Mahdeene DeBord, 86, died Friday, December 2, 2011, in Amarillo.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 6, 2011, in the Hedley Church of Christ with Bright Newhouse, Minister, officiating. Interment followed at Rowe Cemetery in Hedley. Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Bessie Mahdeene DeBord was born October 16, 1925, in Shamrock to I.M. and Allie Barrington. She was the second of three children. She moved to Amarillo at the age of three months. She graduated from Amarillo High School in 1944, and worked at several banks in Amarillo until marrying Connie DeBord on December 8, 1951. She moved to Hedley in 1955 where she became a homemaker and devoted wife for almost sixty years.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Bob Barrington; and a sister, Ira Woods.
She is survived by her husband, Connie; two daughters, Connie Lee Wilson and husband Troy, and Deborah Flanary; four grandchildren, Cory and wife Shelley, Brad and wife Julie, Katherine, and Zachary; and four great grandchildren, Taylor, Joseph, Connor, and Collin.
The family suggests memorials be made to Rowe Cemetery Association.
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