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Submitted: 2/4/21 • Approved: 2/6/21 • Last Updated: 2/9/21 • R386326-G0-S3
Texas
TECHNICAL FIFTH CLASS US Army
World War II
September 20, 1920 - February 19, 1970
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Walter O. Hampton, 49, of Phillips were at 3 p.m. today in Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Broadhurst, pastor, officiating.
Interment in Westlawn Memorial Park was directed by Ed Brown & Sons, Funeral Directors.
Hampton died Thursday at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston where he was undergoing tests for open heart surgery.
Surviving are his wife, a son, a daughter, two sisters, a brother, and two grandchildren.
Casketbearers were W.E. Murray, F.O. Holder, Alvin Brokob, John Vanderburg, L.B. Morrow, and Floyd Wright.
Honorary casketbearers were co-workers of Panhandle Salvage Purchasing Department of Phillips Petroleum Company.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 23, 1970)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Walter Hampton
Death Date: 19 Feb 1970
Death County: Harris
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Walter Ornel Hampton
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 49
Birth Date: 20 Sep 1920
Birth Place: Louisiana
Residence: Phillips, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 19 Feb 1970
Death Place: Houston, Harris, Texas, USA
Father: Roy Hampton
Mother: Frankie Gollier
Certificate Number: 19813
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