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Submitted: 9/6/21 • Approved: 9/6/21 • Last Updated: 9/9/21 • R454701-G0-S3
November 8, 1904-February 17, 1983
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Alford A. Swaffar, 78, of 819 Hackberry, will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Fellowship Baptist Church with the Rev. Vernon Lindbloom, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Mr. Swaffar died at 3:40 p.m. Thursday in North Plains Hospital.
A native of Atoka, Okla., he had been a Borger resident for 57 years. He was a retired boilermaker, member of International Boilermaker's Union, and Fellowship Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Jessie; three daughters, Mrs. Marvin Tucker of Fritch, Mrs. Jim Wolfe and Mrs. Neal Ferguson, both of Borger; five step-daughters, Mrs. C.D. McDonald of Fritch, Mrs. Marlin Butterfield of Wenatchee, Wash., Mrs. Derald Miller of El Reno, Okla., Mrs. Riley Wiggs of Blackwell, Okla., and Mrs. R.R. Platt of Borger; three step-sons, J.R. Stout of Anderson, Mo., Wayne Hinds of Anaheim, Calif., Darrell Hinds of Buena Park, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Eva Tannehill of Borger, and Mrs. Melvin Crawford of Hillsboro, Ore.; 10 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Danny Wolfe, Ricky Wolfe, Jimmy Wolfe, Bruce Ferguson, Tommy Ferguson, Roy Ferguson, and Buddy Tucker.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 20, 1983)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Alford Swaffar
Death Date: 17 Feb 1983
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Contributed on 9/6/21
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Record #: 454701