Virginie Delahaut |
| Posted 2008-05-05 by Maurine |
| Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona - August 14, 1953 FINAL RITES HELD FOR MRS. DELAHAUT The death of Mrs. Virginie Delahaut of Congress at Community Hospital August 10, took from the community a colorful personality who had lived in Congress for the past 28 years. Born in France November 17, 1870, she came to America when 22 years old, working her way on the ship for her passage. She lived in Oklahoma for 33 years before moving to Arizona. Mrs. Delahaut was widely known for her long custom of making flowers and wreaths from paper with which she decorated all graves in the Congress cemetery each Memorial Day. Married In Oklahoma She was first married September 30, 1893 to Elisse Dupire at Atoka, Okla. Four children by that marriage are still living. They are Mrs. Adeline Donat, Gowen, Okla.; Mrs. Elizabeth Sites, Henryetta, Okla.; Frank Dupire, Bokoshe, Okla., and Charley Dupire, Hobbs, N.M. On March, 17, 1903, she was married to Louis Delahaut who passed away December 15, 1916, in Coalgate, Okla. Two sons born of that marriage survive. They are Eugene V. Delahaut of Congress and Joe E. Delahaut of Turlock, Calif. Rosary was said for Mrs. Delahaut at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Mass Thursday morning at 8 o’clock at St. Anthony’s Church here, after which the body was taken to congress for burial in the cemetery there. See Also: Find A Grave |
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