Funeral services for L.J. Starkey, who was found dead in the Marland Hotel Thursday, February 10, will be held in the Minton Funeral Home chapel at 2 p.m. Monday with the Rev. Alan Harvey Brooks, pastor of the Bunavista Methodist Church, officiating.
Interment will be held in Wellington, Texas.
Survivors include his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Mae Blitche, Ft. Worth, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Fannie Edmondson, Perryton, Tex.; one brother, Tom Starkey, Wellington, Tex.; three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
He was a member of the Methodist Church, veteran of World War I and belonged to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Active casketbearers are A.J. Kelly, T.V. Livingston, H.C. Hull, Don Middleton, C.E. House and E.E. Brown.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 13, 1949)
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"Uncle Lewis says that nine Starkey brothers of Scotch-Irish Descent came to America.
Lewis loved to get in fights and steal cattle and butcher them right on the spot" ("just enough to eat" says Tommie Starkey Boston)
Lewis Joshua Starkey went to Collingsworth County with the family and filed on land in the Plymouth area, near his parents, Napoleon B. and Matilda Casstevens Starkey. He and his wife, "Gusta" lived in Wellington for a period of time. He was a veteran of World War I, serving with the 102 Engineers, 27th Division.
Interment will be held in Wellington, Texas.
Survivors include his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Mae Blitche, Ft. Worth, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Fannie Edmondson, Perryton, Tex.; one brother, Tom Starkey, Wellington, Tex.; three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
He was a member of the Methodist Church, veteran of World War I and belonged to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Active casketbearers are A.J. Kelly, T.V. Livingston, H.C. Hull, Don Middleton, C.E. House and E.E. Brown.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 13, 1949)
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"Uncle Lewis says that nine Starkey brothers of Scotch-Irish Descent came to America.
Lewis loved to get in fights and steal cattle and butcher them right on the spot" ("just enough to eat" says Tommie Starkey Boston)
Lewis Joshua Starkey went to Collingsworth County with the family and filed on land in the Plymouth area, near his parents, Napoleon B. and Matilda Casstevens Starkey. He and his wife, "Gusta" lived in Wellington for a period of time. He was a veteran of World War I, serving with the 102 Engineers, 27th Division.
Funeral services for L.J. Starkey, who was found dead in the Marland Hotel Thursday, February 10, will be held in the Minton Funeral Home chapel at 2 p.m. Monday with the Rev. Alan Harvey Brooks, pastor of the Bunavista Methodist Church, officiating.
Interment will be held in Wellington, Texas.
Survivors include his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Mae Blitche, Ft. Worth, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Fannie Edmondson, Perryton, Tex.; one brother, Tom Starkey, Wellington, Tex.; three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
He was a member of the Methodist Church, veteran of World War I and belonged to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Active casketbearers are A.J. Kelly, T.V. Livingston, H.C. Hull, Don Middleton, C.E. House and E.E. Brown.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 13, 1949)
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"Uncle Lewis says that nine Starkey brothers of Scotch-Irish Descent came to America.
Lewis loved to get in fights and steal cattle and butcher them right on the spot" ("just enough to eat" says Tommie Starkey Boston)
Lewis Joshua Starkey went to Collingsworth County with the family and filed on land in the Plymouth area, near his parents, Napoleon B. and Matilda Casstevens Starkey. He and his wife, "Gusta" lived in Wellington for a period of time. He was a veteran of World War I, serving with the 102 Engineers, 27th Division.
Interment will be held in Wellington, Texas.
Survivors include his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Mae Blitche, Ft. Worth, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Fannie Edmondson, Perryton, Tex.; one brother, Tom Starkey, Wellington, Tex.; three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
He was a member of the Methodist Church, veteran of World War I and belonged to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Active casketbearers are A.J. Kelly, T.V. Livingston, H.C. Hull, Don Middleton, C.E. House and E.E. Brown.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 13, 1949)
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"Uncle Lewis says that nine Starkey brothers of Scotch-Irish Descent came to America.
Lewis loved to get in fights and steal cattle and butcher them right on the spot" ("just enough to eat" says Tommie Starkey Boston)
Lewis Joshua Starkey went to Collingsworth County with the family and filed on land in the Plymouth area, near his parents, Napoleon B. and Matilda Casstevens Starkey. He and his wife, "Gusta" lived in Wellington for a period of time. He was a veteran of World War I, serving with the 102 Engineers, 27th Division.
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