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Submitted: 6/14/21 • Approved: 6/14/21 • Last Updated: 6/17/21 • R427532-G0-S3
February 12, 1908-April 18, 1989
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Rubbie "Rube" Gamble, 81, of Borger were at 2 p.m. today in Minton Memorial Chapel with Mr. Richard Kasko, minister of the Gardner Street Church of Christ, officiating.
He died at 2:50 a.m. Tuesday in Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo.
A native of Crowell, he moved to Borger in 1937 from Marlow, Okla. He was a retired pipefitter for Local 196.
He was a Baptist, and member of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 196 of Amarillo.
He married Edith Taylor, March 27, 1929 in Lawton, Okla.
He was preceded in death by a son, Bobby Lee Gamble in 1983.
Survivors include his wife of the home; three daughters, Mrs. Loyd Sable of Borger; Mrs. Joyce Toole of Salida, Colo.; and Mrs. Betty Ann Sparks of Casper, Wyo.; one son, Dana F. Gamble of Fritch; one brother, Murl Gamble of Hurst; one sister, Thelma Johnson of Ft. Worth; 10 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Randy Sable, Brad Sable, Mike Lewis, Dean Gamble, Danny Gamble, and Craig Sparks.
Burial was in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald, April 20, 1989)
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Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995
Name: Rubbie Gamble
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1908
Marriage Date: 27 Mar 1929
Marriage Place: Comanche, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Edith Taylor
Film Number: 001869546
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Rubbie Gamble
Death Date: 18 Apr 1989
Death County: Potter
Gender: Male
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Record #: 427532