Alfalfa County, Oklahoma
Obits Orvil Bennett GUYMON, Okla. - Thyra Tyler Fajen, 96, died Wednesday, Feb.
25, 2004.
Services will be at 1:30
p.m. today in First
Presbyterian
Church with the Rev.
Jim
Jacobson,
pastor, officiating.
Arrangements are by Henson-Novak
Funeral
Directors. Mrs.
Fajen was
born Nov. 2, 1907, in
Alfalfa County. She was a member
of
the Presbyterian Church. Survivors include two sons,
Owen
Tyler of Granbury,
Texas, and Byron Tyler of Lindale,
Texas; three stepsons, Stanley Tyler of
Amarillo, Texas,
Don Fajen of Guymon
and Fred Fajen of Santa Barbara, Calif.;
18
grandchildren;
and several
great-grandchildren. The family
suggests
memorials be
to the Presbyterian
Church and may
be sent to the funeral home, P.O. Box 1306,
Guymon, OK
73942.
Vera Corbin Hefley
Gladys Marie Peterman Helen Marie Rock Mary Margaret Rodgers
PANHANDLE - Orvil Bennett, 74, a former
Amarillo resident, died Monday, April 28, 1997. Services
will be at 2 p.m. today
in
Schooler-Gordon Funeral
Directors,
Bell Avenue Chapel,
5400 Bell St.,
in
Amarillo,
with
Robert Bennett
officiating.
Burial will be in Memory
Gardens
Cemetery. Mr. Bennett
was
born in
Alfalfa, Okla.
He lived
in
Amarillo for 37
years
before
moving to Panhandle five
years
ago. He married
Elizabeth
Neale
Baker in 1991
at
Amarillo. He
worked for Randall
County Road and
Maintenance. He
was a
member of
First Baptist Church of Claude. He was
preceded
in death by his
first wife, Della
Bennett, in
1989;
and by a son,
Robert Bennett, in 1970.
Survivors
include his wife; three
sons,
Bennie
Bennett and Eldon
Bennett, both
of
Amarillo,
and Richard Bennett of Ponca City, Okla.; two
daughters,
Pat Winder
of Huntsville and Deanna Arend of
Amarillo; a stepson, Richard Baker of
Amarillo; a
stepdaughter, Marilyn
Thomas of Dimmitt; three brothers, Leo Bennett
of El Reno,
Okla., George Bennett of
Oklahoma and Ralph
Bennett of
Oklahoma
City; a sister, Floy
Pitt
of Hydro,
Okla.; 13
grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren. The
family
suggests memorials in
lieu of
flowers be to
Freedom
Baptist
Church, 900 Alta Vista St.,
Amarillo, Texas 79106;
or a
favorite
charity
Helen Campbell
Helen Campbell, 88, of Amarillo died
Monday, Sept. 20,
2004.
Services will be at 11
a.m. Friday
in
Paramount
Baptist
Church with the
Rev. Gil Lain,
pastor,
officiating.
Burial will be
in Llano
Cemetery by
Schooler-Gordon
Funeral
Directors, 5400
S.
Bell St. Mrs.
Campbell was born
June
2, 1916, to Claude and
Edna
Hodge
in
Alfalfa, Okla., and had
been a
resident of
Amarillo for
52
years. She graduated
from Alfalfa
High School in
Oklahoma,
earned a
bachelor of
science degree in 1951 from
Southwestern Oklahoma State
University and a master of
education
degree in 1954
from
West Texas A&M
University in
Canyon.
Mrs.
Campbell married
Charles
Campbell on July 15,
1938.
To this 66-year union was born
their daughter, Charlene Day. In 1947, she began
a
longtime teaching career of 31
years. She taught fourth and fifth grade for
four years at
Colony, Okla. She
moved to Sudan and taught
for a year
before
coming to
Amarillo in
1952,
where she
was a teacher in the
Amarillo
Independent
School District
until her retirement
in
1978.
She taught at Will Rogers
Elementary,
Horace Mann,
Travis and Bonham
middle schools.
She was a
member of
Retired Teachers
Association of
Texas,
a life member and silver
sister of
Alpha
Delta Kappa
International
Sorority,
Texas Lambda Chapter and a
member of
Paramount Baptist
Church
since 1969.
But more than
anything else,
Mrs.
Campbell
will be
remembered as
a
beloved wife,
mother and
grandmother to her
grandsons
and
great-grandchildren, a
loving
sister and a faithful
servant. She
will remain
forever in
the
hearts of those who
loved and
cherished
her. She was
preceded in
death by her
parents;
and two
brothers, Bob Hodge
and Allen Hodge.
Survivors
include her
husband; a
daughter,
Charlene Day
and husband,
Joe; two grandsons,
Rick Day and
wife, Teai, of Amarillo
and
Randy
Day and
wife, Renee, of
Dallas;
five
great-grandchildren,
Aaron
Day,
Asher Day, Anna Day, Ariel Day
and Grace
Day; two
sisters, Lavon
Bennett and
Betty
Arther, both of
Oklahoma; and several
wonderful
nieces and nephews. The
family
suggests
memorials be to
Paramount
Baptist Church
Scholarship
Fund,
3801 Western St.,
Amarillo, TX
79109; or Alpha
Delta Kappa
Lambda
Chapter, 3401
Lynette St.,
Amarillo,
TX 79109. The family
will be at
7707
Stuyvesant St.
Amarillo
Globe-News,
Sept. 23,
2004
Amarillo
Globe-News, Feb. 28, 2004
Amarillo
Globe-News, April
10, 2002
CANYON - Gladys Marie Peterman, 75,
died Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005. Memorial services will be
at 10:30 a.m. Thursday
in Washington
Avenue Christian
Church with Rev. Ed Modrick officiating.
Burial
will be at
a later date.
Arrangements are by Rector Funeral Home, 8310 S.
Coulter
St. Miss Peterman was born May 9, 1931, in Alfalfa
County,
Okla., the
daughter of George and Janie Wazner
Peterman. She attended school in Ingersoll
and Cherokee,
Okla., where she later
graduated. Gladys attended beauty school in
Wichita, Kan.,
and worked in Great Bend, Kan., and
Amarillo as a
beautician for
many years. Gladys accepted
Christ and was baptized into the Christian Church in
Cherokee and she was a member of Washington Avenue
Christian Church in Amarillo.
Gladys
was a member of the
Order of Eastern Star, and was Past
Matron of Order
of
Eastern Star. She
was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Hazel
Griffin, five brothers, Phillip, Ora, Cecil, Alva, and Ola
Peterman; also a
number of nieces
and nephews. Survivors
include a sister, Genevieve O.
Stanley
of Satanta, Kan.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 14, 2005
BEAVER, OKLA. - Helen Marie Rock, 83,
died Sunday, May 29, 2005. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Beaver
United Methodist Church with Torrey Curtis and Bill Hawkins officiating. Burial
will be in Pioneer Cemetery by Clark Funeral Service. Mrs. Rock was born May 10,
1922, in Alfalfa County. She married Logan Dean Rock on April 27, 1941, in
Beaver. Survivors include her husband; a son, Dan Rock of Alva; two daughters,
Debbie Willeford of Perryton, Texas, and Deitra Rock of Liberal, Kan.; a sister,
Mary Beleele of Porter, Texas; 20 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.
Amarillo Globe-News, June 1, 2005
Mary Margaret Rodgers, 89, of Amarillo,
died Tuesday, June 29, 1999. Services were at 2 p.m.
Friday in Schooler-Gordon
Funeral
Directors Bell Avenue
Chapel, 5400
Bell St., with Dr.
James Garrett,
of
Polk
Street
United
Methodist Church,
officiating. Entombment will be at a
later date in
Memory Gardens
Cemetery. Mrs. Rodgers was
born in
Alfalfa
County, Okla., and
moved to
Amarillo
from
Lubbock in 1986.
She was a
selfemployed bookkeeper and
attended
Polk Street
United
Methodist Church. She
married
James
Whit Rodgers in 1932
at Clayton, N.M. He died in
1992.
Survivors
include a sister,
Viola
Cassel of Grand
Junction, Colo.;
and
several nieces
and
nephews.
The family requests
memorials be to the
American Heart
Association
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