Betty Jo Hedgecoke, 86, of Amarillo died Wednesday, July 9, 2008.
Celebration of life services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Amarillo South Church with the Rev. Roy S. Wheeler officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Mrs. Hedgecoke was born March 15, 1922, in Donley County to Roy and Ruby McKee. Her love of sports was kindled and blossomed when she and her sister, Leota, played basketball at Lelia Lake. She married Clifford DeBord in 1941, and they had three children, Ray, Neal and Deana.
While her children attended Sunray High School, she was their biggest fan, not only in sports, but in all aspects of their lives. She was a loving, caring mother to her own three children and to many others to whom she opened her heart and home. She had a goal that all her children would have a college education and was proud to share the fact that this goal had been accomplished.
Betty spent her entire life in the Texas Panhandle, where she was loved by many because her life was a testimony of her faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ. She operated Bronco Lodge Restaurant and Cecil's Steakhouse on the old Highway 66, where she shared the love of the Lord with her customers. In her later years, she and her husband, Dean Hedgecoke, were ranchers at Morse, Higgins, Claude and Groom.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Leota Linders; a brother, Bill McKeel; and two husbands, Leroy Conrad and Dean Hedgecoke.
Survivors include a daughter, Deana Milliron of Amarillo; two sons, Ray DeBord and wife Diana of Bedford and Neal DeBord and wife Tona of Amarillo; six grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a brother, Leroy McKee of Bellview, Wash.; three sisters, Sue Weatherly of Hedley, Mattie Lou Nivens of Lake Tawakani and Helen Upton of Memphis; numerous nieces and nephews; and many friends.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Amarillo Globe-News, July 11, 2008
Celebration of life services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Amarillo South Church with the Rev. Roy S. Wheeler officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Mrs. Hedgecoke was born March 15, 1922, in Donley County to Roy and Ruby McKee. Her love of sports was kindled and blossomed when she and her sister, Leota, played basketball at Lelia Lake. She married Clifford DeBord in 1941, and they had three children, Ray, Neal and Deana.
While her children attended Sunray High School, she was their biggest fan, not only in sports, but in all aspects of their lives. She was a loving, caring mother to her own three children and to many others to whom she opened her heart and home. She had a goal that all her children would have a college education and was proud to share the fact that this goal had been accomplished.
Betty spent her entire life in the Texas Panhandle, where she was loved by many because her life was a testimony of her faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ. She operated Bronco Lodge Restaurant and Cecil's Steakhouse on the old Highway 66, where she shared the love of the Lord with her customers. In her later years, she and her husband, Dean Hedgecoke, were ranchers at Morse, Higgins, Claude and Groom.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Leota Linders; a brother, Bill McKeel; and two husbands, Leroy Conrad and Dean Hedgecoke.
Survivors include a daughter, Deana Milliron of Amarillo; two sons, Ray DeBord and wife Diana of Bedford and Neal DeBord and wife Tona of Amarillo; six grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a brother, Leroy McKee of Bellview, Wash.; three sisters, Sue Weatherly of Hedley, Mattie Lou Nivens of Lake Tawakani and Helen Upton of Memphis; numerous nieces and nephews; and many friends.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Amarillo Globe-News, July 11, 2008
Betty Jo Hedgecoke, 86, of Amarillo died Wednesday, July 9, 2008.
Celebration of life services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Amarillo South Church with the Rev. Roy S. Wheeler officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Mrs. Hedgecoke was born March 15, 1922, in Donley County to Roy and Ruby McKee. Her love of sports was kindled and blossomed when she and her sister, Leota, played basketball at Lelia Lake. She married Clifford DeBord in 1941, and they had three children, Ray, Neal and Deana.
While her children attended Sunray High School, she was their biggest fan, not only in sports, but in all aspects of their lives. She was a loving, caring mother to her own three children and to many others to whom she opened her heart and home. She had a goal that all her children would have a college education and was proud to share the fact that this goal had been accomplished.
Betty spent her entire life in the Texas Panhandle, where she was loved by many because her life was a testimony of her faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ. She operated Bronco Lodge Restaurant and Cecil's Steakhouse on the old Highway 66, where she shared the love of the Lord with her customers. In her later years, she and her husband, Dean Hedgecoke, were ranchers at Morse, Higgins, Claude and Groom.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Leota Linders; a brother, Bill McKeel; and two husbands, Leroy Conrad and Dean Hedgecoke.
Survivors include a daughter, Deana Milliron of Amarillo; two sons, Ray DeBord and wife Diana of Bedford and Neal DeBord and wife Tona of Amarillo; six grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a brother, Leroy McKee of Bellview, Wash.; three sisters, Sue Weatherly of Hedley, Mattie Lou Nivens of Lake Tawakani and Helen Upton of Memphis; numerous nieces and nephews; and many friends.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Amarillo Globe-News, July 11, 2008
Celebration of life services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Amarillo South Church with the Rev. Roy S. Wheeler officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Mrs. Hedgecoke was born March 15, 1922, in Donley County to Roy and Ruby McKee. Her love of sports was kindled and blossomed when she and her sister, Leota, played basketball at Lelia Lake. She married Clifford DeBord in 1941, and they had three children, Ray, Neal and Deana.
While her children attended Sunray High School, she was their biggest fan, not only in sports, but in all aspects of their lives. She was a loving, caring mother to her own three children and to many others to whom she opened her heart and home. She had a goal that all her children would have a college education and was proud to share the fact that this goal had been accomplished.
Betty spent her entire life in the Texas Panhandle, where she was loved by many because her life was a testimony of her faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ. She operated Bronco Lodge Restaurant and Cecil's Steakhouse on the old Highway 66, where she shared the love of the Lord with her customers. In her later years, she and her husband, Dean Hedgecoke, were ranchers at Morse, Higgins, Claude and Groom.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Leota Linders; a brother, Bill McKeel; and two husbands, Leroy Conrad and Dean Hedgecoke.
Survivors include a daughter, Deana Milliron of Amarillo; two sons, Ray DeBord and wife Diana of Bedford and Neal DeBord and wife Tona of Amarillo; six grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a brother, Leroy McKee of Bellview, Wash.; three sisters, Sue Weatherly of Hedley, Mattie Lou Nivens of Lake Tawakani and Helen Upton of Memphis; numerous nieces and nephews; and many friends.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Amarillo Globe-News, July 11, 2008
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