This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Powell, Beaty, Parks Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2953 Message Board Post: Funeral services for W.B. Powell were conducted on Tuesday afternoon of this week at the Durham school auditorium in the presence of a large crowd of friends and relatives. Rev. C.L. Carpenter, pastor of the Reydon Methodist church preached the funeral sermon. Mr. Powell died Friday, June 4, 1954 after a brief illness. Mr. Powell waas born May 8, 1875 in Missouri and moved to the Durham community in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma in 1906 where he had resided continuously since He had been a member of the Methodist church for many years. Immediate survivors are his wife of Durham, two daughters Marie Beaty, Cheyenne and Laura Parks of Durham; three sons, Claude of Elkarder, Iowa, J.R. of Durham and Clell of Culver City, California. Burial was in the Fairview cemetery, Durham, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of the Scroggins Funeral Home of Cheyenne. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK