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Submitted: 9/17/21 • Approved: 9/17/21 • Last Updated: 9/20/21 • R457394-G0-S3
1900-1968
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Final rites for Louis Wakefield, 68, longtime Borger resident, are pending with Simpson Funeral Home.
Wakefield was pronounced dead on arrival at North Plains Hospital at 11 a.m. today. He was a member of Gateway Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Lillie, 316 W. Sixth; four daughters, Mrs. Wayne Hooks of Borger, Mrs. John Holland of Alamogordo, N.M., Mrs. Junior Spraggins, Fullerton, Calif., Mrs. Buddy Sheppard of Whittier, Calif.
(Published in Borger News Herald, April 1, 1968)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Louis Wakefield
Death Date: 1 Apr 1968
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Louis Fay Wakefield
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1900
Birth Place: Arkansas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: William Andrew Wakefield
Mother: Martha Harding
Age at Death: 68
Death Date: 1 Apr 1968
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 9/17/21
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