Hensley, Claude

The funeral of Claude Hensley, 44 years old, Fourth and Picher Streets, Picher Oklahoma, who died Friday, following a long illness, was conducted at the First Baptist church at 10 this morning. The W. W. Chancellor, pastor of the Miami Baptist church, officiated. Burial was in Forest Park cemetery at Joplin Missouri under the direction of the Green undertaking company. Services at the First Methodist church at 8 last night were featured by a musical program and sermon by the pastor, the Rev. George O. Hunter. The services opened with a cello solo by Miss Reba Kirby, invocation by Miss Dorothy Culp, deaconess of the First Methodist church, followed by a vocal solo by Miss Reba Kirby, being accompanied at the piano by her sister, Miss Dorothy Kirby. At the conclusion of the Rev. Hunter's address, Mrs. Hunter rendered a vocal solo. At the Sunday school hour Mrs. Clyde Hocker made a very interesting talk.