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Submitted: 6/1/15 • Approved: 6/1/15 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R73398-G0-S3
22 Apr 1943 - 17 Aug 1958
Born in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas
and died in Crosbyton, Crosby County, Texas
Son of Raymond Alexander Higginbotham (1916 - 1998)
and Nedra M. Higginbotham (1918 - 1998)
Sibling:
Ann Higginbotham (1948 - 1966)
*Obituary
Published 19 September 1958
The Amarillo Globe-Times
Hereford, Aug. 19-Funeral services for Landis R. Higginbotham, 15, were held today in the First Methodist Church here. The boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Higginbotham.
The Rev. Alby Cockrell, pastor, officiated and burial was in Rest Lawn Memorial Park with Kreig-Marcum Funeral Home of Hereford in charge of arrangements.
The youth was found dead Sunday in a barn on his uncle's farm near Crosbyton. Justice of the Peace W. H. Nickson of Crosbyton ruled the death "Self-inflicted death…possibly accidental."
Young Higginbotham, who was visiting his uncle, Bill Higginbotham, was born April 22, 1943, in Lubbock and moved to Hereford in 1952 from Spur.
He is survived by his parents, who farm 8 miles north of Hereford on Highway 51; a sister, Ann, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Higginbotham of Crosbyton and Mr. and Mrs. Ned Hogan of Spur.
Contributed on 6/1/15
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Record #: 73398