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Submitted: 7/22/21 • Approved: 7/22/21 • Last Updated: 7/25/21 • R439598-G0-S3
1874-1956
Please see Brooks and Martin Family Marker
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Lesley [sic] Martin, 81, who died at 5 a.m. today, will be conducted at 10 a.m., Wednesday in the First Christian Church. Rev. Rawling Cherryhomes, pastor, will officiate.
Martin, who died at a local hospital, was a member of the Owenton Church of Christ, Owenton, Kentucky and was a member of the Masonic Lodge in that city.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Brooks, 510 Crockett, Borger; two sons, W.D. of Phillips and Ben of Delaware City, Delaware; six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Interment will be in the Highland Park Cemetery.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Tuesday, January 10, 1956, Page 1 Col 8)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Leslie Martin
Death Date: 10 Jan 1956
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 3077
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Leslie Martin
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 81
Birth Date: 3 Dec 1874
Birth Place: Lusby Mill, Kentucky
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 10 Jan 1956
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: William Martin
Mother: Mary Alexander
Contributed on 7/22/21
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