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Submitted: 8/3/21 • Approved: 8/3/21 • Last Updated: 8/6/21 • R443920-G443919-S3
1912-1977
Our Mother
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Ollie Elizabeth Murphy, 65, of 804 N. Hayes in Amarillo were held at 2 p.m. today in Minton Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Jimmy Gillmore, pastor of the Riverview Baptist Church, officiating.
Interment was in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Minton Mortuary.
Mrs. Murphy died Friday. She had been a resident of Borger from 1927 to 1973 when she moved to Amarillo. She was born March 11, 1912 in Groesbeck, Tex.
She was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church in Amarillo.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Jean Culwell of Electric City; Mrs. Mildred Mangus of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Mrs. Doris Holland of Borger; one son, Richard of Amarillo; one brother, Jack Baker of Amarillo; one sister, Helen Brice of Rockdale; 12 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Billy Culwell, Roger and Allen Holland, Fred and Bob Landers and John Holland.
(Published in Borger News Herald - October 16 & 17, 1977)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Ollie Elizabeth Murphy
[Ollie Elizabeth Baker]
Birth Date: 11 Mar 1912
Birth Place: Groesbeck, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Amarillo, Potter, Texas
Father: Fritz Baker
Mother: Mary Jane Stephens
Age at Death: 65
Death Date: 14 Oct 1977
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Contributed on 8/3/21
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