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Submitted: 12/5/10 • Approved: 9/3/23 • Last Updated: 9/6/23 • R421614-G0-S3
January 26, 1894 - March 2, 1916
*Obituary
Gentry Journal-Advance
Friday, March 3, 1916
SUMNER, Avon Oran - Avon 0. Sumner, aged 22 years, a grandson of Elder O.L. Sumner, died Thursday morning at 3 o'clock at his home two miles northwest of Bloomfield. The funeral services will be held at the Gentry Baptist church Friday at 10:30 a.m.
*Obituary
Gentry Journal-Advance
Friday, March 10, 1916
Avon Oran Sumner, son of W.M. and Lilly Sumner, was born at Rogers, Benton county, Ark. Jan. 26, 1894. When a small child the family moved to Jacksonville, Ill. where they resided until 1906 when they removed to Katy, Texas and from there to Gentry some two months ago. Avon professed his faith in Jesus Christ when about 15 years of age and was buried with his Lord in Christian baptism. There being no church of his faith he took membership in the M.E. church south at Katy, Texas. Being of a retiring disposition he never became an active church worker but lived a quiet Christian life, free from the evil habits in which so many young people are engulfed, loved and honored by the entire community in which he moved. He passed away to the great beyond at his parent's home two miles northwest of Bloomfield March 2d at 3 a.m. leaving behind his father and mother, W.N. and Lilly Sumner, an older brother, Ira Norman, and his wife, Myra, a twin sister, Mrs. Alta T. Peek and husband, Roy, sisters, Elsie and Capitola Lilly, his grandparents, Mrs. J. Rudkin and O.L. and E.J. Sumner. While apparently of robust youth he had suffered for years with stomach trouble, which with pneumonia brought about uncontrollable complications that resulted in his early death. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church Friday, March 3, at 11:30 a.m. conducted by the Pastor E.L. Mayfield and burial was had in Gentry cemetery.
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