THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE 
	        Bunnell,   Florida
	        Thursday, March 21, 1968
	       
	      Mrs. Bessie Smith Deen, 77, Ocala,  widow of Adolph Deen, Flagler County's first Tax Assessor, died Wednesday in Ocala.
	      She moved to Bunnell it 1909 from Baxley, Ga.  and resided here until 1930.
	      Survivors include two sons, John Deen, Ocala;  and Geo. E. Deen, Lake Park, Florida;  a sister, Mrs. O. J. Barbee, Waycross,   Ga.; four grandchildren and four  great-grandchildren.
	      Funeral services were Saturday at Bunnell Methodist   Church. The Rev. Charles  Kinder, Clermont officiated. Rev. Oliver Taylor, pastor, assisted.
	      Interment was at Espanola Cemetery.