Extracted from The Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, TX)
Friday, April 5, 1940

Pioneer's Rites Set for Friday

PERRYTON, April 4 (Special) -- Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the First Christian Church here for Mrs. Laura J. Hancock, 81 years old, who died early this morning following an illness of several weeks. Rev. Leon Berry, pastor, will officiate.

Mrs. Hancock was born in Mississippi on May 16, 1858. She moved with her family to Ochiltree County in 1911 and had since made her home on a farm in the southwest part of the county.

Survivors are three sons, Johnnie Hancock of Perryton, Joe Hancock of Nocona, and Walter Hancock of Vinita, Okla.; and three daughters, Mrs. Rettie Bryant of Perryton, Mrs. C. E. Bryant of Shattuck, Okla., and Mrs. Beedie Alree [sic Allred] of Wilson, Okla.