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Submitted: 2/21/21 • Approved: 2/22/21 • Last Updated: 2/25/21 • R391430-G391429-S3
May 3, 1914-June 22, 1987
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
An active civic and business leader, Mrs. Jewel Keith, 75, died Monday in her home at 316 Baylor Street.
Services are pending with Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Home.
Mrs. Keith, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Rawlings, pioneer residents, has been active in civic and business affairs for a long time.
She was born in Stoy, Illinois, and had been a Borger resident for 60 years.
She married Jerrie Keith in 1933 and has assisted her husband with his plumbing and heating business since 1938. She was vice president and secretary of Jerrie Keith Co., Inc.
Throughout the years, she gave leadership in her church, the First Baptist Church, and she was a teacher of the Grace Sunday School Class.
A history buff, she was a lifetime member of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society. She served on the Hutchinson County Historical Society for many years, making a great effort toward establishing the museum.
She was president of Borger Music Club and the District I president of the Texas Federation of Music Clubs. She was a member of the Borger Barbershop Belles, a singing group.
Mrs. Keith was also a member of the Twentieth Century Club, Collectors Club, Women of Rotary, American Business Women's Association, the Borger Christian Women, and Paragon Club.
She is survived by her husband, Jerrie; two sons, Jerry Keith of Dumas and Dale Keith of Huntington, Calif.; one daughter, Virginia Howard of Borger; three brothers, Marshall Rawlings of Dumas, Howard Rawlings of Borger, Rex Rawlings of Fallon, Nev., 9 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Tuesday, June 23, 1987)
Contributed on 2/21/21 by neldapat
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