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Submitted: 6/11/21 • Approved: 6/13/21 • Last Updated: 6/16/21 • R426453-G0-S3
SERGEANT US Army
World War II
April 1921-November 1986
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Horace Edward Fite, 65, of 711 Missouri died Sunday evening in the Veteran's Hospital in Amarillo.
The owner of Fite's 66 Service Station, he was a native of Gowen, Okla., and a Borger resident for 32 years.
He was a veteran of World War II serving in the Army in Europe, and a member of the VFW and American Legion.
He is survived by his wife, Eula; three sons, John and Howard of Borger and Lonnie of Phillips; two daughters, Brenda Cox of Hickory, N.C. and Lea Ann Benefield of Jay, Oklahoma; one brother, Harold of Sanford; five sisters, Mildred Lemley of Phillips, Leora Little of Grants Pass, Oregon, Connie Mitchell of Lane, Oklahoma, Ruth Capshaw of Tushka, Oklahoma, and Dorothy Little of Caney, Oklahoma; 17 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by a daughter, Donna Faye Wilson; a brother, Harvey Fite and a sister, Bonnie McCullar, and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Brown's Chapel of the Fountains with Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor, Bible Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Home.
(Published in Borger News Herald, December 2, 1986)
Contributed on 6/11/21
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