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Submitted: 12/4/21 • Approved: 12/4/21 • Last Updated: 12/7/21 • R471864-G0-S3
November 4, 1916-January 2, 1983
Please see Puryear Family Marker
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Thomas Gordon Puryear, 66, died Sunday, January 2, 1983.
Graveside services were at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 5, in Wheeler Cemetery with the Rev. Ernie McGaughey, pastor of First United Methodist Church, officiating. Arrangements were by Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Puryear was born in Roger Mills County, Okla. He had lived in the Wheeler area most of his life. He married Peggy Shaw [sic] in 1944 at Colby, Kan. He was a rancher. He was a member of Wheeler Masonic Lodge, Elks Lodge and First Methodist Church in Kelton.
He was a former member of the Kelton School Board. He was the first president of the board of directors of Parkview Hospital in Wheeler, serving as president from 1963 to 1965. He served on the board of directors of the hospital after being president.
Pallbearers included Dick DeArment, Harry Frye, Tom Henry Frye, Dr. Louie Mendiolia, Denzel Reed, Domer Reed, Joe Rogers, and Hiram Whitener.
Survivors include a son, Tommy Puryear of Wheeler; a daughter, Penny Burt of Austin; two sisters, Rae Marie Royer of Boulder City, Nev., and Billie Mallot of Woodlake, Calif., and two grandchildren.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Volume 49, Number 5, Thursday, January 6, 1983, Page 1)
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U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Thomas Gordon Puryear
Race: White
Age: 23
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 4 Nov 1916
Birth Place: Sweetwater, Oklahoma, USA
Residence Place: Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado, USA
Registration Date: 16 Oct 1940
Registration Place: Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado, USA
Employer: Highline Electric Ass'n
Weight: 165
Complexion: Dark
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 6
Next of Kin: Neille Virginia Puryear
Household Members:
Name Relationship
Thomas Gordon Puryear Self (Head)
Neille Virginia Puryear Mother
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Thomas Puryear
Death Date: 2 Jan 1983
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Male
Contributed on 12/4/21
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