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Submitted: 8/10/21 • Approved: 8/10/21 • Last Updated: 8/13/21 • R446177-G0-S3
1958-1977
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Fellowship Baptist Church for Billy Wayne Phares, 18, and Dean Lee Stover, 21, who were killed Saturday night in a one-car rollover east of Sanford.
The Rev. Leonard Lindbloom, pastor, and the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of Bible Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Ed Brown and Sons Funeral Directors.
Phares and Stover were fatally injured about 9 p.m. Saturday about one-half mile east of Sanford on Ranch Road 1319.
Phares was dead on arrival at North Plains Hospital, while Stover was pronounced at the scene by Justice of the Peace Nadean Spinks, who acted as coroner.
Trooper Mike Stark of the Texas Highway Patrol said Phares' car was westbound on the roadway when the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle and swerved to the right, striking several guard rails.
The vehicle rolled at least one time, and became entangled in the guard rail. The victims' bodies were pinned beneath the vehicle.
A native of Borger, Phares was a lifetime resident of this area, living at 202 Chickasha, Electric City.
Phares was an employee of Fish Engineering and Construction Co. and was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Phares; two brothers, Bobby Gene and Timothy Don, both of the home; one sister Deborah, of the home; and his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Phares of Borger.
Stover, a native of Borger, lived at 109 Abilene. He was employed by Stonaber Insulating Co., Big Spring.
Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Velma Wylie of Borger; his father, Smith Lee Stover, of Paris, Tex.; two sisters, Mrs. Marie Scroggins and Mrs. Pat Landrum, both of Borger.
Pallbearers for both will be Charles Casey, Ricky Casey, Boyd Phillips, Chuck Key, Norman Bauert, and B.C. Bell.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 2, 1977)
Contributed on 8/10/21
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Record #: 446177