1918
Doris
2013
Doris Beneteta Saunders
November 22, 1918 — September 3, 2013
Doris S. Saunders
NOV. 22, 1918 - September 3, 2013
VISITATION: 6-8pm Friday evening at the funeral home
FUNERAL SERVICES: Funeral Service will be at 10:00 am Saturday, Aug. 7, 2013 in LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Funeral Directors, Coulter Rd. Chapel 8310 S. Coulter Rd, with Dr. Howard K. Batson of First Baptist Church officiating.
Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mrs. Saunders was born Nov. 22, 1918 in Oklahoma City to Howard and Margaret Sharp. She grew up in Amarillo and attended Amarillo High school graduating in 1936 in the midst of the depression and shortly after graduation she suffered the death of her step-father, Oscar M. Shore, so College was out of the question and she attended a commercial college and worked as a secretary for three years. She also worked for the Times Newspaper for a short time. In 1941 she married a bright young lawyer who had recently come to Amarillo from Waco. She felt deeply blessed that the Lord had blessed her with a man of sterling character and of a generous and loving nature. In the second year of her marriage the couple was blessed with a baby girl Lynn. When Lynn was two months old, Howard was sent to the South Pacific to fight in WW II. He was gone two years. The Lord was merciful and her husband was returned home uninjured. The following year she was blessed with a baby boy, Howard “Buddy” Saunders III.
While her children were young and in school she and her husband were active in the P.T.A, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and the First Baptist Church. She served as a Sunday school teacher in Primary for two years and one year as superintendent of the Department.
She and Howard were co-founders of the local girl scout camp and they worked for many years with the Boy Scouts. Howard was awarded the Silver Beaver Award for his service. Her husband also taught Sunday school at First Baptist Church for thirty five years. During the 1960’s, her husband served as president of the Amarillo Bar Association and she was president of the Law Wives Association. During this time she also participated in the Great Books Program for five years. Her husband Howard graduated from Baylor Law School and both of her children and all four grandchildren attended Baylor University.
Mrs. Saunders was later very active in adult Sunday school classes and in a poetry group. She was caregiver for her mother for 10 years. She had a long and happy marriage to Howard until he developed Alzheimer’s and prostate cancer. He was able to attend their 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration in 1991 before his passing in April of 1992. Doris was so very proud of her children and her grandchildren.
Doris had written poetry since she was a teenager and had accumulated five chapter books of poems and finally combined them all into one volume entitled “Little Legacy”. The poems reflect her life and her beliefs and she prayed that they would be a legacy for her family.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Howard Saunders, Jr.; her step-father Oscar M. Shore, her step-brother; William Henry Shore and her daughter Lynn Tennant.
Survivors include her son; Buddy Saunders and wife Carolyn of Amarillo; four grandchildren, Chris Tennant and wife Tara of Conroe, Stacie Pitts and husband Rod of The Woodlands, TX, Michelle Thomas and husband Craig of Linden, VA and Jamie Saunders and wife Krista of Portland, OR and seven great-grandchildren.
NOV. 22, 1918 - September 3, 2013
VISITATION: 6-8pm Friday evening at the funeral home
FUNERAL SERVICES: Funeral Service will be at 10:00 am Saturday, Aug. 7, 2013 in LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Funeral Directors, Coulter Rd. Chapel 8310 S. Coulter Rd, with Dr. Howard K. Batson of First Baptist Church officiating.
Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mrs. Saunders was born Nov. 22, 1918 in Oklahoma City to Howard and Margaret Sharp. She grew up in Amarillo and attended Amarillo High school graduating in 1936 in the midst of the depression and shortly after graduation she suffered the death of her step-father, Oscar M. Shore, so College was out of the question and she attended a commercial college and worked as a secretary for three years. She also worked for the Times Newspaper for a short time. In 1941 she married a bright young lawyer who had recently come to Amarillo from Waco. She felt deeply blessed that the Lord had blessed her with a man of sterling character and of a generous and loving nature. In the second year of her marriage the couple was blessed with a baby girl Lynn. When Lynn was two months old, Howard was sent to the South Pacific to fight in WW II. He was gone two years. The Lord was merciful and her husband was returned home uninjured. The following year she was blessed with a baby boy, Howard “Buddy” Saunders III.
While her children were young and in school she and her husband were active in the P.T.A, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and the First Baptist Church. She served as a Sunday school teacher in Primary for two years and one year as superintendent of the Department.
She and Howard were co-founders of the local girl scout camp and they worked for many years with the Boy Scouts. Howard was awarded the Silver Beaver Award for his service. Her husband also taught Sunday school at First Baptist Church for thirty five years. During the 1960’s, her husband served as president of the Amarillo Bar Association and she was president of the Law Wives Association. During this time she also participated in the Great Books Program for five years. Her husband Howard graduated from Baylor Law School and both of her children and all four grandchildren attended Baylor University.
Mrs. Saunders was later very active in adult Sunday school classes and in a poetry group. She was caregiver for her mother for 10 years. She had a long and happy marriage to Howard until he developed Alzheimer’s and prostate cancer. He was able to attend their 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration in 1991 before his passing in April of 1992. Doris was so very proud of her children and her grandchildren.
Doris had written poetry since she was a teenager and had accumulated five chapter books of poems and finally combined them all into one volume entitled “Little Legacy”. The poems reflect her life and her beliefs and she prayed that they would be a legacy for her family.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Howard Saunders, Jr.; her step-father Oscar M. Shore, her step-brother; William Henry Shore and her daughter Lynn Tennant.
Survivors include her son; Buddy Saunders and wife Carolyn of Amarillo; four grandchildren, Chris Tennant and wife Tara of Conroe, Stacie Pitts and husband Rod of The Woodlands, TX, Michelle Thomas and husband Craig of Linden, VA and Jamie Saunders and wife Krista of Portland, OR and seven great-grandchildren.
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