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Submitted: 5/3/22 • Approved: 5/3/22 • Last Updated: 5/6/22 • R511047-G511047-S3
March 17, 1907-March 20, 1988
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
Sula Mae Blakley, 81, of Hereford died Sunday in Golden Plains Care Center after a lengthy illness.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Rose Chapel of Gililland-Watson Funeral Home with the Rev. C.W. Allen, pastor of St. John's Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery under the direction of Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Blakley was born in Wortham and moved to Hereford in 1965 from Byers. She married Pat Blakley on jan. [sic]7, 1958, in Amarillo. She was a homemaker and a Baptist.
Survivors include her husband; and a daughter, Lucille Johnson of California.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 87th Year, No. 183, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Tx., Tuesday, March 22, 1988, Page 2)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Sula Blakley
Death Date: 20 Mar 1988
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Sula Blakely
Birth Date: 17 Mar 1907
Issue Year: Before 1951
Issue State: Texas
Last Residence: 79045, Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Death Date: 20 Mar 1988
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Sula Mae Blakeley
[Sula Blakely]
[Sula Mae Carter]
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Birth Date: 17 Mar 1908
Birth Place: Wortham Lime, Texas
[Wortham Lime|]
Death Date: 20 Mar 1988
Claim Date: 2 Jul 1970
Father: John Carter
Mother: Janie
Notes: Jun 1970: Name listed as SULA MAE BLAKELEY; 30 Jun 1970: Name listed as SULA BLAKELY
Contributed on 5/3/22 by neldapat
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