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Vergia Dee BENTLEY

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

James Clark
March 29, 1907-December 17, 1996

Please see military marker

Vergia Dee
January 4, 1911-July 8, 2007

Married June 21, 1947

*Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary James Clark
James Clark Reagan, 89, died Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1996.

Services were at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, 1996 in Wheeler Church of Christ with Bill Morrison officiating. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.

Mr. Reagan was born in Jacksonville and graduated from Jacksonville High School. He married Sadie Gilstrap in 1925. She died in 1945. He married Vergia Summerour Bentley in 1947 in Canadian. He worked at the Harvey House in Canadian for several years, served as Hemphill County deputy sheriff for two years and was the Canadian city water superintendent for 25 years.

He owned and operated the Gageby Store for four years before moving to Wheeler in 1974. In Wheeler he worked for a service station for five years and served as Wheeler County Justice of the Peace for four years, retiring in 1988. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Canadian Fire Department. He was a member of the Church of Christ and the Odd Fellows.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Barbara Oldroyd of Corsicana and Nadine Graves of Lancaster; a son, Roger Reagan of Jacksonville; a stepson, Richard Bentley of Perryton; two stepdaughters, Barbara Jackson of Odessa and Ruth Morey of Canadian; five grandchildren; nine stepgrandchildren; six great-grandchildren; 18 stepgreat-grandchildren; and one stepgreat-great-grandchild.

Pallbearers were Monty Bentley, Scott Bentley, Brian Burkhart, Mitch Burkhart, John Conrad, Glen Jackson, Kent Jackson, Olen Wilson. Honorary pallbearers were Larry Finsterwald, Jerry Hefley, Tom Helton, Jeremy Jackson, Joe Montngomery [sic] and Bill Popham.

The family requested memorials be to Westview Boys Home in Hollis, Okla., or Hemphill County Hospice.

(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 64, Number 3, Tuesday, December 24, 1996, Page 1)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: James Reagan
Death Date: 17 Dec 1996
Death County: Hemphill
Gender: Male

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: James C. Reagan
Last Residence:
79096 Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
BORN: 29 Mar 1907
Died: 17 Dec 1996

*Obituary Vergia Dee
Vergia Dee Bentley Reagan, 96 of Amarillo, died Sunday, July 8, 2007.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Church of Christ in Wheeler with Shawn Johnson, minister of Wheeler Church of Christ, and Jeff Messer, chaplain of Bivins Memorial in Amarillo, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.

Mrs. Reagan was born Jan. 4, 1911, in Clarendon to Barry and Lucy Dawson Summerour. She grew up in Dalhart and graduated from Dalhart High School. She attended Draughan's Business College, where she met Lonnie Clayton Bentley. They were married in Amarillo in 1929. They were blessed with five children. Lonnie died May 12, 1943. She later married Clark Reagan in 1947. He died in 1997. She lived in Canadian and Wheeler until 2001, when she moved to Amarillo. She was county treasurer in Canadian for eight years and she was an active member of the Church of Christ.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; two sons, Dee Bentley and Richard Bentley; two daughters, Bettye Edminston and Barbara Jackson; three brothers; three sisters and a great-great granddaughter.

Survivors include a daughter, Ruth Burkhart Morey of Amarillo, 11 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren and seven great-great grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

The family suggest memorials be to Westview Boy's Home, P.O. Box 714, Hollis, OK 79106

Amarillo Globe-News, July 10, 2007

Contributed on 12/5/21

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Submitted: 12/5/21 • Approved: 12/5/21 • Last Updated: 12/8/21 • R471996-G471994-S3

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