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Submitted: 4/10/21 • Approved: 4/12/21 • Last Updated: 4/15/21 • R407343-G407341-S3
Dewitt D.
1918-1996
I.Jean
1930-1995
Together Forever
Married 47 years
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Dewitt
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Dewitt Sosebee
Death Date: 19 Apr 1996
Death County: Potter
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Dewitt Douglas Sosebee
[Dewitt D Sosebee]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 13 Sep 1918
Birth Place: Hartman, Arkansas
Death Date: 19 Apr 1996
Father: Arfastus B Sosebee
Mother: Mabel Alcorn
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Nov 1940: Name listed as DEWITT DOUGLAS SOSEBEE; 01 May 1996: Name listed as DEWITT D SOSEBEE
*Obituary for Jean
Jean Sosbee, 64, of Borger, died Thursday, Feb. 16, 1995, in St. Anthony's Hospice in Amarillo.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Minton Memorial Chapel with the Rev. John Denton, retired Baptist Minister, officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
A homemaker, she was a native of Lima, Ohio, and a Borger resident since 1952.
Mrs. Sosbee was a member of Keeler Heights Baptist Church. She married DeWitt Sosebee on June 18, 1947 in Clarksville, Ark.
Survivors include her husband, DeWitt Sosebee, of the home; one son, Britt Sosebee, of Amarillo; one daughter, Nancy Conley, of Amarillo; her mother, Lela Hover, of Amarillo; two brothers, Lloyd Hover, of Corpus Christi, and Waldo Hover, of Lina, Ohio; and three grandchildren, Kimberly Conley, of Longview, and Brandi Sosebee and Eric Sosebee, both of Amarillo.
The family will be staying at 1110 Lindsey. Memorials may be made to St. Anthony's Hospice of Amarillo.
Casketbearers will be Tommy Sosebee, Tom Lovell, Scott Cook, Donnie Hover, Britt Sosebee and Gordon Conley.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 17, 1995)
Contributed on 4/10/21 by neldapat
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