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Submitted: 8/8/21 • Approved: 8/8/21 • Last Updated: 8/11/21 • R445534-G445532-S3
Henry P.
1898-1973
Grace L.
1900-1981
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Henry
Funeral services for Henry Preston Parkhurst, 74, of 209 Brain, are at 10 a.m. Monday from Bible Baptist Church with the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor, officiating.
Burial in Highland Park Cemetery will be directed by Simpson Funeral Home.
Parkhurst died at 4:45 p.m. Friday in North Plains Hospital. He was a member of Bible Baptist Church. Born in Siloam Springs, Ark., Parkhurst came here from Coffeeville, Kan., in 1935 and had been a resident since then. He was a construction worker until retirement in 1962.
Surviving are his wife, Grace; three sons, Clifford of Stinnett, Ernest of 804 Dixon, George of 416 Lee, four brothers, Thomas L. of Commerce, Okla., George W. of Seminole, Okla., Jess J. of Bristow, Okla., and John C. of Lubbock.
Also two sisters, Mrs. Julia Johnson and Mrs. Rena Owens, both of Tulsa; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Casketbearers are Horace Landers, R. O. Gregg, Jack Galaway, Bob Dawkins, F. D. Beadle, and R. H. Gibbons.
*Obituary Grace
Services for Mrs. Grace Leota Parkhurst, 80, of 1000 E. 6th St., were at 2 p.m. today in Bible Baptist Church. The Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor, officiated.
Burial was in Highland Park Cemetery by Ed Brown & Sons.
Mrs. Parkhurst died Wednesday evening at her home.
A housewife, she was a native of Elm City, Kan.,she had been a Borger resident for 45 years. She was a member of the Bible Baptist Church.
The [sic] is survived by three sons, Ernest and George, both of Borger, and Clifford of Stinnett; a sister, Mrs. Bertha Adamson of Dewey, Okla., five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Clyde Hutto, Jack Galloway, Joe Hefner, Horace Landers, Sam Parkhurst and R.O. Gregg.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Friday, May 8, 1981)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Grace Parkhurst
Death Date: 6 May 1981
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Grace Leota Parkhurst
[Grace Leota Smith]
Birth Date: 23 May 1900
Birth Place: Kansas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Lemuel Smith
Mother: Mary Robinette
Age at Death: 80
Death Date: 6 May 1981
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 8/8/21
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