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Submitted: 7/21/21 • Approved: 7/21/21 • Last Updated: 7/24/21 • R439338-G0-S3
December 2, 1944-July 16, 1948
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Presbyterian church for Ray Allison Marick, three and one-half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Merick [sic].
The Rev. James Glenn will officiate at the services and interment will be in Highland Park cemetery under the direction of Poston-Simpson Funeral home.
The Marick child died at noon Friday after he drank a solution of commercial cyanide ant poison which had been mixed with water.
Besides the parents, survivors include a brother, Richard Roland, one and one-half years old; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Taylor of Borger and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Marick of Akron, Colo.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Sunday, July 18, 1948, Page 1)
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Ray Allison Marick
Date of Birth: 2 Dec 1944
Gender: Male
Birth County: Potter
Father's name: Harold Ray Marick
Mother's name: Winifred Alene Taylor
Roll Number: 1944_0007
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ray Allison Marick
Death Date: 16 Jul 1948
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 31021
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Ray Allison Marick
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 3
Birth Date: 2 Dec 1944
Birth Place: Amarillo, Texas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 16 Jul 1948
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: H R Marick
Mother: Winifred Taylor
Son of Harold R Marick
Contributed on 7/21/21
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Record #: 439338