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Submitted: 6/15/21 • Approved: 6/15/21 • Last Updated: 6/18/21 • R427944-G0-S3
1885-1972
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Henry Clayborn Gay, Sr., 86, of 1227 Lindsey, a longtime area resident who died Sunday morning in a Wichita Falls hospital, will be at 3 p.m Tuesday in Calvery [sic] Baptist Church.
The Rev. Orel Speed, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Mr. Gay a retired ranch laborer, had worked in the Panhandle as a cowboy at several area ranches since 1926.
Survivors are three sons, Charles of Crane, Herman of Modesto, Calif., and Henry C. Gay, Jr., of 1227 Lindsey; two daughters, Mrs. Margarette Bracken of Amarillo and Mrs. Edithe McWherter of Beaumont; and 11 grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Monday, June 19, 1972)
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Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995
Name: H C Gay
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Birth Date: abt 1886
Marriage Date: 3 Jun 1917
Marriage Place: Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Lillie Pickett
Film Number: 002108715
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Henry Cleyborn Gay
[Henry Cleyhorn Gay]
Race: White
Birth Date: 22 Nov 1885
Street address: 3
Residence Place: Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA
Relative: Lillie May Gay
U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Henry Cleyborn Gay
Gender: Male
Residence Age: 57
Birth Date: 2 Nov 1885
Residence Date: 1942
Residence Place: Panhandle, Texas, USA
Relationship to Draftee: Head
Military Draft Date: 1942
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Henry Gay Sr
Death Date: 18 Jun 1972
Death County: Wichita
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Henry C Gay Senior
Birth Date: 22 Nov 1885
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Napoleon B Gay
Mother: Willy Ball
Age at Death: 86
Death Date: 18 Jun 1972
Death Place: Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, USA
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