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Minnie Gertrude Wilson
January 13, 1932
Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek Co. OK

MRS. WILSON IS TAKEN BY DEATH

Mrs. Minnie Gertrude Wilson, 41 years of age died this morning at 7:39 o'clock at her home 400 North Hickory from an attack of heart ______. Mrs. Wilson was the mother of nine young children. 

The deceased followed her husband in death after ___ _____ Charles Wilson ___ _______ died of injuries received in an automobile wreck near Muskogee. _____ children are living at the home address. Two children, Mrs. Olas Rush and Mrs. Donald Frosberg reside at __5 South Hickory. Children are Ernest, Lawrence, Agnes, Charles, Ray, Pauline, James, Earl and a six month old baby. Two sisters of Terre Haute, IN also survive. 

No funeral arrangements have been made. They will __ _______ ____ by the Lewis and Landrith funeral directors."

January 14, 1932
Sapulpa Herald

WILSON FUNERAL RITES TOMORROW

Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Gertrude Wilson, who died yesterday morning at her home will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Lewis and Landrith funeral chapel. Burial will be made in the Southern Heights Cemetery. Rebekah girls will act as flower girls while men of the Southern Ice company will serve as pallbearers. 

Mrs. Wilson is survived by seven children at the home address, 400 North Hickory Street.

January 16, 1932
Sapulpa Herald

CARD OF THANKS - We wish to thank our friends and neighbors, the Baptist women and the Rebekahs for the kindness and sympathy shown to us at the death of our mother, Mrs. Minnie Wilson. We especially appreciate the kindness of Rev. Kenyon and the Ice company employes (sic) and the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. Ollis (sic) Rush and family, Mrs. Don Fosburg, Ernest, Lawrence, Agnes, Charles Ray, Pauline, James, Earl and Paul Jean (sic) Wilson.

Researcher - Kim 
submits the following:  WILSON, Minnie Gertrude  b 12-29-1890 LaMotte, Crawford Co., IL d 01-13-1931 Sapulpa, OK; d/o George W. and Dora M. (Ivey) Huffman; w/o Charles E. WILSON

The death certificate states Minnie died of a heart attack due to heart disease (Fatty Degeneration of the Heart). One of her daughters, Agnes I think, said Minnie had suffered a previous heart attack and had predicted: "If I ever have another one of those, it'll kill me." This is born out in the doctor's statement on the death certificate that her heart attack was due to heart disease. Perhaps he had treated her previously.

A cousin remembers her funeral and tells me she was buried in a pink dress. Minnie's tombstone reads: "Rest mother rest in quiet sleep while friends in sorrow for thee weep."

In addition to two married children, Minnie left eight orphaned children, five of whom (including my father who had just turned three when his mother died) went to the Sand Springs Home.

[Also see obituaries for James Wesley, Anna Bell (Little) Wilson, Charles Edward Wilson, Minnie Gertrude Wilson and Donald Fosburg]