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Submitted: 4/16/21 • Approved: 4/18/21 • Last Updated: 4/21/21 • R409547-G0-S3
January 9, 1899-August 1, 1963
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Hubert Lee Tilson, 64, of 304 McCormick, Stinnett, are scheduled at 2 p.m. Saturday from Minton Memorial Chapel. The Rev. Lee Hillon of Central Baptist Church will officiate.
Burial in Westlawn Memorial Park will be under direction of Minton Mortuary.
Tilson was employed by Phillips Chemical Company at the Copolymer Plant. He died at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in St. Anthony's Hospital, Amarillo. He had been an area resident for 16 years.
Surviving are the widow, Dora; three daughters, Mrs. Edith King of Fritch, Mrs. Eudora Beste of Kingman, Kan., Mrs. Norma Whatley, Glendora, Calif.; three sons, Elmer and Robert of Fritch, and Hobert of Odessa; three sisters, Mrs. Vera Sargeant, Mrs. Audrey Franklin, Mrs. Letha Wilson, all of Sanford; two brothers, Roy of Borger and Orval of Sanford; 19 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. One step-daughter, Mrs. E.L. Poe, Beaver, Okla. also survives.
(Published in Borger News Herald, August 2, 1963)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Hurbert Lee Tilson
Birth Date: 9 Jan 1899
Birth Place: Knoxville, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Stinnett, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Charley W Tilson
Mother: Elizabeth Stallings
Age at Death: 64
Death Date: 1 Aug 1963
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Contributed on 4/16/21 by neldapat
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