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Submitted: 8/13/09 • Approved: 7/28/22 • Last Updated: 7/31/22 • R221615-G221615-S3
Lester
1893 - 1951
Son of Joseph & Ella Middleton
Nannie
November 27, 1895 - October 8, 1930
*Obituary
Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun Thursday
Thursday, October 9, 1930
MIDDLETON, Nannie DAVISON - Mr. and Mrs. Joe Middleton received word yesterday morning that their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lester Middleton passed away in a Tulsa hospital at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning. Funeral services will be held Friday at Hart's cemetery. She was formerly Miss Davison and lived in Morning Star community where she became acquainted with her husband, Lester Middleton. The couple have been married about 16 years. Surviving besides the husband is her baby daughter, Lois Jean. Mrs. Joe Middleton returned from Tulsa and the bedside of her daughter-in-law Tuesday noon where she had been the past two or three weeks. Friends here sympathize with the Middleton family in their great sorrow.
*Obituary
Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun
Thursday October 23, 1930
(Excerpts from a memoriam) Faith comes by hearing the Word of God and Nannie as we all knew her fully realized her dependence on her Divine Father for the past 12 years, being a consistent member of the Baptist church and praying in the last days of her sickness to be allowed to live in order to raise her month old baby daughter, a pure Christian girl, but God knows best and her soul was wafted across the Great Divide at eight o'clock on Wednesday, October 8 at the age of 34 years, 10 months and 11 days. Nannie's life was an open book wherein were no blotted pages of conceit or hypocrisy - one that was an inspiration to her many friends, always lending loyally of her kindness to every one that came in contact with her. She was an ardent lover of a quiet, simple home life. She was a great lover of children. Many a young lad and lass of the Morning Star neighborhood knows of the days of happiness she helped them see when she lived there with her parents in 1910 to 1918, having lived the past 12 years in Tulsa, Okla. She had scores of friends there. That was demonstrated by the many beautiful sprays of flowers that were sent to accompany her body to its resting place in the Hart cemetery. The singers from Bentonville, the friends who assisted with the services and the givers of flowers are sincerely thanked by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Davison, of Latona, Ohio, her brother Harry of Bloomville, New York; Lester Middleton, her husband; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Middleton and Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Harris of Rogers. M. Scott.
*Photographed May 29 2009 by J Vander Ham
Contributed on 8/13/09 by wfields55
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