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Submitted: 6/25/21 • Approved: 6/28/21 • Last Updated: 7/1/21 • R430942-G0-S3
World War II
1907-1965
Mr. Hawks served three years as a medic during World War II.
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Funeral services for T.W. (Blondy) Hawks, 58, of 407 Baylor, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Robert Tobin, vicar of St. Peters Episcopal Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Ed Brown Funeral Director.
Mr. Hawks owned and operated the Bi-Rite Drug Store here. He died late Sunday night in St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo.
He came to Borger in 1926 and worked at the old Nyal Drug Store in the 600 block of Main. He had been a registered pharmacist since 1930, with experience in Wyoming, Colorado and Texas.
He managed a chain of several Cretney Drug Stores in the Panhandle before going into business for himself in 1949.
Mr. Hawks served three years as a medic during World War II.
Surviving are his wife, a daughter, three brothers and a sister.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - Tue, May 18, 1965 - Page 29)
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Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995
Name: Thayer Hawks
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Birth Date: abt 1906
Marriage Date: 3 Jul 1932
Marriage Place: Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Pansie Wilhite
Film Number: 002169112
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Thayer Hawks
Death Date: 16 May 1965
Death County: Potter
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Thayer William Hawks
Birth Date: 24 Apr 1907
Birth Place: Casper, wyoming
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Charles May Hawks
Mother: Sara Shoopman
Age at Death: 58
Death Date: 16 May 1965
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
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