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Chester Lafayette Thomas

Birth
Booneville, Logan County, Arkansas, USA
Death
12 Apr 1944 (aged 55)
Taft, Kern County, California, USA
Burial
Taft, Kern County, California, USA Add to Map
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Father - Joseph H. Thomas (b: Pennsylvania)
Mother - Mary L. Ellington Thomas (b: Arkansas)

Spouse - Alice "Allie" Royalston Gatlin, who
died in Kern county in 1993.

Obituary -

Thursday, April 13, 1944
The Bakersfield Californian

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m.
in the chapel of the Stoffer
Funeral Service in Taft, for Mr. Thomas, 55, of
119 Lierly street, South Taft, who died yesterday
following a short illness.
Born in Booneville, Ark., September 22, 1888,
he had lived in Taft for one month, coming here
from Ventura county. He had been in the state
for two years. Surviving are his widow,
Mrs. Alice G. Thomas, three daughters, Mary
and Margaret Thomas and Mrs. Verna Boatman
and a son, Chester, Jr., all of Taft; three other
sons, James H. of Santa Paula; Kenneth D.
of Angeles and Wendell W. of Camp Luis Obispo,
three brothers and one sister, living in the east.

Father - Joseph H. Thomas (b: Pennsylvania)
Mother - Mary L. Ellington Thomas (b: Arkansas)

Spouse - Alice "Allie" Royalston Gatlin, who
died in Kern county in 1993.

Obituary -

Thursday, April 13, 1944
The Bakersfield Californian

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m.
in the chapel of the Stoffer
Funeral Service in Taft, for Mr. Thomas, 55, of
119 Lierly street, South Taft, who died yesterday
following a short illness.
Born in Booneville, Ark., September 22, 1888,
he had lived in Taft for one month, coming here
from Ventura county. He had been in the state
for two years. Surviving are his widow,
Mrs. Alice G. Thomas, three daughters, Mary
and Margaret Thomas and Mrs. Verna Boatman
and a son, Chester, Jr., all of Taft; three other
sons, James H. of Santa Paula; Kenneth D.
of Angeles and Wendell W. of Camp Luis Obispo,
three brothers and one sister, living in the east.

Gravesite Details

Additional information provided by his great nephew.



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