O'Brien, Paul

27 years old, died at 10:30 o'clock Friday night at the home of his mother, Mrs. Ruth Shelton, South Emily Street, Picher Oklahoma. He had been in ill health since November and was returned here Wednesday from a sanitarium at Clinton Oklahoma where he had been a patient several weeks. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hazel O'Brien; a daughter, Delores Madeline O'Brien, and a son, Paul Edwards O'Brien, at home; his mother, Mrs. Ruth Shelton; two sisters, Mrs. Pauline Kinefelter and Myrtle Mae Shelton of Picher, and three step-sisters, Mrs. Mary Hawk of Tulsa, Mrs. Gladys Panner of Sand Springs Oklahoma and Mrs. Estchol Karnish of El Dorado Arkansas. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 o'clock Monday morning at the First Methodist church. The pastor, the Rev. D. W. Brashear, will officiate. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery at Joplin Missouri under direction of the Durnil funeral home, Picher. Note: Ruth Shelton either owned or worked in a caf in the Main Hotel in Picher in 1936-1937, and for a very long time sent bedfast dying miners one free meal per day. Many of the men only had this one meal a day to live on. During this time, Herbert Jody was one of these men. His wife, Jene Jody was expecting a second child and was not well. Their daughter, June Jody, age 4, would go to the caf each day and Ruth would send the plate home. It was enough to feed the family of three. She was an angel to many dying men.