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Submitted: 10/18/21 • Approved: 10/18/21 • Last Updated: 10/21/21 • R463862-G0-S3
1901-1976
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Miss Bessie Herd, 74, died Thursday August 12, 1976, in the Shamrock Hospital.
Services were held Saturday, August 14, 1976 at 3:00 P.M. in the First Baptist Church in Wheeler with Rev. David Campbell, pastor, officiating. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
The Pallbearers were: C.B. Brotherton, Jr., Bill Hampton, Steve Hampton, Olen Maxwell, Richard Hampton, and Tommy Hyatt.
Miss Herd was a native of Denton County and had lived in Wheeler since 1921. She was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include one brother, H.H. Herd of Pampa, and several nieces and nephews.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 42, Number 36, Thursday, August 19, 1976, Page 1)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Bessie Herd
Death Date: 12 Aug 1976
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Bessie Herd
Birth Date: 15 Aug 1901
Birth Place: Denton, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas
Father: John M Herd
Mother: Mary Rice
Age at Death: 74
Death Date: 12 Aug 1976
Death Place: Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas, USA
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Bessie Herd
Last Residence:
79096 Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
BORN: 15 Aug 1901
Died: Aug 1976
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