Local Obituaries for Families in Amarillo, Texas
Della Barnes
Oct 9, 2026
In loving memory and a celebration of life, Della F. Barnes passed away peacefully October 9, 2026, at 89 years old, surrounded by her special care group and BSA home health care providers for the last two years. Della was born on December 13, 1937, to George H. Pinkerton and Matilda Magnuson of Lexington, Nebraska and grew up on a...
Souna Sikalasinh
Oct 9, 2026
Souna Sikalasinh, 73, of Amarillo, passed away Friday, October 9, 2026.
Funeral services will be held at 12 p.m., Friday, October 16, 2026, at LaGrone Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors, Martin Road chapel. Cremation will follow at Memory Gardens Crematory. Souna will be available for viewing, Thursday, October 15, 2026, from 4-7 p.m. at LaGrone Blackburn-Shaw Martin Road Chapel. Arrangements are by LaGrone...
Tom Wilkins
Oct 6, 2026
Tom Wilkins, 92, a devoted Christian, loving husband, father, grandfather, and faithful servant of God, entered his heavenly home on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at the Thomas E. Creek VA Medical Center Hospice Unit in Amarillo, surrounded by the love of his family.
Funeral services will be held Monday, October 12, at 10 a.m. at Coulter Road Baptist Church in Amarillo,...
Steve Martin Bautista
Oct 5, 2026
Steve Martin Bautista, 53, of Amarillo, Texas left this world far too soon on October 5, 2026, after a fierce, stubborn-to-the-end battle with cancer.
Steve was the firstborn of Guadalupe and William Bautista in San Antonio, where he attended Catholic school and survived the nuns. Once in Amarillo, he excelled in choir and woodworking in high school. His parents cherished the...
Rachael Julaine Hamilton
Oct 4, 2026
Rachael Julaine Hamilton passed away on October 4, 2026. Her life was a gift to the people who knew and loved her, and her memory will continue to live on in the hearts of her family and friends.
Rachael is lovingly remembered by her mother, Virginia Hamilton, and her sister, Ynai Hamilton. Though her time here has ended, the love she...
Shirley Ann Abshire
Oct 4, 2026
In Loving Memory of Shirley Ann Abshire (Weinberg) November 2, 1940 – October 4, 2026
Shirley Ann Abshire (Weinberg), a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away peacefully on October 4, 2026, at 2:00 a.m., at the age of 85. She lived a full life marked by strength, determination, and a fierce devotion to her family.
Born in Chicago on November 2, 1940,...
Ethel Lee Carnes
Sep 29, 2026
Ethel Lee Carnes passed away on September 29, 2026. She was born on January 21, 1946 to Andrew and Ethel Shaw in El Paso, Texas.
She is survived by her sons, Jeff Hunter of Wichita Falls, TX, David (Stephanie) Hunter of Oklahoma, and Robert Hunter, and niece, Glenna Vaughn.
Ethel is preceded by her parents Andrew and Ethel Shaw, husband William O....
Ryan Scott Wilkins
Sep 24, 2026
Ryan Scott Wilkins, 24, of Amarillo, left us too soon on Thursday, September 24, 2026. He was born on July 13, 2002, and loved to play video games with his friends online. He enjoyed building and fixing things, whether it was out of wood, any type of material he could find, or Legos. He enjoyed helping others and had a...
Kyet Lae
Sep 24, 2026
Kyet Lae was born on January 1, 1943 in Burma. Lae passed away on September 24, 2026, surrounded by his family. He enjoyed playing the Karen traditional harp (T’na) and music. He will be remembered for his kind nature and his love for people. Most of all, he loved his family. He is survived by his wife, Sbae Ham Ti,...
David Vernon Paetzold
Sep 21, 2026
David Paetzold, age 75, of Amarillo, TX, passed away on September 21, 2026 at home.
He was born on September 17, 1951, in Hereford, Texas, to Betty and Raymond Paetzold. He graduated from Hereford High School in 1970 and went on to attend the University of New Mexico on a football scholarship. After marrying his beloved wife, Alison, they welcomed two...
Soe Htat Aung
Sep 10, 2026
စီးစိထဲးအီဉ်အိဉ်ဖျံဉ်ထိဉ်လၢ ၀၂.၁၃.၁၉၉၉ နံ်လၢကီၢ်ပယီၤဖူ.သဝီက္ခါကလ့နှဉ်လီၤ.
အဝဲဟ်တှါက္စံာ်အဲဟီဝ်ခ်ိဉ်မဲ ၀၉.၁၀.၂၀၂၆ နံ်`ဲဝ့`အမရူလိာ်,ထဲးကစဲ်ကီၢ်စဲဉ်နဉ်လီၤ. အပါအမံၤမှစီးစိမ္တံာ်ဇီးအမိစ်အမံၤမှ်ဝဲယှၤယ္နၤဝ့နဉ်လီၤ.အနီိပုံဝဲအိဉ်ဝဲ ၄ ဂၤပိာ်မှဉ်ခံဂၤဝိာ် ခွါခံဂၤနဉ်လီၤ. ၁၀.၁၀.၂၀၁၄ နဉ်သုးလီၢသုကျဲဆူကီၢ်အဓဲရံ်ကးနှဉ်လီၤ.လဲ၀၂.၁၂.၂၀၂၀ နှဉ်စိးတ့ဒိးဖျီအသးဇီးအမါနီန်အမံယၤနီးထိဉ်ဖိဝဲဖိခ္စါစီးအဲဉ်ခြ(Andrew):ဖိမုဉ်နီၢခံစ လံး(Kinsley)နဉ်လီၤ.အတၢ်သးစဲမှၢ်ဝဲတ်လိဉ်ကွဲဖျာဉ်ဃၤနစီးတါသူဉ်ဝံဉ်သးဆနနဉ်လီၤ. အဝဲမွၢ်စ္စဉ်ကီးပ္ဂတစၤလၤၢသ့္သုဉ်ညါဟ်ကဲမိၢ်ပါခ်ိဉ်နန်ဇီးဘဉ်တ်ဆဲဉ်အီၤလၢအတၱၤ.သကိး အါမႈနှဉ်လီၤ.
Soe Htau Aung, 27, of Amarillo, passed away on September 10, 2026. He was born in Burma on February 13, 1999. His father is Soe Myint, and his mother is Yee Yee Win. Soe has four siblings-two brothers and two sisters. On October 10, 2014, he...
Peggy Jean Robinson
Sep 8, 2026
Peggy Jean Robinson, 84, of Canyon, Texas, passed away on September 8, 2026. A memorial service will be held at 2pm on Saturday, September 26, 2026, at LaGrone Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors, Coulter Road chapel.
Peggy was born on March 1, 1942, to John Clark Robinson and Mary Jo Avent Robinson in Canyon, Texas. She graduated from Panhandle High School and attended...
Katie Elaine Rains
Sep 8, 2026
Katie Elaine Skinner Rains, of Amarillo, passed away on September 8, 2026, at her home. She was born on January 18, 1937, in Grand Saline, Texas, to Oree Whitt Skinner Johnson and Henry Lee Skinner. She played volleyball at Grand Saline High School and continued to play after moving with her mother and two younger brothers to Plainview, Texas in...
Rose Veronica Trujillo
Sep 7, 2026
Rose Trujillo, 71, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away peacefully on September 7, 2026 surrounded by her family. She was born on November 19, 1954, in Española, New Mexico, to Maclovio Ortiz and Amada Vigil Ortiz.
Rose was a caring woman whose greatest joy was the love she shared with her family and friends. On December 23, 1972, she married the love...
Michelle Elizabeth Martinez Burleson
Sep 3, 2026
Michelle was born on March 13, 1974, and from the beginning, made it pretty clear she wasn’t here to live a boring life.
She was a woman of great intellect, great faith, and an even greater heart. Michelle earned her master’s degree, and education was never simply a personal accomplishment to her – it was a calling. She believed education could...
Cecilia Ann Langdon
Aug 28, 2026
Cecilia Ann Langdon, 70, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away on August 28, 2026 at BSA Hospital, peacefully and surrounded by love.
She was born on June 8, 1956 to Vincent and Doris Black in Tulia, Texas.
Nursing was more than a career to her. It was a part of who she was. She had a heart for caring for others and poured...
Mollie Anne St. John
Aug 26, 2026
Mollie Anne St. John passed away peacefully on August 25, 2026, leaving behind cherished memories that will remain in the hearts of all who knew and loved her. She was born on December 18, 1946 to Leon and Jane St. John in Amarillo, Texas.
Mollie was a proud graduate of Palo Duro High School in Amarillo, Texas. She dedicated many years...
Doris June Vardell
Aug 26, 2026
Doris June Vardell, 92, of Amarillo, went home to be with her Lord on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. The family will receive friends for a visitation and small memorial service from 2-4:30pm on Monday, August 31, 2026, at LaGrone Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Coulter Road chapel.
Doris was born on October 6, 1933, in Altus, Oklahoma, to Hubert Adams and Anna Mae...
Grover Charles Halter
Aug 25, 2026
Grover Charles Halter, 95, of Amarillo, Texas passed away peacefully on Tuesday (August 25, 2026) at his residence after a brief illness.
He was born on a ranch near Two Buttes, Colorado on Nov. 24, 1930, and was the first grandchild on either side of his family. He loved the horses that he rode and helped care for on the ranch....
Vantha Sikalasinh
Aug 25, 2026
Vantha Sikalasinh, 77, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, surrounded by his family. Funeral services are scheduled for Friday, August 28, 2026, from 12-2pm at LaGrone Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home Martin Road Chapel. The family will receive friends for a visitation on Thursday, August 27, 2026, from 12-7pm at the funeral home.
Vantha was born on August 10,...
