The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-10-08
SWEET
LIFE IS
ENDED
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UNTIMELY DENISE OF
MRS. MAY HUGHES
PEBBLES
WAS WIDELY KNOWN
THROUGHOUT STATE
Life Filled With Good
Deeds Funeral
80 Thursday

Mrs May HUghes PEBBLES passed |
away last evening at 8 o'clock, at the |
home of her parents, Dr.. and Mrs. N. |
b. Hughes. after an illness of several |
months duration All that human |
aid and sympathy could do was Of |
fered without stint to save q life so |
precious to the inner circle Of the |
home, and so beloved and esteemed !
by her legion OF friends elsewhere;
but naught availed, and that Death |
loves shining mark has another
confirmation in the DEAN of May
PEBBLES as she was affectionately
called by young and old.
Mrs. PEBBLES was one OF the most
popular and widely known women
not only ia Guthrie but throughout
Oklahoma. and when the news went
abroad Of the serious character of her
illness. daily prayers were offered.
and tender messages Of love and sym
pathy we're poured in upon her, the
gentle sufferer. and her loving and
anxious homo folks.
For years her beauty. grace and af
liability had won and Kept a host Of
friends in the social and Club circles
of the capital city; and i'm the last
few years she engaged in business
ventures. She became business man
ager aud editor OF the County Record
ia which chosen field she was pre-
eminently successful, winning golden
opinions from her business associates
lby her prompt and earnest business
method, while she commanded the
I .1as ,r1 ~ hFr
the retention Of that sweet feminilty
that Is so often sacrificed on the
altar of business.
Mrs PEBBLES had been "a faithful
and devOut member of the Plymouth
CONGREGATIONAL church of this city and
was one of the last to agree to its
final suspension. She was ever de-
vout and helpful ready at all times
to give time and money and personal
service to advance It's material or
spiritual welfare of her church home,
She was very helpful in carrying out
plahs TO enhance the pleasures Of
the children of the congregation,
throwing all her fine artistic and
social grace for their pleasures especi-
ally at Christmas and Easter tide.
Religion was great stay to her in
her weary months 0f sickness and
prolonged suffering
Rev Nicholas, that Holy Man of
God, was often az her bedside with
his gentle minisuations aud hopeful
consultations, and when the end came
it brought no surprise nor terror ia
one whose faith was planted and
stayed in the Rock of Ages, and she
passed peacefully away in the arps
OF her good brother, Adelbert. in thc
embrace of her aged mother, father
and her only son. Walker
Mrs PEBBLES was a Kansas product
mere prattling babe when her peo
pie moved to Kansas, reared in ih'
1public schools of that state. and fol
years lived with her parents al
Arkansas City, coming 10 Oklahom1
about ten years ago.
Early married and widowed she
leaves to the tender care of he
parents and brother the idol Of he
heart, her son, Walker. youth O
, seventeen years.
The funeral services wiz be hel'
from the house at 10 o'clock Thurs
: day morning.
,, The deceased had the honor O
writing the official copy of the resolr
/, tions of the Oklahoma statehood cor
= venton held IN Oklahoma City h
: 1905. This copy was afterwards pre-
sented TO President Roosevelt tn
writing was vertical in style an
there was not q wrong letter nor a
error OF any kind in the document