Sexton, Henry Monroe

67 years old, of 218 South Picher Street, Picher Oklahoma, died Sunday in the Veterans Hospital at Muskogee Oklahoma. Funeral services will be held at 10 am Wednesday in the Paul Thomas funeral home chapel at Picher with the Rev. Bill Meier of the Union church officiating. Burial will be in the G.A.R. cemetery at Miami. A native of Galena Kansas, Mr. Sexton, a retired millman, had lived in Quapaw Oklahoma and Picher Oklahoma for the last 50 years. He was a member of the Union church, the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jeneva Sexton; three sons, M/Sgt. Ben Sexton stationed in the Philippines, and Ralph Sexton and Bob Sexton, both of Anaheim California; four daughters, Sandra Sexton of the home, Mrs. Shirley Mahurin of Miami, and Mrs. Hazel Beason and Mrs. Norma Sue Hawkins, both of Picher; two brothers James A. Sexton of Melrose Kansas and Clifford Sexton of Neosho Missouri; four sisters, Mrs. Maude Hayes of Fairland Oklahoma, Mrs. Ray Mayfield of Chetopa Kansas, Mrs. Beulah Corbus of North Miami Oklahoma and Mrs. Anna Mae Boswell of Commerce Oklahoma; 22 grandchildren and two great- grandchildren.