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Mangum (Oklahoma) Star Thursday, April 24, 1958 and Monday, April 28, 1958
Emmet Bevis, veteran Rock Island railway employee, suffered a heart attack Wednesday and died one hour after being admitted to the hospital. He had sustained another heart attack on Sept. 6, 1956 and had been in ill health since then.
The son of James A. and Mary E. (Threet) Bevis, and the brother of Mary Eveline Bevis, the city resident was born June 14, 1882 in Rawhide (now Cloverdale), Ala. In 1901, he was graduated from State Normal College in Florence, Ala., the first state-supported teachers college south of the Ohio River, and taught in Lauderdale County, Ala. schools after graduation. He then took a position as the Night Operator at the Louisiana and Nashville Railroad Depot in Florence, Ala.
In 1911 he went west to California in search of new employment. En route, he got off the train in Oklahoma, and the Rock Island offered him a position as agent in El Reno. Later he became agent at Lone Wolf where he met Miss Anne Holbert Mackey. They were married at her parents' home in Lampasas, Tex. on May 24, 1913 and made their first home in Lone Wolf. Mr. Bevis became agent in Granite in 1918 and in Mangum in 1937. He was agent here at the time of his retirement in 1952. He was a Democrat and a member of the railroad union.
Rites were at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Greer Chapel, Rev. K. Kip Owen, pastor of the First Baptist Church, in charge. Pall bearers were Jack Duncan, A.O. Goodman, Joe Head, Joe McDonald, Otis Rowe and Robert Russell. Burial was in Riverside cemetery.
Survivors are a son, Joe M. Bevis, Tulsa; two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Ruth) L. Pace, Las Morochas, Venezuela and Mrs. Kenneth (Jane) Head, Mangum; five grandchildren, Mike and JoEllen Bevis, Tulsa, Anne Pace, Las Morochas, Venezuela, and Carol Ann and Lora Jane Head, Mangum.
Mangum (Oklahoma) Star Thursday, April 24, 1958 and Monday, April 28, 1958
Emmet Bevis, veteran Rock Island railway employee, suffered a heart attack Wednesday and died one hour after being admitted to the hospital. He had sustained another heart attack on Sept. 6, 1956 and had been in ill health since then.
The son of James A. and Mary E. (Threet) Bevis, and the brother of Mary Eveline Bevis, the city resident was born June 14, 1882 in Rawhide (now Cloverdale), Ala. In 1901, he was graduated from State Normal College in Florence, Ala., the first state-supported teachers college south of the Ohio River, and taught in Lauderdale County, Ala. schools after graduation. He then took a position as the Night Operator at the Louisiana and Nashville Railroad Depot in Florence, Ala.
In 1911 he went west to California in search of new employment. En route, he got off the train in Oklahoma, and the Rock Island offered him a position as agent in El Reno. Later he became agent at Lone Wolf where he met Miss Anne Holbert Mackey. They were married at her parents' home in Lampasas, Tex. on May 24, 1913 and made their first home in Lone Wolf. Mr. Bevis became agent in Granite in 1918 and in Mangum in 1937. He was agent here at the time of his retirement in 1952. He was a Democrat and a member of the railroad union.
Rites were at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Greer Chapel, Rev. K. Kip Owen, pastor of the First Baptist Church, in charge. Pall bearers were Jack Duncan, A.O. Goodman, Joe Head, Joe McDonald, Otis Rowe and Robert Russell. Burial was in Riverside cemetery.
Survivors are a son, Joe M. Bevis, Tulsa; two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Ruth) L. Pace, Las Morochas, Venezuela and Mrs. Kenneth (Jane) Head, Mangum; five grandchildren, Mike and JoEllen Bevis, Tulsa, Anne Pace, Las Morochas, Venezuela, and Carol Ann and Lora Jane Head, Mangum.
Note: Content added by Anne.
Mangum (Oklahoma) Star Thursday, April 24, 1958 and Monday, April 28, 1958
Emmet Bevis, veteran Rock Island railway employee, suffered a heart attack Wednesday and died one hour after being admitted to the hospital. He had sustained another heart attack on Sept. 6, 1956 and had been in ill health since then.
The son of James A. and Mary E. (Threet) Bevis, and the brother of Mary Eveline Bevis, the city resident was born June 14, 1882 in Rawhide (now Cloverdale), Ala. In 1901, he was graduated from State Normal College in Florence, Ala., the first state-supported teachers college south of the Ohio River, and taught in Lauderdale County, Ala. schools after graduation. He then took a position as the Night Operator at the Louisiana and Nashville Railroad Depot in Florence, Ala.
In 1911 he went west to California in search of new employment. En route, he got off the train in Oklahoma, and the Rock Island offered him a position as agent in El Reno. Later he became agent at Lone Wolf where he met Miss Anne Holbert Mackey. They were married at her parents' home in Lampasas, Tex. on May 24, 1913 and made their first home in Lone Wolf. Mr. Bevis became agent in Granite in 1918 and in Mangum in 1937. He was agent here at the time of his retirement in 1952. He was a Democrat and a member of the railroad union.
Rites were at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Greer Chapel, Rev. K. Kip Owen, pastor of the First Baptist Church, in charge. Pall bearers were Jack Duncan, A.O. Goodman, Joe Head, Joe McDonald, Otis Rowe and Robert Russell. Burial was in Riverside cemetery.
Survivors are a son, Joe M. Bevis, Tulsa; two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Ruth) L. Pace, Las Morochas, Venezuela and Mrs. Kenneth (Jane) Head, Mangum; five grandchildren, Mike and JoEllen Bevis, Tulsa, Anne Pace, Las Morochas, Venezuela, and Carol Ann and Lora Jane Head, Mangum.
Mangum (Oklahoma) Star Thursday, April 24, 1958 and Monday, April 28, 1958
Emmet Bevis, veteran Rock Island railway employee, suffered a heart attack Wednesday and died one hour after being admitted to the hospital. He had sustained another heart attack on Sept. 6, 1956 and had been in ill health since then.
The son of James A. and Mary E. (Threet) Bevis, and the brother of Mary Eveline Bevis, the city resident was born June 14, 1882 in Rawhide (now Cloverdale), Ala. In 1901, he was graduated from State Normal College in Florence, Ala., the first state-supported teachers college south of the Ohio River, and taught in Lauderdale County, Ala. schools after graduation. He then took a position as the Night Operator at the Louisiana and Nashville Railroad Depot in Florence, Ala.
In 1911 he went west to California in search of new employment. En route, he got off the train in Oklahoma, and the Rock Island offered him a position as agent in El Reno. Later he became agent at Lone Wolf where he met Miss Anne Holbert Mackey. They were married at her parents' home in Lampasas, Tex. on May 24, 1913 and made their first home in Lone Wolf. Mr. Bevis became agent in Granite in 1918 and in Mangum in 1937. He was agent here at the time of his retirement in 1952. He was a Democrat and a member of the railroad union.
Rites were at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Greer Chapel, Rev. K. Kip Owen, pastor of the First Baptist Church, in charge. Pall bearers were Jack Duncan, A.O. Goodman, Joe Head, Joe McDonald, Otis Rowe and Robert Russell. Burial was in Riverside cemetery.
Survivors are a son, Joe M. Bevis, Tulsa; two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Ruth) L. Pace, Las Morochas, Venezuela and Mrs. Kenneth (Jane) Head, Mangum; five grandchildren, Mike and JoEllen Bevis, Tulsa, Anne Pace, Las Morochas, Venezuela, and Carol Ann and Lora Jane Head, Mangum.
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