Local Obituaries for Families in Amarillo, Texas
Janice Carroll Winters
Apr 19, 2009
Jan was born March 13, 1940 in Galveston to Mr. and Mrs. Trennis Mark. She graduated from Nocona High School. She worked as a bank teller at various banks. She started a new career as an apartment manager both in Dallas and in Amarillo. She married John Winters in Amarillo on May 27, 1988. She was a member of South...
Daniel Wayne Brittain
Apr 18, 2009
Daniel was born October 21, 1984 in Amarillo. He attended Palo Duro High School. He was currently employed as a bricklayer. He was an avid UT fan. He enjoyed playing the guitar as well as the Guitar Hero. Daniel was never one to back down. He loved life and was always surrounded by many friends who depended on him. He...
Carolyn F Ballew
Apr 17, 2009
Heaven was made more joyful when Carolyn Fountain Ballew, age 85, went to be with her Lord on April 17, 2009 after complications from congestive heart failure. Her life here on earth included being a wife, mother, grandmother, homemaker, freelance writer, Waco Army-Air field ”lady riveter”, and Ennis High School cheerleader. Though she delighted in all of the above; her...
Doris Fitzpatrick
Apr 16, 2009
Mrs. Fitzpatrick was born Doris Elizabeth Thorin on December 28, 1917 in Iron River, Michigan to Victor Thorin and Amy Katherine Shovald Thorin. She married Fritz Fredericksen in April, 1936 in Escanaba, Michigan. Fritz passed away in 1941. Doris married James Fitzpatrick in 1945 and they were married until his passing in 1992. Mrs. Fitzpatrick worked as an office assistant...
Nell Marie Stephenson
Apr 14, 2009
She was born Nellie Marie Fridge in Dallas on April 26, 1924 to Irvine Alexander and Susie MacNamara Fridge. Her parents were visiting Louisiana around the time of her birth, and they drove all night to be back in Texas so she would be a true Texan. She did attend college in California and eventually moved back to Texas. She...
Virginia Mae Chado
Apr 13, 2009
Mrs. Chado was born June 14, 1944 in Fort Worth, Texas, to G.B. and Laura Loving. She graduated from Texas Women’s University in Denton, obtaining a bachelors degree. While there, she was a member of the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. Gina married Stanley Chado Jr. on June 1, 1968 in Gatesville, Texas. They moved to Amarillo in 1969 and have...
L. Nadyne Davis
Apr 7, 2009
Nadyne was born May 10, 1929 in Spearmor, Oklahoma to Ivan Beckwith and Ella Byran Beckwith. She married the love of her life, Gale M. Davis on November 1, 1946. She was employed at K-Mart as a shipping clerk for eighteen years. Nadyne was a wonderful wife, mother, and grandmother. She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister,...
Melvin W Downey
Apr 6, 2009
Melvin was born in Lubbock County, Texas on May 12, 1935, the son of Loyd Melvin and Lois Crouch Downey. He married Patricia Ann McConnell in Pampa on June 8, 1956. The family then moved to Amarillo in 1959. He and Patricia celebrated 48 years of marriage before she preceded him in death on October 21, 2004. He was also...
Edwin L Skipworth
Apr 5, 2009
Skip was born May 25, 1916, to James Willis and Lucinda Lavinia Skipworth. He graduated in 1933 from Kosiusco, Miss., High School. When he was 14 years old, he ran away from home in Kress to a cousin's ranch in New Mexico. That memorable summer is documented in Skip's book, "Runaway Cowboy," published in 1997. After finishing high school, Skip...
Walter Jim Burton
Apr 5, 2009
Jim was born June 7, 1951, in Tucumcari, N.M. He came to live in Groom when he was in the seventh grade. He married Donna Alward in 1973 in Claude. He was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in 1976. He was in business for himself for many years with Burton Construction and eventually came to work for Groom...
Shirley Ann Hubbard
Apr 4, 2009
Shirley Ann Hubbard, 71, of Amarillo died Saturday, April 4, 2009. Memorial services will be private by the family with a Hawaiian celebration of life at Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St. Survivors include a daughter, Deanna Lee Stumbaugh and family of Duarte, Calif.; two sons, Donald Leon Stumbaugh...
Ronald C Bulkley
Apr 1, 2009
Ronald Clair Bulkley “Buck” was born March 6, 1942, in Shallow Water, Kansas to Violet Marie Bulkley and Harrison Wayne Bulkley. He graduated from Shallow Water High School and served four years in the U.S. Navy. He met the love of his life, LuAnn Lundy and they were married on June 19, 1965. They were blessed with the birth of...
Steve Wright Sterquell
Apr 1, 2009
Steve W. Sterquell, 56, of Amarillo died Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in First Presbyterian Church with the Dr. Jim Bankhead and the Rev. Murray Gossett officiating. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St. Steve graduated in 1974 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock with a business degree. He began...
Robert Eugene Cornett
Apr 1, 2009
Robert “Bobby” Eugene Cornett, 82, passed away on April 1, 2009, in Odessa, Texas. Bobby was a lifelong resident of Groom, Texas. He was born June 9, 1926, in Groom to William and Arizona Cornett, who were early settlers in the Texas Panhandle. During WWII he served in the U.S. Army Air Corp as a nose gunner on a B-24...
Kenneth Neil Grace
Mar 31, 2009
Kenneth was born Dec. 30, 1931, in Oklahoma City to Howard and Martha Grace. He moved to Amarillo from Houston in 1971. Kenneth married May Angela Brewer in 1976 in Mexico. Mr. Grace was employed in the oil and gas pipeline construction industry. He enjoyed his busy career, which allowed him the opportunity to travel abroad and work in places...
Otha Calhoun
Mar 29, 2009
O.M. was born March 22, 1917 in Chillicothe, Texas, to Ewing Bryan and Myrtice Brock Calhoun. He graduated from Chillicothe High School in 1935 and went to work in Dallas. He served in the Air Force during WWII. He passed the bar exam and received his law license in November 1947. He graduated from the University of Texas Law School...
Alice Jean Detten
Mar 29, 2009
Alice was born March 28, 2009 to Vincent and Stacy Detten. She was born in Dallas at the Parkland Children’s Hospital. Alice was only with us for a short while, but she will live in our hearts forever. She is survived by her parents; her brother Patrick; her grandparents, Paul and Evelyn Detten of Panhandle and Keith and Shirley Fields...
Jimmy B Carter
Mar 26, 2009
Jimmy Vonn Carter was born in Donley County, Texas on April 28, 1939 to Amul and Clara Carter. Jimmy graduated from Clarendon Jr. College in 1959 and West Texas State University in 1962 with a degree in Art. He owned J Vonn Studios in Amarillo. He was a talented and successful artist. Jimmy was a member of First Baptist Church...
Georgene Barrett Gibbins
Mar 26, 2009
Mrs. Gibbins was born January 22, 1920 in Idabel, Oklahoma to Charles C. Barrett, Sr. and Viola Bain Barrett. She graduated from Amarillo High School in 1939. She married J. Clyde Gibbins in August, 1940 in Amarillo. He preceded her in death on October 4, 2000 after 60 years of marriage. Mrs. Gibbins retired in 1981 from Southwestern Bell Telephone...
Mildred Norine Gill
Mar 24, 2009
Mildred Norine Wilkinson was born May 23, 1943 in Raton, New Mexico, to Van B.Wilkinson and Virginia England Wilkinson. She graduated from Des Moines New Mexico High School and attended the University of New Mexico. She graduated from Northwest Texas Hospital School of Nursing in 1967 and worked many years as an RN in Canadian and Hereford. On May 23,...
