Hockley Co. TX - Obits: Bessie Edith Macklin ************************************************* File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Wanda Purcell Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************* Funeral services for Mrs. O.P. Macklin (Bessie Edith) were held Monday afternoon July 27, 1953 at Berlin. Rev. Pete Engle of Berlin and Rev. Merle Andrews of Cheyenne officiated at the services. Mrs. Macklin passed away Sunday, July 26, 1953 in the Sayre hospital after a long illness. Burial was in the Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of the Scroggins Funeral Home of Cheyenne. She was born September 15, 1882 in Illinois and married September 19, 1901 to O.P. Macklin in Illinois. They moved to western Oklahoma in 1904 from Illinois and had lived there since. She is a long-time member of the United Brethren church. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Gladys E. Carr of Tulsa, Mrs. Lula Ford of Cheyenne, Mrs. Opal Houx of Sundown, Texas; one son, Lee Macklin of Leveland, Texas, two brothers, G.A. Flenner, Elk City, James S. Flenner of Cheyenne; three sisters; Mrs. Ann B. Frye of Weatherford, Mrs. Lula Rupp of Cheyenne, Mrs Effie Macklin of Berlin, seven grandchildren and two great- grandchildren, she was preceded in death by her husband. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK.