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Submitted: 2/7/21 • Approved: 2/7/21 • Last Updated: 2/10/21 • R387306-G387304-S3
W. Clarence
1898-1966
Bertie Lee
1900-1985
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Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
Obituary for W. Clarence
Funeral services for William Clarence Hess, 68, retired Phillips Petroleum Company employee, are scheduled at 2 p.m. Friday from Gardner Street Church of Christ, where he was a member.
Officiating will be the minister, J.R. Chisum, with Jack Southern assisting.
Interment in Westlawn Memorial Park will be directed by Minton Mortuary.
Hess was pronounced dead at 3:50 p.m. Wednesday on arrival at North Plains Hospital. He was a member of Woodmans of America.
Surviving are the widow, Birdie; sons, Leon of 1313 Cooley, and Thurman of Dumas; daughters, Mrs. Lovell Webster of Erick, Okla., Mrs. Janell Norman of Okinawa.
Three brothers, seven sisters, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren also survive.
Casketbearers are Roy Turner, Martin Savage, A.F. Lemons, Ben Powers, Adrian White, Earl H. Rose.
Honorary casketbearers are elders of the church.
(Published in Borger News Herald, October 6, 1966)
Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: William C Hess
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1898
Marriage Date: 30 Nov 1919
Marriage Place: Beckham, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Bertie Lee Davis
Film Number: 001312935
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: William Hess
Death Date: 5 Oct 1966
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: William Clarence Hess
Birth Date: 29 Oct 1897
Birth Place: Arkansas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Issac Hess
Mother: Gill
Age at Death: 68
Death Date: 5 Oct 1966
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Obituary for Bertie
Bertie Hess, 85, of Erick, Oklahoma, died in Erick, Oklahoma.
A housewife, she was a native of Allen, Oklahoma she moved to Borger in 1946, and then to Erick in 1982.
She was a member of the Gardner Church of Christ.
She is survived by two daughters, Lovelle Webster of Erick, Oklahoma and Janell Norman of Oklahoma City, Okla.; one son, Thurmon Hess of Dumas; one brother, Roy Davis of San Jose, Calif., nine grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren and one great grandson.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Gardner Street Church of Christ with Mr. Laurenco Garduno officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Fatherly Funeral Home of Erick, Oklahoma.
Local arrangements are being made by Chatwell Funeral Home.
The body will lie in state from 1 p.m. until service time on the day of the funeral.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Wednesday, July 31, 1985)
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Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Bertie Lee Davis
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Birth Date: abt 1900
Marriage Date: 30 Nov 1919
Marriage Place: Beckham, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: William C Hess
Film Number: 001312935
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Bertie Hess
Last Residence:
73645 Erick, Beckham, Oklahoma, USA
BORN: 20 Jun 1900
Died: Jul 1985
Contributed on 2/7/21 by neldapat
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