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Submitted: 9/9/21 • Approved: 9/9/21 • Last Updated: 9/12/21 • R455310-G455308-S3
1879-1969
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Thornton, 89, a Borger resident since 1926, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Johnson Park Church of Christ with Mr. Charles Whitmire, pastor, officiating.
Interment will be in the Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Simpson Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be George Brain, Bob Cory, Charles Renick, James Litchford, Odean Smith, and Roy Nichols.
Survivors are the husband, G.H., 401 N. Coble; three sons, Bonner Forrest of Fritch, Jerry of Escondido, Calif., and G.H., Jr., of Gary, Ind.; three daughters, Mrs. Jack Burke of Phillips, Mrs. Laura Cleveland of Borger and Mrs. Ralph Smith of Inglewood, Calif.; 12 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 2, 1969
Contributed on 9/9/21
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