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Submitted: 8/22/21 • Approved: 8/22/21 • Last Updated: 8/25/21 • R449813-G449813-S3
1903-1979
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Mrs. Bernice Lillian Russell, 75, a resident of Magic Plains Nursing Home, were held at 1 p.m. today in Minton Memorial Chapel. Dr. J.E. Jackson, pastor of the First Assembly of God Church officiated.
Burial was in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Russell was a retired employee of the Phillips Petroleum Co. accounting department, and had been a Borger resident since 1926.
Survivors are three sons, Gene of Omaha, Ne., James Ronald of Ventura, Calif., and Robert L. of Huntsville, Ala.; five daughters, Mrs. Ollie Edwards of Norman, Okla., Mrs. Betty Caveny of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Wanda West of Borger, Mrs. Sondra Wilson of Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Patricia Trammel of Samoa; one brother, Pat Knapp of Perkins, Okla.; four sisters, Freda Kunkle of Ojai, Calif., Clare Walker of Maysville, Okla., Particial Ryan of Tulsa and Elizabeth Tissue of Palo Alto, Calif.; 28 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 6, 1979)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Bernice Lillian Russell
[Bernice Lillian Knapp]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 75
Birth Date: 9 Sep 1903
Birth Place: Depew, Oklahoma
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 3 Jul 1979
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Fred C Knapp
Mother: Mabel McElheny
Certificate Number: 53708
Contributed on 8/22/21
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