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Submitted: 8/10/21 • Approved: 8/10/21 • Last Updated: 8/13/21 • R446137-G446137-S3
Earl L.
1890-1955
Mary Elsie
1894-1979
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Earl
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Earl L Penington
[Earl L Pennington]
Race: White
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: 23 May 1890
Birth Place: Missouri
Street address: Bixby
Residence Place: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Earl Pennington
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Birth Date: abt 1891
Marriage Date: 11 Jul 1913
Marriage Place: Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Elsie Shelton
Film Number: 001020732
U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Earl Lester Pennington
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 May 1890
Residence Place: Sunray, Texas, USA
Military Draft Date: 1942
Relationship to Draftee: Head
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Earl Lester Pennington
Death Date: 10 May 1955
Death County: Moore
Certificate: 24927
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Earl Lester Pennington
Birth Date: 23 May 1890
Birth Place: Missouri
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Sunray, Moore, Texas
Father: John Pennington
Age at Death: 64
Death Date: 10 May 1955
Death Place: Dumas, Moore, Texas, USA
*Obituary Mary
Mrs. Mary Elsie Pennington, 84, of Bacliff, Tex., died Friday in a Galveston hospital.
Services for Mrs. Pennington, a former Phillips and Sunray resident, are pending with Alexander-Simpson Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Pennington's husband, Earl, died in 1955.
Survivors include one son, Fred of Glen Cove, Tex.; one brother, Otis Shelton of Drumright, Okla.; one sister, Mrs. Emma Blevins of Shamrock, Okla.; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Sunday, January 28, 1979)
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Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Elsie Shelton
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Date: abt 1895
Marriage Date: 11 Jul 1913
Marriage Place: Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Earl Pennington
Film Number: 001020732
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Mary Pennington
Death Date: 26 Jan 1979
Death County: Galveston
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Mary Elsie Pennington
[Mary Elsie Shelton]
Birth Date: 3 Sep 1894
Birth Place: Missouri
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Bacliff, Galveston, Texas
Father: George Shelton
Mother: Mary Jane Thornsberry
Age at Death: 84
Death Date: 26 Jan 1979
Death Place: Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
Contributed on 8/10/21
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