Mrs. Fannie Strain, wife of Walter Strain, died Saturday night at the home, 1035 East McKinley, following a stroke of apoplexy. Mrs. Strain suffered the stroke while she was out tending to her chickens about 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. She died shortly after 11 o'clock that night.
Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the First Baptist church with the Rev. P. J. Conkwright officiating and interment being made in the South heights cemetery with the Lewis and Landrith funeral directors in charge.
The Strain family have lived in this city for the past 17 years, Mr. Strain being an employee of the Frisco. Mrs. Strain is survived by one daughter and two sons, Mrs. Lee Roby of this city, Roy Strain of 1012 East McKinley and Leonard Strain of the home address, a sister, Mrs. Milton Haley of Tulsa, and a brother Joe Moore of Central, Oklahoma.
Other relatives who have arrived to attend the services this afternoon are Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Roberts and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Couch of Fayetteville, Ark., Earl Strain of Webb City, and Mr. and Mrs. Milton Haley and daughter Vivian of Tulsa.
Other relatives who arrived this morning for the services were Mr. and Mrs. D. L. wilson and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sizemore of Fayetteville, Ark., Mr and Mrs. B. D. Johnson of Johnson, Ark., and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Guthrie of Shawnee.
The following link will take you to a photograph of Fannie Davidson-Strain after her death. This photo was taken by a studio in Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma, at her home on McKinley Street where Fannie lay in state before her funeral. In the 1920s and 30s, photographs such as this were common. Please know that this photograph does not show more than just partially the side of Fannie's face. What you will mostly see are LOTS of flowers, her casket opened, and the room in general.
Because we don't quite know where to put this next article, we're putting it on Fannie Davidson/Strain's page.
Fannie Davidson married Walter Andrew Strain. We do know that Fannie's dad was James A. Davidson and her mother was Mary Jane "Polly" Prather. We know James and Polly married in Clay County, Missouri in 1865.
James died in 1876, and then Polly married a John C. Moore. She had other children. We do not know at this point who Fannie's full siblings are, or who her half-siblings are.
We know she had either a full sister or a half-sister named Mayme. Mayme married Johnathan M. Haley and they lived in Tulsa. They had one daughter, Vivian. We do not know who Vivian married, but she wasn't married as of 1967.
The following obituary is for Johnathan M. Haley, from the Tulsa World, June 6, 1967: HALEY -- Johnathan M., 85, 1135 South College, retired building contractor, passed away Sunday. Survived by, wife, Mayme; one daughter, Miss Vivian Haley; one sister, Mrs. H.L. Killingsworth; one brother, M.F. Haley; Services 10 a.m. Tuesday, Moore's Memory Chapel. Moore's LU 3-6148.
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