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Submitted: 12/18/20 • Approved: 12/20/20 • Last Updated: 12/23/20 • R372514-G372514-S3
1895-1962
Mrs. Ralph “Ona”
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Mrs. Leona Bayless, 67, long-time prominent Borger resident died at North Plains Hospital here Friday evening.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Monday from the First Baptist Church here, Rev. Dan B. Cameron and Dr. Winfred W. Moore, pastor of the Amarillo First Baptist Church officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Ed Brown, Funeral Director.
Mrs. Bayless, wife of Ralph Bayless, Sr., First Vice-President of Panhandle Bank and Trust Co., was an active member of the Borger First Baptist Church. She had become extremely well known through her church work.
Surviving in addition to her husband are three sons, John, Borger, Jim, Brownfield, and Ralph Bayless Jr. of Redwood City, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Wayne Adams, Borger and Mrs. Cecil Brain, Tulsa, Okla.; two sisters Mrs. Arleigh Davis, Peoria, Ill.; and Mrs. Roy Holbrich, Midwest City, Okla. and 14 grandchildren.
Casket bearers will be Phil Berg, Chester Garst, George Aull, F.P. Smithey, Jerrie Keith and Ed Turner. Members of the board of deacons at First Baptist Church will serve as honorary casket bearers.
(Published in Borger News Herald, August 19, 1962)
Contributed on 12/18/20 by neldapat
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