NEWSPAPER OBITUARY FOR CLAUDIA "CLAUDIE" MAY ADKINS LOCKE, THE MADILL RECORD, DATED SEPTEMBER 28, 1933, FRONT PAGE:

"INSTANT DEATH FOR MRS. W. C. LOCKE, MONDAY--TAKES POISON THROUGH MISTAKE--DIES SOON AFTERWARD--Taking poison through mistake brought sudden death to Mrs. W. C. Locke, 48, apparently in perfect health a few minutes prior, late Monday afternoon.

Mrs. Locke, a well-known and active church worker in Madill, had attended the Methodist Missionary society Monday afternoon and had been home only a short while, when her daughter, Miss Dovie Locke, who had been ill Monday, prepared them a cold drink made by dissolving prepared tablets in water.

Mrs. Locke remarked after drinking but very little, that it was bitter. She lived only about 20 minutes afterward. A doctor was summoned immediately, but she failed to respond to treatment.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist Church with the pastor, Rev. J. C. Morris officiating, and burial was in the Madill-Oakland Cemetery under direction of Watts Funeral Home.

Pallbearers and flower ladies were members of the Methodist Missionary society, of which Mrs. Locke was a faithful and outstanding member. Pallbearers were Mrs. John Glenn, Mrs. Sam Hollingsworth, Mrs. Roy O. Pool, Mrs. Bob Turner, Mrs. W. L. Raborn, and Mrs. James E. Grigsby. Flower girls were Misses Novice and Juanita Everett, Pauline and Irene Dickerson, Verna Abernathy, Anna Belle McCormick, Ivy and Gladys Colson, Vivian Splawn, Jewel Battle, Aline Wininger and Fay Null.

Special singers were Mrs. Vera Stephenson, Mrs. Zula Morris, W. W. Fondren and John Landram.

Survivors of Mrs. Locke are her husband, W. C. Locke; two daughters, Misses Dovie and Marcella Locke, and two sons, Orvil and Delbert Locke. Her mother, who makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Locke the greater part of the time, also survives. Four brothers survive. They are: Bert Adkins, Shay; Ben Adkins, Maysville, Oklahoma; Charlie Adkins, Cleburne, Texas; and Roscoe Adkins, whose address is unknown by the relatives, at present. Two sisters, Mrs. J. P. Anderson, Wilson, and Mrs. Al Blakely of the Cliff Community, also survive. All the brothers and sisters, with the exception of Roscoe Adkins, were present for the funeral services, as was her mother.

Mrs. Locke was born in Texas, and the family moved to Oklahoma when she was four years old, and she had lived in Old Indian Territory and what is now Madill for a long number of years. For about 10 years, the family lived at Wilson, and the remainder of the time has been spent in Marshall County. In 1908, she was married to W. C. Locke, at Oakland, where both families then lived.

She was a member of the Methodist Church and had been since girlhood. She was active in church work, Sunday School, Missionary Society work, and helped the Methodist ladies in serving the Rotary dinners."

NOTE: Other than the four children listed in her obituary, William Calvin Locke and Claudia "Claudie" May Adkins Locke were the parents of another daughter: Eveletta (Evaletta) May Locke, who died at birth.