Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

Obituary-Ollie Brizendine

Ollie Brizendine was born at Blue Springs, Jackson Co., Missouri, Died at his home near Blackwell, Oklahoma Jan. 21st, 1901. Age 18 years 4 months and 17 days, leaves a father, mother, four sisters and two brothers with a host of friends to mourn his departure.
Rev. Hale assisted by Rev. Day conducted the funeral services in the Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon.
Ollie was laid to rest in a beautiful white casket covered with floral tributes several of which were given through the High School, among them was a beautiful wreath of white roses, smilax and ferns, also a floral harp draped with white ribbon and having a cord for each member of the family but with one severed, symbolizing the broken household.
And as a school we would say to the members of this household –
A precious one from you is gone
A voice you loved is still;
A place is vacant in your home
Which never can be filled

Yet the joy – not dead but sleeping
Gone to rest a little while;
He would bid you cease your weeping,
For he wears the angels smile.
Ollie’s face is sweeter growing,
None should say that Ollie died,
For our happy hearts are knowing
He with angels doth abide.

Ollie was a member of the High school in our city being classed in the first year. In his work he was always prompt quiet, patient, kind and unassuming.
His unquestioning obedience and faithfulness in every duty ever proved him to be seeking the approval of his teachers and classmates, his own conscience and above all his God, rather than the noisy outside world.
Such a life has a silent influence in the schoolroom, which is destined to live on forever though his familiar form has been withdrawn from us. May we as teachers and classmates live so nobly that we may meet Ollie in that great beyond where there will be no seats left vacant.

Ollie Brizendine, son of Mr. And Mrs. J. B. Brezendine, died Monday of this week at the home of his parents two miles northwest of this city. Ollie was attacked by pneumonia some time in December, and later with an abscess in the head, of which he died. The funeral was held from the Baptist church in this city Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Hale of that church. As a mark of respect the room of the public school of this city, of which he was a member, was dismissed and the pupils attended the funeral in a body. Ollie Brizendine had passed his 18th birthday and gave every promise of becoming a promising young man. He was a splendid scholar, a good pupil and was earnest and conscientious in his work. He had during his three years in our school by his manly qualities, excellent deportment and good scholarship endeared himself to teacher and schoolmates, and their loss is little less than a personal one. The interment was in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery south of the city. The grief of the family is shared by the many friends of the young man, and the Times-Record joins in the universal regret at his demise.