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Robert Lee Scarborough

10 May 1886 – 29 Jan 1965

Birth	10 May 1886
Death	29 Jan 1965
Cemetery	Cook-Walden Capital Parks Cemetery and Mausoleum Pflugerville , Travis County , Texas , USA
Added by	SparkyB on 13 May 2007
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19361994

Bio

Obituary in Lufkin Daily News, Jan. 30, 1965 Robert L. Scarborough, Sr., 77, widely known Texas poet and native of Lufkin, died at St. David's Hospital in Austin at 6:30 p.m. Friday. He had been in ill health for the past year. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. at the Weed-Corley Chapel in Austin, followed by interment in that city. Mr. Scarborough was born and raised in Lufkin. Two books of his poems were published and prior to moving to Austin, a number of his poems appeared in The Lufkin News. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Dora E. Scarborough; five sisters, Mrs. Lollie B. Boykin, Sr. of Lufkin, Mrs. W. A. Brashear of Palestine, Mrs. J. L. Heath, Mrs. Amanda Yeates and Mrs. Nora Flack, all of Beaumont, and two nieces, Mrs. Guy Croom and Mrs. Arthur Bresie, of Lufkin.

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Family

Parents

• Dr William Bascomb Scarbrough 1854–1903
• Lucretia Delphine Collins Arnett 1854–1930

Spouse

• Dora E Scarborough 1888–1984 FaG

Siblings

• Silas Drew Scarbrough 1877–1919
• William Monroe Scarborough 1879–1940
• Edward Lafayette "Eddie" Scarborough 1881–1921
• Amanda Jane "Mickey" Scarborough Yeates 1885–1972 FaG
• Mina Mae Scarborough Heath 1889–1974
• Lollie Dee Scarborough Boykin 1891–1965
• Nora Scarborough Flack 1894–1986
• Lelia Jewel Scarborough Carroll 1896–1964

Children

• Jean Lucyle Scarborough Kretschmer 1920–1998 FaG

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