Blackwell Morning
Tribune
Blackwell, Oklahoma
July 7, 1936
July 08, 1936
Submitted
by
Loyd Bishop
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Double Funeral For Girls Today
Blackwell and Ponca Salvation Army To Hold Rites
At Christian.
Double funeral services for Ethel May Wright and May Propper, local
girls who were drowned in the Chikaskia river Saturday afternoon, will
be held this afternoon at 3 o’clock in the Christian church.
The Blackwell Salvation Army post under the direction of Capt. Ima McMillan,
and the Ponca City post under the direction of Capt and Mrs., George Lomax,
will conduct the services. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery under
the direction of the Fyffe funeral home and the Roberts mortuary.
The bodies will not lie in state, but the caskets will be opened after
the services.
C. S. Wright, father of the Wright girl, Monday extended his thanks to
all who assisted at the river Saturday while the search was made.
Captain
Lomax and Reverend Harrison Conduct Funeral For Pair.
Throngs of friends
and relatives crowded the auditorium of the Christian church to capacity
as joint funeral services were held Thursday afternoon for Nahoma Mae
Propper and Ethel May Wright, who drowned in the Chikaskia river Saturday.
Capt. George Lomax of the Ponca City Salvation Army post gave the main
sermon. The Rev. E W. Harrison, pastor of the Christian church, also made
remarks, led in prayer, and read the obituaries.
The Wright girl was a member of the Christian church and the Proper girl
was a member of the Salvation Army.
The caskets were carried into the church and later back to the funeral
coaches by two groups of young girls- friends of the deceased girls. Pallbearers
for Miss Propper were Gladys Faussette, Frances Fitch, Merlene Fitch,
Lucille Frazier, Peggy Evans and Fay Faussette.
Pallbearers for Miss Wright were Leona Kittrell, Fanny Leslie, Delta Wilmeth,
Marquertte Killion, Frances Bradley and Lavelle Grisham.
Musical numbers included two duets by Gladys Faussette and Frances Fitch,
a song “ The Old Rugged Cross” by Miss Popper’s pallbearers,
who were members of the Salvation Army, and two songs, “ When They
Ring Those Golden Bells” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”
by Mrs. Florence Epperly and Mrs. Joe Morton.
A long line of automobiles followed the bodies to the I.O.O.F. cemetery,
where interment was under the direction of the Fyffe funeral home and
Roberta Mortuary.
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