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Submitted: 9/19/21 • Approved: 9/19/21 • Last Updated: 9/22/21 • R457640-G0-S3
April 28, 1881-April 27, 1964
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for C.K. Ward, 82, pioneer Borger resident, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the First Presbyterian Church, the Rev. James G. Glenn, pastor, officiating.
Ward, a retired construction superintendent for Phillips Petroleum Co., and one of the First Phillips employees to come to Borger, died Sunday in an Amarillo nursing home. He had been ill for a month.
Coming here in 1926, Ward had been a Borger resident for 38 years.
The body will lie in state at Ed Brown's Chapel of the Fountains here from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday prior to funeral services.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. D.E. Thomas, Amarillo; Mrs. Velma Ward, Los Angeles, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Lawson, Wagoner, Okla.; and Mrs. Natalie Ward Cory, Borger; two brothers, George Ward, Claremore, Okla.; and W.B. Ward, Locust Grove, Okla.; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Ward died two days prior to his 82nd birthday.
(Published in Borger News Herald, April 28, 1964)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Carl Ward
Death Date: 26 Apr 1964
Death County: Potter
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Carl Kenneth Ward
Birth Date: 28 Mar 1881
Birth Place: Cumby, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Samuel B Ward
Mother: Lucinda Jackson
Age at Death: 83
Death Date: 26 Apr 1964
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Contributed on 9/19/21
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Record #: 457640