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Submitted: 4/20/21 • Approved: 4/21/21 • Last Updated: 4/24/21 • R410816-G0-S3
1914-1997
Mason
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - J.O. Updike, 83, died Tuesday, Aug. 12, 1997.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in First Christian Church with the Rev. Tom Harrison, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery with Masonic graveside rites by the auspices of Adobe Walls Masonic Lodge No. 1355. Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Directors.
Mr. Updike was born in Fletcher, Okla., and had been a resident of the Borger area for 71 years. He retired as a supervisor at the Phillips refinery. He was a member of First Christian Church and a member and past master of Adobe Walls Masonic Lodge No. 1355.
He married Willie Mae Veazey in 1935 at Borger.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Joanne Waight of Borger and Linda Graham of Clemson, S.C.; a sister, Mary Belle Simpson of Arlington; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-Times, Thursday, August 14, 1997)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: John Updike
Death Date: 12 Aug 1997
Death County: Potter
Gender: Male
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: John O. Updike
Last Residence:
79007 Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
BORN: 9 Feb 1914
Died: 12 Aug 1997
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: John Oscar Updike
[John O Updike]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 9 Feb 1914
Birth Place: Sterling, Oklahoma
Death Date: 12 Aug 1997
Father: William H Updike
Mother: Mable G Gaunt
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Nov 1936: Name listed as JOHN OSCAR UPDIKE; 26 Aug 1997: Name listed as JOHN O UPDIKE
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