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Submitted: 8/12/21 • Approved: 8/12/21 • Last Updated: 8/15/21 • R446632-G0-S3
1958-1972
In Loving Memory
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Final rites will be at 4 p.m. Friday in First Church of the Nazarene here for Tony Franklin Pierce, 14, of Hobbs, N.M., a native of Borger.
Officiating will be the Rev. Amos R. Meador, pastor. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton Mortuary.
The Pierce youth died Tuesday in Methodist Hospital in Lubbock where he had been in critical condition since mid-July when he was injured in a motorcycle accident in Hobbs.
Survivors include his parents, Mrs. Mary Jane Pierce and Jackie Pierce, both of Hobbs, his brother, several grandparents and a great-grandmother.
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Services for Tony Franklin Pierce, 14, of Hobbs will be at 4 p.m. today in First Nazarene Church in Borger with burial in Highland Park Cemetery under direction of Minton Mortuary. Pierce died about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in Lubbock's Methodist Hospital.
(Published in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (Lubbock, Texas) - Fri, Sep 15, 1972 - Page 4)
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Tony Franklin Pierce
Date of Birth: 1 Jan 1958
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hutchinson
Father's name: Jack Franklin Pierce
Mother's name: Mary Jane Robertson
Roll number: 1958_0012
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Tony Franklin Pierce
Birth Date: 1 Jan 1958
Birth Place: Borger, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Hobbs, Lea, New Mexico
Father: Jackie Pierce
Mother: Mary Jane Robertson
Age at Death: 14
Death Date: 12 Sep 1972
Death Place: Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, USA
Contributed on 8/12/21
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Record #: 446632