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Submitted: 5/27/21 • Approved: 5/29/21 • Last Updated: 6/1/21 • R422123-G0-S3
October 8, 1896-January 28, 1966
Our Beloved Husband and Father
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for George Franklin (Frank) Counts will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in Minton's Memorial Chapel.
A Borger resident since 1931, Counts died Friday at his home, 820 McPherson. He was 69.
Officiating at final services will be Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Rev. Jeff Moore. Interment will follow in Highland Park Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Minton Mortuary.
Survivors include Counts' wife Ella, son Eddie R. of Louisville, daughter Mrs. Ben Stephenson of Long Beach, Calif., a brother, five sisters, six grandchildren.
Pall bearers will be W.M. Brown, A.E. Rentfroe, T.B. Potter, Howard Neeley, Norman Morrison, and C.A. Edwards.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Sunday, January 30, 1966)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: George Counts
Death Date: 28 Jan 1966
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: George Franklin Counts
Birth Date: 8 Oct 1896
Birth Place: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Jasper Counts
Mother: Caladonia Gossett
Age at Death: 69
Death Date: 28 Jan 1966
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 5/27/21
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