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Submitted: 8/12/21 • Approved: 8/12/21 • Last Updated: 8/15/21 • R446738-G0-S3
October 18, 1979-April 1, 1997
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Matthew Rodney Poole, 17, died Monday, April 1, 1997.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Don Hill, pastor of Central Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Lane Garden at Highland Park Cemetery by Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Matthew was born in Borger and had been a lifetime Borger resident. He was a junior at Borger High School. He worked at United Grocery Store as a sacker. He played golf his freshman and sophomore years. He worked on hot rods.
Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Tania and Roy Tadlock of the home; a sister, Rachel Poole of the home; a stepsister, Jacquelyn Tadlock of Stinnett; his father and stepmother, Rodney and Debby Poole of Fritch; grandparents, Linda and Rainey Cox, Max and Wilma Poole and Jack and Jean Tadlock, all of Borger, and Hank and Linda Smith of Eastland; and great-grandparents, Leon Barbour, Rubye Cox and Babe Guilliams, all of Borger, and Essie Davis of Electra.
The family will be at 203 Skycrest and 406 California.
(Published in Amarillo Online Newspapers, Thursday, 4 April 1997)
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Matthew Rodney Poole
Date of Birth: 18 Oct 1979
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hutchinson
Father's Name: Rodney Wade Poole
Mother's Name: Tania Lynne Davis
Roll Number: 1979_0013
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Matthew Poole
Death Date: 1 Apr 1997
Death County: Dallas
Gender: Male
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Record #: 446738