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Submitted: 12/23/21 • Approved: 12/23/21 • Last Updated: 12/26/21 • R474999-G0-S3
June 2, 1882-November 23, 1957
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services were to have been held today at 1:30 p.m. in the Duenkel-Carmichael Chapel for Mr. Roy Simpson, who died at 8:41 p.m. Saturday in a rest home at 307 E. Browning. Rev. Jerry Speer was to officiate.
Mr. Simpson was born in Indiana, June 2, 1882, and had resided in Perryton for 15 years before moving to Pampa over a year ago. He was a retired farmer.
Survivors include one granddaughter, Loretta Green of Canadian; and two sisters, Mrs. Mattie Lynn and Mrs. Tiny Deckman, both of Evansville, Ind.
Burial was to have followed in Wheeler.
(Published in Pampa Daily News (Pampa, Texas) - Mon, Nov 25, 1957 - Page 2)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Roy Simpson
Death Date: 23 Nov 1957
Death County: Gray
Certificate: 60946
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Roy Simpson
Birth Date: 2 Jun 1882
Birth Place: Indiana
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Pampa, Gray, Texas
Age at Death: 75
Death Date: 23 Nov 1957
Death Place: Pampa, Gray, Texas, USA
Contributed on 12/23/21
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Record #: 474999