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Submitted: 8/30/21 • Approved: 8/30/21 • Last Updated: 9/2/21 • R452795-G0-S3
February 14, 1938-October 31, 1949
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Kenneth Ray Smith
Date of Birth: 14 Feb 1938
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hill
Father's Name: Dany Wilce Smith
Mother's name: Mary Alice Carr
Roll Number: 1938_0008
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Kenneth Roy Smith
Death Date: 31 Oct 1949
Death County: Hale
Certificate: 56566
Polio struck twice at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Smith of 321 W. 1st, Huber Camp, this week, taking the life of their 11-year-old son, Kenneth, and hospitalizing Gerald, 12.
Gerald was admitted to the West Texas Polio Clinic at Plainview this morning. No paralysis is evident yet. He is being given oxygen.
Kenneth died at 3:05 p.m. yesterday at the Plainview clinic.
Other than the parents, survivors include two brothers, Gerald and Dwight; one sister, Sharon Ann; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Aletha Carr of Hamlin; and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. V.B. Smith of Hillsboro.
He was a member of the Calvary Baptist church.
The body will rest at the Blackburn-Shaw-Brown Funeral Home until 3 p.m. Wednesday, when funeral services will be conducted at the Calvary Baptist church with the Rev. Jeff Moore, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in Highland Park cemetery under the direction of the Blackburn-Shaw-Brown Funeral Home.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 1, 1949)
Contributed on 8/30/21
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