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Submitted: 1/19/21 • Approved: 1/19/21 • Last Updated: 1/22/21 • R379956-G379956-S3
May 30, 1921-July 7, 1986
Beloved Wife and Mother
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ona Drake
Death Date: 7 Jul 1986
Death County: Potter
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Ona Drake
Last Residence: 79036 Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
BORN: 30 May 1921
Died: Jul 1986
*Obituary
Ona Mae Drake, 65, Isom Addition, Fritch, died at 1 p.m., July 7, 1986, in St. Anthony's Hospice, Amarillo.
A homemaker, she was a native of Woodward County, Okla., and a Fritch resident for 32 years.
She was a Baptist, and married Carl M. Drake in Van Buren, Arkansas in 1939. He died in 1970.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. James "Shirley" Heath, Stinnett; Carline Brown, Baytown; Patricia Defries, Mountainburg, Ark.; three sisters, Lora Schneider, Mountainburg, Ark.; Velda Mullen, Duncanville; Alberta Sill of Mountainburg, Ark.; six brothers, Virgil Marston of Mountainburg, Ark., Eugene Marston, Paul Marston, Raymond Marston, Rudy, Ark.; Gordon Marston of Mulberry, Ark., and Murl Marston of Greenwood, Ark.; eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the First Baptist Church of Fritch with Rev. Raymond Lewis, retired Baptist minister, officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Alexander/Morton Funeral Directors.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 8, 1986)
Contributed on 1/19/21 by neldapat
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