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Submitted: 5/27/21 • Approved: 5/31/21 • Last Updated: 6/3/21 • R422129-G0-S3
Oklahoma
PRIVATE 44th Company 2nd Convalescent Center
World War I
October 19, 1889-August 6, 1963
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for John H. Couzins, 27-year resident of the Tri-City area, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in Minton Memorial Chapel.
The military rites will be conducted by Chaplain and interment in Highland Park Cemetery.
He died Tuesday at 6 a.m. in Veterans Hospital in Amarillo. The 73-year-old oil field worker was an employee of the J.M. Huber Corporation and lived at the Hazlewood lease west of Borger.
A veteran of World War I, Couzins was an honorary member of American Legion post 412. He had been a member of the Shidler, Okla., Masonic lodge for 41 years.
Survivors include the widow, Monta; a step-son, James M. Gardner of Kansas City, Mo.; a sister, Mrs. W.A. Braun of Iola, Kan.; one brother, Charles of Bushnell, Iowa; and a niece, Mrs. J.B. Foley of Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald, August 7, 1963)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: John H Couzins
Birth Date: 19 Oct 1889
Birth Place: Nevada, Missouri
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Charles W Couzins
Mother: Ellen Bollin
Age at Death: 73
Death Date: 6 Aug 1963
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Contributed on 5/27/21
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