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Submitted: 9/27/21 • Approved: 9/28/21 • Last Updated: 10/1/21 • R459426-G0-S3
Louisiana
PRIVATE Company C Detainment Camp
World War I
August 25, 1893-January 25, 1957
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Williamson Rites Scheduled Monday
J.R. Williamson, Sr., 63, resident of this community for the past 31 years, died at the Phillips Medical Center late Friday night. He resided at the Phillips Pipeline Camp near Phillips.
Williamson was a member of the First Christian Church of Borger.
Survivors include his wife, Ethel, two sons, J.R. Jr. of Phillips, and B.J. of Borger; two daughters, Mrs. Jimmy Blackman of Borger and Mrs. I.L. Lilly of Perryton; two brothers, J.A. of Norwalk, Calif., and B.B. of Derby, Colo; one sister, Mrs. Fred Holmes of Hotchkiss, Colo.; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Williamson, also of Hotchkiss, and 12 grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday at the First Christian Church of Borger, with the pastor, the Rev. Rawlins Cherryhomes, officiating.
Interment will be in Highland Park Cemetery, under the direction of Ed Brown, funeral directors.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Sunday, January 27, 1957, Page 1)
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U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: John Roy Williamson
[John Ray Williamson]
Race: Caucasian (White)
Marital status: Single
Birth Date: 25 Aug 1894
Birth Place: Louisiana
Street address: Glaster
Residence Place: De Soto, Louisiana, USA
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: John Ray Williamson Sr
Death Date: 25 Jan 1957
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 9157
Name: John Ray Williamson Sr.
Death date: 25 Jan 1957
Death place: Phillips, Hutchinson, Texas
Gender: Male
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 63 years 5 months
Estimated birth year:
Birthdate: 25 Aug 1893
Birthplace: Stonewall, La.
Marital status: Married
Spouse's name:
Father's name: J.J. Williamson
Father's birthplace: Georgia
Mother's name: Elizabeth Dewitt
Mother's birthplace: North Carolina
Occupation: Employee Petroleum Co.
Residence: Phillips, Hutchinson, Texas
Cemetery name: Highland Park Cemetery
Burial place: Borger, Texas
Burial date: 28 Jan 1957
Additional relatives:
Film number: 2135195
Digital GS number: 4163875
Image number: 678
Reference number: cn 9157
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Death Certificate cause of death: rheumatic heart disease
U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Name: John Ray Williamson
Birth Date: 25 Aug 1893
Death Date: 25 Jan 1957
Cemetery: Highland Park Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Borger, Texas
Contributed on 9/27/21
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