Mrs. Ray Stoneman (Bessie), wife of Ray Stoneman of the Lower Red Mud community, died Tuesday morning at 2:30 o'clock from burns received when an oil stove exploded at their farm home.Mrs. Stoneman is the daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Ed Fuqua of Spur and had lived here all her life. She is survived by a large circle of friends to mourn her passing.
Funeral services were conducted by C.V. Allen at the Red Top School House at Lower Red Mud Wednesday at 3 p.m.
Chandler Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Pall bearers were: Tom McArthur, Sr.; Ab Fry, Gene Fry, Milton Smith, L.M. Moore and Forrest Harrell.
Interment was in Red Mud Cemetery.
Survivors are her husband, Ray Stoneman, and six sons, Chas. Edward, Kenneth Ray, Aubrey Cleo, Alvis Lenoy, Lester Wendell and Delevan Arlu, and her father and mother, Mr. And Mrs. Ed Fuqua of Spur; one sister, Mrs. Lois Irene Howell, and her grandmother.
Mrs. Stoneman was alone with her baby, sitting before the fire with the child in her arms when without warning, the explosion occurred. She threw the baby out of the window and then crawled out herself as her exit was cutoff from the doorway by the flames. After she had put out the child's clothing and her�..child in her arms�..and carried it to���..her husband (can't read from the microfilm )
©The Texas Spur, March 25, 1943
Transcribed September 2004, B. Hodges
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