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Submitted: 1/20/21 • Approved: 1/21/21 • Last Updated: 1/24/21 • R380239-G0-S3
1909-1970
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Orvil W. Drake, 60, of Kennedale, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Ed Brown and Sons Chapel of the Fountains.
The Rev. Kenneth Armstrong, pastor of the Fellowship Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park, directed by Ed Brown and Sons Funeral Directors.
Drake was born in Shamrock and lived in Borger 15 years before moving to Kennedale. He died Tuesday in North Plains Hospital.
Surviving are wife, two sons, two daughters, two brothers, six sisters, and five grandchildren.
Casketbearers are George Brunson, T.A. Landers, F.L. Hill, E.E. Sample, E.L. Burton, H.B. Herrington.
(Published in Borger News Herald, June 17, 1970)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Orvil Drake
Death Date: 16 Jun 1970
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Orvil Willie Drake
Birth Date: 14 Nov 1909
Birth Place: Shamrock, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Kennedale, Tarrant, Texas
Spouse: Eva Pearl Drake
Father: Mat Emit Drake
Mother: Nannie Lou McGha
Age at Death: 60
Death Date: 16 Jun 1970
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
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