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Submitted: 9/16/21 • Approved: 9/16/21 • Last Updated: 9/19/21 • R457200-G457200-S3
January 27, 1926-November 20, 1984
Beloved Wife
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Fritch - Martha L. Vinson, 58, died Tuesday in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Alexander Chapel of Memories with Rev. John Denton, associate pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Fritch, officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Alexander Funeral Home of Borger.
Mrs. Vinson was born in Garber, Okla. she moved to Amarillo in 1950 and moved to Fritch 18 years ago. She was a member of First Southern Baptist Church. She was a charge nurse at Northwest Texas Hospital and also worked for Dr. Goldston for several years. She was later a nurse for Amarillo Independent School District 10 years. The past 10 years she helped her husband in Vinson Development. She married Herman Vinson in 1947 at Wellington, Kan.
Survivors include her husband; a brother, LaVaun Phorp [sic] of Garber, Okla.; and a sister, Verna Shields of Lawton, Okla.
Pallbearers will be David Anderson, Kevin Audrain, Larry Collins, Jack Henson, Jack Stallings, and Aubrey Tisdale.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, November 22, 1984)
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U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Martha Vinson
BORN: 27 Jan 1926
Last Benefit: 79036, Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas, United States of America
Died: Nov 1984
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Martha Lonnabelle Thorp
[Martha Lon Vinson]
[Martha Vinson]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 27 Jan 1926
Birth Place: Garber, Garfield, Oklahoma
Death Date: Nov 1984
Father: Vilah V Thorp
Mother: Dora B Porter
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Sep 1943: Name listed as MARTHA LONNABELLE THORP; Jan 1952: Name listed as MARTHA LON VINSON; 30 Dec 1987: Name listed as MARTHA VINSON
Contributed on 9/16/21
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