Tressie L. (WALTON) BOGGESS

BOGGESS, WALTON, HITT, BLACK, OVERBY, HOUGH

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/27/2009 at 01:53:15

Carthage Evening Press
Carthage, Missouri
April 14, 1956

MRS. T. H. BOGGESS PASSES

Former Resident Expires in Oklahoma City
Graveside Services Will Be Tuesday Morning in Park Cemetery

Mrs. Tressie WALTON BOGGESS, widow of the Rev. Thomas H. BOGGESS and sister-in-law of the late S. C. and H. M. BOGGESS of Carthage, died yesterday afternoon in an Oklahoma City Hospital.

She suffered a cerebral hemorage last summer and Wednesday had a second attack.

Mrs. BOGGESS was born and reared northeast of Carthage and was married to the Rev. Mr. BOGGESS, a Baptist minister. He died March 11, 1938, in Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. BOGGESS had lived for some time [since 1940] in Oklahoma City.

She is survived by a sister Mrs. (Beulah Mattie) H. H. HITT, Oklahoma City, a foster daughter, Miss Evelyn BLACK, Oklahoma City; a nephew Luke BOGGESS, and two nieces, Mrs. Earl OVERBY, Carthage, and Mrs. Edwin HOUGH of Manila, Philippine Islands. Mrs. S. C. BOGGESS of Jersey street is a step-sister-in-law.

Services will be held at 10 o'clock Monday morning at the Street-Draper mortuary in Oklahoma City. The body will arrive in Carthage at 7:25 Tuesday morning and will be received at the Knell mortuary. Graveside services will be conducted at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning in Park cemetery [Block 33, Lot 98].

Copy furnished by Carthage Public Library

Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
April 14, 1956, Page 11

BOGGESS RITES SET FOR MONDAY

Mrs. T. H. BOGGESS of 1309 NE 13, died Friday in a local rest home.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the Louise Pritchard chapel at the First Baptist church. Burial will be in [Park cemetery] Carthage, Mo.

She [Reverend Tressie L. WALTON] was born in Shell City, Mo. and graduated from Louisville Baptist seminary in Louisville, Ky. Mrs. BOGGESS came to Oklahoma City in 1940 from Iowa. Her husband, Rev. Tom BOGGESS, a Baptist preacher, died in 1938.

Mrs. BOGGESS was active in church work in the First Baptist church and was a member of the DN chapter of PEO.

Surviors are a foster daughter, Evelyn BLACK, of the home, and a sister, Mrs. D. B. HITT of 2444 NW 38.

Street and Draper funeral home is in charge of arrangements. The family requests that instead of flowers, friends who wish may make donations to the Mission scholarship fund at the First Baptist Church.

Additional Comments:

Reverend Tressie L. WALTON, born 1882 in Jasper County, Missouri, married Thomas Howard BOGGESS (1876 WV-1938 IA) in Oranogo, Jasper County, Missouri 20 Sep 1905 with 1st church in Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois 1908 till moving to Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas in 1915. Tressie (1882 MO-1956 OK) and husband had no children, but were foster parents to eight orphaned children. Her two nephews were with them in 1910 census. They moved to Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska 1928 until 1935 move to Mount Ayr, Ringgold county, Iowa, then to Okahoma City following husband's death in 1938.

Her death was from Broncho Pneumonia, buried 7 April 1956 in Block 33, Lot 98, Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri with husband and his brother, S. C. BOGGESS' family.

Submission and Additional Comments by Bill Boggess, January of 2009