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Submitted: 5/20/21 • Approved: 5/21/21 • Last Updated: 5/24/21 • R420258-G0-S3
October 24, 1934-February 24, 1938
Safe in the arms of Jesus
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
* Obituary
Last rites were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Richard Francis Carson, 3 1-2 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey F. Carson, in the First Methodist Church. The Rev. J.B. McReynolds officiated at services for the lad, who died Thursday from pneumonia.
Pallbearers were Leonard Wieland, Leonard Patterson, D.Thomas and Erby Wooten.
Flower girls were Mrs. Leonard Wieland, Mrs. Leonard Patterson, Mrs. D. Thomas, Mrs. E.E. Larson, Mrs. Bruce Utt, Mrs. Lee Arnedall [sic] and Mrs. Bobby Wersonick.
The parents are the sole immediate survivors.
Relatives who attended the funeral included: Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Carson and children of Chattanooga, Okla., Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Carson and baby of Faxon, Okla., Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Carson and children, Mr. and Mrs. S.F. Carson and children, Mr. and Mrs. O.M. Deffibaugh and daughter, all of Borger.
The Powell Funeral Home of Borger was in charge of arrangements. Interment was made in Highland cemetery.
(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Sunday, February 27, 1938)
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Richard Francis Carson
Date of Birth: 24 Oct 1934
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hutchinson
Father's Name: Aubrey Francis Carson
Mother's Name: Ruth Martha Deffibaugh
Roll Number: 1934_0002
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Richard F. Carson
Death Date: 24 Feb 1938
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 8617
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Richard F Carson
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 3
Birth Date: 24 Oct 1934
Birth Place: Borger, Texas
Residence: Borger, Texas, USA
Death Date: 24 Feb 1938
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Aubrey F Carson
Mother: Ruth DeFfinbaugh
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