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Submitted: 6/11/21 • Approved: 6/12/21 • Last Updated: 6/15/21 • R426420-G426418-S3
Oscar Jones
February 26, 1901-October 27, 1949
Father
Bertie Mildred
August 30, 1903-August 9, 1950
Mother
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Bertie
Mrs. O.J. Ferrell, 46, of 907 W. Jackson, a long-time resident of this area, passed away yesterday at 11:40 a.m. in the Groom Hospital in Groom, Texas, after a brief illness.
Survivors include one daughter, Audrey Lee Ferrell, of Borger; four sons, Clifford, Wilbur, Otdis [sic] and Oscar, Jr., all of Borger; her mother, Mrs. Lena Phares, of Borger; one sister, Mrs. E.T. Collins, Albuquerque. Five brothers, Henry Phares, Pittsburg, California; ivey Phares, Beaumonth; Roy, Earnest and Leland Phares, all of Borger, and one grandson.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Minton Funeral Home chapel, with the Rev. Amos R. Meador, pastor of the Church of Nazarene, officiating. Interment will be in the Highland Park cemetery, under the direction of Minton Funeral Home.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, August 10, 1950, p1, c4)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Bertie Mildred Ferrell
[Bertie Mildred Phares]
Birth Date: abt 1904
Birth Place: Louisiana
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Borger
Father: Sam Phares
Age at Death: 46
Death Date: 9 Aug 1950
Death Place: Groom, Carson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 6/11/21
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