This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thurman, Parks, Smith Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2965 Message Board Post: Joseph B. Thurman was born October 4, 1907 to Maggie B. and Bennett Thurman at Reydon, Oklahoma. He dpearted this life the 12th day of April 1953 at the age of 45 years, 6 months and 8 days at a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, after a fried illness. He was united in marriage to Velva Parks October 24, 1934. He was a 32nd degree Mason of the Reydon Masonic Lodge No. 528. He was a firm believer in God and man. He has lived his entire life in this community. During this time he has acquired a large number of friends. He valued the friendship of his friends and neighbors ver highly. He loved doing for others and there was no end to the things he would do to help his fellowmen. It is said of Joe that those who knew him best loved him most. A trait highly admired in Joe by his friends and neighbors was his thoughtfulness and loving devotion to his aged mother. Preceding him in death were his father, Bennett Thurman, one brother, Jack Barber Thurman, one sister, Lucy Bell Thurman. Those who mourn his passing are his mother, Maggie B. Thurman, one brtoehr, N.H. Thurman, sister-in-law, Mrs. N.H Thurman, two nephews, Merle and Melvin Thurman, one niece, Laura Belle Smith of Seaside, California, one great nephew, Paul Alan and one great niece, Melvea Kay and a host of other relatives and friends. Joe professed his faith in Christ a few months ago. A loved one from us is gone, a voice we loved is still. A place is vacant in our home that never can be filled. Burial in Union Chapel cemetery, Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK