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Submitted: 7/6/21 • Approved: 7/6/21 • Last Updated: 7/9/21 • R434045-G434045-S3
1916-1968
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth M. Johnston, 50, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Wesley Methodist Church. The Rev. Wilton E. Lynn, pastor of the Buna Vista Baptist Church, and the Rev. Hugh Blaylock, pastor, will officiate.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Johnston was found shot to death in her home early Monday. She was discovered by her husband, J.P. Johnston, after he returned home from work at Phillips Petroleum Co. about midnight.
Mr. Johnston said he discovered her on the bathroom floor with a .22 caliber revolver near the body. The house was locked.
Justice of the Peace Sam Watson said he would make a ruling on the death when police complete their investigation.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Billy Joe, a student at West Texas State University; a daughter, Mrs. Betty June Martin of Garden Grove, Calif.; three brothers, Harry Stanbaugh of Chester, Okla., Bernard Stanbaugh of Cherokee, Okla., and Oral Stanbaugh of Ponca City, Okla.; a sister, Mrs. Beryl Richardson of Canyon; her father, Ben Stanbaugh of Tahlequah, Okla., and two grandchildren.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - Tue, May 14, 1968 - Page 32)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Elizabeth Johnston
Death Date: 13 May 1968
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Female
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