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Submitted: 8/10/21 • Approved: 8/10/21 • Last Updated: 8/13/21 • R446167-G446165-S3
Lester Edwin
December 26, 1874-May 30, 1955
Bessie Lee
March 16, 1884-December 20, 1975
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Lester Edwin
Kentucky, Birth Records, 1847-1911
Name: L E Petty
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1874
Birth Place: Kentucky, USA
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Father: J B Petty
Mother: L J Morgan
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Lester Edwin Petty
Death Date: 30 May 1955
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 24165
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Doctor Lester Edwin Petty
Birth Date: 26 Nov 1874
Birth Place: Camden, Kentucky
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Berry Petty
Mother: Eledia Jane Morgan
Age at Death: 80
Death Date: 30 May 1955
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
*Obituary Bessie Lee
BORGER - Mrs. Bessie Lee Petty, 91, died Saturday.
She had lived in Borger since 1933 before being transferred 10 years ago to King's Manor Methodist Nursing Home in Hereford.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Ed Brown & Sons Chapel of the Fountains, with the Rev. Paul Burleson, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Mrs. Petty is survived by four daughters; Mrs. Jewell Boylan of Lubbock, Mrs. Willie Fay McGrew of Borger, Mrs. Elma Lee Terry of Denver and Mrs. Ileta Hitchcock of Shreveport, La.; a son, Marvin of Benicia, Calif., 15 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and 18 great-great-grandchildren.
(Published in Amarillo News-Globe, December 21, 1975)
Contributed on 8/10/21
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