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Submitted: 4/16/21 • Approved: 4/18/21 • Last Updated: 4/21/21 • R409561-G0-S3
1901-1983
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Borger News Herald - June 30, 1983
Roy Reuben Tilson, 82, of No. 2 Western Heights died at 2:10 p.m. Wednesday in St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo.
Services are pending with Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors.
A native of Knoxville, Tenn., he had been a Borger resident for 39 years. He was owner of Tilson's Antiques and a Baptist.
He married Robbie Payne, Sept. 18, 1927 in Honey Grove.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Lonnie Tilson of Hurst, Finas Tilson of Athens, Ala., Leo Tilson of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Joe Tilson of Dallas; two daughters, Mrs. Dorisline Price of Great Bend, Kan., and Mrs. Elaine Feese of Borger; two sisters, Mrs. Vera Mongold of Amarillo and Mrs. Letha Wilson of Borger; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Contributed on 4/16/21 by neldapat
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