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Submitted: 2/7/21 • Approved: 2/7/21 • Last Updated: 2/10/21 • R387309-G0-S3
1898-1966
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
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
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