Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

Death Comes to Mrs. Chambers, 87 In City 54 Years

Mrs. Carrie Wile Chambers, 87, who had lived in Blackwell for 54 years, died at 10:55 p.m. Thursday in her home, 445 East Bridge.
Services will be held at the Roberts funeral home chapel at 2 p.m. Saturday, Rev. Harold Jensen, pastor of the Evangelical United Brethern church officiating, and burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Mrs. Chambers was born July 10, 1863, at McComb, Ill., came to South Haven, Kans., and shortly thereafter to Blackwell.
Surviving are a son, Forest W. Chambers, southwest of the city; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild, and a brother, Harvey Wile of Tonkawa.

Mrs. Carrie Wile Chambers

Carrie Wile was born at McComb, Ill, on July 10, 1883 and departed this life on Feb 1, 1951 at the at the age of 87 years, 6 months and 21 days.
She was married in September of 1891 to Smith Chambers, then moved to Kansas and settled on a farm near South Haven, where a son, forest, was born.
They came to Oklahoma at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, and homesteaded the NW quarter section of Blackwell township. They moved to town in 1896 where Chambers lived for 54 years.
Surviving are a son, Forest W. Chambers of Blackwell, two grandchildren, a great grandchild, a brother, Harvey Wile, of Tonkawa and many friends.