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Submitted: 3/30/21 • Approved: 3/30/21 • Last Updated: 4/2/21 • R403181-G0-S3
1904-1974
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
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
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