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Submitted: 6/21/21 • Approved: 6/21/21 • Last Updated: 6/24/21 • R429845-G0-S3
1917-2000
Married 12-14-1939
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Mark Eugene Grimes, 83, died Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2000, in Pampa.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Keeler Baptist Church with the Rev. Paul Anderson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Garden of Devotion at Highland Park Cemetery by Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Mr. Grimes was born in Kingfisher, Okla. He was a cattle ranch foreman in Kansas during World War II. In 1950 he moved to Borger and went to work for Phillips Petroleum, Plains Plant. He founded his own construction company in Borger.
He married Ellena Farris Gullett in 1939 at Pawhuska, Okla. They were part of the original founding families of Bunavista Baptist Church and members of the Keeler Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Melvin Eugene Grimes of Yorba Linda, Calif., and Harold Joe Grimes of Borger; a brother, Laddie J. Grimes of Norman, Okla.; and nine grandchildren.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, Aug. 25, 2000)
Contributed on 6/21/21
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