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Submitted: 6/16/21 • Approved: 6/16/21 • Last Updated: 6/19/21 • R428292-G0-S3
1897-1965
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the Chapel of the Fountains for James T. Gifford, 68, a resident of Borger since 1944. Gifford died at his home, 519 Missouri, at 12:00 noon Tuesday. He was born June 10, 1897, in Alabama, and lived in Borger as a retired construction worker.
Rev. R.L. Hillerby, pastor of the East Side Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will follow in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Ed Brown and Sons Funeral Directors.
Survivors include his wife, Millie, four sons, Terry, Borger; James E., Amarillo; Billy Ray, Edmond, Okla., and Gary Don, Oberlin, Kan.; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Beard, Borger; one brother, M.F. Gifford, Lefors.
(Published in Borger News Herald, October 27, 1965)
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U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: James Talley Gifford
[James Tolley Gifford]
Birth Date: 10 Jun 1897
Birth Place: Alabama, USA
Residence Place: Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA
Relative: Julia Sweningson
Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: J T Gifford
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Birth Date: abt 1897
Marriage Date: 4 Jul 1933
Marriage Place: Cotton, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Millie Garner
Film Number: 002109315
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: James Gifford
Death Date: 26 Oct 1965
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: James T Gifford
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 68
Birth Date: 10 Jun 1897
Birth Place: Alabama
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 26 Oct 1965
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Richard Gifford
Mother: Julie Turley
Certificate Number: 65210
Contributed on 6/16/21
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