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Submitted: 5/15/22 • Approved: 5/15/22 • Last Updated: 5/18/22 • R513254-G513254-S3
Thelma D. Vicars Chisum
1897-1975
Beloved wife, mother, and mimi
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
Services for Mrs. Thelma Chisum, a longtime Hereford educator, were held Tuesday afternoon at First United Methodist Church.
The Rev. H.L. Thurston, retired Methodist minister, officiated. Burial was in West Park Cemetery here under direction of Smith and Company Funeral Home.
Mrs. Chisum died at 9:30 a.m. Sunday in Deaf Smith General Hospital following a lengthy illness.
She was a retired elementary school teacher. The Merit naative taught school here 23 years. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, the Rebekah Lodge and Order of Eastern Star.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ann C. Woodward of Hereford; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey of Hollis, Okla., and Mrs. Minnie Attebury of Amarillo; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 74th Year, No. 89, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 6, 1975, Page 3)
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Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Dewey Thelma Vicars
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Birth Date: abt 1897
Marriage Date: 22 Dec 1917
Marriage Place: Jackson, Oklahoma, USA
Father: I E Vicars
Spouse: Alonzo Lee Chisum
Film Number: 001939870
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Thelma Chisum
Death Date: 2 Nov 1975
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Thelma Dewey Chisum
[Thelma Dewey Vicars]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 77
Birth Date: 8 Nov 1897
Birth Place: Merit, Texas
Residence: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Death Date: 2 Nov 1975
Death Place: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Father: Ira Fugette Vicars
Mother: Louisa Stone
Certificate Number: 81597
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