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Submitted: 1/21/21 • Approved: 1/21/21 • Last Updated: 1/24/21 • R380563-G0-S3
May 4, 1923-October 31, 1970
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Ray A. Trolinger, 47, 27 Eighth Street, Philview, were held at 2 p.m. today in the Bunavista Baptist Church with Rev. Robert Lacewell, pastor, officiating.
Interment followed in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Ed Brown and Sons, Funeral Directors.
Trolinger had been a Borger resident since 1947 and was a stillman operator for Phillips Petroleum Co. He was a member of VFW Post 1789 and also the Hutchinson County Sheriff's Posse.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Jo, of the home; one son, Joe Ray, also of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Robert Temple of Borger; his mother, Mrs. Ida Trolinger of Blocker, Okla.; three brothers, Norman of Skellytown; Garland of Crowder, Okla.; Bobby Joe with the Air Force in Puerto Rico; two sisters, Mrs. Leo Shannon, and Mrs. Sherman Enesley, both of Blocker; and one grandchild.
Casketbearers were Ralph Brown, T.W. Benton, Earl Tollett, E.L. Dickinson, Larry Schickedanz, and Howard Preslar. Honorary casketbearers were Oliver Eranest, Ronlad Joe Earnest, members of VFW Post 1789 and members of the Hutchinson County Sheriff's Posse.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 2, 1970)
Contributed on 1/21/21 by neldapat
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