This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WARD, DOWNING, VILLINES, BEDFORD, CONNER, REED Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/795 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Daily News 1-19-1944 pg.1 Pioneer Matron's Rites Are Held Funeral services were conducted in the Wetumka Church of Christ at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. F. M. WARD, 56-year-old resident of Wetumka for many years. Mrs. WARD died in a local hospital Monday afternoon at 3:30 after an illness of three weeks. The Rev. W. A. DOWNING, pastor of the Hunter Memorial Presbyterian Church officiated at the services. Burial was in the Wetumka Cemetery. Mrs. WARD was survived by her husband, F. M., of Wetumka, two daughters, Mrs. W. A. VILLINES, Holdenville and Miss Billie BEDFORD of Wetumka; two grandsons, Lt. Leo CONNER of Camp Gruber, Muskogee and Charlie REED of Wetumka. She is also survived by one, 14-day-old great grandson, Michael Leo CONNER.