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Submitted: 9/6/21 • Approved: 9/6/21 • Last Updated: 9/9/21 • R454753-G0-S3
February 28, 1936-July 14, 1955
Our Son, Billy
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Worker Electrocuted
BORGER, Tex. (UP). - Bill Syphax, 19, an employee of the Southwestern Public Service Co., was accidentally electrocuted Thursday while stringing wire in a canyon near a carbon black plant west of Borger.
(Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph (Tyler, Texas) - 15 Jul 1955 Fri - Page 25)
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Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: William Eugene Syphax
Death Date: 14 Jul 1955
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 34787
Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: William Eugene Syphax
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 19
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1936
Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Residence: Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 14 Jul 1955
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: C W Syphax
Mother: Irene V Wells
Contributed on 9/6/21
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