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Submitted: 4/16/21 • Approved: 4/18/21 • Last Updated: 4/21/21 • R409376-G409375-S3
March 20, 1916-May 25, 1965
Beloved Mother and Pastor’s Wife
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Mrs. Lona Thames, 49, are scheduled at 2 p.m. Friday from United Pentecostal Church, 1200 Madison.
Officiating ministers will be the Rev. A.H. Browning, of Amarillo, the Rev. Oscar Welch, Allison, and the Rev. Frank Martin of Dumas.
Interment in Dumas Cemetery [sic] will be directed by Simpson Funeral Home.
Casketbearers are the Rev. Laurence Blackstop, Rev. H.M. Welch, Rev. T.H. Chapman, Rev. Nelson Frenchman, Rev. J.D. Kirkland, Rev. O.J. Crossman.
Mrs. Thames was a member of the United Pentecostal Church, where her husband is pastor. Rev. and Mrs. Thames are longtime Borger residents.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 26, 1965)
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Funeral services for Mrs. Lona Thames, 49, are announced at 2 p.m. Friday from United Pentecostal Church, 1200 Madison.
Interment in Westlawn Memorial Park will be under the direction of Simpson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Thames died Tuesday in North Plains Hospital.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 27, 1965)
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Collin County, Texas, Marriage Index, 1800-2010
Name: A Thames
Gender: Male
Spouse: Lona Massingame
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 1935
Marriage Place: Collin, Texas, USA
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Lona Thames
[Lona Massengale]
Birth Date: 20 Mar 1916
Birth Place: Jacksboro, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: J W Massengale
Mother: Belle Dosier
Age at Death: 49
Death Date: 25 May 1965
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 4/16/21 by neldapat
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