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Submitted: 7/28/21 • Approved: 7/28/21 • Last Updated: 7/31/21 • R441647-G0-S3
Oklahoma
PRIVATE 13 Company 162 Depot Brigade
World War I
March 31, 1897-August 31, 1953
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
James R. McKelvy, 56 of 4171 Fourth street, Philview, died last night at 10:45 o'clock after a heart attack.
A resident of the area for the last nine years, McKelvy was engineering librarian for the Phillips Petroleum company. He was a member of the Bunavista Church of Christ, and is a veteran of World War I.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Frances Barnes of Port Arthur; his mother, Mrs. Cora Young of Bartlesville, and two brothers, Ray of Denver and Fred of Odessa.
Final rites will be Thursday morning at 10 o'clock in the Bunavista Church of Christ with Dow Wilson and D.C. Lawrence officiating. Burial will be in the local cemetery.
Pallbearers will be W.R. Horton, J.C. Baber, Bill Dunnaway, Martin Savage, N.W. Fisk, and R.W. Evans.
(Published in Borger News Herald, September 1, 1953)
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: James Ralph McKelvy
Death Date: 31 Aug 1953
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 51919
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: James Ralph McKelvy
Birth Date: 31 Mar 1897
Birth Place: Denton, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: James McKelvy
Mother: Cora Wakefield
Age at Death: 56
Death Date: 31 Aug 1953
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, US
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