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Submitted: 12/3/20 • Approved: 12/3/20 • Last Updated: 12/6/20 • R369674-G369674-S3
Desmond H.
August 15, 1911-December 2, 1981
Virgie L.
July 9, 1922-February 23, 1992
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary for Desmond
MORSE - Services for Desmond H. Kelly, 70, who died Wednesday, will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Morse Community Chapel.
The Rev. J.E. Burkham, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Lieb Cemetery by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Spearman.
A native of Hooker, Okla., he moved from Hooker to Morse in 1929. He was a retired farmer.
He married Virgie Lee Dortch in 1941 at Gruver. He was a member of Community Chapel and Child Evangelism Fellowship International.
Survivors include his wife; three sons, Larry Kelly of Amarillo, Ray Kelly of Amarillo and Don Kelly of Grand Rapids, Mich.; two daughters, Elaine Hufstetler of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Evelyn Rosenberg of Colorado Springs, Colo.; three brothers, Harold Kelly of Morse, Stanley Kelly of North Hollywood, Calif., and Wayne Kelly of Lubbock; a sister, Roberta Coffey of Needles, Calif.; and nine grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to Child Evangelism Fellowship International.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, December 3, 1981)
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