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Submitted: 6/20/21 • Approved: 6/20/21 • Last Updated: 6/23/21 • R429523-G0-S3
1898-1966
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Otis Grant, 68, a resident of Borger for 40 years, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church in Skellytown, the Rev. C.M. Rogers officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Simpson's Funeral Home in Borger.
He was a retired oil field worker for the Hutchinson Drilling Co., a veteran of World War I, and a native of Fort Smith, Ark.
Surviving are the widow, Dellie; four sons, Melvin of Amarillo, Dutch of the home, Sterling of Roswell, N.M., Donald of Odessa; one daughter, Mrs. T.C. Anderson of Amarillo; four sisters, Mrs. O.L. Gunter Sr. of Borger, Mrs. Edgar L. Betts of Phillips, Mrs. Helen Platt and Mrs. Pat Berry, both of Houston; one brother, O.J. Grant of Long Beach, Calif.; eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Casketbearers are William Gunter, O.L. Gunter Jr., J.C. Gunter, Dave Peabody, Tommy Platt, Edgar Betts.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 15, 1966)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Otis Henry Grant
Birth Date: 22 May 1898
Birth Place: Ft Smith, Arkansas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Skellytown, Carson, Texas
Father: W G Grant
Mother: Nora Transler
Age at Death: 68
Death Date: 13 Nov 1966
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
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