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Submitted: 3/2/21 • Approved: 3/2/21 • Last Updated: 3/5/21 • R393742-G0-S3
1912-1970
Mason
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
Obituary
Jess Edward Love, 57 years old, a veteran Hutchinson County deputy sheriff, died at 10:50 p.m. Saturday in North Plains Hospital.
Love was admitted to the hospital on Jan. 6 for treatment of a heart ailment. He reportedly had suffered several heart attacks in recent months.
The family home is at 1112 N. Hedgecoke.
Furneral [sic] arrangements are pending with Minton Funeral Home.
Jess Edward Love was born Jan. 17, 1912, at Jacksboro, Tex. He attended school at Quitaque and his first job was with the Quitaque First National Bank.
Love also had worked as a cowboy for many years and knew many of the oldtime cowhands and cattlemen in this area. He served for a time as foreman of the Watkins Ranch.
Love went to work for the Hutchinson County sheriff's department in March, 1945 and worked for years in the capacity of process server. He also did outstanding work in criminal investigations.
He was a member of the Methodist Church, the IOOF, Kiwanis Club and Rebekah Lodge.
He married his wife, Thelma Doyle, at Turkey, on March 22, 1942.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Sunday, January 11, 1970)
Contributed on 3/2/21 by neldapat
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