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Submitted: 1/25/21 • Approved: 1/25/21 • Last Updated: 1/28/21 • R382180-G0-S3
January 8, 1905-September 8, 1977
“Love Lifted me”
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Carrolle E. Fike, 72, of Phillips, who died Thursday in McLean, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Ed Brown and Sons Chapel of the Fountains.
Rev. Craig Dohse, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church will officiate. Interment will follow at Westlawn Memorial Park.
Mr. Fike had lived in the Borger area since 1946 and was a retired truck driver for Phillips Petroleum Co.
Pallbearers are D.Z. Jackson, W.R. Goodspeed, O.R. Brown, Ralph Duke, W.I. Dodson and D.D. Brown. Honorary pallbearers are J.M. Garrison, J.H. Zink, H.K. Lane, Clyde Gaines, John Rickard, Dene Meyer, J.M. Campbell and Fred Trout.
Survivors include his widow, Esther; two sons, Robert of Stinnett and Leslie of Dallas; three daughters, Miss Anna Fike of Plainview, Mrs. Beatrice Volrath of Brimley, Mich., and Mrs. Caroline Ware of Borger; nine brothers, 19 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
(Published in Borger News Herald, September 11, 1977)
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West Virginia, Births Index, 1853-1969
Name: Carolle E Fike
Birth Date: 1905
Birth Place: Preston
Birth County: Preston
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 827562
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Carolle E Fike
Birth Date: 8 Jan 1905
Birth Place: West Virginia
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Phillips, Hutchinson, Texas
Spouse: Esther Fihe
Father: Hurley C Fike
Mother: Myrtle Hewitt
Age at Death: 72
Death Date: 8 Sep 1977
Death Place: McLean, Gray, Texas, USA
Contributed on 1/25/21 by neldapat
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