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Submitted: 8/15/21 • Approved: 8/15/21 • Last Updated: 8/18/21 • R447322-G447321-S3
E. D. “Arky” Wilkinson
July 12, 1920-March 19, 1979
Please see military marker
Sharon Purvis
1944-1995
Please see closeup view
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*E.D. “Arky” Wilkinson
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Eugene Wilkinson
Death Date: 19 Mar 1979
Death County: Gray
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Eugene Davis Wilkinson
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 58
Birth Date: 12 Jul 1920
Birth Place: Mena, Arkansas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 19 Mar 1979
Death Place: Pampa, Gray, Texas, USA
Father: Argin Wilkinson
Mother: Josie Gabbard
Spouse: E D Wilkinson
Certificate Number: 16320
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Eugene Davis Wilkerson
[Eugene Dav Wilkinson]
[Eugene Wilkinson]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 12 Jul 1919
Birth Place: West Line, Arkansas
Death Date: Mar 1979
Father: Archie Wilkerson
Mother: Josie Gabbard
Notes: Mar 1939: Name listed as EUGENE DAVIS WILKERSON; : Name listed as EUGENE DAV WILKINSON; 29 Dec 1987: Name listed as EUGENE WILKINSON
*Obituary Sharon Purvis
Sharon Ann Purvis, 50, Borger, died Wednesday, April 26, 1995 in her home.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Gateway Baptist Church with the Rev. Tunis Schuurman, pastor, and the Rev. James Berry, pastor Southside Baptist Church, officiating.
Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Directors.
A native of Wister, Okla., she had been a Borger resident for 16 years. She was a housewife, and member of Southside Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her father, Eugene D. Wilkinson March 19, 1979.
Survivors include a son, Todd Purvis of Calera, Okla.; and her mother, Pauline Wilkinson of Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald, April 27, 1995)
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Sharon Purvis
Last Residence:
79007 Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
BORN: 28 Dec 1944
Died: 26 Apr 1995
Contributed on 8/15/21
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