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Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by: Lillian Cotten
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, July 25, 1956
Theresa Virginia [Wilfenburg] Beckett
Rites Held For Pioneer Woman Of Fort Cobb
Fort Cobb- Funeral services for Mrs. Theresa Virginia Beckett, who died last Saturday after a prolonged illness, were held at 2:30 p.m., Monday from the Fort Cobb Methodist church. She had been ill for three and one-half years.
She was a member of the Fort Cobb Methodist church and Order of Eastern Star. She served as county superintendent of schools of Caddo county in 1924-25, completing an unexpired term of a former superintendent who resigned, and was elected to the office for the 1929-31 term.
Mrs. Beckett was born on January 12, 1877, at Sullivan, Ind., and was married to Otto B. Beckett at Chickasha in 1901. She and her husband came to Caddo county in 1902.
Survivors included the husband; one son, William Beckett of Whittier, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Jeanne Howenstine, Clinton; Mrs. Edna Fisher, Barcelona, Venezuela, South America; and Mrs. Frances Finney of Fort Cobb; one brother, Harry Wolfenberger, of Lone Grove; two sisters, Mrs. Carl Watson, Indianapolis, Ind.; and Mrs. Ralph Stewart, Long Beach, Calif.; and six grandchildren
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