Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Amarillo's Boxwell Bros. Ivy Chapel for Marie Stella Killion, 76, an early-day Borger pioneer.
Mrs. Killion died Tuesday in her Amarillo apartment building of a bullet wound in the head. She had been in ill health and despondent in recent weeks. An automatic pistol was lying near the body when found by Mrs. Killion's daughter, Mrs. Gene Kitchen of Bartlesville, Okla., but the coroner's official ruling of the cause of death has not been made yet.
Mrs. Killion had lived in Amarillo for 23 years and was a member of the First Christian Church. Her husband Irving J. Killion died in November, 1954.
An Oklahoma native, Mrs. Killion came to Borger in the early days of the 1926 oil boom. She and her husband Irving J. Killion, whom she married in 1920, built the city's first brick building, the Betty Jane Hotel, which was named for their daughter. The couple also owned and operated the Killion Gas Co. that later became the Borger Gas Co.
Officiating at final services will be Amarillo First Christian Church pastor Dr. Newton Robison. Msgr. Frances A. Smyer of St. Anthony's Catholic Church will assist. Burial will follow in Amarillo's Llano Cemetery.
Surviving Mrs. Killion are her daughter Mrs. Betty Kitchen of Bartlesville, Okla., and two grandsons.
Pall bearers are Dr. T.M. Montgomery, Ben Stokes, Sam C. Dunn, Clyde Dampf, Art Hawks, and George Pulley.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, December 30, 1965)
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Mrs. Killion died Tuesday in her Amarillo apartment building of a bullet wound in the head. She had been in ill health and despondent in recent weeks. An automatic pistol was lying near the body when found by Mrs. Killion's daughter, Mrs. Gene Kitchen of Bartlesville, Okla., but the coroner's official ruling of the cause of death has not been made yet.
Mrs. Killion had lived in Amarillo for 23 years and was a member of the First Christian Church. Her husband Irving J. Killion died in November, 1954.
An Oklahoma native, Mrs. Killion came to Borger in the early days of the 1926 oil boom. She and her husband Irving J. Killion, whom she married in 1920, built the city's first brick building, the Betty Jane Hotel, which was named for their daughter. The couple also owned and operated the Killion Gas Co. that later became the Borger Gas Co.
Officiating at final services will be Amarillo First Christian Church pastor Dr. Newton Robison. Msgr. Frances A. Smyer of St. Anthony's Catholic Church will assist. Burial will follow in Amarillo's Llano Cemetery.
Surviving Mrs. Killion are her daughter Mrs. Betty Kitchen of Bartlesville, Okla., and two grandsons.
Pall bearers are Dr. T.M. Montgomery, Ben Stokes, Sam C. Dunn, Clyde Dampf, Art Hawks, and George Pulley.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, December 30, 1965)
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Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Amarillo's Boxwell Bros. Ivy Chapel for Marie Stella Killion, 76, an early-day Borger pioneer.
Mrs. Killion died Tuesday in her Amarillo apartment building of a bullet wound in the head. She had been in ill health and despondent in recent weeks. An automatic pistol was lying near the body when found by Mrs. Killion's daughter, Mrs. Gene Kitchen of Bartlesville, Okla., but the coroner's official ruling of the cause of death has not been made yet.
Mrs. Killion had lived in Amarillo for 23 years and was a member of the First Christian Church. Her husband Irving J. Killion died in November, 1954.
An Oklahoma native, Mrs. Killion came to Borger in the early days of the 1926 oil boom. She and her husband Irving J. Killion, whom she married in 1920, built the city's first brick building, the Betty Jane Hotel, which was named for their daughter. The couple also owned and operated the Killion Gas Co. that later became the Borger Gas Co.
Officiating at final services will be Amarillo First Christian Church pastor Dr. Newton Robison. Msgr. Frances A. Smyer of St. Anthony's Catholic Church will assist. Burial will follow in Amarillo's Llano Cemetery.
Surviving Mrs. Killion are her daughter Mrs. Betty Kitchen of Bartlesville, Okla., and two grandsons.
Pall bearers are Dr. T.M. Montgomery, Ben Stokes, Sam C. Dunn, Clyde Dampf, Art Hawks, and George Pulley.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, December 30, 1965)
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Mrs. Killion died Tuesday in her Amarillo apartment building of a bullet wound in the head. She had been in ill health and despondent in recent weeks. An automatic pistol was lying near the body when found by Mrs. Killion's daughter, Mrs. Gene Kitchen of Bartlesville, Okla., but the coroner's official ruling of the cause of death has not been made yet.
Mrs. Killion had lived in Amarillo for 23 years and was a member of the First Christian Church. Her husband Irving J. Killion died in November, 1954.
An Oklahoma native, Mrs. Killion came to Borger in the early days of the 1926 oil boom. She and her husband Irving J. Killion, whom she married in 1920, built the city's first brick building, the Betty Jane Hotel, which was named for their daughter. The couple also owned and operated the Killion Gas Co. that later became the Borger Gas Co.
Officiating at final services will be Amarillo First Christian Church pastor Dr. Newton Robison. Msgr. Frances A. Smyer of St. Anthony's Catholic Church will assist. Burial will follow in Amarillo's Llano Cemetery.
Surviving Mrs. Killion are her daughter Mrs. Betty Kitchen of Bartlesville, Okla., and two grandsons.
Pall bearers are Dr. T.M. Montgomery, Ben Stokes, Sam C. Dunn, Clyde Dampf, Art Hawks, and George Pulley.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Thursday, December 30, 1965)
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