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Submitted: 12/20/20 • Approved: 12/20/20 • Last Updated: 12/23/20 • R372808-G372808-S3
Walter Earnest
July 6, 1924-January 26, 1991
Mason
Wilma Jane
July 16, 1928-July 22, 2005
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*Obituary for Walter
Walter Earnest Bible, 66, Borger, died Friday, Jan. 26, 1991.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Monday at Fairlanes Baptist Church with the Rev. Art McAninch, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
A native of Collingsworth County, he had been a Hutchinson County resident for 42 years. He was a lead off man for Phillips Petroleum Company.
He was a member of Gateway Baptist Church, and Adobe Walls Masonic Lodge No. 1355.
Survivors include his wife, Wilma of the home; one son Tom of Borger; two daughters, Carla Bible of the home and Nancy Weatherly of Amarillo; four brothers, Jake of McLean; Ray of Canyon; Boots of Harrison, Ark.; and Dale of Batesville, Ark.; three sisters, Irene Smith of Charlotte, Ark.; Tiny Tapley of Sonora, Calif.; and Ruth Pittman of Amarillo.
Pallbearers were Harrell Wayne Nolen, Tommy Ware, George Stephenson, Stanley Davis, Bill Gariepy, and Monty Montgomery.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Monday, January 28, 1991)
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Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Walter Ernest Bible
Birth Date: 6 Jul 1924
Gender: Male
Birth Place: McLean, Gray, Texas, USA
Father: J C Bible
Father Birth Place: Texas
Mother: Verna Cornell
Mother Birth Place: Oklahoma
Mother Residence: McLean, Texas
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Walter Bible
Death Date: 26 Jan 1991
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Walter E. Bible
Last Residence:
79008 Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
BORN: 6 Jul 1924
Died: 26 Jan 1991
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Walter Earnest Bible
[Walter E Bible]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 6 Jul 1924
Birth Place: McLean Gray, Texas
[Wellington, Texas]
Death Date: 26 Jan 1991
Father: John C Bible
Mother: Verna Cornell
Death Certificate Number: 017480
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Dec 1943: Name listed as WALTER EARNEST BIBLE; 22 May 1998: Name listed as WALTER E BIBLE
*Obituary for Wilma
FRITCH - Wilma Bible, 77, died Friday, July 22, 2005.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Broadway Baptist Church with the Rev. Bill Browning officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery by Memorial Park Funeral Home, 6969 E. Interstate 40, in Amarillo.
Mrs. Bible was born July 16, 1928, to Harvey Clifton Smith and Nora Jane Scott Smith. She married Walter Earnest Bible in McLean on July 10, 1948. Mrs. Bible was a retired schoolteacher who taught elementary and special education classes.
She was preceded in death by her husband in January 1991; a daughter, Lanora Kay Bible in 1955; a son, George Walter Bible in 1959; and a granddaughter, Heather Danielle Bible in 1990.
Survivors include a son, Tom Bible and wife, Misty, of Fritch; two daughters, Nancy Ann Weatherly and Carla Sue Bible, both of Fritch; a brother, John Smith of Del Rio; and a granddaughter, Savana Bible of Fritch.
The family will be at 118 Abilene in Fritch.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, July 24, 2005)
Contributed on 12/20/20 by neldapat
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