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Submitted: 7/3/22 • Approved: 7/3/22 • Last Updated: 7/6/22 • R522907-G522905-S3
Stanford Calvin Knox
March 18, 1915-December 30, 1997
Please see military marker
Ruth Owen Stenger Knox
February 25, 1922-November 3, 2013
Married May 20, 1942
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary Stanford Calvin Knox
Stanford Knox
HEREFORD (Special) - Services for Stanford C. "Stan" Knox, 82, of Hereford will be at 2 p.m. today in Central Church of Christ with Tom Bailey, minister, officiating.
Burial will be in West Park Cemetery under direction of Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
Knox died Tuesday, Dec. 30, 1997, in Hereford Regional Medical Center.
He was born March 18, 1915, in Lockney. He married Ruth Owen Stenger on May 20, 1942, in Alexandria, La. He was a member of the Church of Christ, and he was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, where he played in the U.S. Army Band. He served as deacon and choir director at Central Church of Christ. He was a member of the Hereford Kiwanis Club and Hereford Senior Citizens Young at Heart Choir.
He retired in 1984 after 30 years in the retail television and music business in Hereford.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Kathleen A. Berry of Irving; two sons, Stephen O. of Los Alamos, N.M., and Bryan D. of Dallas; and five grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to High Plains Children's Home, P.O. Box 7448, Amarillo 79114, or to Central Church of Christ.
(Published in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, December 31, 1997)
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Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Knox
Birth Date: 18 Mar 1915
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Floyd, Texas, USA
Father: W A Knox
Mother: Lillie Carrison
Mother Residence: Floyd County
Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Stanford Calvin Knox
Birth Date: 18 Mar 1915
Birth Place: Rural, Floyd, Texas, USA
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Stanford Knox
Death Date: 30 Dec 1997
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Male
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Stanford Calvin Knox
[Stanford C Knox]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 18 Mar 1915
Birth Place: Lockney Floy, Texas
Death Date: 30 Dec 1997
Father: Washington A Knox
Mother: Lilly E Cameron
Notes: Sep 1940: Name listed as STANFORD CALVIN KNOX; 09 Jan 1998: Name listed as STANFORD C KNOX
*Obituary Ruth Owen Stenger Knox
Ruth O. Knox
(February 25, 1922 - November 3, 2013)
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 5, 2013)
Ruth Owen Stenger Knox, age 91, died peacefully at home with family and friends, on November 3, 2013. A Celebration of Life Service is scheduled for 2:00 pm, Wednesday, November 6 2013, at the Central Church of Christ with John Henley, minister, officiating. Burial will follow in West Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Hereford Heritage Funeral Home, 411 E 6th Street, Hereford.
Mrs. Knox was born February 25, 1922, in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Arthur Dallas Stenger and Rosa Owen Stenger. She lived in Dallas her early years, attended Maple Lawn School, before moving with her parents to Shreveport, Louisiana. She was a graduate of C. E. Byrd High School and Norton Business College in Shreveport.
She married Stanford C. Knox May 20, 1942 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He preceded her in death in 1997. She was a legal secretary in Shreveport and Hereford before joining her husband in their business known as Stan Knox TV & Music for 29 years.
Mrs. Knox was a faithful, longtime member of Central Church of Christ serving many years as a bible teacher. Ruth said she was a "transplant from Louisiana" and immediately started planting trees and flowers in their first home in Hereford and subsequently in and around Hereford till her later years. She also was a birder and a member of the Panhandle Bird Club.
She was active in many community projects, charter member of Los Ciboleros Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution and Women's Division of the Chamber of Commerce. She was named 1988 Volunteer of the year by the American Heart Association for the 26 counties of the Texas Panhandle, was active in projects for Hereford Senior Citizens, especially the Golden Linedancers, HOSTS, BIGS and Hereford Beautification Alliance. During World War II while in Riverside, California with Stan in the Army, she worked for Food Machinery Corp. in the manufacture of the army's Water Buffalo.
Survivors include a daughter, Kathleen Knox Berry of Irving, Texas, two sons, Stephen Owen Knox and wife, Susan Carmichael Knox, of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Bryan Douglas Knox of Dallas, Texas, five grandchildren: Robb Marvin Berry of Herndon, Virginia, Erin Knox and husband Matt Moses of Lafayette, Colorado, Peter C. Knox of Brooklyn, New York, Natalie Knox of New York City, and Daniel Bryan Knox of Dallas, Texas, and two great grandchildren: Shannon and Maxwell Moses of Lafayette, Colorado.
The family suggests memorials to either the Central Church of Christ, Box 407, Hereford, TX., or the Hereford Senior Citizen Assn., 426 Ranger Dr., Hereford, TX,. 79045.
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