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Submitted: 10/28/21 • Approved: 10/28/21 • Last Updated: 10/31/21 • R465493-G0-S3
December 26, 1928-May 3, 1977
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Roy D. Ford, 48, collapsed and died Tuesday morning in Amarillo while attending an Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service District Meeting. Ford had been an employee of the A.S.C.S. for the past 24 years and had recently been working several other counties in the area as Performance Supervisor.
Ford had been hospitalized recently with heart problems and a heart attack was the apparent cause of death.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today, May 5, 1977 in the First Baptist Church of Wheeler with the Rev. David Campbell, pastor, and the Rev. Dale Cain of Lubbock, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wheeler Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Ford was born in Wheeler, attended public schools there and was a lifetime resident. He married Peggy Weatherly September 20, 1947, in Wheeler. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and an honorary member of the Wheeler Fire Department.
Survivors include his widow, Peggy; two sons, Dwight, and Dell, both of Wheeler; two daughters, Mrs. Susan Manning of Amarillo and Mrs. Teresa Alexander of Wheeler; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ford of Wheeler; a brother, K.D. of Wheeler; two sisters, Mrs. Georgia Smith and Mrs. Glenda Atwood, both of Wheeler; and three grandchildren.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 43, Number 21, Thursday, May 5, 1977, Page 1)
Contributed on 10/28/21
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