Virginia “Nell” McClish

Virginia “Nell” McClish, 74, of Chandler, Arizona, formerly of Amarillo and Pampa, died Tuesday, February 8, 2011.

Services were held Saturday, February 12, at the Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel. Burial was held at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Pampa, Texas.  Arrangements were by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors.

She was born Virginia Waynell Weaver to Horace and Thelma Weaver on July 3, 1936, at Gilliland, Texas. She grew up on the High Plains of Texas in several small picturesque towns always with her parents, her sister, Louise and lots of friends and cousins. They provided her with a happy childhood and a strong faith with which she lived throughout her life. She married Oran Carter in 1953, and their loving and memory-filled twenty-one-year marriage produced five children. Oran preceded her in death in 1975 in Pampa.

She met Maurice McClish at the First Christian Church in Amarillo, and they married in 1984. Maurice and Nell were blessed in combining their faith, their families, and friends. They shared their love of life and love of adventure- he taught her how to water ski and go bird hunting, and she taught him her love of planting and growing flowers, and love of nature.

They celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary in July of 2010.

Nell is survived by her husband, Maurice McClish of Lake Greenbelt; her sister, Louise Halcom of Amarillo; her five children, Laquita Gruver and husband Kurt of Belton, Texas, Marita Ross and husband Brad of Chandler, AZ, Gay Nell Acord of Pecos, NM , Ora Switzer and husband Bryan of Dallas and John Carter-White also of Dallas; her step-children, Kevin McClish of Amarillo and Cheri, Beverly and Buffy; her ten grandchildren, Mandy Nation, Christy Templeton, Lara and Sara Ross, Art and Oran Acord, Ryan, Hannah and Holly Switzer and Marci McClish; her three great grandchildren, Hailey and Julie Templeton and Brighlee Reynoso.