Homer Shelton Sanders Jr., 97, of Amarillo died Thursday, April 28, 2015.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Saint Paul United Methodist Church with Pastor Scott Raines officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Griggs-Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors 5400 S. Bell St.
Homer was born Oct. 2, 1917, in Howland to Jessie Brooks Sanders and Homer Shelton Sanders Sr. Homer grew up in Floydada and Quitaqua. He attended New Mexico Military Institute and the University of Texas. Homer served as a first lieutenant in the Army Quartermaster Corps between 1941 and 1945. He was at the bombing of Pearl Harbor and behind enemy lines at the Battle of the Bulge. In Europe he was part of the 28th Infantry Division. Homer received two Purple Heart medals. He received the Bronze Star for leading a platoon of soldiers from behind enemy lines back to the Allied forces. While both were stationed in England, Homer met his future wife, Kay Feuchuk. Kay was a second lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps and a physical therapist. Kay and Homer married on June 9, 1945, in Paris, France, at the hospital where Kay was stationed.
After the war, they resided in Muleshoe where Homer owned a lumber yard. Once they moved to Amarillo, Homer became a commercial real estate agent with Coldwell Banker. He was a member of the prestigious Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Homer was a Shriner and volunteered more than 5000 hours at the Amarillo VA medical center. Homer was a resident of Amarillo for more than 55 years. Homer was a loving husband, father and grandfather and will be missed.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Aurelia Sanders; and a son, Michael B. Sanders.
Survivors include his grandson, Steven T. Sanders of Denver; and a daughter-in-law, Shirley Taylor of Littleton, Colo.
The family suggests memorials be to Medical Center League House of Amarillo.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, May 5, 2015)
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Saint Paul United Methodist Church with Pastor Scott Raines officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Griggs-Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors 5400 S. Bell St.
Homer was born Oct. 2, 1917, in Howland to Jessie Brooks Sanders and Homer Shelton Sanders Sr. Homer grew up in Floydada and Quitaqua. He attended New Mexico Military Institute and the University of Texas. Homer served as a first lieutenant in the Army Quartermaster Corps between 1941 and 1945. He was at the bombing of Pearl Harbor and behind enemy lines at the Battle of the Bulge. In Europe he was part of the 28th Infantry Division. Homer received two Purple Heart medals. He received the Bronze Star for leading a platoon of soldiers from behind enemy lines back to the Allied forces. While both were stationed in England, Homer met his future wife, Kay Feuchuk. Kay was a second lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps and a physical therapist. Kay and Homer married on June 9, 1945, in Paris, France, at the hospital where Kay was stationed.
After the war, they resided in Muleshoe where Homer owned a lumber yard. Once they moved to Amarillo, Homer became a commercial real estate agent with Coldwell Banker. He was a member of the prestigious Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Homer was a Shriner and volunteered more than 5000 hours at the Amarillo VA medical center. Homer was a resident of Amarillo for more than 55 years. Homer was a loving husband, father and grandfather and will be missed.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Aurelia Sanders; and a son, Michael B. Sanders.
Survivors include his grandson, Steven T. Sanders of Denver; and a daughter-in-law, Shirley Taylor of Littleton, Colo.
The family suggests memorials be to Medical Center League House of Amarillo.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, May 5, 2015)
Homer Shelton Sanders Jr., 97, of Amarillo died Thursday, April 28, 2015.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Saint Paul United Methodist Church with Pastor Scott Raines officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Griggs-Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors 5400 S. Bell St.
Homer was born Oct. 2, 1917, in Howland to Jessie Brooks Sanders and Homer Shelton Sanders Sr. Homer grew up in Floydada and Quitaqua. He attended New Mexico Military Institute and the University of Texas. Homer served as a first lieutenant in the Army Quartermaster Corps between 1941 and 1945. He was at the bombing of Pearl Harbor and behind enemy lines at the Battle of the Bulge. In Europe he was part of the 28th Infantry Division. Homer received two Purple Heart medals. He received the Bronze Star for leading a platoon of soldiers from behind enemy lines back to the Allied forces. While both were stationed in England, Homer met his future wife, Kay Feuchuk. Kay was a second lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps and a physical therapist. Kay and Homer married on June 9, 1945, in Paris, France, at the hospital where Kay was stationed.
After the war, they resided in Muleshoe where Homer owned a lumber yard. Once they moved to Amarillo, Homer became a commercial real estate agent with Coldwell Banker. He was a member of the prestigious Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Homer was a Shriner and volunteered more than 5000 hours at the Amarillo VA medical center. Homer was a resident of Amarillo for more than 55 years. Homer was a loving husband, father and grandfather and will be missed.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Aurelia Sanders; and a son, Michael B. Sanders.
Survivors include his grandson, Steven T. Sanders of Denver; and a daughter-in-law, Shirley Taylor of Littleton, Colo.
The family suggests memorials be to Medical Center League House of Amarillo.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, May 5, 2015)
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Saint Paul United Methodist Church with Pastor Scott Raines officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Griggs-Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors 5400 S. Bell St.
Homer was born Oct. 2, 1917, in Howland to Jessie Brooks Sanders and Homer Shelton Sanders Sr. Homer grew up in Floydada and Quitaqua. He attended New Mexico Military Institute and the University of Texas. Homer served as a first lieutenant in the Army Quartermaster Corps between 1941 and 1945. He was at the bombing of Pearl Harbor and behind enemy lines at the Battle of the Bulge. In Europe he was part of the 28th Infantry Division. Homer received two Purple Heart medals. He received the Bronze Star for leading a platoon of soldiers from behind enemy lines back to the Allied forces. While both were stationed in England, Homer met his future wife, Kay Feuchuk. Kay was a second lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps and a physical therapist. Kay and Homer married on June 9, 1945, in Paris, France, at the hospital where Kay was stationed.
After the war, they resided in Muleshoe where Homer owned a lumber yard. Once they moved to Amarillo, Homer became a commercial real estate agent with Coldwell Banker. He was a member of the prestigious Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Homer was a Shriner and volunteered more than 5000 hours at the Amarillo VA medical center. Homer was a resident of Amarillo for more than 55 years. Homer was a loving husband, father and grandfather and will be missed.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Aurelia Sanders; and a son, Michael B. Sanders.
Survivors include his grandson, Steven T. Sanders of Denver; and a daughter-in-law, Shirley Taylor of Littleton, Colo.
The family suggests memorials be to Medical Center League House of Amarillo.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, May 5, 2015)
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