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Bessie Ellen Maxwell
Enid Morning News
01-1974
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

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Bessie E. and W. F. MAXWELL

Garber Cemetery


Mrs. Bessie Ellen Maxwell, 83, Barnsdall, died Sunday morning in a hospital in Pawhuska where she had been a patient for four days. Services will be at 10 AM Wednesday in the Barnsdall Funeral Home Chapel. Officiating will be the Rev. O. E. Weeks, minister of St. Luke's United Methodist Church, and the Rev. Udell Wolff, minister of the First United Methodist Church. Committal prayers and burial will be at 1 PM on Wednesday in the Garber Cemetery, Under the direction of Barnsdall Funeral Service.

Mrs. Maxwell was born in Bethany, Missouri, on December 10, 1890, and moved to Iola, Kansas, as a child. There she grew up attending schools. In 1909, she moved to early day Ochelata where her father, Landa Neff, established a general merchandise store.

On May 15, 1910, she married William Frederick Maxwell at Ochelata and they made their home there. He was an oilfield gauger for the Prairie Pipeline Company, remaining in their employee until there merger with Sinclair Oil Company. When he retired, they were Garber residents and he was elected city clerk, serving three terms from 1950 – 56. He retired again in 1963 and six years later she moved to Barnsdall.

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