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Submitted: 9/1/21 • Approved: 9/1/21 • Last Updated: 9/4/21 • R453484-G0-S3
January 14, 1944-September 15, 1951
Safe in the arms of Jesus
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for John Foster Spradlin, aged 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Spradlin, Jr., of Phillips, who died of polio at North Plains hospital early Saturday night, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist church of Phillips, with the pastor C.T. Aly, officiating.
Casket bearers will be O.W. Hood. C.B. Gaines, J.B. Heston, W.L. Dodson, J.F. Jordan and Frank Fulfer.
Honorary bearers named were H.R. Aylor, A.W. Price, N.B. Landess, V.C. Marler, O.C. Beadford and J.L. Ross.
Interment in Highland Park Cemetery will be under the direction of Blackburn-Shaw-Brown.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Monday, September 17, 1951, Page 1)
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California Birth Index, 1905-1995
Name: John Foster Spradlin
Birth Date: 14 Jan 1944
Gender: Male
Mother's Maiden Name: Coppedge
Birth County: Los Angeles
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: John Foster Spradlin
Death Date: 15 Sep 1951
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 47750
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: John Foster Spradlin
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 7
Birth Date: 14 Jan 1944
Birth Place: California
Residence: Phillips, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 15 Sep 1951
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: B J Spradlin
Mother: Mary Jean Coppedge
Contributed on 9/1/21
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