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Submitted: 9/9/21 • Approved: 9/9/21 • Last Updated: 9/12/21 • R455330-G455329-S3
1932-1953
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Borger News Herald - June 7, 1953
Final rites will be conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Mrs. Cordie Estell Thurman, of 608 California Street, Borger.
Twenty years old, Mrs. Thurman died Saturday morning at 7:35 o'clock in the North Plains Hospital. She has been a resident of Borger for the last year and a half.
Services will be conducted by the Rev. C.T. Aly, pastor of the Phillips Baptist Church, in the Blackburn-Shaw-Brown Chapel. Interment will be in the local cemetery.
Survivors include her husband, Bennie Lee Thurman Jr.; a daughter, Shirley Yvonne; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews of Chillicothe, Tex.; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Turvaville, of Chillicothe, and five brothers, Osbie Matthews of Matador; Clarence, Amos and Joe Matthews, of Chillicothe, and Carl Matthews, who is in Korea with the U.S. Army.
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Cordie Estelle Thurman
Death Date: 6 Jun 1953
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 31328
Contributed on 9/9/21
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Record #: 455330