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Submitted: 5/11/21 • Approved: 5/13/21 • Last Updated: 5/16/21 • R418051-G418049-S3
E. K.
1906-1955
Iris E.
1906-1990
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary E. K.
E.K. Billington, 49, former Borger resident, who resided at Watsonville, California the past 4 years died at a Watsonville hospital at 3:25 p.m. Thursday.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Iris Billington; his daughters: Mrs. Vonna Jones of Borger; Mrs. Roger Freeman of Newark, New Jersey and Sharon Ann Billington of the home address; two brothers, M.L. Billington, Phillips and G.D. Billington, Plainview; three sisters: Mrs. Lois Wheeler, Lubbock; Mrs. W.A. Meyers, Amarillo, and Mrs. J. Cannon of Hale Center. Billington was a member of the Church of Christ.
The body will arrive at a local mortuary and will rest there until Tuesday afternoon when graveside rites will be conducted at Highland Park cemetery.
Mr. Luther Roberts, Gateway Church of Christ, will officiate.
(Published in Borger News Herald, June 5, 1955)
*Obituary Iris
Iris Edna Billington, 84, of Borger, died Saturday, Oct. 6, 1990, in Heritage Convalescent Center in Amarillo.
Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Highland Park Cemetery with Mr. Richard Kasko, minister of Gardner Street Church of Christ, officiating.
Burial will be under the direction of Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
A native of Coryell County, she had been a Borger resident for 35 years. She was a housewife and a member of Gardner Street Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband, E.K. Billington, in 1955 and a daughter, Frieda Freeman, in 1978.
Survivors include two daughters, Vonna Jones of Amarillo and Sharon Birdsong of Alvin; a sister, Mamie Barton of Pinedale, Calif.; 10 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, October 7, 1990)
Contributed on 5/11/21
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