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Submitted: 11/13/20 • Approved: 11/13/20 • Last Updated: 11/16/20 • R366245-G0-S3
September 14, 1904-August 25, 1976
*Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
STINNETT - Funeral services for Elton F. Wells, 71, are pending with Simpsons Funeral Home in Stinnett.
Mr. Wells died Thursday evening in St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo. He had been a longtime area resident coming here from Sayre, Okla., in 1942.
He was born in Elk City, Okla., and was a millwright.
He was a member of the Sayre Oklahoma Masonic Lodge and the Victory Baptist Church in Stinnett.
Survivors include his wife, Isabell of the home; four sons, Charles Wells of Stinnett, Jimmy Dale Wells of Hurst, George C. Davis of Borger, and Sgt. Joe K. Davis of Aberdeen, Maryland; one daughter, Mrs. Charles Overton of Dumas; four brothers, Aaron Wells of Blackwell, Calvin Wells of Grantsville, Utah, J.D. Wells of Arapaho, Okla., and S.O. Wells of Lawton, Okla.; three sisters, Mrs. Murphy White of Dumas, Mrs. Bea Bridges of Stinnett, and Mrs. Neta Coffey of Erick, Okla.; eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Thursday, August 26, 1976)
Contributed on 11/13/20 by neldapat
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