Raymond John Burroughs

© Enid Morning News

06-1969

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

Garber – Funeral services for Raymond John Burroughs, 49, who died Thursday night in his home in Garber, will be at 2:30 PM Sunday in the Assembly of God Church in Garber.

Rev. Guinn Brown will officiate and burial will be in the Garber Cemetery under the direction of the Anderson Funeral Home of Garber.

Burroughs was born in Waterford, Pennsylvania, and moved with his parents to Oklahoma at an early age, living in Cromwell and Drumright before moving to the Garber – Covington oil field and to Garber in 1939.

He entered the U. As. Army February 22, 1942, serving more than four years. During this time he was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Leaf Cluster for service during World War I I.

Following his discharge from military service, he was married to Marguerite Rose Dennis April 11, 1945, and they established a home in Garber, later moving to Medicine Lodge and Stafford, Kansas, where he worked for Champlin Oil Company. They returned to Garber in 1953.

He is survived by his wife Marguerite of the home; two sons, Billy Ray Burroughs with the U. S. Marines on the USS Hunley and Dennis of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Betty Ann Tenner, Garber; one granddaughter; his mother, Mrs. Florence Steele, Blackwell; three sisters, Mrs. Isabell Gibson, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mrs. Dorothy Norris of Blackwell, Mrs. Ella Belle Jones, Noel, Missouri, a brother, Gaylord of Garden City, Kansas.

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