Midge Fite Lemley

Midge Fite Lemley, 82, died Tuesday, March 31, 2015.
Services were held April 3, 2015, in First United Methodist Church in Hedley with Don Stone officiating.
Midge was born Dec. 5, 1932, in Pittsburgh County, Okla., to Robert Earl Fite and Lela Alma Mosteller Fite. She was the next to youngest of her large family and developed her work ethic and thriftiness early on as a child of the Depression. She put herself through college at West Texas State University, where she earned a teaching degree.

She possessed an incredible intellect and insatiable drive for growth and learning, which she expressed through art, music and gardening. She played piano and guitar, was a talented painter, sculptor and drawer and was recognized as a Master Gardener by Amarillo Botanical Gardens. She was well-known in the Hedley area for her vegetable garden.
She will be greatly missed by her family for her incredible smile and bright blue eyes that showed unconditional love, unending compassion and amazing optimism. Midge beautified landscapes and lives wherever she lived and taught. As the wife of well-known coach Troy Lemley, she lived in Amarillo, Stinnett, Phillips, Hedley, McAdoo, Smyer, Guthrie, Lockney and Aspermont.
She was preceded in death by her husband, William Troy Lemley; her brothers, Horace, Harvey and Harold; and her sisters, Connie, Dorothy, Leora, Ruth and Bonnie.
Survivors include five children, Amy Lemley of Wichita, Kan., John Lemley and wife Karen of Stillwater, Okla., Joe Lemley and wife Rose of Clarendon, Ben Lemley and wife Karen of Amarillo and Vic Lemley and wife Jenny of Utopia; 10 grandchildren, Kassidy Twyford and husband Cameron of Oklahoma City, Bethany Lemley of Stillwater, Kelley Battey and husband Tyler of Amarillo, Regan Lemley of Amarillo, Corwin, Conner and Chris Lemley of Amarillo and Katie, Chloe and Sawyer Lemley of Utopia; and a great-grandson, Elijah Battey of Amarillo.
The family suggests memorials be to Amarillo Botanical Gardens or American Lung Association. Midge would also smile if you decided to plant a tree instead.