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Submitted: 9/9/21 • Approved: 9/9/21 • Last Updated: 9/12/21 • R455372-G0-S3
1908-1980
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - C. M. Tinney, 72, died yesterday in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Calvary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Earl Skaggs, pastor, and the Rev. C. W. Parker, associate pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Mr. Tinney, born in Checotah, Okla., had lived in Borger 35 years. He was a retired planning supervisor for Phillips Petroleum Co. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, Isom Masonic Lodge No. 1242 and the Loyal Order of the Moose.
Survivors include his wife, Ruby; a son, Harold Tinney of Fletcher, Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Jackson of Borger; four brothers, Frank Tinney, Allen Tinney and Leonard Tinney, all of Checotah, and Tuggy Benge of Sallisaw, Okla.; three sisters, Mrs. Okley Bedford of Porterville, Calif., Mrs. Alice Wise of Arlington and Mrs. Frances Fairchild of Tulsa, Okla.; and six grandchildren.
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Columbus Monroe Tinney
Birth Date: 8 Aug 1908
Birth Place: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Spouse: Ruby Stacy
Father: Virgil Tinney
Mother: Lydia Benge
Age at Death: 72
Death Date: 27 Aug 1980
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Contributed on 9/9/21
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