Obit of Backus, Charley Dudley (b220) - Texas County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips   <genephillips@usa.net>  16 Dec 2003
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BORGER - Charley Dudley Backus, 71, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2002.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in First Baptist Church with the 
Rev. Gregg Simmons, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Monday 
in Elmhurst Cemetery in Guymon, Okla. Arrangements are by Brown Funeral 
Directors.

Mr. Backus was a retired stillman for Phillips Petroleum. He was a member 
of First Baptist Church and Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Survivors include his wife, Doris; four sons, Samuel Dewayne Backus of 
Seattle, Charles Dennis Backus of Edmond, Okla., Danney Merle Peterson of 
Fort Worth and Gary Lynn Peterson of Fayetteville, N.C.; four daughters, 
Cindy Christine Morgan and Diana Dawn Withers, both of Borger, Linda Jean 
Fryer of Paris, Texas, and Mari Jo Eade of Guymon, Okla.; a brother, 
Harroll Backus of Abilene; 23 grandchildren; and seven great-
grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice, P.O. 
Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176; of First Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. 
Box 470, Borger, TX 79008.

Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 18, 2002
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