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Submitted: 5/23/21 • Approved: 5/23/21 • Last Updated: 5/26/21 • R421055-G421055-S3
1887-1976
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Mrs. Vada Chappell, 89, died yesterday in Roswell.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in Minton Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Lewis Crenshaw, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Tatum, N.M., officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Mrs. Chapell was a native of Linden. She married George C. Chappell in 1911 in Cleburne, and the couple moved to Borger in 1936. Her husband died in 1966. She had lived in Fullerton, Calif. for the last seven years, and was a member of First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Thurman Felts of Tatum, Mrs. Henry Gillespie of Fullerton and Mrs. Bill J. Rives of Houston; two sons, J.R. Chappell of Van Nuys, Calif. and Marvin Chappell of Ardmore, Okla.; one brother, Marvin Haynes of Washington D.C., one sister, Mrs. Lee Battle of Austin, 12 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, November 2, 1976)
Contributed on 5/23/21
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