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Donald Lea Cox

Donald Lea Cox

Nov 21, 2024

Donald Lea Cox, aged 92, of Amarillo, passed away on November 21, 2024. He was a beloved father, grandfather, and friend. Don was born to Clyde and Faye Cox in Tulia, Texas on June 15, 1932. He was raised in Tulia and after high school, joined the Air Force where he served proudly for four years during the Korean War. 

 Don...

Jacqueline "Jackie" Renay Forbis

Jacqueline "Jackie" Renay Forbis

Nov 17, 2024

In Loving Memory of Jacqueline (Jackie) Renay Forbis Price

Jackie Forbis was born on March 8, 1962 to Kent and Elizabeth Price, and passed away on November 17, 2024. She was 62 years old. 

Jackie was a devoted mother to her daughter Brittni Forbis and her son Logan Forbis. She was also the proud grandmother of Colson, who was the light of...

Rafael Quinones Silerio

Rafael Quinones Silerio

Nov 15, 2024

Rafael Quiñones Silerio. Falleció ala edad de 82 años el 11/15/2024en el Hospital BSA en Amarillo, Texas.

Nació el 01/07/1942, en Francisco Zarco, Durango, México, hijo de Pedro Quiñones y María del Socorro Silerio.

Rafael trabajo en el campo por muchos años de se vida y después se vino para Amarillo Texas y trabajo en la piedrera hasta que se retiró.

Después que...

David Wayne Cates

David Wayne Cates

Nov 14, 2024

David Wayne Cates, 84, passed away on Thursday, November 14, 2024, in Amarillo, TX. He was born on March 25, 1940, to Glen and Lucille Cates. His parents gave him the nickname "Doodle Bug" and it followed him through life, with love from his family. He completed high school and served as a private in the army in Germany for...

Stephen LeRoy Wells

Stephen LeRoy Wells

Nov 13, 2024

Stephen “Steve” LeRoy Wells, loving husband, father & grandfather of Amarillo, TX, passed on from this life on Wednesday, November 13th, 2024, which was also his 73rd birthday. He passed peacefully at home in his sleep from natural causes.

He was born in 1951 in Brookville, Pennsylvania to Phillip & Janet Wells. He had an older sister, Janice and later a...

Wanda O. Milburn

Wanda O. Milburn

Nov 12, 2024

Dr. Wanda Omatine (Price) Milburn, 97 

February 3, 1927 - November 12, 2024

Matriarch, educator of the deaf, philanthropist, professional coffee drinker & gifted storyteller, Dr. Wanda (Price) Milburn, died after nearly a century of capturing the attention of everyone around her. Wanda, always a trendsetter, was known for many things including her impeccable style and unique approach to life. A collector...

Connie Carol Fewell

Connie Carol Fewell

Nov 9, 2024

 

Connie Carol Fewell, A Beloved Soul, Passes Away

 Connie Carol Fewell, a loving and devoted mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully on November 9, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 79. 

Born on August 25, 1945, in Pampa, Texas, Connie was a bright light who touched the lives of many. She was known for her kindness, humor, strength, and her...

Way Way Myint

Way Way Myint

Nov 5, 2024

ဒေါ်ဝေဝေမြင့်၏ ဘဝမှတ်တမ်း ဖြတ်သန်းရာလမ်း

ဒေါ်ဝေဝေမြင့် ကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ မွန်ပြည်နယ်၊ မော်လမြိုင်မြို့ ဒိုင်းဝန်းရပ်နေ အဖဦးချစ်ဆိုင်နှင့် 

အမိ ဒေါ်မြ‌ငွေ တို့မှ မီးရှူးသန့်စင် ဖွားမြင်ခဲ့ပါသည်။

(ဦးစိုးရွှေ)+ဒေါ်သန်းရီ ၊ (ဦးသာဒင်)+ဒေါ်ခင်အေးမော် ၊ (ဦးတင်လှ)ဒေါ်ငွေဝင်းခိုင် ဟူသော မွေးချင်းမောင်ညီအစ်မများ၏ အမကြီးတဦးလည်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်၊ ငယ်စဥ်ဘဝတစ်လျောက် မော်လမြိုင်မြို့တွင် ပညာသင်ယင်းနေထိုင် ကြီးပြင်းခဲ့ပြီးနောက် ABSDF မှရဲဘော် ဦးထွန်းလှနှင့် ပါရမီအကြောင်းဆက်ပါ ပေါင်းဖက်မင်္ဂလာပြု၍ အမျိုး ဘာသာ သာသနာအတွက် တွဲလက်

ညီညီ ဆောင်ရွက်ပါရမီ ဖြည့်ခဲ့ပါသည်၊ 

2005-ခုနှစ်တွင် အမေရိကန်မြေသို့ ပြောင်းရွှေ့ တက္ကဆက်ပြည်နယ်၊ အမာရီလိုမြို့ တွင်

အခြေချ နေထိုင်လာခဲ့ကြပါသည်။ အမေရိကန်သို့ရောက်ရှိ နေထိုင်ပြီးနောက်မှာလည်း အမိမြန်မာနိုင်ငံသူ နိုင်ငံသားတို့၏လိုအပ်ချက်များကို ဦးထွန်းလှနှင့် စိတ်စေတနာ 

သဒ္ဓါတူမျှ စွာ နိုင်ရာဝန်ထမ်း ထောက်ပံ့လှူဒါန်း ကူညီခဲ့ကြပါသည်၊

 ဒေါ်ဝေဝေမြင့်သည် ရှင်ပြုရဟန်းခံပေးခြင်းနှင့် ကျောင်းကန်ဘုရား လမ်းတံတား တို့ကိုလည်း မတည်လှူဒါန်း ခဲ့သလို မြန်မာပြည် နှင့်...

Eldon Leon Vernon

Eldon Leon Vernon

Nov 4, 2024

Eldon Leon Vernon was born on August 27, 1942, on a family farm in Tipton Oklahoma to his parents Harry Arthur Vernon and Dorothy Jean Crowley. Eldon grew up in Tipton, where he attended school and graduated in 1961. In 1964, Eldon married and started a family that grew to three sons and one daughter. He graduated college with a...

Maung Shwe

Maung Shwe

Oct 30, 2024

ဦးမောင်ရွှေသည် မြန်မာပြည်စစ်အာဏာရှင်ကို အကြီးကျယ်ဆုံးစတင်တော်လှန်တိုက်ပွဲဆင်သည့်၈-လေးလုံးပြည်သူ့အရေးတော်ပုံကာလအတွင်း မိမိဇာတိဖြစ်သည့် မွန်ပြည်နယ်၊ သထုံမြို့၌ တက်ကြွစွာပါဝင်လှုပ်ရှားကာ ၁၉၈၈ - စက်တင်ဘာလ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးနောက်ပိုင်းတွင် ထိုင်းမြန်မာနယ်စပ်လွတ်မြောက်နယ်မြေသို့ မိသာစုနှင့်အတူထွက်ခွာလာခဲ့ပါသည်၊

ထို့နောက် ABSDF ကျောင်းသားတပ်မတော် တပ်ရင်း ၂၀၉ (နောက်ပိုင်း တပ်ရင်း -၃) တွင်တော်လှန်ရေးတာဝန်များကိုဆက်လက်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့ပါသည်၊ ဇနီးဖြစ်သူ‌‌ဒေါ်ရီလည်း ဒီမိုကရေစီ‌ရေးအတွက်ခင်ပွန်းသည်နှင့်အတူတော်လှန်ရေးတာဝန်ကိုကျရာကဏ္ဍမှ ထမ်းရွက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ 

၁၉၈၈ မှသည် ထိုင်း-မြန်မာနယ်စပ် သံလွင်မြစ်ကမ်းရှိ ‘သံလွင်စခန်း’ မှစတင်ကာ တော်လှန်ရေးတာဝန်များကို ရဲဘော်အဆင့်၊ တပ်စုမှူးအဆင့်တို့ဖြင့် တက်ကြွစွာထမ်းဆောင်းခဲ့ပါသည်။ အဖွဲ့အစည်းကလိုအပ်သလိုပေးအပ်သည့် ကျောင်းသားတပ်မတော် ဗဟိုတရားသူကြီးအဖွဲ့ဝင်တာဝန်၊ ရှေ့တန်းလူထုစည်းရုံးရေးတာဝန်၊ နယ်စပ်ရပ်ရွာပညာပေးရေးတာဝန်များကိုလည်း ကျေပွန်စွာထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ 

ဤသို့ ဒီမိုကရေစီတော်လှန်ရေးတာဝန်များကို ၁၉၈၈-မှ ၂၀၀၄-အထိ ၁၆-နှစ်ခန့်ထမ်းဆောင်ကာ ၂၀၀၄-ခုနှစ်တွင် ဇနီး၊ သားနှစ်ယောက်တို့နှင့်အတူ အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံ ဟာဝိုင်အီပြည်နယ်သို့ထွက်ခွာ

ခိုလုံခဲ့ပါသည်၊ ထိုမှတဆင့် ၂၀၀၅-ခုနှစ်တွင် တက္ကဆက်ပြည်နယ်၊ အမာရီလိုမြို့သို့ထပ်မံပြောင်းရွေ့ပြီး အတည်တကျအခြေချနေလာခဲ့ယင်း လူမှုရေး၊ ကွန်မြူနီတီအရေး၊ ဘာသာသာသနာရေးကိစ္စများ

ကိုလည်းအားကြိုးမာန်တက် ဆက်လက်လုပ်ကိုင်လာခဲ့ရာမှ ပြီးခဲ့သည့် Oct 30,...

Falba Louise Evans

Falba Louise Evans

Oct 28, 2024

Falba Louise Evans, aged 95, passed away on October 24, 2024. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend. 

Falba was born on July 18, 1929, in Heavener, Oklahoma. She spent her early years in East Texas where she aspired to be a Kilgore Rangerette. Her family then moved to Borger, Texas, where she graduated from high school. It...

Jesus Gonzalez

Jesus Gonzalez

Oct 28, 2024

Jesus Gonzalez, 84, passed away on October 28, 2024, in Amarillo, Texas. He was born on May 4, 1940, in Arandas, Jalisco, Mexico, to Carmen Gonzalez and Maria De La Luz Lopez. He married Maria Ines Mendoza on May 3, 1968.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Carmen and Maria De La Luz Gonzalez, one brother, Adolfo Gonzalez, and...

"Liz" Elizabeth Gallegos

"Liz" Elizabeth Gallegos

Oct 27, 2024

Elizabeth “Liz” Gallegos

Elizabeth "Liz" Gallegos died unexpectedly and peacefully on October 27th, 2024 in Amarillo at the age of 57. Liz was born June 21, 1967 to Carl and Carol Liebsch also of Amarillo.

Liz was everything she could be to friends and family. She was always willing to go out of her way to help others in need regardless if...

Terry Wayne Bramwell

Terry Wayne Bramwell

Oct 27, 2024

Terry Wayne Bramwell, 78, of Canyon, Texas, passed away on Sunday, October 27, 2024, in Amarillo, Texas. Terry Bramwell was born to Wendell and Erma Bramwell on February 27, 1946, in Washington, DC. He grew up in Lakewood, Colorado, and graduated from Jefferson High School. He attended Durango College.

He met and married Jenyth Grusing on September 24, 1979, in Grand...

Hiep Thi Hoang

Hiep Thi Hoang

Oct 24, 2024

Hiep Thi Hoang, 73, passed away on October 24, 2024, in Amarillo, Texas. She was born on June 10, 1951, in Mong Cai, Vietnam to Trung Van Hoang and Xuan Thi Nguyen. She was married to Tan Canh Hoang in 1972, and he passed away in 2009. 

Mrs. Hoang was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Tan Canh Hoang,...

Don Coleman

Don Coleman

Oct 15, 2024

Kemmy Don Coleman, 69, of Amarillo, passed into his heavenly home on October 15, 2024. Don was born to Roland Coleman and Linda Luman on March 3, 1955, in Dumas, Texas. Known for his mischievous spirit, he often delighted in teasing his sisters, Donna and Brenda, during his childhood spent in Dalhart and Dumas. In 1976, Don enlisted in the...

Virginia Lee Smith

Virginia Lee Smith

Oct 15, 2024

     Virginia Smith, 81, of Amarillo, Texas passed away on October the 15th, 2024 in Amarillo.

     Virginia was born in Glasgow, Missouri to Orval Tindell and Inez Tindell on July 2nd, 1943. In August of 1963 she married the love of her life. She and Joseph Smith lived 48 years together until his passing in 2011. During her...

Dorothy Louise Knox

Dorothy Louise Knox

Oct 12, 2024

Dorothy Louise Knox, born on May 4, 1934, in Shuqualak, Mississippi, to Ervin and Geneva (Coleman) Scott, Sr. passed away on October 12, 2024, surrounded by her loved ones. She was a beloved mother, sister, and friend who touched the lives of many with her kindness and devotion. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband SSGT Tommie T...

Helen H. Hadley

Helen H. Hadley

Oct 12, 2024

In loving memory of Helen Hadley

 Helen Hadley, age 82, peacefully passed away in her sleep on October 12th, 2024 surrounded by her family. She was born June 10, 1942 in Spokane WA., to Ralp and Celestine Hoerner. Helen was a resident of Amarillo, Texas, for over 50 years. 

She was an employee of Homeland for 25 years and spent her last...

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