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Submitted: 3/12/21 • Approved: 3/12/21 • Last Updated: 3/15/21 • R396877-G396876-S3
October 25, 1944-July 10, 1996
“She went into all the world and preached the gospel”
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
AMARILLO - Funeral services for the Rev. Linda Beth Morgan, 51, were at 11 a.m. Saturday at God's Covenant Family Church, 804 S. Bryan in Amarillo.
Officiating was the Rev. Danny Craig and the Rev. Roy Taylor. Graveside services were at 3 p.m. Saturday at Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Borger.
Arrangements were by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle, Amarillo.
Rev. Morgan died Wednesday, July 10, 1996 in Amarillo.
She was born in Knox City, and had been an Amarillo resident for two years. She had served in God's Covenant Ministry as a missionary worldwide including Africa and Sweden.
She served as pastor of Morningstar Fellowship in Stinnett from 1984 until 1994 when she moved to Amarillo to serve as pastor of God's Covenant Family Church.
She married Don Pat Morgan in 1965 at Borger.
She was preceded in death by a son, Mark Wiggin in 1992.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Kim Hay of Amarillo; a son, Danny Wiggin of Cleburne; her mother, Virginia Patterson of Denton; a brother, Robert Patterson of Irving; four sisters, Sue Shephard of Denton; Joy Campbell of Plano; Betty Jo Kelley of Grangeland; and Ruby Queen of Borger; and five grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be made to God's Covenant Family Church, 804 S. Bryan, Amarillo, Texas 79106.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Sunday, July 14, 1996)
Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Linda Beth Patterson
Date of Birth: 25 Oct 1944
Gender: Female
Birth County: Knox
Father's name: Neely Robert Patterson
Mother's name: Della Virginia Wilborne
Roll Number: 1944_0008
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Linda Morgan
Death Date: 10 Jul 1996
Death County: Potter
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Lynda Beth Patterson
[Linda Beth Wiggin]
[Linda Morgan]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 25 Oct 1944
Birth Place: Knox City Kn, Texas
[Knox City, Texas]
Death Date: 10 Jul 1996
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Jun 1958: Name listed as LYNDA BETH PATTERSON; Dec 1959: Name listed as LINDA BETH WIGGIN; Feb 1966: Name listed as LINDA BETH MORGAN; 16 Jul 1996: Name listed as LINDA B MORGAN
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