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Submitted: 6/10/21 • Approved: 6/10/21 • Last Updated: 6/13/21 • R426163-G0-S3
Texas
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS US Army
February 11, 1935-August 31, 1959
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for W.L. (Peewee) Followill, 24, of 605 North Harvey, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Seventh Day Adventist Church with Elder R.A. Jenkins, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Donald Brent, pastor of the Bunavista Baptist Church.
Military graveside rites will be held at Highland Park Cemetery with the local National Guard unit in charge. Member of the National Guard will serve as casketbearers. Burial will be under the direction of Minton Funeral Home.
Followill was electrocuted Monday morning when a rig pole was backed into a 13,000 volt electrical line. Followill was holding a cable to the pole when it hit the line. He was dead on arrival at North Plains Hospital.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Wednesday, September 2, 1959)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Walter Lee Followill
Death Date: 31 Aug 1959
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 45484
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Walter Lee Followill
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1935
Birth Place: Mundy, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: U B Followill
Mother: Pearlie Jennings
Age at Death: 24
Death Date: 31 Aug 1959
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 6/10/21
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