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Submitted: 9/19/23 • Approved: 9/19/23 • Last Updated: 9/22/23 • R1502152-G0-S3
October 12, 1875 - October 2, 1936
*Obituary
The Benton County Democrat
Thursday, October 8, 1936
FUNERAL OF O.D. CHILES WAS HELD SATURDAY
Funeral services for Oscar Dyer Chiles, aged 61, who died at the home of his sister, Mrs. J.W. Carithers, and family, three miles east of Bentonville, at 7:15 Friday evening, Oct. 2nd, 1936, were held at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Carithers home, conducted by the Rev. L.C. Tedford, pastor of the Bentonville Baptist Church. The music included vocal duets by Mrs. Mack Rogers and Mrs. William Burns, with Mrs. H.J. Beck as accompanist.
Interment was in the Oakley Chapel cemetery on Highway 71, southeast of Bentonville, and the pallbearers were E.H. Breedlove, Dr. W.M. Moberly, Wilbert Phillips, Gordon Dickson, Shirley Dickson and J.H. Headrick. Funeral arrangements were in charge of the Burns Funeral Home of Bentonville.
Mr. Chiles had never married and had made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Carithers for many years. He came to Northwest Arkansas about 12 years ago. He was born in Greenville, S.C. on Oct. 12th, 1875, and was a son of Dyer Chiles and Emily Elrod Chiles, both natives of that state.
Mr. Chiles is survived by four brothers, James Chiles of Bentonville, S.C., Carl and Ralph Chiles of Fasley, S.C., and by three sisters, Mrs. R.W. King of Wichita Falls, Texas, Mrs. M.C. McHugh of Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. J.W. Carithers, as whose home he died, and by a number of other relatives.
Contributed on 9/19/23 by judyfrog
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