BURIED HERE SATURDAY
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Classmates from Bradley Institute, Peoria, Ill., Here To Serve as Honorary Pallbearers
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Funeral services for Travis Elliott Simpson, 24, who died in the Peoria, Ill., Methodist Hospital following an emergency
major surgery on April 2, were held Saturday afternoon in the Wagoner First Christian Church.
Death came 18 days after an operation for an intestinal disorder. Immediately following the operation the youth rallied and appeared well on the way of recovery, until peritonitis set in last week. Three blood transfusions were given in futile attempts to save his life.
Well and widely known in Wagoner, Travis was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Simpson.
The church was crowded Saturday with friends from Wagoner, Muskogee, Tulsa and Choteau for the funeral services conducted by Rev. Robert L. Burns, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Henryetts, former Wagoner pastor. A wealth of flowers completely banked the alter.
A male quartet composed of F.B. Gilmore, R.M. Wallace, Glenn Gilmore and V.A. Johnson sang two numbers and Mrs. S.M. Jones, of Muskagee, sang as a solo number "Sunrise Tomorrow." Mrs. George Waggoner was accompanist.
A graduate of the Wagoner High School, young Simpson was a senior student in the Bradley Polytachnic Institute at Peoria, majoring in manual arts, at the time of his death.
In his two years there he had earned a reputation as a brilliant student, regularly substituting for faculty members in their classrooms. He was a member of the Beta Phi Theta fraternity.
Six classmates from Bradley Institute, Glenn Nofsinger, William Newell, James Court, Ernest Frick., John Hammond and Jerald Pfunstein, accompanied the body to Wagoner and served as honorary pallbearers.
Active pallbearers were Donald Thomas, Glenn Gilmore Jr., Irl Weidman, Paul Parkinson, A.C. Miller Jr., and A.C. Beard Jr.
Out-of-state relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, Mrs. Russell Shelton, Mrs. Dell Parker, G.V. Van Natta and Forest Gray, all of Roe, Ark., young Simpson's birth place, and Mrs. Sol Montgomery, of Stuttgart, Ark., and Mrs W.M. Eighma and Wayne Simpson, of Pine Bluff, Ark.
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Classmates from Bradley Institute, Peoria, Ill., Here To Serve as Honorary Pallbearers
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Funeral services for Travis Elliott Simpson, 24, who died in the Peoria, Ill., Methodist Hospital following an emergency
major surgery on April 2, were held Saturday afternoon in the Wagoner First Christian Church.
Death came 18 days after an operation for an intestinal disorder. Immediately following the operation the youth rallied and appeared well on the way of recovery, until peritonitis set in last week. Three blood transfusions were given in futile attempts to save his life.
Well and widely known in Wagoner, Travis was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Simpson.
The church was crowded Saturday with friends from Wagoner, Muskogee, Tulsa and Choteau for the funeral services conducted by Rev. Robert L. Burns, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Henryetts, former Wagoner pastor. A wealth of flowers completely banked the alter.
A male quartet composed of F.B. Gilmore, R.M. Wallace, Glenn Gilmore and V.A. Johnson sang two numbers and Mrs. S.M. Jones, of Muskagee, sang as a solo number "Sunrise Tomorrow." Mrs. George Waggoner was accompanist.
A graduate of the Wagoner High School, young Simpson was a senior student in the Bradley Polytachnic Institute at Peoria, majoring in manual arts, at the time of his death.
In his two years there he had earned a reputation as a brilliant student, regularly substituting for faculty members in their classrooms. He was a member of the Beta Phi Theta fraternity.
Six classmates from Bradley Institute, Glenn Nofsinger, William Newell, James Court, Ernest Frick., John Hammond and Jerald Pfunstein, accompanied the body to Wagoner and served as honorary pallbearers.
Active pallbearers were Donald Thomas, Glenn Gilmore Jr., Irl Weidman, Paul Parkinson, A.C. Miller Jr., and A.C. Beard Jr.
Out-of-state relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, Mrs. Russell Shelton, Mrs. Dell Parker, G.V. Van Natta and Forest Gray, all of Roe, Ark., young Simpson's birth place, and Mrs. Sol Montgomery, of Stuttgart, Ark., and Mrs W.M. Eighma and Wayne Simpson, of Pine Bluff, Ark.
BURIED HERE SATURDAY
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Classmates from Bradley Institute, Peoria, Ill., Here To Serve as Honorary Pallbearers
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Funeral services for Travis Elliott Simpson, 24, who died in the Peoria, Ill., Methodist Hospital following an emergency
major surgery on April 2, were held Saturday afternoon in the Wagoner First Christian Church.
Death came 18 days after an operation for an intestinal disorder. Immediately following the operation the youth rallied and appeared well on the way of recovery, until peritonitis set in last week. Three blood transfusions were given in futile attempts to save his life.
Well and widely known in Wagoner, Travis was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Simpson.
The church was crowded Saturday with friends from Wagoner, Muskogee, Tulsa and Choteau for the funeral services conducted by Rev. Robert L. Burns, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Henryetts, former Wagoner pastor. A wealth of flowers completely banked the alter.
A male quartet composed of F.B. Gilmore, R.M. Wallace, Glenn Gilmore and V.A. Johnson sang two numbers and Mrs. S.M. Jones, of Muskagee, sang as a solo number "Sunrise Tomorrow." Mrs. George Waggoner was accompanist.
A graduate of the Wagoner High School, young Simpson was a senior student in the Bradley Polytachnic Institute at Peoria, majoring in manual arts, at the time of his death.
In his two years there he had earned a reputation as a brilliant student, regularly substituting for faculty members in their classrooms. He was a member of the Beta Phi Theta fraternity.
Six classmates from Bradley Institute, Glenn Nofsinger, William Newell, James Court, Ernest Frick., John Hammond and Jerald Pfunstein, accompanied the body to Wagoner and served as honorary pallbearers.
Active pallbearers were Donald Thomas, Glenn Gilmore Jr., Irl Weidman, Paul Parkinson, A.C. Miller Jr., and A.C. Beard Jr.
Out-of-state relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, Mrs. Russell Shelton, Mrs. Dell Parker, G.V. Van Natta and Forest Gray, all of Roe, Ark., young Simpson's birth place, and Mrs. Sol Montgomery, of Stuttgart, Ark., and Mrs W.M. Eighma and Wayne Simpson, of Pine Bluff, Ark.
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Classmates from Bradley Institute, Peoria, Ill., Here To Serve as Honorary Pallbearers
-----------------------------
Funeral services for Travis Elliott Simpson, 24, who died in the Peoria, Ill., Methodist Hospital following an emergency
major surgery on April 2, were held Saturday afternoon in the Wagoner First Christian Church.
Death came 18 days after an operation for an intestinal disorder. Immediately following the operation the youth rallied and appeared well on the way of recovery, until peritonitis set in last week. Three blood transfusions were given in futile attempts to save his life.
Well and widely known in Wagoner, Travis was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Simpson.
The church was crowded Saturday with friends from Wagoner, Muskogee, Tulsa and Choteau for the funeral services conducted by Rev. Robert L. Burns, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Henryetts, former Wagoner pastor. A wealth of flowers completely banked the alter.
A male quartet composed of F.B. Gilmore, R.M. Wallace, Glenn Gilmore and V.A. Johnson sang two numbers and Mrs. S.M. Jones, of Muskagee, sang as a solo number "Sunrise Tomorrow." Mrs. George Waggoner was accompanist.
A graduate of the Wagoner High School, young Simpson was a senior student in the Bradley Polytachnic Institute at Peoria, majoring in manual arts, at the time of his death.
In his two years there he had earned a reputation as a brilliant student, regularly substituting for faculty members in their classrooms. He was a member of the Beta Phi Theta fraternity.
Six classmates from Bradley Institute, Glenn Nofsinger, William Newell, James Court, Ernest Frick., John Hammond and Jerald Pfunstein, accompanied the body to Wagoner and served as honorary pallbearers.
Active pallbearers were Donald Thomas, Glenn Gilmore Jr., Irl Weidman, Paul Parkinson, A.C. Miller Jr., and A.C. Beard Jr.
Out-of-state relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, Mrs. Russell Shelton, Mrs. Dell Parker, G.V. Van Natta and Forest Gray, all of Roe, Ark., young Simpson's birth place, and Mrs. Sol Montgomery, of Stuttgart, Ark., and Mrs W.M. Eighma and Wayne Simpson, of Pine Bluff, Ark.
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