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Submitted: 9/26/21 • Approved: 9/26/21 • Last Updated: 9/29/21 • R459055-G459054-S3
1906-1991
Forever Together
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Ruth Wilbanks, 84, Borger, will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at Brown's Chapel of the Fountains with the Rev. Andy Dietz, and Mr. Owen Smith officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Wilbanks died Thursday, May 23, 1991 in her home.
A native of Boyd, she had been a Borger resident for 62 years. She was a retired school teacher and member of First Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmy Wilbanks in 1948.
Survivors include one son, Charles Wilbanks of Arlington; one daughter, Ruth Ann Smith of Littleton, Colo., nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 24, 1991)
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Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Ruth Portwood
Birth Date: 13 Jul 1906
Birth Place: Rural, Wise, Texas, USA
Father: Sidney Lee Portwood
Father Birth Place: Texas
Mother: Iona Ann Huelett
Mother Birth Place: Texas
Oklahoma, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Wm Bruce Johnson
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Birth Date: abt 1896
Marriage Date: 29 Oct 1922
Marriage Place: Texas, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Ruth Portwood
Film Number: 001514198
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ina Wilbanks
Death Date: 23 May 1991
Death County: Hutchinson
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Ina Ruth Portwood Wilbanks
[Ruth Wilbanks]
[Ina Ruth Portwood Portwood]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 13 Jul 1906
Birth Place: Boyd Wise, Texas
Death Date: 23 May 1991
Father: Sidney L Portwood
Mother: Iona A Huelett
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Dec 1941: Name listed as INA RUTHPORTWOOD WILBANKS; 01 Jun 1991: Name listed as RUTH WILBANKS
Contributed on 9/26/21
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