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Submitted: 5/7/21 • Approved: 5/11/21 • Last Updated: 5/14/21 • R416843-G416843-S3
1903-1977
Our Loving Mother
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Mrs. Leola Banks, 75, of 309 Caliche, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of Bible Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial will follow in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Alexander-Simpson Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Banks died Sunday in North Plains Hospital. She was a native of Indian Territory in Oklahoma and had lived in Borger since 1945. She came here from White Deer where she was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include one son, one daughter, three sisters, six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Finis West, David Boyer, Skit Wilson, Wayne Powell, Ferris Long, and Archie Compton.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 10, 1977)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Dora Lcola Banks
[Dora Lcola Overstreet]
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1902
Birth Place: Indian Teritory, Oklahoma
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: James B Overstreet
Mother: Missouri Ham
Age at Death: 75
Death Date: 8 May 1977
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
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