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Submitted: 11/11/21 • Approved: 11/11/21 • Last Updated: 11/14/21 • R468258-G0-S3
November 3, 1903-September 17, 1996
Our Precious Loved One
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Lewis Carl Laflin, 92, died Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1996.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Toby Henson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Laflin was born in Washita County, Okla., and moved to Wheeler County in 1935. He worked for Southwestern Public Service Co. for a short time. He opened and operated Wheeler Radio and Refrigeration from 1935 until he retired at about 1970.
He married Faye Wiggins in 1965 at Wheeler. He was a member of First Baptist Church and a charter member of the Old Mobeetie Association.
He was preceded in death by a son, Carl Laflin, in 1991.
Survivors include his wife; five daughters, Doris Adams of Mineola, Patricia Wiggins McKeg of Texas City, Mary Whitener of Wheeler, Virginia Rose Pettit of Pampa and Maxine Howard of Miami, Texas; a sister, Esther Faye Ferguson of Miami; 18 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
The family requests memorials be to First Baptist Church of Wheeler.
(Published in The Wheeler Times (Wheeler, Texas) Volume 63, Number 41, Thursday, September 19, 1996, Page 1)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Lewis Laflin
Death Date: 17 Sep 1996
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Male
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Lewis C. Laflin
Last Residence:
79096 Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
BORN: 3 Nov 1903
Died: 17 Sep 1996
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Record #: 468258