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Jo High
July 13, 1928 — February 10, 2013
Jo Ellen High died Sunday February 10, 2013.
Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, February 14 at the Church of Christ at the Colonies with Mr. Dick Marcear officiating. Private graveside services will be at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia.
Jo Ellen was born July 13, 1928. In 1945, she graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas. She attended Abilene Christian College where she met and married Warren Barrett High on September 2, 1947 in Dallas.
While raising her children, she was a Bible School teacher and was active in several ministries as well as several civic efforts including Abilene Women’s Club and the ’58 Study Club. She and her husband owned and operated High’s Flowers in Abilene starting in 1950 and retiring in 1995. She was an enthusiastic and gifted bridge player for over 60 years. She had recently fallen in love with Gaither gospel music, was an avid football fan, and voracious reader. In 1973, the Highs built a log cabin in the mountains near Westcliffe, Colorado, which the family still loves to visit and enjoy. Jo adored her Tanglewood Acres friends. After 50 plus years in Abilene, the Highs retired and moved to Amarillo where they were welcomed wholeheartedly.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren Barrett High, December 13, 2010.
Her family will always remember her sparkling eyes, her sunny smile, her enthusiasm and joy for living every day. Her joy was especially found in her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Jo’s family would like to acknowledge her friends, who loved her as much as we did. They enriched her life so much.
Survivors include two sons, Timothy High and his wife, Cindi of Austin and Dr. Richard High and his wife, Becky of Amarillo, and a daughter, Jill Falkenberry and husband, Allen, of Tulsa; six grandchildren, Amy Jo Pettitt and husband Tony, Luke Falkenberry and wife Jacqueline, Adam High, Grant and Zach Falkenberry, and Anneka High; and four great-grandchildren, Tanner, Elle, Paris, and Roman; and Jo’s sister, Martha Burton and her husband A. M. of Nashville, TN.
The family suggests memorials to Church of Christ at the Colonies, 4500 Wesley, Amarillo, TX 79119; or to Children’s Home, 3400 S. Bowie, Amarillo, TX 79109.
Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, February 14 at the Church of Christ at the Colonies with Mr. Dick Marcear officiating. Private graveside services will be at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia.
Jo Ellen was born July 13, 1928. In 1945, she graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas. She attended Abilene Christian College where she met and married Warren Barrett High on September 2, 1947 in Dallas.
While raising her children, she was a Bible School teacher and was active in several ministries as well as several civic efforts including Abilene Women’s Club and the ’58 Study Club. She and her husband owned and operated High’s Flowers in Abilene starting in 1950 and retiring in 1995. She was an enthusiastic and gifted bridge player for over 60 years. She had recently fallen in love with Gaither gospel music, was an avid football fan, and voracious reader. In 1973, the Highs built a log cabin in the mountains near Westcliffe, Colorado, which the family still loves to visit and enjoy. Jo adored her Tanglewood Acres friends. After 50 plus years in Abilene, the Highs retired and moved to Amarillo where they were welcomed wholeheartedly.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren Barrett High, December 13, 2010.
Her family will always remember her sparkling eyes, her sunny smile, her enthusiasm and joy for living every day. Her joy was especially found in her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Jo’s family would like to acknowledge her friends, who loved her as much as we did. They enriched her life so much.
Survivors include two sons, Timothy High and his wife, Cindi of Austin and Dr. Richard High and his wife, Becky of Amarillo, and a daughter, Jill Falkenberry and husband, Allen, of Tulsa; six grandchildren, Amy Jo Pettitt and husband Tony, Luke Falkenberry and wife Jacqueline, Adam High, Grant and Zach Falkenberry, and Anneka High; and four great-grandchildren, Tanner, Elle, Paris, and Roman; and Jo’s sister, Martha Burton and her husband A. M. of Nashville, TN.
The family suggests memorials to Church of Christ at the Colonies, 4500 Wesley, Amarillo, TX 79119; or to Children’s Home, 3400 S. Bowie, Amarillo, TX 79109.
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