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Submitted: 9/15/21 • Approved: 9/16/21 • Last Updated: 9/19/21 • R456948-G0-S3
US Army
Korea
March 5, 1930-January 30, 2001
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Bill R. VanHooser, 70, died Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001, at Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Minton / Chatwell Funeral Directors, Memorial Chapel, with the Rev. Paul Anderson, pastor of Keeler Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Eastlawn Garden at Highland Park Cemetery.
Mr. VanHooser was born in Delaware County, Okla. He retired in 1989 as an engineer for the Texas Highway Department. In 1960, he moved to Borger with the Bureau of Reclamation. He served in the Army during the Korean War.
In 1964, he married Elsie Jaunata Pardue. She died in 1966. A son, Hanns Eric VanHooser, also preceded him in death in 1987.
Survivors include two stepsons, Gene Pardue of Amarillo and Jerry Wayne Matthews of Ardmore, Okla.; two stepdaughters, Teresa Fay Landon of Warrensburg, Mo., and Anita Matthews of Dalhart; and two sisters, Francis Elliott and Nadine Elliott, both of Washington.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, Feb. 2, 2001)
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U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Bill Ray Vanhooser
[Bill R Vanhooser]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 5 Mar 1930
Birth Place: Southwest City, Missouri
Death Date: 30 Jan 2001
Father: Floyd E Vanhooser
Mother: Tilda Winters
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Apr 1950: Name listed as BILL RAY VANHOOSER; 03 Feb 2001: Name listed as BILL R VANHOOSER
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