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Submitted: 8/30/22 • Approved: 8/30/22 • Last Updated: 9/2/22 • R534397-G534395-S3
Mack Short
1886-1958
Father
Mable Nixon Short
1895-1928
Mother
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary Mack Short
Final rites for Mack Short, 71, former Hereford resident will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Rose Chapel of Gililland Funeral Home. The Rev. Alby Cockrell, First Methodist Church pastor, will officiate.
Mr. Short died Thursday in Roswell, N.M. , Osteopathic Hospital. He was born Jan. 23, 1886, at Hopkinsville, Ky., and came to Deaf Smith County in about 1908. He later moved to Friona and then to Roswell seven years ago. He was a retired farmer.
Survivors include his wife; five sons, George and Bob of Roswell, Glenn and Charles of Friona and J.D. of Seattle, Wash.; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Kalewetter [sic] of Mendhall [sic], Miss., Mrs. Wanda Jean Billingsley of Newport, Wash., and Mrs. Lois McDonald of Hereford; 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in West Park Cemetery.
(Published in The Sunday Brand, Vol. 10 - No. 33, Hereford, Texas, Sunday, February 9, 1958, Page 2)
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Colorado, County Marriage Records and State Index, 1862-2006
Name: Mack Short
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Birth Date: abt 1888
Marriage Date: 30 Sep 1911
Marriage Place: La Junta, Otero, Colorado, USA
Spouse: Mabel Nixon
Film Number: 001690134
U.S., WWI Civilian Draft Registrations, 1917-1918
Name: Short, Mack
Birth Date: 23 Jun 1886
Birth Place: Logan Co. KY
City/County: Deaf Smith
State: TX
Ethnicity: W
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Mack Short
Race: Caucasian (White)
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: 23 Jun 1886
Birth Place: Kentucky, USA
Residence Place: Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Mack Short
Birth Date: 23 Jun 1886
Issue year: Before 1951
Issue State: Arkansas
Death Date: Feb 1958
*Mable Nixon Short
Colorado, County Marriage Records and State Index, 1862-2006
Name: Mabel Nixon
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Date: abt 1893
Marriage Date: 30 Sep 1911
Marriage Place: La Junta, Otero, Colorado, USA
Spouse: Mack Short
Film Number: 001690134
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Mable Short
Death Date: 27 Jul 1928
Death County: Deaf Smith
Certificate: 29853
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Mrs Mable Short
[Mrs Mable Nixon]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 33
Birth Date: 3 Mar 1895
Birth Place: Nebraska
Death Date: 27 Jul 1928
Death Place: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Father: G W Nixon
Contributed on 8/30/22 by neldapat
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