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Submitted: 10/4/21 • Approved: 10/4/21 • Last Updated: 10/7/21 • R461107-G0-S3
February 14, 1921-June 18, 1973
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services were scheduled for 2:30 p.m. today in Wheeler Christian Center for Lonnie Douglas Beesley, 52, who died Monday at Parkview Hospital in Wheeler.
Rev. Keith Johnson, pastor, was to officiate. Burial was to be in Wheeler cemetery under the direction of Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.
Mr. Beesley was born Feb. 14, 1921 at Kelton, and was a blacksmith welder in Wheeler. He was married to Miss Helen Ziegler in 1950 in Clovis, N.M.
Mr. Beesley was a member of the American Legion and was a World War II Veteran.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; one son, Barney Ray; one stepson, Paul Gustin; and one daughters, Lavonne, all of the home; three brothers, James Thomas, Pampa; Robert Leonard, Wheeler, Bill, Pampa; and one sister, Mrs. Faye Griffin, Pampa.
(Published in Pampa Daily News (Pampa, Texas) - Wed, Jun 20, 1973 - Page 2)
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Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Lonnie Douglas Beesley
Birth Date: 14 Feb 1921
Birth Place: Rural, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Lonnie Douglas Beesley
Birth Date: 14 Feb 1921
Birth Place: Kelton, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas
Spouse: Helen Bessley
Father: Earl Rodney Beesley
Mother: Irene Barber
Age at Death: 52
Death Date: 18 Jun 1973
Death Place: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Contributed on 10/4/21
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