	Deceased professed faith in Christ at the age of fifteen and 
united with the Methodist church.  He was chairman of the official 
board of the local Methodist church.

	November 13, 1901 deceased and Mrs. Eva Willoughby were united 
in marriage.  He is survived by his companion, a stepson and daughter-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Willoughby, two brothers and three sisters 
as follows:  Rev. Ira F. Key, of Marshal, presiding elder of the 
Marshal district of the Methodist church; Hon. V. O. Key, Lamesa; Mrs. 
Daisy Merchant, San Antonio; Mrs. Garland Sanders, Wichita Falls; Mrs. 
Annie Montgomery of San Antonio, all whom were present for the funeral.

	Following religious services at the Methodist church Monday 
afternoon, the body was taken by a large company of old time friends 
and neighbors to the Bronte cemetery and was put away tenderly beneath 
a bed of flowers for its last sleep.

	The religious services were simple but tenderly beautiful, 
conducted by the pastor, Rev. Wallace N. Dunson, assisted by Rev. N. W. 
Pitts.  Rev. Ira Key, brother of the deceased, prayed a deeply touching 
prayer, which was shot through and through with the radiant light of 
the Christian’s hope.  The pastor spoke impressively as to the life and 
character of deceased. He brought out three characteristics of deceased.  
He was a dependable man; whatever he told one he would do it was the 
same as his bond.  He was an unselfish man; he served the church and 
his community whenever he agreed to serve, in an unselfish and 
wholehearted way.  The pastor brought out the fact that though the 
depression had been raging, yet deceased had never reduced his 
assessments to the church and its work and was still paying the same 
as in the days of the country’s greatest prosperity.  He was a man who 
loved little children.  “And that one thing within itself,” said the 
pastor, “commends this good man to the heart of God.”  The church 
choir sang the hymns of the church and the flowers were about the 
alter in profusion, attesting the fact that deceased and family have 
a wide circle of friends who sorrowed with them over his passing.

	Deceased was a man who was interested in the civic improvement 
of his town.  He was street foreman and in recent months has put the 
streets of the town in the splendid present condition.   

	Late Monday afternoon, as the sun of that long summer day was 
lowering in the western skies the body was put away in the silent 
city to rest and await the resurrection.

	The sorrowing have the deep sympathy of a host of friends, not 
only in Bronte, but in other cities and towns and communities, who 
sorrow with them in this hour of bereavement.