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Submitted: 5/1/21 • Approved: 5/2/21 • Last Updated: 5/5/21 • R415371-G0-S3
1912-1970
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for John Nolen Wise, 58, of 127 Arline, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Bible Baptist Church. The Rev. Leonard Forsyth will officiate.
Interment will be in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Simpson Funeral Home.
Casketbearers will be Frank Barnett, Jim Folkes, Royce Hallmark, Clint Prock, James Prock and Max Poole.
Wise was pronounced dead on arrival at North Plains Hospital at 3:25 p.m. Wednesday. He had been a resident of Borger since 1935 and was employed as a boilermaker for the Robinson Industrial Corporation. He was a member of the Bible Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, two sons, his mother, one brother, five sisters and seven grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Friday, May 15, 1970)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: John Wise
Death Date: 13 May 1970
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: John Nolen Wise
Birth Date: 16 Feb 1912
Birth Place: Plainview, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: John Wise
Mother: Susie Ellis
Age at Death: 58
Death Date: 13 May 1970
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
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