To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Texas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Texas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 6/9/21 • Approved: 6/10/21 • Last Updated: 6/13/21 • R425844-G425844-S3
Wayne Thomas
October 5, 1910-January 11, 1979
Oma Mae
August 24, 1907-March 23, 1971
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Wayne
Services for Wayne Ewing, 68, a former Phillips resident who died Thursday in St. Paul's Hospital in Dallas, were held Saturday in First Baptist Church of Phillips.
The Rev. Jack Green, pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Dallas, officiated. Burial was in Highland Park Cemetery by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors of Amarillo.
Mrs. [sic] Ewing was born at Olney and had lived in Phillips for many years before moving to Plano in 1975. He was a retired Phillips Petroleum Co. employee. He was a Baptist.
Mr. Ewing lived in Plao [sic] for the past 2 1/2 years with his daughter.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Sadie Beth Smallwood of Austin and Mrs. Mary Anne Seale of Plano; three brothers, Albert of Stephenville, Earl of Abilene and J.B. of Muskogee, Okla.; two sisters, Mrs. Belle Shankle of Lockney and Mrs. Willie Mae Lawson of Breckenridge; and three grandsons.
Pallbearers were Bill Lee, J.R. Wolf, Dr. R.E. Darnell, V.G. Platts, L.H. Bailey, H.W. Powers, Gary Cartwright and John Smallwood.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Monday, January 15, 1979, Page 12)
-----
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Wayne Ewing
Death Date: 11 Jan 1979
Death County: Dallas
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Wayne Thomas Ewing
Birth Date: 5 Oct 1910
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Rural, Collin, Texas
Father: William F Ewing
Mother: Mary Alice Parker
Age at Death: 68
Death Date: 11 Jan 1979
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
*Obituary Oma
BORGER - Funeral services for Mrs. Wayne (Oma Mae) Ewing, 63, of Phillips, a longtime teacher in the Borger school system, will be conducted at 4 p.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church of Phillips.
The Rev. J.W. Reynolds, pastor of the Missionary Baptist Church of Clarendon, will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery in Borger by LaGrone Funeral Chapel.
Mrs. Ewing died about 3:15 p.m. Tuesday at her home in Phillips.
She was born in Comanche and had lived in the Borger area for the past 28 years. At the time of her death, she was a third-grade teacher at Bunavista Elementary School.
She had taught in the Borger school system for the past 28 years after teaching in Conley, Callahan, Throckmorton, and Comanche Counties. She moved to Borger from Clarendon.
She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church in Clarendon, the Borger Classroom Teachers Association and the Texas State Teachers Association.
Miss Oma Mae Davis married Wayne Ewing on July 9, 1936, in Albany.
She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Jim Smallwood of Austin and Mrs. Don Seals of Dallas; four sisters, Mrs. C.C. LaGrone, Mrs. D.T. Smallwood, Mrs. Bessie Lane, all of Clarendon, and Mrs. Horace Dunlap of Comanche; and two grandchildren.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - Wed, Mar 24, 1971 - Page 11)
Contributed on 6/9/21
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 425844