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Submitted: 8/20/21 • Approved: 8/20/21 • Last Updated: 8/23/21 • R449144-G449141-S3
Albert
1911-1959
Ninnie Lee
1911-1977
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Albert
Albert Rorabaugh, 47, died at 11:40 p.m. on Monday, January 26, 1959 in North Plains Hospital following a heart attack. Rorabaugh, who resided at 309 West Sixth Street, had been a resident of Borger, Texas, for the last 11 years and was employed by Phillips Petroleum Company in the warehouse department.
Mr. Rorabaugh was born April 19, 1911 in Crawford, Oklahoma, to the late Samuel Elbert Rorabough and Maude Jane Harris Rorabough Riley. He married Ninnie Lee Aubrey Kerwood on August 20, 1938 at Perryton, Texas. They made their home in the Crawford-Durham, Oklahoma area until moving to Borger in 1948.
Survivors include his wife, Ninnie Lee; two daughters, Mrs. Billy (Alberta) Morris of Borger, Texas and Betty Rorabaugh of the home; one stepson, Joe Kerwood of Santa Maria, California; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Hayse (Joyce) Reneau of Phillips, Texas; and six grandchildren, Ronald, Donna and Jimmie Reneau, Bobby Joe and Connie Kerwood and Billy Dean Morris, Jr.
Services for Mr Rorabaugh were held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, January 29, 1959 in Girl Scout Little House with Arthur Cox, Church of Christ minister, officiating.
Burial followed in the Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Minton's Funeral Home. Pallbearers were J. H. Hatfield, E. P. Chester, A. C. Guntner, H. A. Brown, L. R. Burns and W. K. Burns.
BORGER NEWS HERALD - January 27, 1959
*Obituary Ninnie
Ninnie Lee Rorabaugh, of 412 Twelfth Street, Levelland, Texas, died on Saturday, September 24, 1977 at Cook Memorial Hospital of cancer. She was 66 years, 4 months and 23 days old.
Ninnie Lee Aubrey Kerwood Rorabaugh was born on May 1, 1911 in Denison, Texas to the late Charley Bradford and Lillie Mae Talkington Aubrey. She was married to Arthur Leo (Buster) Kerwood on April 3, 1931 at Cheyenne, Oklahoma. To this union, a daughter and son were born, Joyce Waunitha and Joe Wesley Kerwood. She married Albert Rorabaugh on August 20, 1938 at Perryton, Texas. Two daughters were born to this union, Alberta Lee and Betty Jean Rorabaugh. Ninnie and Albert lived in the Crawford-Durham, Oklahoma area until 1948 when the family moved to Borger, Texas.
Mrs. Rorabaugh was a homemaker and member of the Austin Street Church of Christ, Levelland, Texas. She was preceded in death by her second husband, Albert, on January 26, 1959, her parents, an infant brother, and three sisters, Willie Mae Aubrey, Mary Elizabeth Aubrey King and Lois Pearl Aubrey Strickland.
She is survived by one son, Joe Kerwood of Bristol, Indiana, three daughters, Mrs. Hayse (Joyce) Reneau of Pittsburg, Texas, Mrs. Billy (Alberta) Morris of Levelland, Texas and Mrs. John (Betty) Schultz of Seaside, California; two brothers, Charley Aubrey of Borger, Texas and John Aubrey of Phoenix, Arizona; two sisters, Mrs. Lula Cooley of Sacramento, California and Mrs. Bonnie Blackmon of Woodward, Oklahoma; eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services were held at 10:00 a.m. in the chapel of George Price Funeral Home on September 26, 1977 with George Carman, minister of the Austin Street Church of Christ officiating. Graveside rites were held at 4:00 p.m. in the Highland Park Cemetery in Borger, Texas.
Pallbearers were Billy Morris, Jr., Bobby Joe Kerwood, Ron Reneau, Kenny Shipley, Charley King and Jim Morrisey.
Contributed on 8/20/21
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