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Submitted: 10/5/21 • Approved: 10/5/21 • Last Updated: 10/8/21 • R461285-G0-S3
1899-1947
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Last rites for Frank Breeding, 48 years old, of Mobeetie, were conducted at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Methodist Church at Wheeler. B.M. Litton, minister of the Wheeler Church of Christ, officiated.
Pallbears [sic] were Henry Miller, Nelson Porter, both of Wheeler, and Luther Coleman, Frank Cox, Buck Scribner, Glenn Render, Vernon Hooker and Jim Hathaway.
Mr. Breeding died at 5 o'clock Saturday morning in a Wheeler hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was stricken last Tuesday morning while drinking coffee in a cafe.
He was born on Feb. 22, 1899, at Granite Hill, near Foss, which was in the Indian Territory at that time.
With his family, he moved to Wheeler in 1908, where he lived until five years ago, when he moved to Mobeetie. He operated a recreation hall there. He also was one of the backers of the Red River Valey Baseball League.
He was a graduate of old Clarendon College.
Survivors include: two brothers, Hugh B. Breeding, Pampa, and Ben Breeding, Mathis, Texas; and four sisters, Mrs. D.A. Hunt, Mrs. P.O. Sanders, and MRs. J.H. Patterson, all of Pampa, and Mrs. W.B. Amacker of Amarillo.
Burial services were conducted by the Masonic Lodge, of which Mr. Breeding was a member.
Mr. Breeding was the brother of Mrs. D.A. Hunt, who with her husband until recently operated the Hunt Funral [sic] Home and Burial Association here. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt now reside in Pampa.
Interment was in the Wheeler cemetery with Hunt Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume XIV-Number 49, Thursday, November 20, 1947, Page 1)
Contributed on 10/5/21
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