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Submitted: 7/17/22 • Approved: 7/17/22 • Last Updated: 7/20/22 • R525804-G525802-S3
J.F. “Jack” Messer
August 16, 1910-December 16, 1971
Father
Victoria Eastman Messer
October 15, 1918-January 18, 1989
Mother
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary J. F. “Jack” Messer
Funeral services for J.F. Messer, 61, of East Highway 60, were conducted Saturday afternoon in First Baptist Church by the Rev. H.V. Fields, pastor of Grace Gospel Church. Gililland Funeral Home directed burial in West Park Cemetery.
Mr. Messer, a construction contractor who had lived in Hereford since 1943, was pronounced dead on arrival at Deaf Smith General Hospital Thursday.
He was born Aug. 16, 1910 at Bowie, and Married Victoria Eastman Aug. 19, 1937 in Sayre, Okla. They mover [sic] to Deaf Smith County from McLean. Mr. Messer was a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors are his wife; four sons, Jackie, Jimmy, Roy D. and Cecil, and a brother, E.W. Messer, all of Hereford; also a sister, Mrs. Daisy McCoy of Reydon, Okla., and four grandchildren.
(Published in The Sunday Brand, Vol. 24-No. 25, Hereford, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 19, 1971, Page 2)
U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Jasper Flay Messer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 16 Aug 1910
Birth Place: Montague
Residence Place: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Registration Place: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Employer: Beckman Drilling Co
Weight: 235
Complexion: Ruddy
Eye Color: Gray
Hair Color: Black
Height: 5 10
Next of Kin: J G Messer
Household Members:
Name Relationship
Jasper Flay Messer Self (Head)
J G Messer Father
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Jasper Messer
Death Date: 16 Dec 1971
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Jasper Flay Messer
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 61
Birth Date: 16 Aug 1910
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Death Date: 16 Dec 1971
Death Place: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Father: Jessie Green Messer
Mother: Missie Bell Wainscott
Certificate Number: 94016
*Obituary Victoria Eastman Messer
Victoria "Dude" Messer, 70, of Hereford, died Wednesday at 1:20 p.m. at Deaf Smith General Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Services are will [sic] be at 10 a.m. Friday in Rix Chapel with Don Cherry of Hereford officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery under direction of Rix Funeral Directors.
She was born in Idabel, Okla., and moved to Hereford in 1941 from McLean. She married J.F. Messer in 1937 in McLean. He died Dec. 16, 1971. She was a member of Hereford Riders Club, Elks Lodge and First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include four sons, Jacky and Roy Dale, both of Hereford, Jimmy of Canyon and Cecil of Quanah; a sister, Mae Stubbs of Littlefield; a half-sister, Marie Jenkins of Hereford; one brother-in-law, E.W. Messer of Hereford; 10 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Texas Arthritis Foundation.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 88th Year, No. 141, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 19, 1989, Page 2)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Dora Messer
Death Date: 18 Jan 1989
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Dora V. Messer
Last Residence:
79045 Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Born: 15 Oct 1918
Died: Jan 1989
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Victoria Messer
[Dora V Messer]
[Victoria Eastman]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 15 Oct 1918
Birth Place: Idabell Mcca, Oklahoma
Death Date: Jan 1989
Father: Robert W Eastman
Mother: Mary E Cooper
Notes: Mar 1972: Name listed as VICTORIA MESSER; 01 Feb 1989: Name listed as DORA V MESSER
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