Jones County, TX - Obituary - Mrs. Jessie Coke Osman **************************************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************************** The Jones County Observer Anson, Jones County, Texas Friday, October 20, 1939 Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie Coke Osman, 42, who died at their home in Stamford, October 30th, 1939, were held from the Bethel Baptist church of Funston Tuesday afternoon with J.P. Crenshaw, minister of the Church of Christ of Sweetwater in charge, assisted by O.H. Tabor, minister of the Stamford Church of Christ. Mrs. Osman has made her home for several years with a brother-in-law, H.H. Corley of Stamford. Burial was in Bethel cemetery beside the grave of her first husband, S.T. Coker, who died in 1925. Kinney F.H. had arrangements. Mrs. Osman was born April 11, 1897, in Wolfe City. She moved to Jones county when a girl and had lived here the past 25 years. She had been a member of the Church of Christ for the last 18 years. Surviving: 2 children: Mrs. E.V. Olson of Avoca; Stanley Coker of Stamford; her mother: Mrs. L.C. Tarver of Wichita Falls; 3 sisters: Mrs. Jo Wheeler of Anson, Mrs. Ruth Harper of Wichita Falls; Mrs. John Smith of Gober; 4 brothers: Clifton Tarver of Anson; C.C. Tarver of Sweetwater; Luke Tarver of Wichita Falls; W.H. Tarver of Palestine.