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Submitted: 9/10/21 • Approved: 9/11/21 • Last Updated: 9/14/21 • R455513-G0-S3
Arkansas
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS Company C 141 Machine Gun Battalion
World War I
February 19, 1895-October 8, 1953
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
James J. Tolleson, 58, resident of Philview, died Thursday afternoon at North Plains Hospital following a short illness.
Tolleson had lived in Borger for the past eight years and was employed by Phillips Petroleum Co.
Survivors include his wife, Della, a son, James G. Tolleson and two daughters; Mrs. Coela Martin and Mrs. J.B. Stigall, all of Borger.
Other survivors are four brothers: Charles, John, Tillmon and Brooks, all of Gurdon, Arkansas and three sisters: Mrs. Pearl Payne of Dirks, Ark., Mrs. Fern Lowery and Mrs. Laura Sharpe, both of Nashville, Tenn.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Saturday at the Church of God with Rev. F. C. Dozier officiating.
(Published in Borger News Herald, October 9, 1953)
Contributed on 9/10/21
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