The Sunday Gazeetter
Sunday, March 26, 1911

John Fike Dead

J. W. Fike, a pioneer citizen and business man, aged 60 years, died of pneumonia the past week at his home, 521 East Main street. John  Fike was a Missourian and cast his lot with this city about twenty-five years ago. He was by profession a contractor and for some time connected with the city work. He was a gallant soldier of the Confederacy and wore the grey until after the close of the war. The local camp of Confederate Veterans conducted the funeral services Sunday afternoon.
John Fike was a man of very strong convictions. When he believed a thing was right he stuck to it, never mind how great the crowd was against him. The city editor will hold John Fike in grateful remembrance. We never met him that he did not hold out his hand for a shake and a kind word. We have seen the time when John was a kind, advising friend. He was bluff and out-spoken, but he had a kind heart.
Besides a wife, the following children who survive were present at the time of his death: Mrs. Llewellen Hayes, Mrs. Sallie Smith, Mrs. Mamie Dodd, John Fike Jr, and Nelson Fike. Mrs. Eli Burkhalter, a sister of Kansas City was also present when the end came.
The interment was at Maple Grove cemetery and was well attended. A good man sleeps there.

Sherman Democrat
January 3, 1935
pg. 9

Denison - Mrs. Mamie Sawyer, 62, wife of Harry Sawyer, died at 2:30 a.m. Thursday at a local hospital after one week's illness of pneumonia and 5 days' confinement in the clinic. 
Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from the Shields funeral home, Rev. Harry Lee Virden officiating, with burial in Fairview cemetery.  Pallbearers were W.A. Nortrip, J.N. Trout, C.F. Standifer, C.W. Kerr, Frank Fusion and C.B. Carroll.
Mrs. Sawyer was born December 8, 1872 at Montgomery, Missouri, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Fike, and moved to Denison when a very small child, residing at 505 East Main street for the greater part of her life.  She was married to Harry Sawyer February 11, 193.  She was a Methodist and a member of the U.B.A.
Surviving besides the husband are 2 brothers, Nelson Fike and John Fike of Denison; 2 sisters, Mrs. C.P. Guthrie of Dallas and Mrs. A.J. Witherspoon of Mountain View, California.