Local Obituaries for Families in Amarillo, Texas
Michael "Mike" Abell
Nov 11, 2026
Michael “Mike” Abell, 79, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. Funeral services will be held at 2pm, Monday, November 23, 2026, at LaGrone Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Coulter Road chapel. The family will receive friends for a visitation from 2-4pm, Sunday, November 22, 2026, at the funeral home.
Mike was born on May 23, 1947, in Dallas, Texas,...
Annie Elora McNeer
Nov 7, 2026
Annie Elora McNeer died on Saturday, November 7, 2026. Visitation and viewing for family and friends will be held at Lagrone Blackburn-Shaw on Martin Road, Tuesday, November 10th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Private graveside services will be held at a later date.
Mrs. McNeer was born October 27, 1929, to Bryan and Edna Thrasher of Walnut, Mississippi. She married her...
Clyde Fulton Holman
Nov 5, 2026
Clyde Fulton Holman, 88, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away on November 5, 2026, in Amarillo. He was born October 26, 1938, in Colorado City, Texas, to John and Lorene Holman.
Clyde devoted 30 years of his career to working as a salesman for Cameron Wholesale. He also farmed near Stead, New Mexico, and owned several rental properties in Amarillo. He was...
William Lee "Bill" Hanna
Nov 4, 2026
William Lee “Bill” Hanna, 80 years of age, went to be with his Heavenly Father and Lord and Savior on Wednesday, November 4th, 2026.
Bill was born on September 6th, 1946 in Denver, Colorado, to Leota Viola Patterson Hanna and Russell Melvin Hanna. Bill has been a resident of Amarillo and Canyon since 1948.
Graveside services: Field of Honor, Llano East Cemetery,...
Jerry Martin Sr.
Oct 30, 2026
Jerry Dean Martin, 83, of Amarillo, passed away on Friday, October 30, 2026, in Portales, New Mexico. A graveside service is scheduled for Wednesday November 4, 2026, at 2pm at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Amarillo, Texas.
Jerry was born on December 26, 1942, in Lubbock, Texas, to JD Martin and Juanita Wallace Hood. He proudly served in the United States Army,...
Efrain Rodriguez Mendoza
Oct 24, 2026
With heavy hearts and immeasurable love, the family of Efrain Rodriguez Mendoza announces his passing on October 24, 2026, at the age of 54.
Born on July 9, 1972, in Jalostotitlán, Jalisco, Mexico, Efrain made the courageous journey to the United States to provide for his parents back home in Mexico. He went on to make his home in San Francisco,...
Harold Allen Gray
Oct 18, 2026
Harold Allen Gray, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend, passed away on October 18, 2026, in Lubbock, Texas, at the age of 82. Born on November 12, 1943, in Elk City, Oklahoma, Allen lived a life marked by strength, loyalty, humor, and a heart as big as the man himself.
He was the son of Harold Ancil Gray and...
Vixiene Keoduangta
Oct 16, 2026
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Vixiene Keoduangta, age 79, of Amarillo, Texas. She passed away peacefully on October 16, 2026. Sunrise on March 2, 1947, in Laos. She lived a remarkable journey through life marked by warmth, generosity, and an unwavering devotion to those she loved. A beloved wife, mother, and a faithful servant...
Ernest “Tata” Orosco
Oct 11, 2026
Ernest Orosco, 75, passed away peacefully on October 11, 2026. He was born on October 27, 1950, in Idalou, Texas to Jose Orosco and Angelita Casias.
Ernest married the love of his life, Frances Ochoa, on December 3, 1967. Together, they shared a lifetime of love, memories, and family, celebrating 59 years of marriage.
Ernest worked for Amarillo Gear and was a...
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...
