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Submitted: 5/30/21 • Approved: 6/1/21 • Last Updated: 6/4/21 • R422980-G422979-S3
Howard
1893-1953
Frances F.
1897-1986
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Howard
Borger News Herald - May 12, 1953
Howard Culp, 59, of Spring Creek, died yesterday morning at 11 o'clock in an Amarillo hospital from a heart ailment.
A pioneer resident of this area, Culp came to Borger in 1926, but has lived in Spring Creek for the last 14 years. At the time of his death he was employed by the Spring Creek school. He was a member of the Haile Baptist church and active with the boy scouts of the area.
Survivors include his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Helen Creager of Bunavista and Mrs. Lucy Lee Lancaster of Borger; a son, Howard Gene of Kimball, Nebr.; five grandchildren; his mother, Mrs. Emma Culp of Tulsa; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Billing and Mrs. Marie Girdler, both of Tulsa, and a brother Albert, also of Tulsa.
Services will be Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Borger First Baptist church with the Rev. J.D. Hill of the Haile Baptist church officiating. The Rev. A.C. Lyons of the East Side Baptist church will assist.
Active pallbearers are Merkell Phillips, Wayne Wheeler, Paul Kemp, Walt Shair, Leo Maloney and E.L. Byars.
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Martin Howard Culp
Death Date: 11 May 1953
Death County: Potter
Certificate: 26752
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Martin Howard Culp
Birth Date: 27 Jul 1893
Birth Place: Oak Dale, Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Precinct 1, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Harry Culp
Mother: Emma Loterbaugh
Age at Death: 59
Death Date: 11 May 1953
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
*Obituary Frances
Borger News Herald - January 26, 1986
Frances C. Finch, 88, of 1619 S. Madison in Amarillo died Saturday at High Plains Baptist Hospital.
A former clerk for Hutchinson and Potter Counties, she was a native of Pleasant Hill, Mo and an area resident since 1968.
She was a member of the San Jacinto Baptist Church in Amarillo.
She is survived by a daughter, Lucy P. Lancaster of Amarillo, a stepdaughter, Helen Creager of Borger; a son, Howard Gene Culp of Worland, Wyo.; sisters Lucy Noel of Tulsa, Amy Mitchell of Tulsa and Edna Rust of Tulsa; a brother, Jim Chance of Houston; 11 grandchildren; and 19 great grandchildren.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, in the Schooler-Gordon Colonial Chapel in Amarillo with the Rev. Richard Higley, associate pastor of the San Jacinto Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial will be at 2 p.m. in the Highland Park Cemetery in Borger under the direction of the Schooler-Gordon Funeral Home.
Contributed on 5/30/21
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