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Submitted: 8/30/21 • Approved: 8/30/21 • Last Updated: 9/2/21 • R452828-G452827-S3
Lorenzo D.
1879-1965
Molly P.
1882-1951
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Lorenzo D.
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Lorenzo Smith
Death Date: 16 Apr 1965
Death County: Galveston
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Lorenzo D Smith
Birth Date: 1 Jan 1879
Birth Place: Center, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Kemah, Galveston, Texas
Father: W A Smith
Mother: Lucinda Scribner
Age at Death: 86
Death Date: 16 Apr 1965
Death Place: Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
Graveside funeral services for a former long time Borger resident who died Friday at 5 p.m. in Galveston's John Sealy Hospital are scheduled at 4 p.m. Monday.
L. Smith, 86, a Borger resident from 1926 until moving to Kemah in 1958, was born in 1879 in Sommerville, Texas.
Rev. Lyman Wood, pastor of the Wesley Methodist Church, will officiate with burial to be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Simpson Funeral Home is in charge of services.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Kate Franklin, Spokane, Wash,; Mrs. Juanita Olson, Kemah; two sons, Ralph, White Deer; Jack of Texas City; 12 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, April 18, 1965)
*Obituary Molly P.
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Molly Parthena Smith
Birth Date: 30 Jan 1882
Birth Place: Indian Territory
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Age at Death: 69
Death Date: 15 Feb 1951
Death Place: Pampa, Gray, Texas, USA
Mrs. Mollie Parthena Smith, 69, of 825 Whittenburg died Thursday in Highland General Hospital, Pampa, after a brief illness. She had been a resident of Borger since 1929.
Survivors include her husband, L. Smith, of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Kate Franklin of Pampa, and Mrs. R.C. Pullium of Borger; two sons, R.M. Smith of White Deer, and J.L. Smith of the Army Air Force, Alaska; and twelve grandchildren.
Funeral services are pending at Simpson Funeral Home.
(Published in Hutchinson County Herald, February 16, 1951)
Contributed on 8/30/21
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