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Ruben Turner Powers

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Ruben Turner Powers Veteran

Birth
Carnegie, Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA
Death
26 Dec 2001 (aged 76)
Olton, Lamb County, Texas, USA
Burial
Olton, Lamb County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Plainview Daily Herald - Dec. 28, 2001:
OLTON - Funeral services for Ruben Powers, 76, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Main Street Church of Christ with burial in Olton Cemetery.

Mr. Powers died at 6:15 p.m. Wed, Dec. 26, 2001, in Running Water Draw Care Center.

He was born Dec. 15, 1925, in Carnegie, OK. He moved to Olton in 1955 and was a self-employed mechanic. He owned Rube & Son Garage for many years.

He was a member of the Olton Veterans of Foreign Wars and Main Street Church of Christ. He served with the military in World War II.

In September of 1942 he married Ruby Lawence in Carnegie. She died in 1981.

Survivors include two sons, Raymond Powers and Rusty Powers, one daughter, Diane Cotton, four sisters, Dorita Gooday, Catherine Clinton, Betty Polly and Barbara Johnson, nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

A son, LeRoy Powers, died in 1991.
Plainview Daily Herald - Dec. 28, 2001:
OLTON - Funeral services for Ruben Powers, 76, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Main Street Church of Christ with burial in Olton Cemetery.

Mr. Powers died at 6:15 p.m. Wed, Dec. 26, 2001, in Running Water Draw Care Center.

He was born Dec. 15, 1925, in Carnegie, OK. He moved to Olton in 1955 and was a self-employed mechanic. He owned Rube & Son Garage for many years.

He was a member of the Olton Veterans of Foreign Wars and Main Street Church of Christ. He served with the military in World War II.

In September of 1942 he married Ruby Lawence in Carnegie. She died in 1981.

Survivors include two sons, Raymond Powers and Rusty Powers, one daughter, Diane Cotton, four sisters, Dorita Gooday, Catherine Clinton, Betty Polly and Barbara Johnson, nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

A son, LeRoy Powers, died in 1991.


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