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Submitted: 3/18/21 • Approved: 3/18/21 • Last Updated: 3/21/21 • R398887-G0-S3
1915-1974
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
FRITCH - Services for Melvin Payne, 58, of 408 S. Vaughn were held at 2 p.m. today in the First Southern Baptist Church here with the Rev. Charles Stafford and the Rev. Willis Stafford officiating.
Burial was in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Payne died at 4:30 a.m. Sunday in St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo.
Survivors include his wife, a daughter and three grandchildren.
Casketbearers were Dossie Floyd, C.P. Whatley, Roy Pepper, T.J. Hill, Jay Sibley and Clovis Sibley.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 26, 1974)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Melvin Payne
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 58
Birth Date: 4 Nov 1915
Birth Place: Oklahoma
Residence: Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 24 Feb 1974
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Father: Joe S Payne
Mother: Bessie Mae Hilton
Certificate Number: 20827
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Melvin Payne
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 58
Birth Date: 4 Nov 1915
Birth Place: Oklahoma
Residence: Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 24 Feb 1974
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Father: Joe S Payne
Mother: Bessie Mae Hilton
Certificate Number: 20827
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current
Name: Melvin Payne
Born: 4 Nov 1915
Died: Feb 1974
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