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Submitted: 2/19/21 • Approved: 2/19/21 • Last Updated: 2/22/21 • R390810-G390810-S3
John Vernon
1913-1993
Honest and Integrity
Lillie Dell
1903-1996
Wife, Mother, Teacher
Married 6-13-37
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
Obituary for John
FRITCH - John V. Jolly, 79, died Wednesday, May 12, 1993 in Chandler, Ariz.
The family will receive relatives and friends from 6-8 p.m. today at Minton-Chatwell Funeral Home in Fritch.
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church of Fritch with the Rev. Dan Flemming, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Fritch.
He was a native of Archer County, Texas. He was a shift superintendent for Phillips Petroleum Company and retired in 1972 after 37 years. He was a member of First United Methodist Church of Fritch.
He and his wife, Lillie Dell, had been married 56 years.
Survivors include his wife of the home; three sons, Ned Jolly of Mesa, Ariz.; Ted Jolly of Houston; and Bill Jolly of Gilbert, Ariz.; seven sisters, Pearl Decker of Willows, Calif.; Bell Thurman of Fort Worth; Mildred Taylor of Cleburne; Dorothy Edwards of Harlingen; Bobbie June Howell of Durango, Colo.; Ivy Shelton and Laverne Hert, both of Bullhead City, Ariz.; two brothers, Roy Jolly of Riverside, Calif.; and Wesley Jolly of Tahoka; 14 grandchildren; and 4 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be A.G. Smith, Warren Acker, R.D. White, Edgar Betts, Luke White, and Walter Keller.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 14, 1993)
Obituary for Lillie
Borger News Herald - September 26-27, 1996
FRITCH - Lillie Dell Jolly, 93, died Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1996 in her home.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Southern Baptist Church with the Rev. Lloyd Stice, pastor of First United Methodist Church of Fritch, officiating.
Burial will be in the Garden of Devotion at Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors of Fritch.
Mrs. Jolly was born in Dimmitt, and had been a Fritch resident since 1979, moving from Phillips. She was a teacher for the Phillips Schools and was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Fritch.
She married John Vernon Jolly on June 13, 1937 in Borger. He preceded her in death on May 12, 1993. She graduated from Tahoka High School and West Texas Teachers College. She taught second grade at Phillips for 17 years, retiring in 1967.
Survivors include three sons, Ned Jolly, of Mesa, Ariz., Ted Jolly, of Houston, and Bill Jolly, of Fritch; 14 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church of Fritch.
The family will meet with friends and relatives from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Fritch Funeral Home.
Casketbearers will be Stanley Henderson, Ronald Henderson, Jackie Slover, Carl Henderson, Bill Henderson and Greer Smith.
Contributed on 2/19/21 by neldapat
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