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Submitted: 7/11/21 • Approved: 7/11/21 • Last Updated: 7/14/21 • R435849-G435847-S3
Walter P.
1904-1980
Bertie L.
1907-1999
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Walter
(Published in Borger News Herald - December 3, 1980)
Services for Walter P. Kimmel, 76, of No. 6 Emery Street, Phillips, will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Franklin Street Church of God, with the Rev. Carroll Smith, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Mr. Kimmel died at 11 a.m. Tuesday in North Plains Hospital.
A native of Foss, Okla., he had been a resident of Phillips for 39 years. He was a retired boiler fireman for Phillips Petroleum Co., and a member of the Franklin Street Church of God.
Survivors include his wife, Bertie; one daughter, Mrs. Annabell Moore of Hartley; two sons, Ben of Sulphur, Okla., and Bob of Milwaukee, Ore,; two brothers, five sisters, 19 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
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Oklahoma, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Walter Paul Kimmel
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Birth Date: abt 1904
Marriage Date: 2 Sep 1923
Marriage Place: Beckham, Oklahoma, USA
Father: B D Kimmel
Spouse: Bertie Louise Stratton
Film Number: 001312936
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Walter Paul Kimmel
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 37
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 6 May 1904
Birth Place: Foss, Oklahoma, USA
Residence Place: Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma, USA
Registration Date: 15 Feb 1942
Registration Place: Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma, USA
Employer: Public Laborer
Height: 5 10
Weight: 170
Complexion: Light
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Next of Kin: O M Lee
Household Members: 1
Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Walter Kimmel
Death Date: 2 Dec 1980
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Walter P Kimmel
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 76
Birth Date: 6 May 1904
Birth Place: Oklahoma
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 2 Dec 1980
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Benjamin Kimmel
Mother: Jessie Reeder
Spouse: Berlie Stratton
Certificate Number: 97951
*Obituary Bertie
STINNETT - Bertie Louise Kimmel, 92, died Wednesday, June 16, at Coon Memorial Nursing Home in Dalhart.
Funeral services were at 11 a.m. Friday at the Church of God, with the Rev. L.K. Lawley, pastor, officiating. Burial was in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Brown Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Kimmel was a native of Spring Creek, Okla., and a Hutchinson County resident for 58 years.
She was a homemaker and a member of Church of God in Borger.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter Paul Kimmel, in 1980.
Survivors include two sons, Ben Kimmel, of Abilene and Bob Kimmel, of Portland, Ore.; one daughter, Anna Taylor, of Dalhart; 20 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and 14 great-great-grandchildren.
Casket bearers were Jerry Blagg, Donnie Cooley, Charles Kimmel, Chester Kimmel, Jerry Moore and Lee Moore.
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Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Bertie Louise Stratton
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Date: abt 1905
Marriage Date: 2 Sep 1923
Marriage Place: Beckham, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Walter Paul Kimmel
Film Number: 001312936
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Bertie Louise Kimmel
Death Date: 16 Jun 1999
Death County: Hartley
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