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Submitted: 8/30/21 • Approved: 8/30/21 • Last Updated: 9/2/21 • R452774-G0-S3
1902-1946
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
(Published in Borger News Herald - September 26, 1946)
Funeral services for Joel R. Smith, 43, Borger resident for the past 26 years and an employee of United Carbon Company, will be conducted in the chapel of Blackburn-Shaw-Brown Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Saturday.
The Rev. J.H. Crawford will officiate. Smith died at Memorial Hospital in Woodward, Okla., Wednesday morning.
Casket bearers will be Ike Welch, Lloyd Connor, Ralph Osborn, Shorty Wilson, Mr. Minor and Mr. Little. Honorary bearers will be: McElroy Plant employees of United Carbon, John Loftin, Guy Osborn and Mr. Marshall.
Interment will be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Contributed on 8/30/21
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