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Submitted: 3/9/21 • Approved: 3/9/21 • Last Updated: 3/12/21 • R395597-G0-S3
August 19, 1916-June 10, 1986
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Grady Albert McWhorter, 9, of 3111 Fairlanes 123 in Borger, died at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday in Golden Plains Community Hospital.
An operator at Phillips Petroleum, he was a native of O'Brien, Texas, and had lived in Borger since 1944.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Skellytown and had farmed in Haskell County prior to moving to Borger in 1944. He went to work for U.S. Rubber, then B.F. Goodrich and later Phillips Petroleum for 33 years.
He is survived by his wife Marie of the home; three daughters - Maxine Dugan of Eufalla, Okla., Fran Woods of Fritch, and Paula Stricklin of Keyes, Okla.; one son - Donald McWhorter of Brownfield, Texas; one brother - Ray McWhorter of Rochester, Texas; two sisters - Mable Smith of Knox City, Texas, Pearl Brown of Wichita Falls; 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the 1st Baptist Church in Skellytown with Rev. David Johnson, pastor, and Rev. Glenn Harrington, pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Borger, officiating.
Burial will follow in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors.
He was preceded in death by his daughter - JoAnn Tollison of Skellytown in December, 1970.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Wednesday, June 11, 1986, Page 12)
Contributed on 3/9/21 by neldapat
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