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Submitted: 5/5/22 • Approved: 5/6/22 • Last Updated: 5/9/22 • R511437-G511437-S3
Joseph (Joe) Harlow Brownlee
August 2, 1923-March 26, 1993
Roxie Ruth Thomas Brownlee
January 27, 1928-February 12, 2009
Married December 5, 1943
Waiting beyond the sunset
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Joseph (Joe) Harlow
Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Joseph Harlow Brownlee
Birth Date: 2 Aug 1923
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Plainview, Hale, Texas, USA
Father: Fred Brownlee
Father Birth Place: Wise County, Texas
Mother: Lillina Smith
Mother Birth Place: Wilbarger County, Texas
Mother Residence: Lamb Co, Texas
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Joseph Brownlee
Death Date: 26 Mar 1993
Death County: Oldham
Gender: Male
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Joe H. Brownlee
Last Residence:
79001 Adrian, Oldham, Texas, USA
BORN: 2 Aug 1923
Died: 26 Mar 1993
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Joe Brownlee
[Joe Harlow Brownlee]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 2 Aug 1923
Birth Place: Plainview Ha, Texas
[Plainview, Texas]
Death Date: 26 Mar 1993
Father: Fred Brownlee
Mother: Lillian Smith
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Jun 1941: Name listed as JOE BROWNLEE; May 1948: Name listed as JOE HARLOW BROWNLEE; 06 Apr 1993: Name listed as JOE H BROWNLEE
*Obituary Roxie Ruth
HEREFORD - Roxie Ruth Brownlee, 81, died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in First Methodist Church in Adrian with the Rev. Bob Miller, pastor of South Georgia Baptist Church in Amarillo, officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery in Hereford by Holley Funeral Home of Canyon.
Roxie was born Jan. 27, 1928, in Alanreed to Gordon Thomas and Ruth Turner Thomas. She married Joe Brownlee on Dec. 5, 1943, in Portales, N.M. She owned and operated the It'll Do Motel in Clarendon for 25 years. She resided in Adrian before moving to Clarendon. She was the mother of seven children.
Survivors include four daughters, Donna Gudgell of Gatesville, Sue Stephens and Shana Brownlee, both of Amarillo, and Roxann Travis of Glenrio, N.M.; a son, Joel Brownlee of Wheeler; five sisters, Clara Driggs, Vickie Grogan, Rose Ballard, Gladys Harper and Ann Criswell; 13 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.
Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 13, 2009
Contributed on 5/5/22 by neldapat
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