Darrell Gayle Leffew

On November 22, 2022, for Darrell Gayle Leffew, 80, the long dark night has ended as the Angels came to escorted him into his Eternal Home.

There will be a memorial service at Paramount Baptist Church in Amarillo, Tx on Monday, November 28, at the Paramount Baptist Chapel, 3801 South Western St., officiated by Bunk Skelton and Stan Leffew.  He will be laid to rest at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.

On December 21, 1941, Darrell was born to Willis Leary Leffew and Claris (Rich) Leffew in Santa Maria, Calif.  His family moved to Clarendon in 1949, and Darrell graduated from Clarendon High School in 1959.  On June 3, 1961, he married his sweetheart, Wilma Elliott in Clarendon.  They made their home in Lubbock, where he worked for Hancock Equipment Co, the original inventors of elevating scrapers.  Darrell loved everything about moving dirt and heavy equipment, especially scrapers.  In 1971, Darrell and Wilma moved their family back to Clarendon where Darrell established Clarendon Manufacturing.  He would go on to design, manufacture and service elevating scrapers for the next 51 years.

He served as a School Board member in Clarendon for nine years.  He was a thirty-year member of the Clarendon Lions Club.  He was a deacon at First Baptist Church in Clarendon, and a charter member and Deacon at Community Fellowship Church.  In his later years, he was a member of the Arena of Life Cowboy Church in Clarendon.  Darrell and Wilma had recently moved to Amarillo where they became members at Paramount Baptist Church.  Darrell was an avid hunter and fisherman and enjoyed snow skiing.

Darrell was preceded in death by his parents; his in-laws, Othel and Veda Elliott (whom he dearly loved); his two brothers, Doyle Leffew and Larry “Corky” Leffew; his sister, Rava Rose McKinney; his two brothers-in-law, Buddy Brunson and Harold Elliott; and his grandson Tyler White.

Those who are left behind to celebrate his life are his wife Wilma of Amarillo, a son Stan and wife Lori Leffew of Clarendon, and a daughter Terri and husband Wade Carroll of Amarillo.  He will be dearly missed by his grandchildren, Nathan Estes and McKayla Carroll of Amarillo, McKenzie Carroll, Alec Estes, and Ashton Estes of Lubbock, Lauryn Sackett of Colorado Springs, Jessica English of Clarendon, Amanda Atamah of Plano, and Matt McCabe of Amarillo; eleven great grandchildren; and two great, great grandchildren along with numerous nephews and nieces.

Suggested memorials can be made to the Alzheimers Foundation, Arena of Life Cowboy Church, or Paramount Baptist Church.