DALHART - Sylvia Ogle, 81, died Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005, in Littleton, Colo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with Rodney Weatherly, pastor, and Clifford Dane, minister to senior adults, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery by Horizon Funeral Home.
Mrs. Ogle was born Aug. 29, 1923, in Union County, N.M., to Emmitt Rivers Newlon and Mary Adeline (McKay) Newlon. She and James Ogle were married in 1943 in First Baptist Church in Dalhart. In 1955, Sylvia opened a photography studio in her home. This was something she enjoyed and could do at home. She had worked with Flossie Rhodes for a time at the Rita Blanca Studio. With two small daughters, Vicki Lynn and Mary Sue, she was able to be at home when the girls got home from school.
In August 1978, she added a color lab, Dalhart's first. Sylvia hired students from high school job training classes to help her. She took portraits, pictures of sporting events, school functions, livestock shows and weddings over a wide area around Dalhart. She was one of the first women to serve as president of Panhandle Photographers Association. The owner and manager of Sylvia Ogle's Studio, Sylvia retired in October 1997, after 42 years in the business.
Sylvia was preceded in death by her husband, James in 1989; her parents; a sister, Birdie Bell Newlon; and a brother, Herbert Newlon.
Survivors include two daughters, Vicki Thompson and husband, Gary, of Littleton and Mary Sue Alexander and husband, Hugh, of Denver; a brother, Carl Newlon of Sedan, N.M.; a sister, Nan Herber of Texline; a granddaughter, Kelsey Thompson of Austin; and a grandson, Houston Thompson of Boulder, Colo.
The family suggests memorials be to Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research "Accelerating the Cure" Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163; or First Baptist Church of Dalhart for the children's ministry.
Sign our online guest book at WWW.HORIZONFUNERAL.COM.
Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 24, 2005
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with Rodney Weatherly, pastor, and Clifford Dane, minister to senior adults, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery by Horizon Funeral Home.
Mrs. Ogle was born Aug. 29, 1923, in Union County, N.M., to Emmitt Rivers Newlon and Mary Adeline (McKay) Newlon. She and James Ogle were married in 1943 in First Baptist Church in Dalhart. In 1955, Sylvia opened a photography studio in her home. This was something she enjoyed and could do at home. She had worked with Flossie Rhodes for a time at the Rita Blanca Studio. With two small daughters, Vicki Lynn and Mary Sue, she was able to be at home when the girls got home from school.
In August 1978, she added a color lab, Dalhart's first. Sylvia hired students from high school job training classes to help her. She took portraits, pictures of sporting events, school functions, livestock shows and weddings over a wide area around Dalhart. She was one of the first women to serve as president of Panhandle Photographers Association. The owner and manager of Sylvia Ogle's Studio, Sylvia retired in October 1997, after 42 years in the business.
Sylvia was preceded in death by her husband, James in 1989; her parents; a sister, Birdie Bell Newlon; and a brother, Herbert Newlon.
Survivors include two daughters, Vicki Thompson and husband, Gary, of Littleton and Mary Sue Alexander and husband, Hugh, of Denver; a brother, Carl Newlon of Sedan, N.M.; a sister, Nan Herber of Texline; a granddaughter, Kelsey Thompson of Austin; and a grandson, Houston Thompson of Boulder, Colo.
The family suggests memorials be to Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research "Accelerating the Cure" Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163; or First Baptist Church of Dalhart for the children's ministry.
Sign our online guest book at WWW.HORIZONFUNERAL.COM.
Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 24, 2005
DALHART - Sylvia Ogle, 81, died Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005, in Littleton, Colo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with Rodney Weatherly, pastor, and Clifford Dane, minister to senior adults, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery by Horizon Funeral Home.
Mrs. Ogle was born Aug. 29, 1923, in Union County, N.M., to Emmitt Rivers Newlon and Mary Adeline (McKay) Newlon. She and James Ogle were married in 1943 in First Baptist Church in Dalhart. In 1955, Sylvia opened a photography studio in her home. This was something she enjoyed and could do at home. She had worked with Flossie Rhodes for a time at the Rita Blanca Studio. With two small daughters, Vicki Lynn and Mary Sue, she was able to be at home when the girls got home from school.
In August 1978, she added a color lab, Dalhart's first. Sylvia hired students from high school job training classes to help her. She took portraits, pictures of sporting events, school functions, livestock shows and weddings over a wide area around Dalhart. She was one of the first women to serve as president of Panhandle Photographers Association. The owner and manager of Sylvia Ogle's Studio, Sylvia retired in October 1997, after 42 years in the business.
Sylvia was preceded in death by her husband, James in 1989; her parents; a sister, Birdie Bell Newlon; and a brother, Herbert Newlon.
Survivors include two daughters, Vicki Thompson and husband, Gary, of Littleton and Mary Sue Alexander and husband, Hugh, of Denver; a brother, Carl Newlon of Sedan, N.M.; a sister, Nan Herber of Texline; a granddaughter, Kelsey Thompson of Austin; and a grandson, Houston Thompson of Boulder, Colo.
The family suggests memorials be to Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research "Accelerating the Cure" Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163; or First Baptist Church of Dalhart for the children's ministry.
Sign our online guest book at WWW.HORIZONFUNERAL.COM.
Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 24, 2005
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with Rodney Weatherly, pastor, and Clifford Dane, minister to senior adults, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery by Horizon Funeral Home.
Mrs. Ogle was born Aug. 29, 1923, in Union County, N.M., to Emmitt Rivers Newlon and Mary Adeline (McKay) Newlon. She and James Ogle were married in 1943 in First Baptist Church in Dalhart. In 1955, Sylvia opened a photography studio in her home. This was something she enjoyed and could do at home. She had worked with Flossie Rhodes for a time at the Rita Blanca Studio. With two small daughters, Vicki Lynn and Mary Sue, she was able to be at home when the girls got home from school.
In August 1978, she added a color lab, Dalhart's first. Sylvia hired students from high school job training classes to help her. She took portraits, pictures of sporting events, school functions, livestock shows and weddings over a wide area around Dalhart. She was one of the first women to serve as president of Panhandle Photographers Association. The owner and manager of Sylvia Ogle's Studio, Sylvia retired in October 1997, after 42 years in the business.
Sylvia was preceded in death by her husband, James in 1989; her parents; a sister, Birdie Bell Newlon; and a brother, Herbert Newlon.
Survivors include two daughters, Vicki Thompson and husband, Gary, of Littleton and Mary Sue Alexander and husband, Hugh, of Denver; a brother, Carl Newlon of Sedan, N.M.; a sister, Nan Herber of Texline; a granddaughter, Kelsey Thompson of Austin; and a grandson, Houston Thompson of Boulder, Colo.
The family suggests memorials be to Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research "Accelerating the Cure" Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163; or First Baptist Church of Dalhart for the children's ministry.
Sign our online guest book at WWW.HORIZONFUNERAL.COM.
Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 24, 2005
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