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Submitted: 5/20/22 • Approved: 5/21/22 • Last Updated: 5/24/22 • R514304-G514302-S3
Guy T. Cornelius
January 19, 1906-October 18, 1982
Marie O. Ashlock Cornelius
May 14, 1908-March 22, 1990
Married August 4, 1929
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary Guy T.
Services for Guy Cornelius, 76, of 202 Fir St., will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Rose Chapel of Gililland-Watson Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Gene Tone, pastor of Frio Baptist Church.
Mr. Cornelius died Monday at Deaf Smith General Hospital after a long illness. He was born Jan. 19, 1906, in Red River County, Texas, and came to Hereford from there in 1927.
He married Marie Ashlock Aug. 4, 1929, in Clovis, N.M. He was in the irrigation pump service business.
Survivors include his wife of Hereford; four sons, Guy, Jr., Gayle, and Donnie, all of Hereford, and John of Boys Ranch, Texas; one daughter, Mrs. Wanda Slagle of Edmond, Okla.; one sister, Mrs. Ethel Doty of Dallas; 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 82nd Year, No. 77, Hereford, Tx., Deaf Smith County, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1982, Page 2)
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U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Guy Taylor Cornelius
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 34
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 19 Jan 1906
Birth Place: Bogota, Texas, USA
Residence Place: Hereford, Hereford, Texas, USA
Registration Date: 16 Oct 1940
Registration Place: Hereford, Hereford, Texas, USA
Employer: Fraser Milling Co
Weight: 139
Complexion: Ruddy
Eye Color: Gray
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5 8
Next of Kin: Guy T Cornelius
Household Members:
Name Relationship
Guy Taylor Cornelius Self (Head)
Guy T Cornelius Wife
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Guy Cornelius
Death Date: 18 Oct 1982
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Guy Taylor Cornelius
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian (White)
Age: 76
Birth Date: 19 Jan 1906
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Death Date: 18 Oct 1982
Death Place: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Father: Benjamin Franklin Cornelius
Mother: Mary D Jones
Spouse: Marie Ashlock Cornelius
Certificate Number: 80775
*Obituary Marie O.
Marie Cornelius, 81, of Hereford, died Thursday, March 22, 1990 at Deaf Smith General Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in First Baptist Church with Dr. Ron Cook, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in West Park Cemetery by Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Cornelius was born in Denton County and moved to Hereford in 1922. She married Guy Cornelius in 1929 in Clovis, N.M. He passed away in 1982. She was a legal secretary, a homemaker and a Baptist.
Survivors include four sons, Guy J., Gayle and Donnie, all of Hereford, and John of Wellman; a daughter, Wanda Slagle of Edmond, Okla.; three brothers, Jim Ashlock of Concord Calif., R.C. Ashlock of California and Billy Ashlock of San Jose, Calif.; two sisters, Leta Curtsinger and Elsie Russell, both of Hereford; 16 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 89th Year, No. 187, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Tx., Sunday, March 25, 1990, Page 2)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Marie Cornelius
Death Date: 22 Mar 1990
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Marie O. Cornelius
Birth Date: 14 May 1908
Issue Year: Before 1951
Issue State: Texas
Death Date: Mar 1990
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Marie O Cornelius
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 14 May 1908
Death Date: Mar 1990
Claim Date: 7 Mar 1973
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