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Submitted: 4/1/21 • Approved: 4/1/21 • Last Updated: 4/4/21 • R403771-G403769-S3
Ross
April 15, 1901-December 12, 2000
Mildred
August 24, 1909-August 16, 1995
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary for Ross
BORGER - Ross Roye, 99, died Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2000.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Brown Funeral Directors Chapel of the Fountains with D. Jay Lewis, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Roye was born in Palo Pinto and had lived in Borger for the past 53 years. He retired from Phillips Petroleum Co. as an instrument man. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mildred Roye, in 1995; by a daughter, Letha Smith, in 1979; and by a son, Thomas Roye, in 1996.
Survivors include two daughters, Rossetta Hanna of Borger and LaVaye Billings of Lampasas; two sisters, Ellen Roye and Verna Johnston, both of Fort Worth; 11 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, Dec. 14, 2000)
*Obituary for Mildred
Mildred Roye, 85, Borger, died Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1995 in Golden Plains Community Hosptial.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev. Earl Skaggs, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery by Brown Funeral Directors.
A native of Clovis, N.M., she had been a Borger resident for 51 years. She was a former longtime employee of Hilltop Day School and a homemaker. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
She married Ross Roye on March 18, 1928 in Plainview.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Letha Smith in 1979.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Thomas Roye of Phoenix, Ariz.; two daughters, La Vaye Billings and Rosetta Hanna, both of Borger; two sisters, Shirley Foreman of Amarillo; and Viva Mae Upton of Sacramento, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and 2 great-great-great-grandchildren [sic].
The family will be staying at 813 Country Club Road or 213 Salina.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Thursday, August 17, 1995, Page 10)
Contributed on 4/1/21 by neldapat
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