Carrie Bates Estes Obit © Cheyenne Star 04 Sep 1924 Submitted by: Wanda Purcell
Last Tuesday, August 26, 1924 a telegram was received by Earl, living ten miles northwest of Rankin, Oklahoma saying that Mrs. Estes was dying in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where she had gone for treatment of cancer of the liver. Their oldest daughter, Juanetta left that same evening for Arkansas, and with the youngest daughter Evelyn, brought the corpse home last Saturday, by way of Elk City, Oklahoma.
The funeral services were held the next day, Sunday noon, August 31, 1924 at the Rankin Methodist Church, conducted by her pastor, Elder George F. Martin of Dempsey, Oklahoma, and burial in the Rankin cemetery {now White Rose} near Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
Carrie Bates Estes was born in Indiana, November 5, 1877, and died in Levi Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, August 26, 1924, age 46 years, 9 months, 21 days.
She was married to Earl Estes on April 29, 1894.
They were the parents of eight children - - two boys dying in infancy; and Orville, the oldest, killed in France, September 14, 1918; and two boys, Forrest who is married and lives near the old homestead, and Gayle; and Roxie and two girls above named, with their father survive her.
She became a Christian sixteen years ago, and was always true to the faith as she was able to see it.
Mr. and Mrs. Estes with Orville and Forest, settled on the homestead nearly twenty-two years ago, after about a year's stay in Weatherford, Oklahoma.
Their first home was near Martinville, Illinois.
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