Obituary of Laura Ann (nee West) Cammack
Furnished by : Diana Bryson-Brooks

Source:
The Modern Light
Thursday, January 14, 1926
page 4, column 4

SHERMAN CITY Our community was shocked and saddened on Saturday, Jan. 2, when Uncle Doll Cammack called his friends and relatives and told them his wife was dead. Mrs. Cammack was as well as usual and was preparing dinner when her husband came in with the mail and gave her two letters, she sat down and had read one aloud to her husband and started to read the other one when her head fell and he went to her, she said, "Put water in my face," which he did and also raised and lowered her arms to restore respiration, but seeing it did no good, he called for help and also for a doctor, but she had died almost instantly. Her funeral was held from the church at Sherman Tuesday, Jan. 5 at 11 a. m. She was laid to rest in the Sherman cemetery. Rev. Cloninger preached the funeral sermon, which was fine. Mr. and Mrs. Cammack have lived in our community about fifteen years and have a wide circle of friends, who mourn her loss. She also leaves her husband, seven sons, Addison and John of Fort Worth, Tex, Harry of Ashley, Ill., Leonard of Parsons, Manly of Tulsa, Okla., Carl of Redonda Beach, Calif., and Sumner who has recently returned from California, and one daughter, Mrs. Anna Hoy, who lives here. There are eighteen grandchildren and one great grandchild and three sisters, Mrs. F. W. Brooks, who lives here, Mrs. Elizabeth Stephenson of Denver, Colo., Miss Lydia West of Muskogee, Okla., and several nieces and nephews who live here. One son, Thomas, was killed in an automobile accident at Oakland, Calif., in August, 1924. The children were all present at her funeral except Carl. The families of Harry, Leonard and Anna were present and the wives of the others. Aunt Laura, as she was known to her friends, united with the Christian church when sixteen years old and had always been a loyal worker for the Master and always stood for everything good and uplifting, but in later years was unable to attend church very much. She always saw the good and excused the faults of everyone. She was born at Flemingsburg, Ky., Nov. 2, 1854, and was 71 years and 2 months old. She and her husband celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Oct. 3, 1922. They had always lived a happy and devoted life together and we feel that the community has lost a worthy and most loveable friend, for to know her was to love her. The large crowd that attended the funeral and the beautiful floral offerings tell of the esteem in which she was held. The bereaved ones have the heartfelt sympathy of everyone.

See : Laura Ann (nee West) Cammack's Family and Biography at :                       Thomas West and Descendants

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