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Submitted: 7/28/21 • Approved: 7/29/21 • Last Updated: 7/31/21 • R441603-G441603-S3
1923-2016
Married 7-3-1940
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Lovonia Molly McGehee
September 4, 1923 - June 28, 2016
Lovonia Molly McGehee, 92, died Tuesday, June 28, 2016 in Borger. Memorial service will be at the Minton Memorial Chapel at 9:30 a.m. Friday, July 1, with Carroll Thomason officiating. Graveside service will be private under the direction of Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors. There will be a visitation with the family at the funeral home on Thursday evening from 5-7 p.m.
Lovonia was born September 4, 1923 in Chickelah, Arkansas to John William and Maybelle (Jones) Downs. She moved to Borger in 1947 from Oklahoma. Lovonia lived in Phillips for 38 years. She was a homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ where she taught 3rd grade Sunday School for 26 years. Lovonia married her high school sweetheart, Clarence McGehee, on July 3, 1940 in Pottawatomie, Oklahoma.
Survivors include her children, Jonice and Carroll Thomason of Amarillo and Dwain and Marsha McGehee of South Fork, Colorado; grandchildren, Jena Welch, Tricia Stinebaugh, Kris McGehee; great-grandchildren, Ryan Jordan, Alex Jordan, Marc Stinebaugh, Kason McGehee, Addison McGehee, Colton McGehee, Alyzar McGehee; and one great-great-granchild, Xzayvain Mata.
Lovonia was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, one grandson, Micah Dwain McGehee, three brothers, and one sister.
(Published by Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors, June 29, 2016)
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Contributed on 7/28/21
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