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Submitted: 5/6/21 • Approved: 5/10/21 • Last Updated: 5/13/21 • R416637-G416637-S3
1899-1993
Our Beloved Mother
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Beatrice Belle Badgwell, 94, Borger, died at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, March 18, 1993 in Stinnett.
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at First Christian Church with the Rev. Robert Smith, pastor, and the Rev. Darius McKay of Bowie, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors.
A native of Wise County, Texas, she had been a Borger resident for 45 years. She was a cook in restaurants, and a member of First Christian Church.
She married Robert Chester Badgwell in 1917 in Wise County. He died in 1956.
She was preceded in death by a son, Paul Badgwell in June, 1992; a daughter, Wanzell Pollard in March, 1993.
She was the mother of seven children.
Survivors include a son, Bob Badgwell of Edmond, Okla.; a daughter, Velma Ritchie of Stinnett; a brother, C.L. McKay of Decatur; eight grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to First Christian Church of Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, March 18, 1993, Page 1)
Contributed on 5/6/21
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