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Submitted: 8/19/21 • Approved: 8/19/21 • Last Updated: 8/22/21 • R448836-G0-S3
1905-1959
To know him was to love him
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Forrest E. Robinson, 54, Borger drilling contractor who was killed shortly after noon Friday in a fall from a 30-foot heater-treater tank, will be held at 3 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dan Cameron, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Ed Brown, funeral director. The accident happened about one mile west of the old Gulf Camp on the Panhandle highway between Borger and Panhandle.
Robinson apparently was attempting to tighten a coupling on top of the tank with a 24-inch pipe wrench when the wrench slipped, causing him to lose his balance and fall head first, according to investigating officers from the Hutchinson County Sheriff's office.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at North Plains Hospital. He apparently was killed when his head hit a valve as he fell, officers said.
Robinson had been a resident of Borger since 1926 and was a member of the J.A. Robinson and Sons Trucking and Drilling Contracting Company. He was a member of the board of deacons of the First Baptist Church here.
Survivors include his wife, Flossie, of the home, 902 Harrison; two daughters, Jean Marie Robinson of Lubbock and Mrs. Juanita Calow of Chicago; four brothers, Leon, Claude, Babe and Paul all of Borger; his father, J.A. Robinson of Borger; and four grandchildren.
Active pallbearers will be Haskell Fife, G.I. Parks, H.L. Venable, L.B. Mauldin, B. M. Lawson, Jack Fikes. Honorary bearers will be members of the board of deacons of the Baptist Church.
(Published in Borger News Herald, March 8, 1959)
Contributed on 8/19/21
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Record #: 448836