James Stanley Self

Notes:

The Texas Birth Index shows he was born to Levi Ward Self and Vivian Juanita Hancock.

Obituary, as copied from his FindAGrave memorial page, created by David Sifford:

Services for Stan Self, 55, of Floydada will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Englunds Funeral Service Chapel with Jack Gordon, minister of the Church of Christ, officiating.

Burial will be in Englewood Cemetery.

Self died Tuesday, May 11, 1999, in University Medical Center.

He was born Jan. 31, 1944, in Slaton. He graduated from Petersburg High School in 1963. He graduated from Henderson County College, while on a football scholarship. He also attended Stephen F. Austin University. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, and he received two Purple Hearts. He was a fireman with the Longview Fire Department, and he was on the Rescue & SCUBA squad. He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Postal Service, having been a city letter carrier for eight years in Floydada.

National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. also shows him as born 31 Jan 1944 and died 11 May 1999.

James married Arlie Sue Lawrence on 28 Jun 1969 in Angelina County, Texas, and was divorced on 28 Jun 1969 in Angelina County, Texas. Arlie (daughter of John Samuel "J. S." Lawrence, Jr. and Marguerite Harriet McCarty) was born on 13 Sep 1944 in Angelina County, Texas; died on 17 Feb 2003; was buried in Garden Of Memories Cemetery, Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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2. Kimberly Shannon Self was born on 27 May 1972 in Gregg County, Texas; died on 15 Aug 1972 in Longview, Gregg County, Texas; was buried in Memory Park Cemetery, Longview, Gregg County, Texas.
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