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Submitted: 9/19/21 • Approved: 9/19/21 • Last Updated: 9/22/21 • R457633-G457633-S3
November 24, 1931-July 28, 1972
Our Mother
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
FRITCH - Funeral services for Mrs. Irene S. Walston, 40, of 109 Lariat Lane, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the First Southern Baptist Church in Fritch, with the Rev. John Denton, pastor, officiating.
Interment will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Simpson Funeral Home of Borger.
Mrs. Walston was discovered dead Monday in the back seat of her car at her home. Justice of the Peace Sam Watson of Borger ruled today that death was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Mrs. Waltson was a secretary for Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of Fritch, and she was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church here. She had been a resident of Fritch for 15 years.
She is survived by her husband, Wayne; one son, Guy; one daughter, Shirley, both of the home; her mother, Mrs. Opal Jones of Amarillo; three brothers, Leroy Sanders of Goshen, Ind., and Ruel and Donald Sanders, both of Amarillo; and one sister, Mrs. Louise Cambern of Borger.
Pallbearers will be Elvin Smith, Jerry Post, Norman Guthrie, Lance Roberts, Don Holbrook and Bruce Dennis.
(Published in Borger News Herald, August 1, 1972)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Irene Walston
Death Date: 31 Jul 1972
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Irene Walston
[Irene Sanders]
Birth Date: 24 Nov 1931
Birth Place: Brownfield, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: William G Sanders
Mother: Opal King
Age at Death: 40
Death Date: 31 Jul 1972
Death Place: Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 9/19/21
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Record #: 457633