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Submitted: 3/17/21 • Approved: 3/18/21 • Last Updated: 3/21/21 • R398533-G0-S3
TECHNICAL FIFTH CLASS US Army
World War II
April 10, 1918-October 27, 2002
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Esequiel "Zeke" Padilla, 84, died Sunday, Oct. 27, 2002, in Amarillo.
Vigil services will be at 7 p.m. today in Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in St. John's Catholic Church with Monsignor Norbert Keuhler, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park.
Mr. Padilla was born April 10, 1918, in Galisteo, N.M. He was a boiler operator for Phillips Petroleum Co., owned and operated Padilla Construction, and was a bricklayer.
Survivors include his wife, Jennie; six daughters, Mary Belle Newman and Rosalie Swink, both of Borger, Mary Jane Fagan and Kathryn Robertson, both of Broken Arrow, Okla., Barbara Sadler of Denver, and Anita Smith of Yukon, Okla.; two brothers, Abe Padilla and Nick Padilla, both of Albuquerque, N.M.; two sisters, Eliza Anaya of Las Vegas, N.M., and Terry Padilla Cruz of Santa Fe, N.M.; 13 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice; or St. John's Catholic Church.
The family will be at 1308 Cooley and 2998 Fairlanes Blvd.
Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 30, 2002
Contributed on 3/17/21 by neldapat
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