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Submitted: 6/27/21 • Approved: 6/27/21 • Last Updated: 6/30/21 • R431646-G431644-S3
J. E.
1903-1981
M. Ruth
1901-1989
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*Obituary J. E.
FRITCH - Funeral services for J.E. Hendon, Sr., 78, of 201 W. Michigan, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in First Southern Baptist Church.
Officiating will be the Rev. Samuel Ogan, of Amarillo, assisted by the Rev. Ron Trussler, pastor. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Mr. Hendon died Monday in St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo.
Mr. Hendon, a retired nurseryman and native of Glen Rose, had lived in Fritch for 16 years. He was a member of First Southern Baptist Church and Odd Fellow Lodge 94.
Survivors include his wife, Mattie; three sons, Jerry of Snyder, David of Garland, and Billy of St. Michaels, Md.; one daughter, Dorothy Lee Patterson of Fritch; one sister, Evan Howell of Stephenville; 15 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be members of the Odd Fellows Lodge 94.
(Published in Borger News Herald, December 8, 1981)
*Obituary M. Ruth
Funeral Services for Mattie Ruth Hendon, 87, of Garland will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Minton Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Lee Fuller, pastor of the Fritch Southern Baptist Church, officiating.
Mrs. Hendon died Tuesday in Methodist Hospital in Stephenville.
She was born in Erath County, Texas. She and her husband owned and operated the Fairway Nursery from 1946 to 1962.
She was a member of First Southern Baptist Church in Fritch, Borger Rebecca Lodge 286 and was Past Noble Grand.
She married Eber Hendon Dec. 15, 1929 in Erath County.
He preceeded her in death Dec. 7, 1981.
Survivors include one daughter, Dorothy Lee Patterson of Fritch; three sons, J.E. Hendon, Jr. of Dublin, Texas; Bill Hendon of St. Michaels, Md.; and Daved Hendon of Garland; one brother, Lee Garrett of Stephenville; 16 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.
The family will be staying at 1107 Jackson.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, May 25, 1989)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Mattie Hendon
Death Date: 23 May 1989
Death County: Erath
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Mattie R Hendon
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 2 Sep 1901
Death Date: 23 May 1989
Claim Date: 7 Sep 1966
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