Why do deleted contacts still show when starting new text messages?

I have an iPhone 4s.  I've deleted many contacts but if I start a new text message that begins with the letter of someones contact I deleted, they show up.  How can this history be deleted?  I have a friend with an iPhone 5 and this does not happen on that model.

just thought you like to know having apple do a hard reset to my phone didn't fix the problem I still have the deleted contact show up when I text anyone who has the same letters in their name.  Infact the apple store employees and phone operators told me I completely stumped them and they have no idea how to fix this since that contact does not show up anywere else and a hard reset also failed.  they said that eventually maybe my phone will fix itself with one of there upgrades but if I should figure out how to fix it on my own to please let them know how I did it.

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