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Submitted: 4/11/21 • Approved: 4/12/21 • Last Updated: 4/15/21 • R407680-G407680-S3
1931-2002
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
GARDENDALE - Melba Mavis Spires, 71, died Thursday, Dec. 19, 2002.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Westlawn Memorial Park with the Rev. Terry Pierce, pastor of First Church of the Nazarene in Odessa, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park by Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
Mrs. Spires was born May 5, 1931, in Nowata, Okla. She was a beauty operator at the Beauty Inn when she lived in Borger.
Survivors include her husband, Louis; two sons, Jack Spires of Spring and Larry Spires of Gardendale; her stepmother, Elizabeth Hamil of Nowata; a brother, Billy Hamil of Kingwood; a sister, Nevada McLaughlin of Borger; five grandsons; and a great-grandson.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2002)
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U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Melba Mavis Hamil
[Melba Mavis Spires]
[Melba Spires]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 5 May 1931
Birth Place: Nowata Nowat, Oklahoma
[Nowata, Oklahoma]
Death Date: 19 Dec 2002
Father: Willie R Hamil
Mother: Alma L Brannan
Notes: Jan 1947: Name listed as MELBA MAVIS HAMIL; Jul 1962: Name listed as MELBA MAVIS SPIRES; 31 Dec 2002: Name listed as MELBA M SPIRES
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