Clyde Irwin “Clydie” Price, Jr.

Clyde Irwin “Clydie” Price, Jr. passed away on September 5, 2010, at Amarillo, Texas, with family members and long-time caregivers at his bedside.

Services will be Saturday, September 11, 2010, at 2 p.m. in St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Clarendon with Rev. Jim Aveni, Vicar, officiating.
Interment with Masonic Rites will be in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Clyde Price was born June 15, 1932, to Clyde I. Price and Anne Myra Bennett Price. Price was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Jerry Bennett Price.
Price, a native of Donley County, worked in his youth for his father at the Clarendon Press and, during his teen years, he was a projectionist for the Pastime and Mulkey theaters.

He was a graduate of Clarendon High School and Clarendon College and attended West Texas State University. Clyde was a member of Saint John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Clarendon.

Clyde served as a Boy Scout leader in Clarendon and in Tappahannock, Virginia, while stationed there in the Army.

Clyde helped broaden the horizons of many Scouts by taking them to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, the National Jamboree in Irvine, Calif., and several trips to the Charles Summers Wilderness Canoe Base in Ely, Minnesota, not to mention Camp Kiowa in Canadian, and many weekend camping trips to Troublesome Canyon. Scouts also enjoyed trips with Clyde to the Texas-OU football games, the State Fair of Texas and to New York City.

Clyde was awarded the Silver Beaver Award by the Boy Scouts of America for his long-time dedication and service to Scouts and Scouting.

Upon discharge from the United States Army, Clyde returned home and began working as the office manager for Emmett O. Simmons Insurance Agency and served his community by being a volunteer fireman, later becoming the Fire Marshall.

He was elected to the Board of Regents of Clarendon College, and to the Board of Aldermen for the City of Clarendon. He also served as executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, was a member of the Clarendon Lions Club, and was a 50-year member of the Clarendon Masonic Lodge. Clyde was chosen as Pioneer Man of the Year by the Clarendon Chamber of Commerce in 2007.

Clyde worked at Pantex and, upon retirement, continued working as a dispatcher and jailer for the Donley County Sheriff’s Department.

Recent years found Clyde living at the Community Care Center in Clarendon where he was chosen as leader of the residents’ council.

Price is survived by his brother, Kenneth Price and wife, Pamela of Azle; his nephews, Gary Price of San Antonio, Neal Price and wife Amanda of Justin, and Matt Price and wife, Colleen of Dallas; nieces Angie Price of Fort Worth, and Sasha Koziak of Los Angeles, Calif.; and great-nieces and great-nephews Ella and Anne Price, Ryan and Noah Price, and Valantyn and Bennett Koziak.