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Submitted: 6/4/21 • Approved: 6/4/21 • Last Updated: 6/7/21 • R424200-G424200-S3
1925-1994
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
FRITCH - Kittie E. DeShields, 68, died Thursday, May 19, 1994 in St. Anthony's Hospice in Amarillo.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Riverview Baptist Church with the Rev. Derryl DeShields of Pearl, Miss. and the Rev. Jimmy Gilmore, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
A native of Oklahoma, she had been a Hutchinson County resident since 1947. She was a homemaker, and a member of Riverview Baptist Church.
She was a riveter and welder on Liberty Ships during World War II and a Red Cross volunteer for North Plains Hospital and Golden Plains Community Hospital from 1980 until 1985.
She married H.W. DeShields March 16, 1946 in Seminole, Okla.
Survivors include her husband, of the home; two sons, Derryl Wayne DeShields of Pearl, Miss.; and Michael David DeShields of Borger; a daughter, Gerry Diane Taliaferro of Summerville, S.C.; a sister, Bertha Jo Nichols of Burnet; 10 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
Pallbearers will be Alton Cheatwood, J.D. Cheatwood, Leon McDonald, Jerald McDonald, James Cheatwood and Quinn Atkins.
The family requests memorials be made to St. Anthony's Hospice of Amarillo.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Friday, March 20, 1994, Page 2)
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Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Kittie Eva Wyrick
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Birth Date: abt 1926
Marriage Date: 16 Mar 1946
Marriage Place: Seminole, Seminole, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Hubert Wayne Deshields
Film Number: 002315302
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Kittie Deshields
Death Date: 19 May 1994
Death County: Potter
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Kittie Deshields
Last Residence:
79036 Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
BORN: 19 Oct 1925
Died: 19 May 1994
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Kittie Eva Wyrick
[Kittie Eva Deshields]
[Kittie Deshields]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 19 Oct 1925
Birth Place: Pearsonia Os, Oklahoma
[Pearsonia, Oklahoma]
Death Date: 19 May 1994
Father: John W Wyrick
Mother: Myrtle L Sherrod
Death Certificate Number: 050926
Notes: Aug 1942: Name listed as KITTIE EVA WYRICK; Dec 1974: Name listed as KITTIE EVA DESHIELDS; 22 May 1998: Name listed as KITTIE DESHIELDS
Contributed on 6/4/21
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Record #: 424200