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Evelyn Virgie HALL DUKES

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

Dozier Clyde
January 26, 1919-December 10, 2006

Evelyn Virgie
January 6, 1924-March 5, 1977

Married December 10, 1939

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*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary Clyde
ALLISON - Clyde "Red" Dukes, 87, died Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006, in Bridgeport.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Allison School with David Zybach and Garland Zybach officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.

Mr. Dukes was born Jan. 26, 1919, in Jack County to Dave and Minnie Faye Dukes. Mr. Dukes married Evelyn Hall on Dec. 10, 1939, in Reydon, Okla. She preceded him in death on March 5, 1977.

He married Anna Furter on July 2, 1977, in Paradise. Mr. Dukes was an implement dealer and a farmer. He was a Church of Christ member.

He was also preceded in death by two sons, Jimmie Dukes and Claude Pewitt; a grandson, Johnny Wayne Dukes; and a great-granddaughter, Ashley Terrell.

Survivors include his wife, Anna Dukes of Bridgeport; four daughters, Diana Chatham and husband Tom of Halfmoon Bay, Calif., Adeline Hammer and husband Jack of Panhandle, Sylvia Richardson and husband Joe of Paradise and Cindy Starnes and husband Jim of Destin, Fla.; five sons, Johnnie Dukes and wife Nelda of Fort Worth, Bob Dukes and wife Peggy of Amarillo, Clyde Dukes Jr. and wife Jane of Briscoe, Melvin Pewitt and wife LaNell of Bridgeport and Jim Pewitt and wife Shirley of Paradise; a brother, Jim Dukes; a sister, Minnie Belle Vinson; 24 grandchildren; 36 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews; and a host of friends.

Amarillo Globe-News, Dec. 12, 2006

*Obituary Evelyn
ALLISON - Mrs. Evelyn Virgie Dukes, 53, died Saturday in Wheeler.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today in Allison School with Truman Teel of Dell City, Okla., and T.A. Monk of Gunter officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.

Mrs. Dukes was born in Coffee County, Tenn. She married Clyde Dukes on Dec. 10, 1939 in Reydon, Okla. She had lived in Allison 39 years. She was a member of the Church of Christ.

Survivors include her widower, three sons, Johnnie of Fort Worth, and Bobby and Clyde Jr. Chatham of San Mateo, Calif. Mrs. Virgie Starnes of Plano and Mrs. Adeline Hays of Whiteface; one brother, Vernon Hall of Allison; two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Wallace of Sayre, Okla., and Mrs. Lavelle McMillen of Tulsa, and eight grandchildren.

(Published in Amarillo Daily News - May 7, 1977)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Evelyn Dukes
Death Date: 5 Mar 1977
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Female

Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Evelyn Virgie Dukes
[Evelyn Virgie Hall]
Birth Date: 6 Jun 1924
Birth Place: Coffee, Tennessee
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Allison, Wheeler, Texas
Spouse: Clyde Dukes
Father: John Ruben Hall
Mother: Ella Young
Age at Death: 53
Death Date: 5 Mar 1977
Death Place: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA

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Submitted: 10/12/21 • Approved: 10/12/21 • Last Updated: 10/15/21 • R462568-G462566-S3

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