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Submitted: 10/17/21 • Approved: 10/18/21 • Last Updated: 10/21/21 • R463710-G0-S3
US Marine Corps
World War II
June 24, 1925-August 16, 1989
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Samuel D. Hale, Jr., 64, died Wednesday, August 16, 1989 in Amarillo.
Services were held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, August 18 in First Baptist Church. Rev. Robert Helsley, pastor, officiated. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Hale, born in Philadelphia PA., moved to Wheeler in 1976 from Amarillo. He returned to Amarillo in 1988. He married Glynetta Trimble in 1972 at Pampa. She died in 1988. He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II and a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans.
Survivors include two brothers, Richard Hale of Borger and Tommy Hale of Midland; a sister, Nancy Harris of Amarillo; a nephew, Mickey Bolton of Amarillo; and other neices [sic] and nephews.
Pallbearers were members of the Tascosa High School Junior Naval R.O.T.C., Amarillo, Texas.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 55, Number 38, Thursday, August 24, 1989, Page 1)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Samuel Hale Jr.
Death Date: 16 Aug 1989
Death County: Potter
Gender: Male
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Samuel Douglas Hale Jr
[Samuel D Hale Jr]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 24 Jun 1924
Birth Place: Philidelphia
[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
Death Date: 16 Aug 1989
Father: Samuel D Hale
Mother: Alma C Richardson
Disability Status: Disability denied - no record of type.
Notes: Jul 1941: Name listed as SAMUEL DOUGLAS HALE JR; 24 Aug 1989: Name listed as SAMUEL D HALE
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