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Submitted: 1/19/21 • Approved: 1/19/21 • Last Updated: 1/22/21 • R379808-G379808-S3
Charles M. “Red”
1912-1974
Mason
Viola
1912-1997
Order of Eastern Star
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
Obituary for Charles M.
Borger News Herald - August 9, 1974
Funeral services for C.M. (Red) Dillard, 62, of 313 2nd, in Phillips, who died Thursday in North Plains Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First United Methodist Church.
The Rev. W.A. Appling, pastor, will officiate, assisted by Rev. Guy White, pastor of First Baptist Church of Phillips. Burial will be at Westlawn Memorial Park by Simpson Funeral Home.
Masonic graveside rites will be conducted by Isom Masonic Lodge No. 1242.
Dillard was born at Monmouth, Ill., and had lived here since 1924. He was employed for 40 years in the engineering department at Phillips Petroleum Co.
He was a member of First United Methodist Church, the Elk's Lodge and the Isom Masonic Lodge.
Survivors are his wife, Viola; and a sister, Mrs. Marian Tuttle of Rockport.
Pallbearers will be B.B. Shaw, C.I. Poe, Tex Rucker, S.E. Routson, E.E. Lasater, S.J. Patrick, H.J. Hertel, and W.H. Beets.
The family requests that memorials be given to the favorite charities.
Obituary for Viola
Viola Dillard, 85, of Amarillo died Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1997 in Baptist/St. Anthony's Hospice in Amarillo.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at Fairlanes Baptist Church with the Rev. Art McAninch, pastor, and the Rev. Danny Logan, pastor of Bell Avenue Church in Amarillo, officiating.
Interment will be in Westlawn Cemetery under the direction of Brown Funeral Directors.
A homemaker, she was a native of Clarendon and a Borger resident for 64 years and an Amarillo resident for 1 year. She was a member of Bell Avenue Baptist Church in Amarillo and a former member of Fairlanes Baptist Church in Borger. She was a 50-year member with Order of Eastern Star #811, where she was Past Worthy Matron (1959-1960, 1975-1976).
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles M. "Red" Dillard in 1974.
Survivors include one brother, E.W. Jones of Amarillo; one sister, Margaret Runyon Eversole of Amarillo; two nephews, Dick Runyon of Corpus Christi and Jimmy Runyon of Amarillo; two nieces, Sue Runyon Becquet of Corpus Christi and Sydney Jones Emmitt of St. Louis, Mo.; 12 grand-nieces and nephews and 13 great-grand nieces and nephews as well as many loving friends.
Memorials may be made to Olivia's Angels, Box 950, Amarillo, Texas 79176-0001 or to your favorite charity.
(Published in Borger News Herald - November 13, 1997)
Contributed on 1/19/21 by neldapat
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