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Submitted: 8/12/21 • Approved: 8/12/21 • Last Updated: 8/15/21 • R446683-G0-S3
1881-1969
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Thomas William Platt, 88, resident of Borger since 1929, were held today at 2 p.m. at Ed Brown and Sons Chapel of the Fountains.
Rev. Amos R. Meador, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene, and Rev. G.W. Fine of East Side Baptist Church officiated.
Interment was in Highland Park Cemetery.
Casketbearers were Bill Whitworth, Bob Dietz, Frank Smithey, Lawton Sands, Nolan Harris and George Brain.
Platt died at 12:10 p.m. Sunday at North Plains Hospital. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, four sons, two daughters, 30 grandchildren and 53 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 18, 1969)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Thomas Platt
Death Date: 16 Nov 1969
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Thomas William Platt
Birth Date: 7 Jun 1881
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Charlie Platt
Mother: Sally Franklin
Age at Death: 88
Death Date: 16 Nov 1969
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 8/12/21
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