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Submitted: 4/1/21 • Approved: 4/1/21 • Last Updated: 4/4/21 • R403874-G0-S3
November 17, 1922-December 26, 1971
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Borger News Herald - December 27, 1971
Funeral services for W.F. "Bill" Russum, 49, of 206 Caliche, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday from Ed Brown & Sons Chapel of the Fountains with Dr. Dale Younce, pastor of the Faith Covenant Church officiating.
Interment will follow in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Russum died at 8:25 a.m. Sunday at North Plains Hospital. He had been a resident of Borger since 1950 and was a retired employee of Phillips Petroleum Company.
Survivors include his wife, Juanita of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Paul S. Scroggins of Amarillo; his mother, Mrs. C.A. Russum of Vernon; seven brothers, Waymon of Gary, Ind., James of Lubbock, Edgar Lee of Irving, Eugene of Iowa Park, Aubrey of Dallas, Richard of Altus, Okla., Gerald of Bartlesville, Okla.; three sisters, Mrs. Leo Purvis of Stephenville, Mrs. Ozelle Walker and Mrs. Kenneth Bowman, both of Dallas.
Casketbearers will be Jim Scroggins, Jim Swan, Doyle Forester, Red Robins, Kevin Holmes, Frank Brown.
Contributed on 4/1/21 by neldapat
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