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Sam David RUSSELL (VETERAN WWII)

Wilbarger Memorial Park Cemetery
Wilbarger County,
Texas

YEOMAN SECOND CLASS US Navy
World War II
July 26, 1921 - August 16, 2000

*Obituary
Vernon Daily Record
Published 17 August 2000

Sam D. Russell, 79, died Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2000, in a local hospital after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Central Christian Church with the Rev. Sterling Lentz, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in Wilbarger Memorial Park under direction of Sullivan Funeral Home.
Russell was born July 26, 1921, in Crowell, a son of the late Thomas French and Gladys Louise Jobe Russell. He married Alpha Syble Mullins on Feb.7, 1941, in Altus, Okla.
A 1939 graduate of Crowell High School, he attended Draughons Business College and retired as manager of the West Texas Utilities office in Vernon after 46 years with the company. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, serving as a yeoman second class, and was a member of Central Christian Church and the Lions Club of Vernon.
Surviving are his wife; two daughters,

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Submitted: 11/5/14 • Approved: 11/5/14 • Last Updated: 3/26/18 • R35669-G0-S3

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