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Submitted: 10/12/21 • Approved: 10/12/21 • Last Updated: 10/15/21 • R462570-G462570-S3
January 6, 1924-March 5, 1977
Married December 10, 1939
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
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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