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Submitted: 4/22/21 • Approved: 4/23/21 • Last Updated: 4/26/21 • R411663-G0-S3
1955-1978
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Ronald Paul Walker, 23, of 1113 Jim Hall and Sylvester Darden, 22, of 1308 Patton Circle will be held at 2 p.m Tuesday in Bethel Baptist Church.
The Rev. J.H. Blakemore, pastor, will officiate.
The two Borger men were killed in a one-car accident two miles east of Skellytown on Highway 152 early Saturday morning.
According to the Department of Public Safety, the 1966 Oldsmobile driven by Walker struck a bridge guardrail and traveled 221 feet in the air before striking the ground.
Darden, a pipefitter for Fish Engineering, was born July 28, 1956. He was a lifetime resident of Borger and member of the Bethel Baptist Church.
He is survived by his parents, three brothers and two sisters.
Walker, a construction worker, was born June 18, 1955. He was a lifetime resident of Borger and member of Bethel Baptist Church. He was a member of the Texas National Guard.
He is survived by his mother, three brothers, seven sisters, and two step-sisters.
Services are under the direction of Minton Mortuary.
(Published in Borger News Herald, December 18, 1978)
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Ronald Paul Walker
Date of Birth: 18 Jun 1955
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hutchinson
Father's name: Willie None Walker
Mother's name: Nellie Mae McKnight
Roll number: 1955_0016
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ronald Walker
Death Date: 16 Dec 1978
Death County: Carson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Ronald Paul Walker
Birth Date: 18 Jun 1955
Birth Place: Borger, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Willie Walker
Mother: Nellie McKnight
Age at Death: 23
Death Date: 16 Dec 1978
Death Place: Skellytown, Carson, Texas, USA
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