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Note: March 1922 MRS. SARAH PEARLIE MCCOMB PASSES AWAY Mrs. Sarah Pearlie Houser was born in Cook county, Ill., August 18, 1858, and died at her home, two and half miles northeast of Apache, Wednesday, March 15, 1922, at 6:30 p.m. Burial was in the Fairview Cemetery, after funeral services in the Christian church, conducted by Rev. J.W. Coats of Anadarko. Miss Houser was married to Thomas W. McComb, December 12, 1872. To this union were born four children--three sons and one daughter. The sons survive, but the little daughter, Nora, preceded her mother to that heavenly, home, at the age of two years. The sons are Everett of Tippecanoe City, Ohio, and Willie and Floyd, both of Apache. Besides the sons, she leaves a husband, six grandchildren, other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her departure. Mrs. McComb had been a patient sufferer for years, and November 10 she was taken to the Lawton sanitarium to receive treatment. But she did not get relief from her suffering and on February 6 she was brought home, where she remained until she died.
Mrs. McComb was a member of the Christian church since girlhood. Truth was at the bottom of her thoughts and her actions. Her care for her neighbor was genuine, guided by love of the kind that never falters. Her life was along the remote vales of the banks of murmuring stream, where life and nature were linked together. Charity with her was not an ornament, but a virtue, and purity was a part of her soul, it follows, of course that such a life gave to the world an upright family, and left to her own blood a legacy beyond the worth of money, for a good name is above price.
APACHE REVIEWMarch 22, 1922
Last Wednesday, March 15, Mrs. McComb residing near Apache passed into the Great Beyond after a lingering illness of several months. Her malady was of cancerous nature and baffled the skill of most expert practitioners.
Sarah Parilee Houser was born in Illinois August 18, 1858 and was married to T.W. McComb December 12, 1872. Fifteen years ago they came to Caddo county and bought a farm and have resided here ever since. Mrs. McComb became a member of the Church of Christ thirty years ago and upon coming to Apache, she and her husband united with the Church of Christ at this place.
Too much cannot be said in praise of this noble Christian woman. In her daily walk and conversation--blameless, in devotion to her saviour and her church--above censure, in labors of charity and love- untiring and faithful. Her friends were without number as was attested by the very large attendance at her funeral. The Busy Bees attended in force in honor of Sister McComb who had for so many years been one of their most enthusiastic and faithful workers.
Mrs. McComb left 3 children, all sons, grown to manhood and men of families and highly respected. Floyd and Willie residing here and Everett residing in Ohio and who just a few days before her death had left her bedside to return to his family in Ohio, little dreaming that his mother was so near the Border Land. Had she lived until December 12 next, she and Brother McComb would have celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary as they were now entering their fiftieth year of wedded life.
Members of the different churches in town contributed to the floral tribute and song service. The funeral was taken from Revelation 7:17. J.W. Coats.
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