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Submitted: 5/13/21 • Approved: 5/14/21 • Last Updated: 5/17/21 • R418451-G418450-S3
James J.
1903-1959
Alice H.
1900-1982
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary James
Funeral services for James J. Blanton, 55, of 700 O'Daniel Street, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev. Jeff Moore, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of the Minton Funeral Home.
Blanton died Friday afternoon in North Plains Hospital. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church and had been a resident of Borger for the past 10 years.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 23, 1959)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: James Jefferson Blanton
Death Date: 20 Feb 1959
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 9438
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: James Jefferson Blanton
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1903
Birth Place: Burg, Arkansas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: William D Blanton
Mother: Elizabeth Young Blanton
Age at Death: 56
Death Date: 20 Feb 1959
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
*Obituary Alice
Services for Mrs. Alice Hazel Blanton, 82, of Schertz, will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Minton Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of Bible Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Blanton was a native of Gillham, Ark., and lived in Borger until 1965 when she moved to Schertz. She was a housewife and member of the Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James J. Blanton in 1959.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Inez Peeler of Seadrift, Wanda Harvey of Fritch, Pauline Lisney of Amarillo, Dorothy Donoho of Kingsville; three sons Joel Lee Blanton of Loomis, Calif., James Blanton of Schertz, and Carl Blanton of San Antonio; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Turner of Glenwood, Ark.; and Mrs. Annis France of Sweethome, Org.; one brother, J.A. Ravan of Pittsburg; 32 grandchildren; 62 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be James W. Marrs, Ray Mitchell, Glenn Mitchell, James Peeler, Teddy Peeler, John Donoho, James Blanton and Richard McCandless.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 21, 1982)
Contributed on 5/13/21
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