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Submitted: 4/14/21 • Approved: 4/14/21 • Last Updated: 4/17/21 • R408794-G0-S3
June 16, 1940-July 9, 1985
Beloved Son
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services were held for David LaRoy Swinford at 10 a.m. Friday, July 12, at the Minton Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of the Bible Baptist Church, presiding. Burial was in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Swinford, 45, died recently at his home in Amarillo.
An intensive care unit nurse at High Plains Baptist Hospital, he was a native of Wichita Falls, a former Borger resident and an Amarillo resident for 12 years. He was a Baptist.
He is survived by his mother, Edith Wallace of Borger; father Roy Lee Swinford of California; brother, Ted Wallace of Irvin, Texas; brother, Norman Wallace of Irving, Texas; brothers, Jimmy Dale Wallace of Amarillo; and sister, Vickie Kindig of Berryville, Ark.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 13, 1985)
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: David La Roy Swinford
Date of Birth: 16 Jun 1940
Gender: Male
Birth County: Wichita
Mother's name: Edith Cummings
Roll number: 1940_0008
California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985
Name: David L Swinford
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1940
Age: 20
Marriage Date: 29 Aug 1960
Marriage Place: San Diego, California, USA
Spouse Name: Charlott A Bernier
Spouse Age: 17
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: David Swinford
Death Date: 6 Jul 1985
Death County: Potter
Gender: Male
Contributed on 4/14/21 by neldapat
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