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Submitted: 5/27/21 • Approved: 5/29/21 • Last Updated: 6/1/21 • R422086-G0-S3
1900-1955
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
O. C. Cope, Borger resident for 18 years, died Saturday at 9:50 p.m. in North Plains Hospital. He was 54 years old.
Cope, who lived at 100 South Spruce Street, was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Oma Cope; a son Jim Cope of Borger; three sisters, Mrs. Mariba Bray, Cromwell, Oklahoma; Mrs. Pearl Hammer, Gladewater, and Mrs. Oma Bolt, Longview; a brother, Shelby Cope, Tecumseh, Oklahoma and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were scheduled at 2 p.m. today at Calvary Baptist Church with pastor Clifton Tennison and Rev. Hal Upchurch officiating. Interment was to follow in the local cemetery.
(Published in Borger News Herald, January 31, 1955)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Olive Clarence Cope
Death Date: 29 Jan 1955
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 3047
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Olive Clarence Cope
Birth Date: 16 Sep 1900
Birth Place: Kentucky
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: A B Cope
Mother: Mollie Eggleston
Age at Death: 54
Death Date: 29 Jan 1955
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 5/27/21
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Record #: 422086