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Submitted: 8/13/21 • Approved: 8/13/21 • Last Updated: 8/16/21 • R446961-G446961-S3
1911-1954
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Mrs. A.C. Propes, 43, 520 W. Wilson who died Sunday in a Dallas Hospital following a lingering illness will be conducted at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church of Borger. Dr. Winfred Moore, pastor, will officiate.
Mrs. Propes was very active in religious and social work with the First Baptist Church.
She is survived by her husband, Pete Propes; a daughter, Barbara; a son, Dickie, all of Borger; two sisters, Mrs. Earl Green and Mrs. Ruby Kelly, Amarillo; her father, John Price, and a brother, J.B. Price, both of Mineral Wells.
Active pallbearers for the funeral are: R.R. Jones, Beryl West, Len Peterman, Frank Hamilton, Clyde Gregg and R.J. Paxton.
Honorary pallbearers are: M.V. Kelly, Walter Forbes, Clyde Finch, Frank Sheets, Lester Copeland, J.C. Sands, Vernon Spake, Estel Fender, Clyde Moore, Dr. Joe Brothers, Wayne Adams and John Potter.
Burial will be in the Highland Park Cemetery.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 22, 1954)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Velma Propes
Death Date: 21 Nov 1954
Death County: Dallas
Certificate: 54017
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Velma Propes
[Velma Rice]
Birth Date: 11 Sep 1911
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Barger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: C A Rice
Mother: Cora Ann Coyelin
Age at Death: 43
Death Date: 21 Nov 1954
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
Contributed on 8/13/21
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