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Submitted: 9/15/21 • Approved: 9/15/21 • Last Updated: 9/18/21 • R456916-G456914-S3
1902-1977
Beloved Mother
Wife of Edgar L. Tucker
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Mrs. Irene King Underwood, 74, formerly of Borger, died Monday in Canyon.
Services were to be at 2 p.m. today in Minton Memorial Chapel with Charles Kyme, minister of Johnson Park Church of Christ, officiating. Burial was to be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Mrs. Underwood was born in Leedey, Okla., and had lived in Borger 40 years before moving to Canyon 2-1/2 years ago. She had been a beautician in Borger 20 years, and was a member of Church of Christ.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Glenn McCarty of Channing; one son, Jess Frank of Farmington, N.M.; three daughters [sic], Mrs. Lena Demmer of Yakima, Wash., Mrs. Myrtle Sexton of San Angelo and Mrs. Clara Velasquez of Amarillo; two brothers, Bill King and John King, both of Shamrock; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - Wed, Jan 26, 1977 - Page 4)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Irene Underwood
Death Date: 24 Jan 1977
Death County: Randall
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Irene King Underwood
[Irene King King]
Birth Date: 23 Apr 1902
Birth Place: Leedey, Oklahoma
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Lewis Peter King
Mother: Vashit Skinner
Age at Death: 74
Death Date: 24 Jan 1977
Death Place: Canyon, Randall, Texas, USA
Contributed on 9/15/21 by neldapat
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