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Submitted: 1/4/21 • Approved: 1/4/21 • Last Updated: 1/7/21 • R375760-G375760-S3
1922-2000
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
TYLER - Ruth Chelf, 77, formerly of Borger, died Monday, March 6, in East Texas Medical Center in Tyler.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Borger with Rev. Gregg Simmons, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery under the direction of Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.
Mrs. Chelf was a native of Lindale. She was a Tyler resident for 15 years. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Borger, where she was a retired nursery coordinator.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Anita Demings, and two brothers, Earl Knight and Johnny Knight.
Mrs. Chelf is survived by her husband, Charles; two sons, Randy Chelf of Tyler and Bruce Chelf of Brenham; one daughter, Jan Mozingo of Tyler; one sister, Juanita Bell of Fritch; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Family visitation will be from 7-8 p.m. Friday at Brown's Chapel of the Fountains.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, March 9, 2000)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Mamie Ruth Chelf
Death Date: 6 Mar 2000
Death County: Smith
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Mamie Ruth Knight
[Ruth Chelf]
[Ruth Chelp]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 25 Sep 1922
Birth Place: Lindale Smit, Texas
Death Date: 6 Mar 2000
Father: Willie A Knight
Mother: Laura M Bowers
Notes: Oct 1939: Name listed as MAMIE RUTH KNIGHT; Apr 1953: Name listed as RUTH CHELF; : Name listed as RUTH KNIGHT CHELP
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