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Submitted: 4/1/21 • Approved: 4/1/21 • Last Updated: 4/4/21 • R403733-G0-S3
1916-1979
In Loving Memory
Photo/Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Otho J. Rook, 63, of Leisure Lodge Nursing Home, were at 2 p.m. today in Brown's Chapel of the Fountains with the Rev. Rue Scott, pastor, Keeler Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial was in Westlawn Memorial Park with Ed Brown and Sons Funeral Directors.
Mr. Rook died Sunday morning in North Plains Hospital.
A native of Missouri, he had been a Borger resident 30 years. He was a retired pumping contractor. His church membership was with First Baptist Church, Phillips.
Survivors include a son, three daughters, two brothers, two sisters and ten grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Tuesday, October 9, 1979, Page 10)
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U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Otho Jennings Rook
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 24
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 22 May 1916
Birth Place: Iberia, M O
Residence Place: Perryton, Ochiltree, Texas, USA
Registration Date: 16 Oct 1940
Registration Place: Perryton, Ochiltree, Texas, USA
Employer: Texas Highway Department
Complexion: Light
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Next of Kin: Clara Maxine Rook
Household Members:
Name Relationship
Otho Jennings Rook Self (Head)
Clara Maxine Rook Wife
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Otho Jennins Rook
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 63
Birth Date: 22 May 1916
Birth Place: Missouri
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 7 Oct 1979
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: George Stewart Rook
Mother: Louella Beard
Certificate Number: 86868
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