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Submitted: 4/19/21 • Approved: 4/19/21 • Last Updated: 4/22/21 • R410385-G410384-S3
Elmer C.
1892-1980
Lessie A.
1903-2004
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*Obituary for Elmer
FRITCH - Services for Elmer C. (Pappy) Trent, 88, of 500 Ridgeland, are set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ed Brown & Sons Chapel of the Fountains in Borger, with the Rev. David White, pastor of the Fritch Assembly of God Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park by Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Mr. Trent died Sunday at 8:30 a.m. in his home.
A retired employee of the Phillips Petroleum Company Plains Plant, Mr. Trent was a native of Virginia. He had been an area resident since 1928. He was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church in Fritch.
Survivors include his wife, Lessie; three sons, Jack of Borger, Harold of Bandera and Bill of Oxnard, Calif.; one daughter, Mrs. Clara Lee Davis of Victorville, Calif.; one brother, Ed of LaJunta, Colo.; one sister, Mrs. Almeta Randall of Meeker, Okla.; 16 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Honorary pallbearers will be member of the Fritch Sunshine Club and all fellow employees of the Plains Plant.
(Published in Borger News Herald, October 20, 1980)
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Virginia, Birth Records, 1912-2014, Delayed Birth Records, 1854-1911
Name: Elmer Chipman Trent
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 5 Oct 1892
Birth Place: Scott, Virginia, USA
Father: James Alexander Trent
Mother: Margaret Jane Johnson
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Elmer Trent
Death Date: 19 Oct 1980
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Elmer Chippman Trent
Birth Date: 5 Oct 1892
Birth Place: Virginia
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas
Spouse: Lessie Anthony
Father: James A Trent
Mother: Janie Johnson
Age at Death: 88
Death Date: 19 Oct 1980
Death Place: Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
*Obituary for Lessie
FRITCH - Lessie Trent, 101, died Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in First Southern Baptist Church with the Rev. Calvin Winters, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery by Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.
Mrs. Trent was a homemaker. She was a Baptist.
Survivors include a son, Harold Trent of Bandera; a brother, Jimmy Anthony of Oklahoma; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to First Southern Baptist Church, P.O. Box 358, Fritch, TX 79036 or to Senior Citizen Sunshine Club of Fritch.
Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 12, 2004
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