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| Thornton, Arthur Kenneth 204410 |
| Birth: 06/21/1920 Death: 02/06/1991 Marriage: 07/01/1943 |
| Cemetery: Hopewell (SOUTHEAST) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, 8 Feb 1991, p. 4: "(Picture) Arthur Kenneth Thornton, 70, of Blossom, died there Thursday, Feb. 6. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, in Gene Roden's Sons funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Joe Blackshear officiating. Burial will be in Hopewell Cemetery. The family well receive friends from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Mr. Thornton was born June 21, 1920, in Lamar County, a son of Arthur and Lizzie Forman Thornton. He married Annie Florence Gibson of July 1, 1943, in Childress. He was a retired custodian for Hurst-Euless-Bedford schools and had served in the Air Force. Surviving are his wife; two sons and daughters-in-law, Lloyd and Carrie Thornton of Blossom and Kenneth Lee and Marilyn thornton of Decatur; two daughters and sons-in-law, Billie Ann and Gene Ussery and Fern and Dickie Russell, all of Haltom City; two brothers, Floyd Thornton of Blossom and Thomas Thornton of Hurst; five sisters, Ethall Allen, Cecil Mayo and Dorothy Bean, all of Tulsare, Calif., Jeanette Sims of Euless and Peggy Holcomb of Cell, Calif; 10 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren." On the same stone with Annie F. Thornton. Also has a military marker inscribed, "Cpl US Army Air Corps - World War II." |
| War Notes Rank World War II Corporal, US Army Air Corps |