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Submitted: 3/10/21 • Approved: 3/10/21 • Last Updated: 3/13/21 • R395978-G395977-S3
February 13, 1925-September 21, 2006
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Dorothea Jean Messenger, 81, of Amarillo, formerly of Borger, died Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery by Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.
Mrs. Messenger was born Feb. 13, 1925, in Iola, Kan., to Dorothea L. Rath and John H. Brinkman. She married Kennett C. Messenger on June 11, 1944, in Fort Worth.
Survivors include two daughters, Gayla J. Smith of Yukon, Okla., and Patricia A. Demand of Houston; two sons, Kennett C. Messenger Jr. of Amarillo and Lance R. Messenger of Borger; a brother, Sidney E. Brinkman of Wichita, Kan.; nine grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Trinity Lutheran Church, 212 W. Jefferson, Borger, TX 79007 or the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 120 Wall St., 19th Floor, New York City, NY 10005.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 23, 2006
Contributed on 3/10/21 by neldapat
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