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Submitted: 3/9/21 • Approved: 3/9/21 • Last Updated: 3/12/21 • R395633-G395633-S3
June 19, 1914-April 1, 1999
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Bertha Evelyn Mercer, 84, died Thursday, April 1, 1999.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday in Minton / Chatwell Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Borger, officiating. Burial will be in Garden of Beatitudes in Westlawn Memorial Park.
Mrs. Mercer was born in Konawa, Okla., and was a Borger resident for 54 years. She was a homemaker, a Baptist and active in Senior Citizen activities.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, Woodrow Fowler in 1951, and Elmer Mercer in 1983.
Survivors include a son, Jimmy Fowler of Borger; two sisters, Dorothy Murphey of Independence, Miss., and Belle Jackson of Konawa; two grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
(Published in Amarillo Globe News - April 2, 1999)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Bertha Evelyn Mercer
Death Date: 1 Apr 1999
Death County: Hutchinson
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Bertha P. Mercer
Last Residence:
79080 Skellytown, Carson, Texas, USA
BORN: 19 Jun 1914
Died: 1 Apr 1999
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Bertha Evelyn Mercer
[Bertha P Mercer]
[Bertha Evelyn Prewitt]
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 19 Jun 1914
Birth Place: Seminole Cou, Oklahoma
[Seminole Cou|]
Death Date: 1 Apr 1999
Claim Date: 5 Apr 1976
Father: Solomon R Prewitt
Mother: Dollie Garrison
SSN: 464341816
Notes: 26 Apr 1976: Name listed as BERTHA EVELYN MERCER; 05 Apr 1976: Name listed as BERTHA P MERCER
Contributed on 3/9/21 by neldapat
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