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Submitted: 9/2/22 • Approved: 9/3/22 • Last Updated: 9/6/22 • R535056-G0-S3
December 20, 1896-May 19, 1963
Dear Dad
Thy will be done
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
L.F. Stayton Services Pend
HEREFORD, May 29 - Funeral arrangements for Leonard Fleming Stayton, 66, will be announced by the Gililland Funeral Home.
Mr. Stayton died at his home, 305 Jowell, at 1:25 p.m. Sunday. He was born Sept. 20, 1896, at Corbin. He was married to Miss Goldie Kamenzind on Aug. 21, 1918, at Altus, Okla.
They moved to Texas in 1929 from Oklahoma and to Deaf Smith County in 1950 from Dimmitt. He was a retired farmer and a veteran of World War I.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Charles of Hereford and James with the U.S. Army at Tacoma, Wash.; eight daughters, Miss Leona Stayton, Mrs. Doris Turner, Mrs. Wynelle Thursday [sic], Mrs. Ouida Wray and Mrs. Wanda Evans, all of Hereford, Mrs. Lorene Sessions and Mrs. Mary Joe Abernathy, both of Amarillo, and Mrs. Betty Smith of Friona; two sisters, a brother and 19 grandchildren.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - 20 May 1963, Mon - Page 20)
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Oklahoma, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Leonard Stayton
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1897
Marriage Date: 21 Aug 1918
Marriage Place: Jackson, Oklahoma, USA
Father: D A Stayton
Spouse: Goldie Kamenzind
Film Number: 001939870
Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Leonard Fleming Stayton
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 66
Birth Date: 30 Dec 1896
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Death Date: 19 May 1963
Death Place: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Father: David Stayton
Mother: Anetta J Stayton
Contributed on 9/2/22 by neldapat
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