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Submitted: 4/16/21 • Approved: 4/18/21 • Last Updated: 4/21/21 • R409476-G409474-S3
Jack L.
January 17, 1909-March 16, 1994
Elizabeth
February 15, 1910-February 14, 1982
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary for Jack
Borger News Herald - March 17, 1994
Funeral services for Jack L. Thompson, 85, Borger, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Minton Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Jeff Burress, pastor First Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Mr. Thompson died at 6:18 a.m. Wednesday, March 16, 1994 in Golden Plains Community Hospital.
A native of New Kirk, Okla., he had been a Borger resident since 1927. He was a retired owner and operator of Thompson Oil Co., and was a welder and pumper. He was a member of Meredith Gun Club.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth in 1982, and a son, Jack L. Thompson, Jr., in 1979.
Survivors include a son, Wallace Thompson of Borger; a daughter, Betty Riley of Amarillo; 8 grand-children; 15 great-grandchildren; and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
The family will be staying at 514 Jackson.
*Obituary for Elizabeth
Elizabeth Marie Thompson, 71, of 600 E. Third Street, died at 3:26 p.m. Sunday.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Minton Memorial Chapel.
The Rev. Lyman Paul Wood, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, will officiate.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park.
Mrs. Thompson, a native of Hurst, was a Borger pioneer. She had lived in Borger for 53 years and was a housewife.
She was preceded in death by her son Jack Thompson Jr. in 1979. Suvivors include her husband, Jack L.; one son Wallace of Borger; one daughter, Mrs. Charles "Betty" Riley of Amarillo; two sisters, Mabel Wittmeyer and Alma O. Cushing both of Atascadero, Calif.; one brother, Russell Brown of Ponca City, Okla.; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Monday, February 15, 1982, Page 3)
Contributed on 4/16/21 by neldapat
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