Eddie Bessire Submitted by: Wanda Purcell
Funeral services were held Friday, February 10, 1978 in the Reydon Community Building for Eddie Bessire, Reydon, with Rev. Ed Sifford and Rev. Eddie Overstreet officiating.
He was born October 27, 1897 at Monroe, Wisconsin and passed away in the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital, February 7, 1978, after an extended illness.
As a child he moved with his parents to Roger Mills County in 1902.
He attended school at Cottonwood, then operated a grocery store at Midway and Reydon.
In 1969, he married Pearl Wright and she preceded him in death August 17, 1938. He married Effie Milner on November 5, 1944, at Reydon.
He was an active member of the Reydon United Methodist Church.
Others preceding him in death were his parents and three brothers.
Survivors are his wife Effie of the home; one stepson; Leroy Milner and wife of Albuquerque, New Mexico; three grandchildren; two great grandchildren; one sister, Clara Forest of Portales, New Mexico; two brothers, Leo Bessire of Reydon and Jess Bessire of Canadian, Texas.
Those serving as pallbearers were Jimmie Snell, Paul Burks, Ernest Lee smith, Calude Salder, Melvin Thurman and Gene Johnson.
Interment was in the White Rose Cemetery, Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service.
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