The Childress Index
Childress, Texas
Tuesday, August 28, 1973, front page
Miles Services Are Held Today In Hereford
Funeral services for E. B. (Slick) Miles, 81-year-old father of Mrs. L. L. Baker of Childress, were to be held at 1 p.m. today in the Gililland-Watson Rose Chapel in Hereford.
Rev. H. V. Fields, pastor from Lubbock, was to officiate and burial was to be in the West Park Cemetery in Hereford.
Mr. Miles was declared dead on arrival at the Dear Smith General Hospital in Hereford. He collapsed while watching the Hereford Diamond Jubilee parade in Downtown Hereford.
He was born in Trickstone, Ala., and married the former Flossie L. Ivy in 1919 in Collin Count. He had moved from Alabama to Texas in 1894 and from Collin County to Hereford in 1925.
He was a carpenter and veteran of World War II.
Other than Mrs. Baker, he is survived by his wife, five sons, Maj. I. F. Miles of Montgomery, Ala., Wallace of Burkburnett, Eugene of Santa Ana, Calif., James of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Francis of Norwood, Mo.; a brother, Claud of Collin County; four sisters, Mrs. F. U. Payne of Lockney, Mrs. Lois Bowen of Dallas, Mrs. C. W. Woodson of Greenville and Mrs. Edd Kensalo of Chillicothe; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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Statement written by Odessa Mondaleen "Rusty" Baker (nee Miles) on February 18, 1989: "There are some official records, such as discharge papers and death certificate, that spell his name as Eules, but he spelled it Eulas."
Childress, Texas
Tuesday, August 28, 1973, front page
Miles Services Are Held Today In Hereford
Funeral services for E. B. (Slick) Miles, 81-year-old father of Mrs. L. L. Baker of Childress, were to be held at 1 p.m. today in the Gililland-Watson Rose Chapel in Hereford.
Rev. H. V. Fields, pastor from Lubbock, was to officiate and burial was to be in the West Park Cemetery in Hereford.
Mr. Miles was declared dead on arrival at the Dear Smith General Hospital in Hereford. He collapsed while watching the Hereford Diamond Jubilee parade in Downtown Hereford.
He was born in Trickstone, Ala., and married the former Flossie L. Ivy in 1919 in Collin Count. He had moved from Alabama to Texas in 1894 and from Collin County to Hereford in 1925.
He was a carpenter and veteran of World War II.
Other than Mrs. Baker, he is survived by his wife, five sons, Maj. I. F. Miles of Montgomery, Ala., Wallace of Burkburnett, Eugene of Santa Ana, Calif., James of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Francis of Norwood, Mo.; a brother, Claud of Collin County; four sisters, Mrs. F. U. Payne of Lockney, Mrs. Lois Bowen of Dallas, Mrs. C. W. Woodson of Greenville and Mrs. Edd Kensalo of Chillicothe; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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Statement written by Odessa Mondaleen "Rusty" Baker (nee Miles) on February 18, 1989: "There are some official records, such as discharge papers and death certificate, that spell his name as Eules, but he spelled it Eulas."
The Childress Index
Childress, Texas
Tuesday, August 28, 1973, front page
Miles Services Are Held Today In Hereford
Funeral services for E. B. (Slick) Miles, 81-year-old father of Mrs. L. L. Baker of Childress, were to be held at 1 p.m. today in the Gililland-Watson Rose Chapel in Hereford.
Rev. H. V. Fields, pastor from Lubbock, was to officiate and burial was to be in the West Park Cemetery in Hereford.
Mr. Miles was declared dead on arrival at the Dear Smith General Hospital in Hereford. He collapsed while watching the Hereford Diamond Jubilee parade in Downtown Hereford.
He was born in Trickstone, Ala., and married the former Flossie L. Ivy in 1919 in Collin Count. He had moved from Alabama to Texas in 1894 and from Collin County to Hereford in 1925.
He was a carpenter and veteran of World War II.
Other than Mrs. Baker, he is survived by his wife, five sons, Maj. I. F. Miles of Montgomery, Ala., Wallace of Burkburnett, Eugene of Santa Ana, Calif., James of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Francis of Norwood, Mo.; a brother, Claud of Collin County; four sisters, Mrs. F. U. Payne of Lockney, Mrs. Lois Bowen of Dallas, Mrs. C. W. Woodson of Greenville and Mrs. Edd Kensalo of Chillicothe; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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Statement written by Odessa Mondaleen "Rusty" Baker (nee Miles) on February 18, 1989: "There are some official records, such as discharge papers and death certificate, that spell his name as Eules, but he spelled it Eulas."
Childress, Texas
Tuesday, August 28, 1973, front page
Miles Services Are Held Today In Hereford
Funeral services for E. B. (Slick) Miles, 81-year-old father of Mrs. L. L. Baker of Childress, were to be held at 1 p.m. today in the Gililland-Watson Rose Chapel in Hereford.
Rev. H. V. Fields, pastor from Lubbock, was to officiate and burial was to be in the West Park Cemetery in Hereford.
Mr. Miles was declared dead on arrival at the Dear Smith General Hospital in Hereford. He collapsed while watching the Hereford Diamond Jubilee parade in Downtown Hereford.
He was born in Trickstone, Ala., and married the former Flossie L. Ivy in 1919 in Collin Count. He had moved from Alabama to Texas in 1894 and from Collin County to Hereford in 1925.
He was a carpenter and veteran of World War II.
Other than Mrs. Baker, he is survived by his wife, five sons, Maj. I. F. Miles of Montgomery, Ala., Wallace of Burkburnett, Eugene of Santa Ana, Calif., James of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Francis of Norwood, Mo.; a brother, Claud of Collin County; four sisters, Mrs. F. U. Payne of Lockney, Mrs. Lois Bowen of Dallas, Mrs. C. W. Woodson of Greenville and Mrs. Edd Kensalo of Chillicothe; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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Statement written by Odessa Mondaleen "Rusty" Baker (nee Miles) on February 18, 1989: "There are some official records, such as discharge papers and death certificate, that spell his name as Eules, but he spelled it Eulas."
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