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Submitted: 8/30/21 • Approved: 8/30/21 • Last Updated: 9/2/21 • R452840-G0-S3
1911-1935
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Pneumonia claimed one more Borgan yesterday afternoon at 4:45, when Robert C. Smith died at his home in north Borger. He was a graduate of Borger High School in the 1929 class.
After his graduation from high school here Smith attended school in Lubbock at Texas Tech in 1930 and 1931. He attended Southwest Louisiana State University in 1931 and 1932.
Smith is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Thelma Smith; two children, Molly Ann, a year old and Guy Robert, three weeks old; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Smith of Borger; three brothers, Jack and Ralph of Borger and A.L. Smith of Morristown, New Jersey; two sisters, Mrs. Pat Franklin of Borger and Juanita Smith of Galveston.
Funeral services are to be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the Methodist church. Carver Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
(Published in Borger Daily Herald, May 9, 1935)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Robert C. Smith
Death Date: 8 May 1935
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 24364
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Robert C Smith
Birth Date: abt 1911
Birth Place: Chickasha, Oklahoma
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Texas
Spouse: Thelma Smith
Father: L Smith
Mother: Mollie Huggins
Age at Death: 24
Death Date: 8 May 1935
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 8/30/21
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