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Local Obituaries for Families in Amarillo, Texas
Norman T Allen
Mar 19, 2009
Norman was born March 4, 1921 in Los Animas, CO to Hershel and Alice Allen. He met Edna Hamel and they married June 16, 1955 in Santa Fe, NM. He was involved in the trucking and automotive industry since 1950. He owned Stockyard Shamrock Gas. He was a longtime member of Trinity Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by...
Judy Bess Clark Alexander
Mar 18, 2009
Judy was born October 22, 1941 in Amarillo to Clarence and Iris Clark. She was a lifelong resident of Amarillo. She graduated from Tascosa High School in 1960. She attended SW Texas State and Amarillo College. She was a medical transcriptionist for the Amarillo Diagnostic Clinic for many years. She loved all animals and was an avid PETA supporter. She...
William Curtis Henley
Mar 17, 2009
Bill was born May 6, 1929 in Drew, Mississippi to Arthur and Bessie Henley. He was one of twelve children. His family moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas where he enlisted in the US Marines. He met Marrian Moore and they married in Fallbrook, California in 1954. They were the proud parents of five children, four of them born in California and...
Leta Lackey
Mar 16, 2009
Leta was born October 8, 1925 in Kingman County, Kansas to Frank and Hattie Cain. She retired from the Texas State Center for Mental Health and Retardation after many years. She had been a medical transcriptionist. After retirement, she worked for Wal-Mart for over fourteen years, making many friends and passing smiles along every day. She is preceded in death...
Dee V. Casler
Mar 16, 2009
Dee was born February 2, 1925 in San Antonio to David and Dorothy Casler. He graduated from high school in San Antonio and attended West Texas Teacher’s College in Canyon. He met and married Lila Lee Brown on June 16, 1950 in Amarillo. Dee was employed by Raytheon Corporation for over twenty years and traveled extensively throughout the world. He...
Herbert W. Bankhead
Mar 14, 2009
Mr. Bankhead was born on May 12, 1930 to R.O. and Arizona Bankhead. He graduated from Valley Mills High School in 1947. He married Jean Schrader on May 21, 1949 in Valley Mills. They moved to Amarillo in 1968 from Borger. He worked for Canyon Drive Lumber for over 25 year. He worked until 2008. He had a passion for...
Marjorie Stapleton
Mar 14, 2009
Marjorie was born July 29, 1928, in Hutchinson, Kansas to ail and Ella Lawrence. She was raised in Gove County, KS. She married Orbie C. Stapleton on September 8, 1947. She worked as a seamstress for the State of Kansas for twenty years. She enjoyed crocheting, knitting and tatting and she and her husband were active in Shriners, Grange and...
Lowell Dean Seibert
Mar 14, 2009
Dutch was born Jan. 27, 1929, in Great Bend, Kan., to Grant and Minnie Unruh Seibert, the first of five children. He graduated from Great Bend High School in 1947 and went to work as a roughneck for Halliburton. Dutch and Wanda McCarter were married in 1950. Dutch's working years involved traveling nationally and internationally in petroleum-related industry sales. During...
Donald L. Maxwell
Mar 13, 2009
Mr. Maxwell was born March 22, 1926 to J. W. and Annie Laura Maxwell in Pittsburgh, Oklahoma. Don was in the services by the time he was 19 years old and served on the front lines of Okinawa when he was wounded and received a purple heart. He was a retired car hauler and a member of local union 577....
Edward Kenneth Dietrich
Mar 13, 2009
Mr. Dietrich was born September 26, 1930 in Ogallalla, Nebraska, to Merle A. and Elsie Dietrich. He entered into the U.S. Air Force in Omaha, NE on February 13, 1951 and was discharged on February 12, 1955 at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, attaining the rank of Staff Sgt. Ed married Celia Ann Kriegshauser on February 7, 1959 in...
Johnnie B. Halsey
Mar 9, 2009
Johnnie was born November 25, 1922 in Quail, Texas to Clarence and Bertha Blevins. She attended high school in Quail. She met Ray Halsey and they married in Amarillo on October 1, 1943. They lived in Amarillo most of their adult life. Johnnie supported her family working as the office manager for Lee Optical for over thirty years. She was...
Bill M. Golden
Mar 8, 2009
Bill was born October 23, 1947 in Wilkesboro, NC to Cleo and Lola Golden. His family moved to Texas, and Bill graduated with honors from Amarillo High School in 1966. He graduated from Texas Tech with honors with a degree in computer science. He married Judy Thompson in July of 1971 in Colorado Springs. He began his career with the...
Carolin Lee Yung
Mar 6, 2009
Carolin was born on October 20, 1954 in Swindon, England to Marvin Barnett and Rose Marie Barnett. She grew up in Memphis, Texas and obtained an Associate Degree in Accounting from Clarendon College. She married Robert Yung in Fort Worth, Texas, December 27, 1997. Carolin enjoyed home decorating and adding to her extensive collection of Christmas ornaments and Santa Claus...
Jackie Wayne Hicks
Mar 4, 2009
Jackie "Jack" W. Hicks age 71 of Amarillo, Texas, entered into rest on March 4, 2009, at Baptist Saint Anthony's Hospice. He fought his battle with a smile on his face and was surrounded by friends and family as he quietly crossed. Jack was born December 15, 1937 in New Edinburg, Arkansas to Orie E. and Gladys S. Hicks. He...
Tony Clements
Mar 3, 2009
Mr. Clements was born May 19, 1957, in Childress, to A.J. and Nita Mae Clements. He graduated from Tascosa High School and pursued a lifelong career in welding. Tony was a loving and caring person. He was preceded in death by his father, A.J. Clements, in 1972. Survivors include his mother, Nita Clements and Lloyd Younce of Phoenix; a brother,...
Dorothy Jean Cazzell
Mar 2, 2009
Dorothy was born April 20, 1927, in Celeste, Texas, to James R. and Amal Brasher. Dorothy graduated from Oklahoma College for Women and obtained her Master’s Degree from the University of Oklahoma. She taught school in Gracemont, OK, Norman, OK, Colorado City, TX and Hobbs, NM before moving to Amarillo in August of 1968. She married Richard L. Cazzell, an...
George Wyatt McSpadden
Feb 27, 2009
George Wyatt McSpadden, 86, a lifelong resident of Amarillo, passed away at the Thomas E. Creek VA Medical Center on February 27, 2009. George was born January 25, 1923, to the late Richard Lee and Nina Bennet McSpadden. He graduated from Amarillo High School in 1940 and, after World War II began, joined the Army Air Corps. He was stationed...
Ruth Denham
Feb 25, 2009
Ruth was born in Childress Co., TX to T.C. & Edna Gilbert. She was third born to a family of nine siblings. When she graduated high school from Westview in Harmon Co, OK she started her 36 year career with Southwestern Bell Telephone in Amarillo. When she retired in 1980 she remained active in the Telephone Pioneers, participating in their...
Winiford Brad Glenn
Feb 25, 2009
Windy was born Jan. 23, 1926, in Quail to Alexander Bradford and Gladys Ferguson Glenn. He married Betty Jo McAlister of Amarillo on June 7, 1947. They were married for 32 years, after which he was married to Billie Ruth Johnson of Lubbock until her death in 1995. He then remarried Betty Jo in 1996, and remained with her until...
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