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Submitted: 3/30/21 • Approved: 3/30/21 • Last Updated: 4/2/21 • R403176-G403176-S3
Luther D.
1904-1974
Grace M.
1908-1997
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary for Luther
Funeral services for Luther David Ringo, 69, of 503 Caliche, are at 2:30 p.m. Monday from the Franklin St. Church of God. The Rev. James A. Qualls, pastor, will be assisted by the Rev. Kenneth Stephens of Dallas, in the service.
Burial in Westlawn Memorial Park will be directed by Minton Mortuary.
Ringo moved to Borger in 1936 and was employed by Phillips Petroleum Company until retirement. At the time of his retirement he was supervisor at the company's Plains Plant.
He was born Aug. 5, 1904 in Atchison, Kan., and died at 9 p.m. Friday in St. Anthony Hospital, Amarillo.
Ringo was an active church member, at the Church of God where he taught the Men's Bible Class, served as church clerk for 34 years and directed the choir. He was president of the Gideons.
The family requests memorial be given to the Gideon Memorial Bible Fund.
Surviving are the widow, Grace; son, Robert of Phillips; and four daughters, Mrs. Mary Mitchell, San Angelo, Mrs. Phyllis Kitchens, Pampa, Mrs. Evelyn Roberson of Lubbock; Mrs. Ruth Jackson, Cleveland, Tenn.
Also two brothers, Walter Elliott and Charles Elliott, both of Los Angeles; 12 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Harold Morrow, E.C. Berry, Chuck Golden, Jim Hopkins, Stanley Aylor and Carl Smith.
Honorary pallbearers will be the Gideons of Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald, January 13, 1974)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Luther Ringo
Death Date: 11 Jan 1974
Death County: Potter
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Luther David Ringo
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 69
Birth Date: 5 Aug 1904
Birth Place: Atchinson, Kansas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 11 Jan 1974
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Father: Luther Ringo
Mother: Ida Mae Gresham
*Obituary for Grace
FRITCH - Grace Ringo Alexander, 86, died Monday, Feb. 24, 1997 in Borger Healthcare Center.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the Church of God in Borger with the Rev. J.D. Mitchell of San Angelo officiating and assisted by Rev. L.K. Lawley, pastor of the Church of God in Borger.
Interment will be in the Garden of Good Shepherd in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
A native of Stotesbury, Mo., she had been a Borger area resident since 1936. She was a homemaker and a member of the Church of God.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Luther Ringo, in 1974 and by her second husband, Alva Alexander, in 197[6].
Survivors include one son, Robert E. Ringo of Fritch; four daughters, Mary Ellen Mitchell of San Angelo, Phyllis Kitchens of Pampa, Evelyn Roberson of Lubbock and Ruth Ann Jackson of Cleveland, Tenn.; 14 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren as well as 6 great-great-grandchildren.
Casket bearers will be Matt Moyer, John Chavarria, Stacy Smith, Jerry Smith, Rusty Kitchens and Lt. Col. Steve Mitchell.
Contributed on 3/30/21 by neldapat
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