Archives for May 2012

Jeanne Marie Morrow, housewife, mother, and longtime Clarendon resident, died on April 29 at the nursing home in Clarendon. She was 79.

The cause was respiratory distress and heart failure, said her son John Earl.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in First Baptist Church in Clarendon with the Rev. Darrell Burton, officiating. Burial will be in Citizens Cemetery by Robertson Funeral Directors.

Mrs. Morrow was born April 30, 1932, in Donley County at home to Herman L. and Peggy A. Percival. She was the salutatorian of her graduating class of 1949 at Clarendon, and was awarded a scholarship to a college in Belton, Texas, that she never left Clarendon to attend. Mrs. Morrow, who at one time was a vocational nurse at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, devoted her life to her husband, Ira Kenneth Morrow, and her three sons Daniel Lee, Joe Wayne, and John Earl.

She accepted the Lord as her Savior and friend as a teenager, and was her happiest when reading stories from the Bible. She named her sons good Biblical names that she loved. She loved the First Baptist Church of Clarendon.

Later, she always looked forward to the worship services held in the nursing home. When asked her feelings about people three weeks before her death, she said she “loved everybody” and she truly did.

In addition to her son John Earl Morrow of Clarendon, her survivors include her sons Daniel Lee of Plano and Dr. Joe Wayne Morrow. She is survived also by her brother Billy Joe Percival of Grand Prairie; fourteen grandchildren; and seventeen great-grandchildren.

A son, Samuel David Morrow, died after four hours of life in Groom in 1950. Her husband Ira Kenneth Morrow died in Clarendon in 2007. Her father Herman Percival died in Amarillo in 1972, and her mother Peggy Percival died in Grand Prairie in 2002. Her brother Ralph Percival died in Houston in 2006. Also, she had two brothers Paul and Herman Jr. and a sister Margery Sue who each died young at about the age of one.

John Manly Bryan, MD, age 83, formerly of Canyon and current resident of Dallas, passed away April 27, 2012.

Bryan was born at home February 7, 1929, in Clarendon. He was the son of Allen Jefferson Bryan and Virginia Margaret Manly (Dirky), and had one younger brother, Harry Eugene Bryan, who preceded him in death, May 1988.

He graduated from Clarendon High School in 1946. From 1946 to 1949 he attended and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he met and later married Joanne Lotz on December 27, 1950, in Metropolis, Illinois.

He went on to Medical School at the University of Texas, Medical Branch, in Galveston, graduating in 1953. After an internship in Denver and a residency with the Public Health Service, Silver Springs, Maryland, in 1957 he and Jo returned to Canyon where he joined a physician group practice, practicing family medicine for 31 years.

He was one of the early physicians to become Board Certified by the American Academy of Family Physicians. While in Canyon, he was elected to numerous civic positions, and served as Mayor of Canyon for eight years beginning in 1970.

In 1988, he and Jo relocated to the Dallas area where he continued working in various medical positions until November 2011.

He is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Jo; his sons Jay Bryan and wife Susan of Pentwater, Michigan, and Denny Bryan and wife Leanne of Graham; his six grandchildren, Bradley and Ashley Bryan, Abbott and Colby Oates, Aaron and Joanna Richison; four great-grandchildren, Jacob and Jocelyn Richison, Calvin Robrahn, and Hunter; his sister-in-law, Betty Moore and husband Billy; a nephew, Craig Bryan and wife Vicki; and a niece, Lynn Rosa and husband Duane of Amarillo.

Manly and Jo loved to travel and cook and traveled extensively with an eye for unique culinary ports-of-call. They counted themselves fortunate to have formed lifelong friendships with wonderful people wherever they lived or traveled.

Memorial services for Manly Bryan will be Friday, May 4, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. North Dallas Funeral Home, 2710 Valley View Lane, Dallas, Texas 75234. www.northdallasfuneralhome.com

For those wishing to remember Manly as a physician and a friend, donations may be made in his name to your favorite charity or to the American Heart or Lung or Cancer Association, and as flowers beautify the world and cheer the heart, they are also warmly appreciated.

Jimmy Lee Hutson, 64, of Clarendon died on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 in Clarendon.

Services were held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, April 26, 2012, at Citizens Cemetery with Patrick Robertson, officiating. Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Jimmy was born April 23, 1948 in Clarendon to Freddie L. and Ollie Ruth Fowler Hutson. He has been a resident of Clarendon all of his life. He spent most of his working life, 21 years, at Price Truck Stop in Clarendon as the night shift manager. He loved to hunt and fish, as well as spending time with his family. Jimmy was Baptist.

He was preceded in death by his father, Freddie L. Huston, on May 19, 1992.

He is survived by his mother, Ollie Ruth Hutson, of Clarendon; brother, Kenneth “Shorty” Hutson and wife Lois, of Hereford; sister, Patsy Havens, of Clarendon; and many nieces, nephews, and extended family. In lieu of flowers or other gifts, the family suggests donations to Odyssey Hospice, 6900 I40 West, Ste 150, Amarillo, Texas 79106.