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Submitted: 5/7/21 • Approved: 5/11/21 • Last Updated: 5/14/21 • R416819-G416817-S3
William D.
1895-1965
Bessie F.
1895-1981
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*Obituary Bessie
Services for for [sic] Mrs. Bessie F. Bancroft, 85, of 408 N. McGee, were at 2 p.m. today in First Christian Church. The Rev. Jeff Holder, pastor, officiated.
Burial was in Highland Park Cemetery by Alexander Funeral Directors.
A longtime Borger resident, Mrs. Bancroft was a secretary and bookkeeper at Phil's Repair. She was born in Cherokee, Kan., and had been a Borger resident for the past 37 years.
Mrs. Bancroft died at 8:10 p.m. Saturday in North Plains Hospital.
She was a member of the First Christian Church, Eastern Star Chapter 811, the Tri-City Rebekah Lodge No. 226, and the Josiah Bartlett Chapter of DAR.
Survivors include two sons, Philip of Borger and William F. of Shreveport, La.; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Jo McClure of Eufaula, Okla.; one sister, Mrs. Ruth Johnson of Bartlesville, Okla.; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Mrs. Bancroft's husband, W.D., died in 1965.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Tuesday, January 27, 1981, Page 2)
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Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Bess Watson
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Birth Date: abt 1895
Marriage Date: 17 Mar 1920
Marriage Place: Bartlesville, Washington, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: William D Bancroft
Film Number: 001305223
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Bessie Bancroft
Death Date: 24 Jan 1981
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Bessie Frances Bancroft
[Bessie Frances Watson]
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian (White)
Age: 85
Birth Date: 22 Feb 1895
Birth Place: Kansas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 24 Jan 1981
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Frank Watson
Mother: Fannie Schwab
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