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Submitted: 9/9/21 • Approved: 9/9/21 • Last Updated: 9/12/21 • R455280-G455279-S3
William M.
1890-1966
Eddie P.
1882-1955
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*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*William M.
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: William Thornton
Death Date: 2 Aug 1966
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Milton Thornton
County: Union
State: New Mexico
Birthplace: Missouri, United States of America
Birth Date: 4 Jun 1890
Race: Caucasian (White)
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: William Thornton
Last Residence:
79007 Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
BORN: 4 Jun 1890
Died: Aug 1966
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: William Milton Thornton
Birth Date: 4 Jan 1890
Birth Place: Miller, Missouri
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Douglas Thornton
Mother: Margaret Donahue
Age at Death: 76
Death Date: 2 Aug 1966
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
*Obituary Eddie P.
Final rites for Mrs. E.P. Thornton, 73, who died early Monday at North Plains hospital, are scheduled tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Bible Baptist Church. Burial will be in the local cemetery.
Survivors include her husband, William Milton Thornton; two daughters, Mrs. Roy Pace of Phillips and Mrs. Flosie Ford, Corbin, Kentucky; two sisters, Mrs. Jane Wright, Crab Orchard, Tennessee and Mrs. Steve Kish, Fort Tampa City, Florida and one brother, George Barger, living in South America.
Casket bearers will be Joe Harrington, Gene Bristow; C.K. Rogers, Fred Powers, James Dewey and Steve Anderson.
Rev. Charles E. McDowell will officiate.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 17, 1955)
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Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Name: Eddie Pennington Barger
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 10 May 1882
Birth Place: Wheat, Roane
Father: John Barger
Mother: Nancy Jane Ballew
Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Eddie Pearl Thornton
Death Date: 16 May 1955
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 29542
Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Eddie Pean [sic] Thornton
[Eddie Pean Barger]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 73
Birth Date: 10 May 1882
Birth Place: Wheat, Tennessee
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 16 May 1955
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: John C Barger
Mother: Nancy Jane Ballew
Contributed on 9/9/21
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