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Submitted: 6/30/21 • Approved: 6/30/21 • Last Updated: 7/3/21 • R432447-G0-S3
November 6, 1939-June 10, 1949
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services were held Sunday, June 12th, at 3 p.m. in the First Methodist Church of Borger for James Ross Hooper, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Hooper of 1409 Herbst St., Borger, with the Rev. Noel Bryant officiating.
James drowned near his home the morning of Friday, June 11th, in a small triangular lake in which another child was injured.
Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Hooper; three brothers, Ernest and Thomas, both of Borger, and Bervin who is stationed with the Navy in the South Pacific; one sister, Doris Mae Hooper of Borger; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Grace Hooper, Amarillo; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Mannie Turner of Itasca, Texas.
James Ross was a member of the Methodist Church and a member of the Cub Scouts, belonging to Pack No. 6, Den 2.
Interment was in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of the Blackburn-Shaw-Brown Funeral Home.
Casket bearers were W.H. Scoggins, Howard Kiekbusch, Jim Weddle, G.W. Dickey, P.T. McGuyer, and U.B. Followell.
(Published in Hutchinson County Herald, Friday, June 17, 1949)
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: James Ross Hooper
Date of Birth: 6 Nov 1939
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hill
Father's name: Ernest Hooper
Mother's name: Thelma Mae Turner
Roll number: 1939_0004
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: James Ross Hooper
Death Date: 10 Jun 1949
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 29003
Contributed on 6/30/21
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