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Submitted: 5/23/21 • Approved: 5/24/21 • Last Updated: 5/27/21 • R421141-G421141-S3
1892-1971
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Name: Bettie Ophelia Tipps
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 19 Oct 1892
Birth Place: Lexie, Franklin
Father: Benjamin Luke Tipps
Mother: Laura Ellen Hall
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Bettie Ophelia Clanton
[Bettie Ophelia Tipps]
Birth Date: 19 Oct 1892
Birth Place: Lexie, Tennessee
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: B L Tipps
Mother: Laura Aull
Age at Death: 78
Death Date: 14 Aug 1971
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
*Obituary
Funeral services for Bettie O. Clanton, 78, of 313 W. Coolidge, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Johnson Park Church of Christ with the Rev. Wesley Mickey, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Minton Mortuary.
Mrs. Clayton died early Saturday at North Plains Hospital. She was born on Oct. 19, 1892 at Lexie Tenn. and had been a resident of Borger for the past 13 years. She was a member of Johnson Park Church of Christ.
She is survived by one daughter Mrs Pauline Edgar, Borger; two sons, Jim Abel, Borger; Clinton of Oklahoma City; one brother, Cecil Tipps, Shawnee, Okla.; one sister; Mrs. A.F. Chapman, Fort Worth.
(Published in Borger News Herald, August 15, 1971)
Contributed on 5/23/21
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