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Submitted: 5/12/21 • Approved: 5/13/21 • Last Updated: 5/16/21 • R418214-G0-S3
1899-1949
Mason
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Borger News Herald - October 13, 1949
Joe Bishop, 50, Hackberry street, Weatherly lease, died at 8 a.m. yesterday after a heart attack at the Cactus plant, Dumas.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Joe Bishop; four daughters, Mrs. Juanita Hodges, Mrs. Betty Jo Hodges, Miss Helen Bishop and Miss Shirley Ann Bishop, all of Borger; two sons, Billy Bishop of Denton, and Jimmy Bishop of Borger; one sister, Mrs. Joe Stegall of Delhi, La.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the First Baptist church with the Rev. Paul Cullen officiating. There will be Masonic graveside rites in Highland Park cemetery, under the direction of the Minton Funeral Home.
Contributed on 5/12/21
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