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Submitted: 6/15/21 • Approved: 6/15/21 • Last Updated: 6/18/21 • R427891-G427891-S3
John Mason
1884-1962
Mason
Ethel Ora
1887-1967
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary John
John M. Garrard, 88, 1403 Clayton, a local resident since 1941, died at North Plains Hospital at 7:30 a.m. Saturday after a brief illness.
Garrard was a retired employee of Gulf Oil Corp. and a member of the First Baptist Church. He was a past master of Isom Masonic Lodge 1242 A.F. & A.M.
Funeral services will be conducted from the First Baptist Church Monday at 2 p.m., Rev. Dan B. Cameron, pastor, and Jack Orbison, Church of Christ minister, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Ed Brown, Funeral Director.
Masonic rites by the lodge will be held. All members of Isom Lodge are requested to meet at the Masonic Temple.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ethel Garrard of the home; three sons, T.J., Perryton. W.A. of Wickett, and G.E. Garrard, Tucson, Ariz.; three daughters, Mrs. N.W. Lantron, Mesa, Ariz., Mrs. J.D. Pollard, Wichita Falls and Mrs. R.S. Holt, Dallas; one sister, Mrs. Annie Baker, Phoenix, Ariz. and 17 grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, September 2, 1962)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: John Mason Garrard
Death Date: 1 Sep 1962
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 56668
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: John Mason Garrard
Birth Date: 4 Jul 1884
Birth Place: Caddo, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: W A Garrard
Mother: Ellen McCoy
Age at Death: 78
Death Date: 1 Sep 1962
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father of John Mason Garrard Jr
*Obituary Ethel
Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel O. Garrard, 80, of Midland, former longtime Borgan, are to be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from Gardner Street Church of Christ with the minister, J.R. Chism, officiating.
Burial in Highland Park Cemetery will be directed by Ed Brown & Sons.
Mrs. Garrard died Wednesday in Midland. She had resided in Borger until five years ago, at the death of her husband, John M. Garrard, when she moved to Midland.
Surviving are three sons, Jack of Midland, Bill of Wickett, Glenn of Salt Lake City; three daughters, Mrs. Venita Lantron of Mesa, Ariz., Mrs. Levinia Holt, Dallas, Mrs. Arvilla Pollard, Wichita Falls; two sisters, Miss Florence Jackson, Oklahoma City, Mrs. Jim Dulsworth, Pauls Valley, Okla.; 18 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, December 28, 1967)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ethel Garrard
Death Date: 27 Dec 1967
Death County: Midland
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Ethel Ora Garrard
[Ethel Ora Jefferson]
Birth Date: 30 Jun 1887
Birth Place: Leonard, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Midland, Midland, Texas
Father: Thomas Jefferson
Age at Death: 80
Death Date: 27 Dec 1967
Death Place: Midland, Midland, Texas, USA
Contributed on 6/15/21
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