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Victor Vance Brothers

14 Nov 1913 – 5 Sep 1995

Birth14 Nov 1913
Death5 Sep 1995
CemeteryJal Cooper Cemetery
Jal , Lea County , New Mexico , USA
Added byCharles Walthall on 09 Jan 2012
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53122507

Bio

The Brothers Family was from the Waldren, Arkansas area. Victor was 1st cousins with Dan Blocher (Hoss Cartwright). Victor was a carpenter by trade. He left Arkansas to find work in California during WWII, and after the war followed the work to the oilfields of New Mexico and West Texas. He helped build the oil refinery at Jal, where he met and married a local school marm, Mabelle Walthall Phillips. The marriage was a second marriage for both. Victor was a widower. Mabelle had divorced her first husband, and was raising her only child by herself. Mabelle took on Victor, and all his children by his first wife. Victor was 6 ft. 5 inches. Mabelle was 5 ft. 2. They lived on the corner of 5th and I street in Jal, across from the city park. Victor is buried next to Mabelle's son, Richard Phillips. Mabelle is buried in Bluff City Cemetery in Nevada County, AR, beside her parents and siblings.

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