Wise County, TX - Obits: Howard Wharton - 1912-2000
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                       Howard Wharton
                         1912-2000

Service for Howard Wharton, 87, of Bridgeport was to be Saturday, March
18, at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Bridgeport. The
Rev. Johnny Irish was to officiate and burial was to follow at the East
Bridgeport Cemetery.
Wharton died March 15, 2000, in Decatur.

Born Aug. 20, 1912, in Anadarko, Okla., Wharton lived in Bridgeport
since 1947. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He retired from
Wharton Dairy, which he owned and operated. He was a member of the
First United Methodist Church of Bridgeport and married Blanche Stack
Wharton on Dec. 30, 1931, in Hollis, Okla.

Survivors include his wife, Blanche Wharton; two daughters, Suzanne
Whitson and Linda Jones and her husband Greg; a brother, Murle Wharton;
a sister, Nona Moore; four grandchildren, Connie, Debra, Tammy and
Doug; and three great-grandchildren, Josh, Bryan and Lauren.

Pallbearers were to be Donald Wharton, Ronnie Pewitt, C.T. Pitts, Curt
Williamson, Bob Manning and Bryan Wayne. Honorary pallbearers were to
be William McDaniel and Jerry Stinnett.
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