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Submitted: 9/1/21 • Approved: 9/1/21 • Last Updated: 9/4/21 • R453438-G0-S3
1901-1975
Kiwanis International
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Borger News Herald - April 28, 1975
Funeral services for F.C. "Blackie" Spence, 73 of 1306 Evergreen, were held at 2 p.m. today in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Paul Burleson, pastor, officiating
Interment was in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Spence, a longtime Borger resident, was pronounced dead on arrival at North Plains Hospital at 11:55 a.m. Friday following an apparent heart attack.
Survivors include his wife, a son, two daughters, three brothers, two sisters, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Casketbearers were Robert E. Wilson, Herschel Palmer, Clarence Hull, Charles Cooke, Arkie Wilkinson and George Payton.
Honorary casketbearers were members of the Tri-City Kiwanis club and members of Chester Garst's Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church.
Contributed on 9/1/21
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