Local Obituaries for Families in Amarillo, Texas
Kelsey Antoinette Tortoreo
May 31, 2011
Kelsey Tortoreo age 20 of Amarillo died May 31, 2011 in Amarillo. Private family Services were held at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church on Saturday, May 4th. Celebrant was Msgr. Joseph Tash. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 South Georgia. Kelsey was born in Atlanta, Georgia on September 28, 1990. She graduated from Monarch High School in Coconut...
Chansamone Tran
May 29, 2011
Chansamone “Mone” Tran was granted her angel wings on May 29th 2011. Her final days were spent surrounded by her loving family and friends that Mone had touched in a major way throughout her wonderful and memorable life. A memorial service will be held at 12:00 P.M. Thursday June 2, 2011 in Schooler Funeral Home, Brentwood Chapel, with Rev. Bounheng...
Nadine Damron
May 29, 2011
Nadine Ogle Damron was born on June 18, 1923 and died peacefully in the home of her daughter on May 29, 2011. The world became little less kind and gentle that day. A celebration of life service will be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at the Church at Quail Creek with Dr. Stan Coffey officiating. Nadine...
Florence Berilla Masters
May 28, 2011
Florence Fisher-Masters, 90, of Amarillo died Sunday, May 29, 2011. Graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Dreamland Cemetery in Canyon. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St. Florence was born at home Dec. 4, 1920, in Petersburg to Edgar Lee and Mary Fisher. Florence Berilla Fisher-Wilson-Masters graduated from Petersburg High School and later married....
Raymond Earl Evans
May 28, 2011
MEMORIAL SERVICES will be at 10:00 AM on Thursday, June 2, 2011 at Schooler Funeral Home, Brentwood Chapel. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral home, 4100 South Georgia. Amarillo, Texas. Ray was born on December 8, 1941 in Sudan, Texas. He served in the United States Marine during the Korean War. He worked in law enforcement, and management before starting his...
Norma Donnell
May 27, 2011
Norma Donnell, age 46, died Friday, May 27, 2011. Memorial Service will be Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 10:00 AM at Hillside Christian Church, West Campus, 6100 W. Soncy, with Reverend Cameron Reeves officiating. Don Thompson will deliver the eulogy. Visitation will be at Schooler Funeral Home Monday, May 30, 2011 from 6:00-7:00 PM. Private family burial services will be...
John Warren Conway
May 25, 2011
John Warren Conway, 96, died Wednesday May 25, 2011. Graveside service will be at 2:00 PM Friday May 27, 2011 at Memory Gardens Cemetery, in the Mausoleum Chapel, with Pastor Kurtis Spidel officiating. Arrangements by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St. "Johnny" was born October 4, 1914 in San Antonio, TX to John and Lillian Conway. He was one...
James "Jimmy" Downey
May 23, 2011
James "Jimmy" Downey, 77, of Amarillo died Monday, May 23, 2011. Celebration of life services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Schooler Funeral Home Brentwood Chapel, 4100 S. Georgia St. James was born Nov. 7, 1933, to Thomas Downey and Lola Davidson Downey. He graduated from Amarillo High School in 1953. He married Karen Shand on Feb. 15, 1957....
Dorothy Schniederjan
May 7, 2011
Dorothy Schniederjan, 76 of Dalhart went to be with the Lord on Saturday, May 7, 2011. FUNERAL SERVICES will be on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 2:30 PM at Schooler Funeral Home, Brentwood Chapel. Rev. Scott Raef will officiate. Burial will be at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 South Georgia. She was born in Gainesville, TX...
LeRoy DeWayne Kabetzke
May 7, 2011
MEMORIAL SERVICES will be held on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM Rockwell Road Baptist Church. Dr. Paul Richardson will officiate. Private family burial will be held at Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 South Georgia. Brother K Went home to be with his Lord, May 7, 2011 after a long battle with cancer. He...
Merrell Weldon Williams
May 6, 2011
Weldon moved to Quanah, TX at age 4 from McKinney, TX where he was born. He was the youngest child of 9 brothers and sisters. He farmed in Quanah for a number of years. Married Mattithealia Brewer July 10, 1940 and were married for almost 71 years. Moved to Chillicothe, TX in 1944 and worked for Texas A&M Experiment Station...
Dwain Jack
May 6, 2011
Doki Jack, 71, died on Friday May 6, 2011 in Amarillo Texas. Doki was born in Wilburton, OK on January 12th 1940 to Andrew and Lucille Jack. He moved to Amarillo in 1956 and graduated from Amarillo High in 1957. In 1958 he joined the US Navy. While stationed in the navy he moved to California where he became an...
John Chandler
May 6, 2011
John Wilburn Chandler, Jr was born in Springfield, MO on March 22, 1935. The family later moved to Tulsa, OK where he completed all of his schooling. Following college, he served three years in the United States Army at Ft. Bliss and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.He moved to New Mexico in 1962 and met his wife, Pat,...
Waymann Joe Barnes
May 3, 2011
Waymann was born in Vernon, Texas to Carl Barnes and Maudie Laverne Harrison Barnes on May 30, 1938. He served in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War and retired after 21 plus years. He had several hobbies he enjoyed; he was a Silversmith and made sterling Silver jewelry, he was very artistic and painted. He loved to...
Thomas Ronald Kotara
May 1, 2011
Ronald was born November 30, 1934 to the late Sam and Irene Kotara. He attended schools in Groom and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He had been a Panhandle resident for 52 years. He married Janie Lynch on June 1, 1957 in Dallas, TX. Ronald was a longtime member of St. Theresa's Catholic Church. He was very...
Margaret Rose Howard
May 1, 2011
Margaret was born on October 10, 1924 in Avant, Oklahoma to Charles Samuel Hansard and Gladys Pearson Hansard. She worked at Phillips Petroleum Plant Medical Center as a registered nurse and retired from BSA as a RN. She was a long time member of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas.She is preceded in death by her husband H.A. Howard; her...
James G. Chambers
Apr 26, 2011
James loved his grandkids, and kids. He was a cowboy and cowboyed all of his life. He had worked for the Pitch-forks Ranch, the Johnson Ranch and several others, before going to work at Amarillo Livestock Auction. He retired from Amarillo Livestock Auction in 1976 and McCarty-Hull in 1995. He was a member of Lamount Drive Baptist Church. Preceded in...
Elizabeth Ernestine Snyder
Apr 26, 2011
Tina was born in Amarillo November 2, 1948 to Willard Huckabey and Laura Gerner Huckabey. She was a receptionist for Holmes Construction.Preceded in death by her parents, Willard Huckabey in 1981, and Laura Huckabey in 1995.Survivors include two daughters Tammy Scarbrough and husband Harold, Shannon Sampson and husband Scot; three sons, Dana Guyette, Michael Mead and wife Michelle, Matt Mead...
Johnnie B. Hill
Apr 25, 2011
Johnnie was born in 1922, in Bellevue, Texas to Charles “Charlie” and Ada Foust Lipe. She graduated from Happy High School, and Amarillo Commercial College. She married S.K. Hill on October 29, 1941. Together they have been dear friends of High Plains Children’s Home, and in July of 2010 the Home’s administrative offices were dedicated and named in their Honor....
