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Submitted: 1/12/22 • Approved: 1/12/22 • Last Updated: 1/15/22 • R480957-G0-S3
October 22, 1891-August 15, 1978
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Arch Edward Witt, 86, of 205 Apache in Electric City, died Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Borger Primitive Baptist Church. Elder T.J. Pittman will officiate. Graveside services will be at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Wheeler Cemetery by Minton Mortuary.
Mr. Witt was a retired farmer. He had lived here for seven years. He was born Oct. 22, 1891 at Magazine, Ark.
He married Lillie Martindale, May 21, 1917 in Simon, Okla.
Mr. Witt was a member of the Borger Primitive Baptist Church.
Surviving are three sons, Daries Witt of Stinnett, Warren Witt of Dumas, Jack Hays of Wheeler; a daughter, Mrs. Lou Anna Chilcote of Borger; three sisters, Mrs. Lula Rice and Mrs. Paul Morris, both of Mobeetie and Mrs. Minnie McMahan of Ardmore, Okla.; 12 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, August 16, 1978)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Arch Edward Witt
Birth Date: 22 Oct 1891
Birth Place: Magazine, Arkansas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: James H Witt
Mother: Matilda Mix
Age at Death: 86
Death Date: 15 Aug 1978
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Contributed on 1/12/22
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