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Submitted: 1/18/21 • Approved: 1/18/21 • Last Updated: 1/21/21 • R379711-G379711-S3
May 31, 1935-September 20, 1998
Beloved Wife and Mother
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
FRITCH - Dorothy Depew, 63, died Sunday, Sept. 20, at Baptist St. Anthony's in Amarillo.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Southern Baptist Church of Fritch with the Rev. Andy Dietz, First Baptist Church of Borger, officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Garden at Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors of Fritch.
Casketbearers will be Don Depew, Jr., Jack Depew, John Depew, Marvin Goodall, Tommy Fulgham, Ray Kellogg, Bob Pellak and Vic Harris.
Mrs. Depew was born in Sneedville, Tenn., and had been a Fritch resident for 27 years, having moved from Rockville, Md. She married Donald F. Depew, Sr. Jan. 24, 1953, in Rockville, Md. She was a homemaker and a Presbyterian.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald, in 1996.
Survivors include three sons, Donald F. Depew, Jr. of Fritch, Jack Depew of Fritch and John Depew of Amarillo; one grandchild and two great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Tuesday, September 22, 1998)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Dorothy Depew
Death Date: 20 Sep 1998
Death County: Potter
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Dorothy M. Depew
Last Residence:
79036 Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
BORN: 31 May 1935
Died: 20 Sep 1998
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Dorothy Marie Brewer
[Dorothy Marie Depew]
[Dorothy Depew]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 31 May 1934
Birth Place: Sneedville, Tennessee
[Sneedsville, Tennessee]
Death Date: 20 Sep 1998
Father: Porter R Brewer
Mother: Maude L Ferguson
Notes: Aug 1950: Name listed as DOROTHY MARIE BREWER; Mar 1968: Name listed as DOROTHY MARIE DEPEW; 03 Nov 1998: Name listed as DOROTHY M DEPEW
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