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Submitted: 7/18/21 • Approved: 7/18/21 • Last Updated: 7/21/21 • R438143-G438140-S3
Geneva Fay
July 16, 1927-January 20, 1962
Barbara Lightfoot
April 24, 1946-May 7, 2012
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Geneva
An explosion that ripped through Phillips Petroleum Company's Texroy camp Tuesday claimed its third victim Saturday morning.
Mrs. Geneva Faye Ross, 34, died at 5:45 a.m. Saturday morning of burns suffered in the disaster.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ross, a 24-year resident of the Borger area, are scheduled at 2 p.m. Monday at the Haile Baptist Church, Rev. Spencer House and Rev. Donald Brent officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery, Borger, under the direction of Minton Mortuary.
Mrs. Ross is survived by her husband, V.D. Ross, four daughters, Barbara, Shirley, Patricia and Peggy, all of the home address, and a son, Roy Chambers, Borger.
Others include her mother, Mrs. L.V. Reese, Borger; three sisters, Mrs. R.J. McElroy, Mrs. Bill Logan and Miss Kathy Reese, and a brother, Wilbern Reese, Borger.
Pallbearers are L.E. Dyer, S.J. Jinks, W.T. Townsend, C.B. Imel, and Clarence Crites.
Mrs. Ross was the third victim of the explosion to die at North Plains Hospital. Mrs. C.A. Ross died of burns from the blast at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the fire flashed through the camp shortly after noon Tuesday.
The disaster's second victim was Mrs. Cora Alexander, 42. Mrs. Alexander died at 1:40 p.m. Wednesday.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Sunday, January 21, 1962, Page Col 6)
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Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Reese
Birth Date: 16 Jul 1927
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Electra, Wichita, Texas, USA
Father: L V Reese
Father Birth Place: Texas
Mother: Beulah Dodson
Mother Birth Place: Oklahoma
Mother Residence: Electra, Texas
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Geneva Faye Ross
Death Date: 20 Jan 1962
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 3945
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Geneva Faye Ross
[Geneva Faye Reese]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 34
Birth Date: 16 Jul 1927
Birth Place: Electra, Texas
Residence: Texroy Camp, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 20 Jan 1962
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: L V Reese
Mother: Beulah Dodson
*Obituary Barbara
Barbara Lightfoot, 66, of Amarillo died Monday, May 7, 2012.
Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Highland Park Cemetery with the Rev. Robert Hensley officiating. Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.
Mrs. Lightfoot was born April 24, 1946, in Borger. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include her father, Virgil May of Tulsa, Okla.; a half-brother, Roy Chambers of Borger; and three half-sisters, Shirley Barr of Port Aransas, Peggy Lloyd of Bay City and Patricia Jones of Kingfisher, Okla.
Amarillo Globe-News, May 9, 2012
Contributed on 7/18/21
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