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Submitted: 10/14/21 • Approved: 10/14/21 • Last Updated: 10/17/21 • R463061-G0-S3
1888-1970
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Tobe Frye
Death Date: 12 Jan 1970
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Male
SHAMROCK - Tobe G. Frye, 81, a prominent Wheeler County rancher, died Monday in Shamrock General Hospital after a short illness.
Mr. Frye, who was born on his father's ranch in Wheeler County, was one of the first students to attend the Old Rock School House which is now a historical site in the county.
He had lived in the county all but five years of his life.
Mr. Frye started a chain of lakes on his ranch in 1937 and later leased them to a fishing club. He was a former cooperator of the Wheeler County Soil Conservation District.
Survivors include a daughter Mrs. Leah Belle Adkins of San Bernadino, Calif.; a son, Clint G. of Chickasha, Okla.; a sister, Mrs. Nellie Puryear of Boulder City, Nev.; a brother, Harry T. Frye of Wheeler; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
The rancher raised one granddaughter, Mrs. Robert Hayakawa of Aniak, Alaska, during her childhood.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, January 13, 1970)
Contributed on 10/14/21
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