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Submitted: 9/9/21 • Approved: 9/9/21 • Last Updated: 9/12/21 • R455368-G455368-S3
1901-1951
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Mrs. Edith Delora Tilson, 50, a resident of this area for the last two years, died at 5 a.m. today at her home, 214 Frontera.
Survivors include her husband, Hubert Lee; three sons, Elmer Lee, Fritch; Hubert Roy, Borger; Robert Andrew, Borger; three daughters, Mrs. James King, Fritch; Mrs. Robert Beste, Borger; Norma Cleo, of the home address; six sisters and three brothers.
Services are pending, with the body resting at the Minton Funeral Home.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 13, 1951)
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Services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the United Pentecostal Holiness Church for Mrs. Edith Delora Tilson, 50, who died yesterday at 5 a.m. at her home, 215 Frontera.
Rev. Aaron Thames, pastor of the church, will officiate the service.
Interment will be made in the Highland Park cemetery, under the direction of Minton Funeral Home.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 14, 1951)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Edith Bzlora Tilson [Delora]
Death Date: 13 Nov 1951
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 50091
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Edith Delora Tilson
[Edith Delora Smyers]
Birth Date: 14 May 1901
Birth Place: Powderly, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Colman Smyers
Mother: Edna
Age at Death: 50
Death Date: 13 Nov 1951
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 9/9/21
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Record #: 455368