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Submitted: 11/19/21 • Approved: 11/19/21 • Last Updated: 11/22/21 • R469535-G0-S3
October 4, 1923-March 23, 1932
How much of light, how much of joy,
Is buried with a darling boy.
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Wayne McCracken, nine-year-old cousin of Louis Kelley of Kelley Brothers Cash Grocery, 611 North Main street, died in Wheeler at noon yesterday from injuries received when he was run over by a truck yesterday morning. The boy visited in the Kelley home last winter. His parents live in Montana. At Wheeler he was living with Louis Kelley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Kelley.
(Published in Borger Daily Herald - March 24, 1932)
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Wayne McCrocken in the Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Wayne McCrocken
Birth Date: 5 Oct 1923
Birth Place: Kerwerton Monte
Gender: Male
Race: White
Father: Bert McCracken
Age at Death: 0
Death Date: 22 Mar 1932
Death Place: Mobeetie, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Contributed on 11/19/21
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