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Submitted: 9/7/21 • Approved: 9/7/21 • Last Updated: 9/10/21 • R454923-G454922-S3
Dewey L.
1898-1970
Eva L.
1896-1985
Married Jan 11, 1929
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Dewey
Funeral services for Dewey Lee Tannehill, 71, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Rev. Delbert Belcher, pastor, will officiate, assisted by Rev. Don Braddock.
Interment will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Ed Brown & Sons, Funeral Directors.
Casketbearers will be Bill Brown, Carl Phelps, K.W. King, Wayne Lawrence, Charles Cowan and Jack Carpenter.
Tannehill was a pioneer Borger resident and died at 7:40 p.m. Sunday at North Plains Hospital.
Survivors include his wife: Eva; brother, Dee Bob Tannehill of Yuba City, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Belle Holden, Bloomington, Calif., and Mrs. Hazel McNutt, Beggs, Okla.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Tuesday March 17, 1970, Page 2)
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Dewey Tannehill in the U.S., Native American Citizens and Freedmen of Five Civilized Tribes, 1895-1914
Name: Dewey Tannehill
Birth Year: abt 1898
Age: 4
Gender: Male
Residence Date: 6 Dec 1902
Residence Place: Oklahoma
Tribe: Cherokee
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Dewey Tannehill
Race: White
Birth Date: 5 Apr 1898
Residence Date: 1917-1918
Street Address: Tar River
Residence Place: Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA
Physical Build: 170
Height: Tall
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Relative: N. D. Tannehill
Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Dewey Lee Tannehill
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Birth Date: abt 1897
Marriage Date: 28 Feb 1925
Marriage Place: Okfuskee, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Etta Malinda Gatewood
Film Number: 001306095
U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Dewey Tannehill
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 6 Apr 1896
Residence Place: Borger, Texas, USA
Military Draft Date: 1942
Relationship to Draftee: Head
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Dewey Tannehill
Death Date: 15 Mar 1970
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Dewey Lee Tannehill in the Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Dewey Lee Tannehill
Birth Date: 6 Apr 1898
Birth Place: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Ninnon D Tannehill
Mother: Lillie Blackfish
Age at Death: 71
Death Date: 15 Mar 1970
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
*Obituary Eva
Eva Lea Tannehill, 89, of 200 Tyler in Borger, died Sunday at 10:30 p.m. in Magic Plains Nursing Home.
A retired housewife, she was a native of Oklahoma Territory and a Borger resident for 59 years.
She was a member of the Eternal Light Pentecostal Holiness Church.
She is survived by one sister, Effie Crawford of Beaverton, Oregon, several nieces and nephews, including Billie Tucker of Fritch, Darlene Wolf of Borger and Virginia Ferguson of Borger.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Brown's Chapel of the Fountains with Rev. Elvis Peck of the Eternal Light Pentecostal Holiness Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Pallbearers will be Jimmy Wolfe, Danny Wolfe, Roy Ferguson, Buddy Tucker, Lynn Farmer and Kendal McWilliams.
(Published in Borger News Herald, October 7, 1985)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Eva Tannehill
Death Date: 6 Oct 1985
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Female
Contributed on 9/7/21
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