Hughes County,

Oklahoma

Holdenville Daily Times

Feb. 17, 1936 Page 1

John FLINCHUM Is Pneumonia Victim

Former County Resident And Carlisle Football Star Dies Sunday Afternoon

    Friends in Oklahoma City this afternoon paid their last respects to John B. FLINCHUM, 38-year-old ? Hughes County resident who died of pneumonia at this home there Sunday. The body will be brought to Calvin tonight where final rites will be held Tuesday.

    FLINCHUM, a former captain of the old Carlisle Indian football team ? a quarter-blood Choctaw Indian, was a brother of C. C. FLINCHUM and Mrs. H. B. KING, both of Calvin.

    FLINCHUM started to school at Carlisle the year after Jim THORPE, another Oklahoma Indian, rose to his greatest heights as one of America's best-known athletes. He attended schools in Hughes County and was the son of the late John FLINCHUM, well known county rancher.

    Special services were held in the Hahn Funeral Home at Oklahoma City this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Last rites will be held from the Calvin First Methodist Church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The Rev. O. E. HILL will officiate and burial will be in the Gerty Cemetery.

    Surviving FLINCHUM are his wife; one son, John B. FLINCHUM Jr., one daughter, Lorenia Katherine; four sisters, Mrs. Fannie WILSON, Ada; Mrs. Isham NELSON, Sand Springs; Mrs. A. R. BATEMAN, Hereford, TX; Mrs. B. B. KING, Calvin; four brothers, W. W., Seminole, C. C., Calvin, James M., Oklahoma City; Leroy, Shawnee.