Mattie Forney Ricker

© Elk City Daily News

09 Dec 1930

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Forney Ricker, 66, wife of Charlie Ricker of Carpenter were held today at 1:30 p.m. at the Christian Church in Carpenter. Rev. C. S. Moad, of this city read the final rites.

Mrs. Ricker died Sunday, December 5, 1930 after an illness of four months.

She had lived at Carpenter for the past three years, having married Mr. Ricker at that time.

Prior to her marriage she had resided at Hydro.

Mrs. Ricker was married to J. H. Forney at Wichita, Kansas in 1882.

Immediate members of the family surviving Mrs. Ricker are her husband, Mr. Ricker and three children, C. T. Forney, of Springfield, Ohio; J. D. Forney of Ft. Collins, Colorado; and Mrs. J. R. Boardman of Enid, Oklahoma.

Mrs. Boardman was the only child able to attend the services today.

Interment was in the Carpenter cemetery.

Killough-Hullum funeral directors, were in charge.