To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Texas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Texas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 1/15/21 • Approved: 1/15/21 • Last Updated: 1/18/21 • R378815-G0-S3
1912-1971
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
A 58-year-old Electric City man became Hutchinson County's fifth auto fatality victim today when he died at 2:10 a.m. at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo.
William C. Ratliff, 105 Cherokee, died of injuries received in a two-vehicle crash May 23, two miles north of Borger on Texas Highway 136 at Electric City.
The accident injured two Guymon, Okla. men; Ronald C. Ballard, 24, and John M. Vandiver, also 24.
Ratliff was an employee of the Phillips Petroleum Company and a member of the Baptist Church. Funeral services are pending at Minton Mortuary.
He is survived by his wife, Audrey; six sons, P.E. of Borger; C.H. of Fritch; Wayne, of Stinnett; Ray of Laghop, Mo.; Bill Jr. of Kansas City, Mo.; Eldon, home; one daughter, Clara Ratliff, home; 13 grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 22, 1971)
Contributed on 1/15/21 by neldapat
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 378815