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Submitted: 8/23/21 • Approved: 8/23/21 • Last Updated: 8/26/21 • R450131-G450129-S3
Rufus H.
1903-1975
Mason
Opal M.
1910-1998
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Rufus
Funeral services for R.H. "Harry" Sasser, 72, of 304 Dolomita, were held at 4 p.m. Saturday in Ed Brown & Sons Chapel of the Fountains with the Rev. Robert Lacewell, pastor of the Bunvista [sic] Baptist Church, officiating.
Masonic graveside rites were held in Highland Park Cemetery under the auspicies [sic] of Isom Masonic Lodge 1242. Burial followed under the direction of Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Sasser died at 2:15 a.m. Friday in High Plains Baptist Hospital in Amarillo. He had been a resident of Borger for the past 34 years and was retired from Phillips Petroleum Company.
He was a member of Isom Masonic Lodge 1242 A.M. & A.F.
Survivors include his wife, a daughter, four brothers, a sister, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Casketbearers were Ed Fox, Jack Prent, Ben Hancock, A.W. Walker, George Benham, Buster Kerwin.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Sunday, April 13, 1975)
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Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Name: Rufus Sasser
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Birth Year: abt 1904
Residence: DeQueen, Sevier, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Opal Cargill
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 28
Spouse's Residence: DeQueen, Sevier, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 2 Mar 1940
Marriage License Date: 2 Mar 1940
Marriage County: Sevier
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 1986143
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Rufus Sasser
Death Date: 11 Apr 1975
Death County: Potter
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Rufus Harry Sasser
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 71
Birth Date: 12 Dec 1903
Birth Place: Newton County, Arkansas
Residence: Precinct 2, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 11 Apr 1975
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Father: John Wesley Sasser
Mother: Amanda Self
Spouse: Opal M Sasser
*Obituary Opal
BROWNFIELD - Opal Sasser, 87, died Monday, April 13 at the Brownfield Regional Medical Center.
Graveside services were at3 p.m. Tuesday at the Highland Park Cemetery with the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of the Bible Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was under the direction of Brown Funeral Directors.
Casket bearers were Jimmy Don Pence, Jade Johnson, John Pence, Gabe Johnson, Jasper Pence, and Matt Johnson.
Mrs. Sasser was native of Konawa, Okla. and a former long-time resident of Borger. She was a housewife and a Baptist.
She was preceded in death by her husband, R.H. "Harry" Sasser in 1975; one brother; and two sisters.
Survivors include one daughter, Joyce C. Johnson of Amherst; one brother, Woody Cargill of Carmichael, Calif.; three grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Tuesday, April 14, 1998)
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Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Name: Opal Cargill
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Birth Year: abt 1912
Residence: DeQueen, Sevier, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Rufus Sasser
Spouse's Gender: Male
Spouse's Age: 36
Spouse's Residence: DeQueen, Sevier, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 2 Mar 1940
Marriage License Date: 2 Mar 1940
Marriage County: Sevier
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 1986143
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Opal Sasser
Death Date: 13 Apr 1998
Death County: Terry
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Opal M. Sasser
Last Residence:
79316 Brownfield, Terry, Texas, USA
BORN: 16 May 1910
Died: 13 Apr 1998
Contributed on 8/23/21
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