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Submitted: 3/4/21 • Approved: 3/4/21 • Last Updated: 3/7/21 • R394413-G0-S3
1887-1972
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WICHITA FALLS - Lawson [sic] O. Mathis, 85, a former long time resident of Borger who had resided in Wichita Falls for the past three years died in Wichita Falls Hospital Saturday morning.
Mathis, who had resided at 801 N. Harvey, was a member of the First Baptist Church of Borger.
Graveside rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Westlawn Memorial Park with Rev. Paul Burleson, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiating.
He is survived by a son, C.R. of El Monte, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Gwendolyn Beer of Wichita Falls, Mrs. Eileen Peters of Abilene [sic] and Mrs. Peggy Cartlidge of Kirkland; a sister, Mrs. Odell Fairless of Trenton, Tenn.; two brothers, Herman of Trazvant, Tenn. and Robert of Humboldt, Tenn.; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, December 10, 1972)
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Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Name: Lawson Otice Mathis
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 3 Dec 1887
Birth Place: Humboldt, Gibson
Father: John Nathan Mathis
Mother: Frances Adeline Lasiter
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Lawson Mathis
Death Date: 9 Dec 1972
Death County: Wichita
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Lawson O Mathis
Birth Date: 3 Dec 1887
Birth Place: Gibson, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas
Father: John Nathan Mathis
Mother: Frances Adeline Lasiter
Age at Death: 85
Death Date: 9 Dec 1972
Death Place: Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, USA
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