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Submitted: 6/9/21 • Approved: 6/9/21 • Last Updated: 6/12/21 • R425788-G0-S3
June 6, 1888-December 8, 1964
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Thomas Summers Elms, 76, of 205 Byrd, Phillips, are scheduled at 2 p.m. Friday from Bible Baptist Church. The Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor, will officiate. Interment will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Simpson Funeral Home.
Elms died at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday in North Plains Hospital. He has been a Phillips resident for four years and was a member of a Baptist Church.
Surviving are the widow, Grace; two sons, Donald of Phillips, Walter of Riverview Camp; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Busso of Oakland, Calif., and Mrs. Betty Ulm of Petaluma, Calif.; brother, Oscar, of Shawnee, Okla.; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, December 9, 1964)
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Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Name: T S Elms
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Birth Year: abt 1889
Residence: Summers, Washington, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Grace Graham
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 20
Spouse's Residence: Summers, Washington, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 31 Aug 1913
Marriage License Date: 29 Aug 1913
Marriage County: Washington
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 1034255
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Thomas Summers Elms
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 76
Birth Date: 6 Jun 1888
Birth Place: Arkansas
Residence: Phillips, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 8 Dec 1964
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Thomas B Elms
Mother: Sarah Elms
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Thomas Summers Elms
Birth Date: 6 Jun 1888
Birth Place: Washington, Arkansas
Claim Date: 3 Jun 1953
Notes: 02 Jun 1953: Name listed as THOMAS SUMMERS ELMS
Contributed on 6/9/21
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