Mary Hlawacek

© Hammon Advocate

30 Nov 1911

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Mary Hlawacek, wife of Thomas Hlawacek died November 28, 1911.

The deceased was born in Bohemia, in 1845, and was married to Thomas Hlawacek in 1871.

Unto them was born seven daughters and two sons all of whom survive her.

They moved to the town of Sayre, in the western part of Oklahoma in 1902. She moved with her husband to Hammon last March, to make their future home.

Monday a week ago, she was stricken with typhoid fever and passed to her reward early Tuesday morning.

Her daughter, Mrs. Francis Wallace was with her in her last sickness.

Her daughter, Miss Celeste Hlawacek arrived Tuesday night.

She was a member of the Catholic Church from childhood and was devoted to her church.

She was a good woman of industrious habits.

Her husband is bowed down with grief in his sad bereavement.

Funeral services were held at the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma at 2:30 p.m. yesterday conducted by Rev. G. W. Day, pastor of the Methodist Church.

May divine grace and mercy sustain her heart broken husband and children in this hour of sorrow, and may they meet again where death never comes.