Obituary extracted from obituary printed in the Sept. 16, 1949, Waurika News-Democrat
Aunt Carrie Bryant Dies Taft Hospital
"Aunt Carrie" Bryant, who had called Waurika home since 1907, died September 2 at the Taft Hospital where she had been a patient since the preceding June. Funeral services were at the Mount Zion Baptist Church here Tuesday afternoon conducted by Rev. G.H. Henderson, pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Chickasha and the music was by the choir from the same church. Interment was in the family plot in the Waurika Cemetery.
Survivors include two grandchildren whom Aunt Carrie reared, Carrie Fugett and James Fugett, both of Chickasha, and three great-grandchildren, Estella Mae Burgess, and Calvin Earl and Frances Marie Fugett, Chickasha.
Aunt Carrie was born in Georgia in 1867.
Life was hard for Aunt Carrie, raising her own family, and then her grandchildren who were left motherless as babies, but she took comfort in her faith and belief in Jesus.
She will be missed for her gentil humility, love, and service.
She married James Calvin "Jim" Bryant in Waco, Texas, on Oct. 16, 1899.
Obituary extracted from obituary printed in the Sept. 16, 1949, Waurika News-Democrat
Aunt Carrie Bryant Dies Taft Hospital
"Aunt Carrie" Bryant, who had called Waurika home since 1907, died September 2 at the Taft Hospital where she had been a patient since the preceding June. Funeral services were at the Mount Zion Baptist Church here Tuesday afternoon conducted by Rev. G.H. Henderson, pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Chickasha and the music was by the choir from the same church. Interment was in the family plot in the Waurika Cemetery.
Survivors include two grandchildren whom Aunt Carrie reared, Carrie Fugett and James Fugett, both of Chickasha, and three great-grandchildren, Estella Mae Burgess, and Calvin Earl and Frances Marie Fugett, Chickasha.
Aunt Carrie was born in Georgia in 1867.
Life was hard for Aunt Carrie, raising her own family, and then her grandchildren who were left motherless as babies, but she took comfort in her faith and belief in Jesus.
She will be missed for her gentil humility, love, and service.
She married James Calvin "Jim" Bryant in Waco, Texas, on Oct. 16, 1899.
Gravesite Details
Buried on the west side of the cemetery. No headstone or marker survives.
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