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Submitted: 12/3/21 • Approved: 12/3/21 • Last Updated: 12/6/21 • R471733-G0-S3
June 27, 1890-November 16, 1957
Married April 4, 1915
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for H.S. Poole, 67, 916 E. Sixth Street, will be held Monday at 2:30 p.m. in the First Baptist Church of Wheeler.
The Rev. P.D. Fullingim, pastor of the Central Baptist Church of Borger, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. M.B. Smith, pastor of the Highland Baptist Church of Pampa. Interment will be in Wheeler Cemetery under the direction of Duenkel-Carmichael Funeral Home of Pampa.
Poole, who moved to Borger from Wheeler County in 1954, died Saturday morning in Highland General hospital, Pampa.
Survivors are his wife, Willie Lee of the home; five daughters, Mrs. Lewis Stone of Ore City, Texas, Mrs. Boyd Hensley of Liveoak, Colorado, Mrs. Freddie Skidmore of Dove Creek, Colorado, Mrs. C.W. Worley Jr., and Mrs. Wendell Ray Garrison of Pampa; five sons, A.E. and Virgil of Pampa, Max and Eugene of Borger, H.A. of Dove Creek, Colorado, and Lloyd, stationed with the U.S. Army in Germany.
Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Vertie Shields of Sulphur Springs, Texas and Mrs. T.C. Hallenquest of Newsom, Texas; one brother, E.H. of Houston; and 29 grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 17, 1957)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Henry Sims Poole
Death Date: 16 Nov 1957
Death County: Gray
Certificate: 60945
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Henry Sims Poole
Birth Date: 27 Jun 1890
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Thomas Moten Poole
Mother: Rebecca Finley
Age at Death: 67
Death Date: 16 Nov 1957
Death Place: Pampa, Gray, Texas, USA
Contributed on 12/3/21
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Record #: 471733