Kendal Ashton Meador

Kendal Ashton Meador, age 23 of Amarillo went to be with Jesus on March 28, 2022.

Funeral Services will be held on Monday, April 4, 2022 at 1:00 PM at Hillside Christian Church Chapel West Campus.  The Rev. Chris Condit and Rev. Billy Kersh will officiate. Interment will follow at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 South Georgia.

Kendal was born on May 12, 1998 to Gary and Tanya Meador.  She attended Hillside Christian Church and was baptized on May 13, 2007.

Kendal earned her 2 ^nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.  She also loved photography and was a photographer for Amarillo High’s yearbook her junior and senior years.  She was a member of the National Honor Society and graduated with Academic Honors in 2016.

Kendal attended West Texas A&M University majoring in Education.  She was a member of Delta Zeta Sorority and sweetheart for Kappa Alpha Fraternity.  She transferred to Texas Tech University in 2019.  This fall she would have been a senior majoring in Human Development and Family Sciences.  Her passion was to work with special needs children.

She will be deeply missed by her family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Bennie Newbill (Papa); her Grammy, Dorothy Phillips; and by her grandmother, Janie Shed.

Kendal is survived by her mother, Tanya; her father Gary both of Amarillo; her grandmother, Wilma Newbill; her uncles and aunts Sam and Karen Newbill, Les and Ann Newbill and Dicky and Karen McGahen; her cousins, Zackery Newbill, Shelby Huff and Shealyn McGahen; and many more loving family members.

The family suggests the memorials be made to ADVO, 5241 S. Washington St., Amarillo, TX 79110 or the Presbyterian Children’s Home, 3400 Bowie St, Amarillo, TX 79109.