Contributed by: Victoria Day-Cook, Great-granddaughter of L. W. Curry
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OBITUARY

Funeral Services For L. W. Curry at Stroud This Afternoon

Funeral services for L. W. Curry will be held from the home in Stroud at 2:30 
o'clock this afternoon (Thursday, May 24, 1934). Rev. B. E. Newton will 
preach the funeral sermon and the body will be laid to rest in the Stroud 
cemetery beside his wife, who preceded him in death September 25, 1925.

Mr. Curry who has been in poor health for several years and bedfast since 
November 1932, passed quietly away at 10;10 o'clock Wednesday morning. He was 
the last of a family of 11 children. A son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W.(George 
Washington) Curry, he was born at Louisville, Pottawatomie county, Kansas, 
March 6, 1860. On July 6, 1882 he was united in marriage to Clestia L. Dewey 
and to this union 13 children were born, all of whom are living.

With his family he came to Oklahoma, homesteading a farm near Stillwater 
where they lived until 1901, when he purchased a farm near the old Sac and 
Fox agency, which he owned at the time of his death. In 1909, to be better 
able to educate his children he moved to Stroud, where he was in the grocery 
business for a number of years. During his residence in Stroud he served as 
justice of the peace for three terms.

He was a member of Stroud A. F and A. M. and the Scottish Rite consistory at 
Guthrie.

In 1930 he again moved to the farm where he lived until last summer when he 
was brought to Stroud to be nearer his children, who with his niece, Mrs. 
Elizabeth Gatchell, cared for him until the end came.

He is survived by his children, Clark, Stroud, Mrs. Ben French, Stillwater, 
Mrs. Bert Haney, Stroud, Elmer T., Drumright, Mrs. B. C. Mitchell, Wynona, 
Mrs. R. S. Norris, Kilgore, Texas, Paul, Stroud, Guy, Little Medicine Wyo., 
Dewey, Chandler, Mrs. Harry Kornman, Lamar, Colo., Mrs. Mike Haney, Stroud, 
Alma, Stroud, C. C., Chandler, and a number of grandchildren and other 
relatives and friends. --Source: Stroud Newspaper Clipping.