COUNTY:  Bryan

STATE;  OK

NEWSPAPER;  Durant Daily Democrat

DATE;  June 1941

J. J. Crosley Dies at Bokchito

     Funeral rites were held at the Bokchito cemetery this afternoon for Joseph James Crosley, aged 70 years, who died at his home in Bokchito Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 of a heart attack. He had been a resident of Bokchito for 23 years coming there from Jackson, Miss., where he was born November 8, 1870. He had been ill four weeks. Mr. Crosley was a retired railroad man and a member of the Baptist church. Burial was in the Bokchito cemetery with Gus Pool and Son directing.

     Surviving him are four sons, Clarence, Calif.; Jess, Canadian, Texas; Orient, Bokchito; and Douglas, Durant; and four daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Yeary, Krum, Texas; Mrs. Mary Ford, Durant; Mrs. Cleo Yeary, Krum; and Mrs. Lucy Click, California.

Submitted by Kathie Marynik <kkmarynik@hotmail.com