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Jack Ratliff Medlin

Birth
Glory, Lamar County, Texas, USA
Death
22 Jan 1938 (aged 38)
Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas, USA
Burial
Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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(Published in Borger Daily Herald, January 23, 1938)

News of the death of Jack R. Medlin, 38, former editor of the Phillips "66" News at Phillips was received at the Daily Herald office yesterday afternoon from Gladewater.

Medlin, who was mechanical superintendent of the Gladewater Daily Times Tribune and Weekly News since last fall, died yesterday morning of pneumonia after three days' serious illness.

From Phillips Medlin went to Gladewater and was widely known in West Texas, where he had worked at the printing trade for years at McCamey and other points. He also edited the Bienville Democrat at Arcadia, La., four years.

Survivors include his widow, Jessie B. Medlin, formerly of Midland, a daughter, Eddie Joe, a sister, Mrs. Claude Councill of Detroit, Texas, and others.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Everett and Welch chapel in Gladewater. Interment will be in the Rosedale cemetery in that city.
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Jack Ratliff Medlin
Birth Date: 31 Dec 1899
Birth Place: Glory, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Spouse: Jessie Medlin
Father: James R Medlin
Mother: Alice Bell Ratliff
Age at Death: 38
Death Date: 22 Jan 1938
Death Place: Gladewater, Gregg, Texas, USA
(Published in Borger Daily Herald, January 23, 1938)

News of the death of Jack R. Medlin, 38, former editor of the Phillips "66" News at Phillips was received at the Daily Herald office yesterday afternoon from Gladewater.

Medlin, who was mechanical superintendent of the Gladewater Daily Times Tribune and Weekly News since last fall, died yesterday morning of pneumonia after three days' serious illness.

From Phillips Medlin went to Gladewater and was widely known in West Texas, where he had worked at the printing trade for years at McCamey and other points. He also edited the Bienville Democrat at Arcadia, La., four years.

Survivors include his widow, Jessie B. Medlin, formerly of Midland, a daughter, Eddie Joe, a sister, Mrs. Claude Councill of Detroit, Texas, and others.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Everett and Welch chapel in Gladewater. Interment will be in the Rosedale cemetery in that city.
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Jack Ratliff Medlin
Birth Date: 31 Dec 1899
Birth Place: Glory, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Spouse: Jessie Medlin
Father: James R Medlin
Mother: Alice Bell Ratliff
Age at Death: 38
Death Date: 22 Jan 1938
Death Place: Gladewater, Gregg, Texas, USA


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