~OBITUARY OF ROY LYNN WARREN
AMARILLO -- Roy Lynn WARREN, 79, of Amarillo died Friday, May 23, 2003.
Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday in N. S. Griggs and Sons Funeral Directors, Pioneer Chapel, 2615 Paramount Blvd., with Robert Field, retired Baptist minister, officiating. Burial will be at 4:00 p.m. in Fairmount Cemetery of Follett with Clay Wells, of Follett First Baptist Church, officiating.
Mr. WARREN was born September 28, 1923, in Roby. He grew up in the Crosbyton area and enlisted in the Army on January 20, 1943. He was a machine gunner sergeant and squad leader of the heavy machine gun unit in the infantry of the 35th division.
He was wounded during combat in Belgium while fighting Germany in 1945 where he received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. He received an honorable discharge on September 07, 1945.
Upon returning home from the war, he was superintendent of Plainview water department. He then moved to Amarillo where he met his second wife, Gwen Lee BUCHNER, and they were married May 22, 1970.
He worked for the Amarillo Independent School District as a maintenance man and plumber until his retirement. Since his death, he had been honored with the Normandy Service Medal and Presidential Memorial Certificate.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Bob and Lula WARREN; and a sister, Maxine POST.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Glinda K. POE and husband, Greg K., of Lubbock, Eraina Lynn ANDERSON and husband, Roy D., of Wichita Falls, and Rosemary WOSSUM and husband, Randy, of Amarillo; two sons, Bruce BUCHNER and Byron BUCHNER, both of Amarillo; two sisters, Christine McKAY of Phoenix and Doris THEDFORD Jackson of Kailua Kona, Hawaii; five grandsons, Robbe Rae and Alison GARNER, both of Dallas, Bobby Jack and Brenda ANDERSON, both of Wichita Falls, Vance and Maggie DUNLAP and Shane DUNLAP, all of Amarillo, and Ricky and Ronica ALLEN of Wichita Falls; two great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Olivia's Angels, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-News (TX), Monday, May 26, 2003.)
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AMARILLO -- Roy Lynn WARREN, 79, of Amarillo died Friday, May 23, 2003.
Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday in N. S. Griggs and Sons Funeral Directors, Pioneer Chapel, 2615 Paramount Blvd., with Robert Field, retired Baptist minister, officiating. Burial will be at 4:00 p.m. in Fairmount Cemetery of Follett with Clay Wells, of Follett First Baptist Church, officiating.
Mr. WARREN was born September 28, 1923, in Roby. He grew up in the Crosbyton area and enlisted in the Army on January 20, 1943. He was a machine gunner sergeant and squad leader of the heavy machine gun unit in the infantry of the 35th division.
He was wounded during combat in Belgium while fighting Germany in 1945 where he received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. He received an honorable discharge on September 07, 1945.
Upon returning home from the war, he was superintendent of Plainview water department. He then moved to Amarillo where he met his second wife, Gwen Lee BUCHNER, and they were married May 22, 1970.
He worked for the Amarillo Independent School District as a maintenance man and plumber until his retirement. Since his death, he had been honored with the Normandy Service Medal and Presidential Memorial Certificate.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Bob and Lula WARREN; and a sister, Maxine POST.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Glinda K. POE and husband, Greg K., of Lubbock, Eraina Lynn ANDERSON and husband, Roy D., of Wichita Falls, and Rosemary WOSSUM and husband, Randy, of Amarillo; two sons, Bruce BUCHNER and Byron BUCHNER, both of Amarillo; two sisters, Christine McKAY of Phoenix and Doris THEDFORD Jackson of Kailua Kona, Hawaii; five grandsons, Robbe Rae and Alison GARNER, both of Dallas, Bobby Jack and Brenda ANDERSON, both of Wichita Falls, Vance and Maggie DUNLAP and Shane DUNLAP, all of Amarillo, and Ricky and Ronica ALLEN of Wichita Falls; two great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Olivia's Angels, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-News (TX), Monday, May 26, 2003.)
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~OBITUARY OF ROY LYNN WARREN
AMARILLO -- Roy Lynn WARREN, 79, of Amarillo died Friday, May 23, 2003.
Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday in N. S. Griggs and Sons Funeral Directors, Pioneer Chapel, 2615 Paramount Blvd., with Robert Field, retired Baptist minister, officiating. Burial will be at 4:00 p.m. in Fairmount Cemetery of Follett with Clay Wells, of Follett First Baptist Church, officiating.
Mr. WARREN was born September 28, 1923, in Roby. He grew up in the Crosbyton area and enlisted in the Army on January 20, 1943. He was a machine gunner sergeant and squad leader of the heavy machine gun unit in the infantry of the 35th division.
He was wounded during combat in Belgium while fighting Germany in 1945 where he received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. He received an honorable discharge on September 07, 1945.
Upon returning home from the war, he was superintendent of Plainview water department. He then moved to Amarillo where he met his second wife, Gwen Lee BUCHNER, and they were married May 22, 1970.
He worked for the Amarillo Independent School District as a maintenance man and plumber until his retirement. Since his death, he had been honored with the Normandy Service Medal and Presidential Memorial Certificate.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Bob and Lula WARREN; and a sister, Maxine POST.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Glinda K. POE and husband, Greg K., of Lubbock, Eraina Lynn ANDERSON and husband, Roy D., of Wichita Falls, and Rosemary WOSSUM and husband, Randy, of Amarillo; two sons, Bruce BUCHNER and Byron BUCHNER, both of Amarillo; two sisters, Christine McKAY of Phoenix and Doris THEDFORD Jackson of Kailua Kona, Hawaii; five grandsons, Robbe Rae and Alison GARNER, both of Dallas, Bobby Jack and Brenda ANDERSON, both of Wichita Falls, Vance and Maggie DUNLAP and Shane DUNLAP, all of Amarillo, and Ricky and Ronica ALLEN of Wichita Falls; two great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Olivia's Angels, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-News (TX), Monday, May 26, 2003.)
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AMARILLO -- Roy Lynn WARREN, 79, of Amarillo died Friday, May 23, 2003.
Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday in N. S. Griggs and Sons Funeral Directors, Pioneer Chapel, 2615 Paramount Blvd., with Robert Field, retired Baptist minister, officiating. Burial will be at 4:00 p.m. in Fairmount Cemetery of Follett with Clay Wells, of Follett First Baptist Church, officiating.
Mr. WARREN was born September 28, 1923, in Roby. He grew up in the Crosbyton area and enlisted in the Army on January 20, 1943. He was a machine gunner sergeant and squad leader of the heavy machine gun unit in the infantry of the 35th division.
He was wounded during combat in Belgium while fighting Germany in 1945 where he received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. He received an honorable discharge on September 07, 1945.
Upon returning home from the war, he was superintendent of Plainview water department. He then moved to Amarillo where he met his second wife, Gwen Lee BUCHNER, and they were married May 22, 1970.
He worked for the Amarillo Independent School District as a maintenance man and plumber until his retirement. Since his death, he had been honored with the Normandy Service Medal and Presidential Memorial Certificate.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Bob and Lula WARREN; and a sister, Maxine POST.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Glinda K. POE and husband, Greg K., of Lubbock, Eraina Lynn ANDERSON and husband, Roy D., of Wichita Falls, and Rosemary WOSSUM and husband, Randy, of Amarillo; two sons, Bruce BUCHNER and Byron BUCHNER, both of Amarillo; two sisters, Christine McKAY of Phoenix and Doris THEDFORD Jackson of Kailua Kona, Hawaii; five grandsons, Robbe Rae and Alison GARNER, both of Dallas, Bobby Jack and Brenda ANDERSON, both of Wichita Falls, Vance and Maggie DUNLAP and Shane DUNLAP, all of Amarillo, and Ricky and Ronica ALLEN of Wichita Falls; two great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Olivia's Angels, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-News (TX), Monday, May 26, 2003.)
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