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Randy Gene Woodard
Randy Gene Woodard, 51, died, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 near Hedley.
Services were held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, January 28, 2012, in the First Baptist Church in Hedley with Rev. Bruce Howard, pastor, and Rev. Anthony Knowles, pastor of the Estelline Baptist Church, officiating. Burial followed at Rowe Cemetery in Hedley. Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Mr. Woodard was born December 26, 1960, in Groom to Raymond F. “Toby” and Joyce Sanders Woodard.
He enjoyed music, hunting, and fishing and at the time of his death he worked Maintenance for Donley County. Randy was a member of the First Baptist Church in Hedley.
He was preceded in death by his father on November 27, 2005.
He is survived by his mother, Joyce Woodard of Hedley; two daughters, Kasi Gaither and husband Corey of Clarendon and Julie Woodard of Hedley; a brother, Raymond H. Woodard and wife Nancy of Hedley; two sisters, Kim King and husband Johnny and Twannah Hall and husband Eric, all of Hedley; two grandchildren, Jayla Dawn Woodard and Kennadi Brooke Gaither; and several nieces and nephews.
The family request memorials be sent to Rowe Cemetery Association or to a favorite charity.
Sign our online guestbook at www.RobertsonFuneral.com
Betty Geraldine Huffman
Betty Geraldine Huffman, 87, died, Friday, January 27, 2012, in Amarillo.
Graveside services were held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 31, 2012, in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon with Rev. Darrell Burton, officiating. Burial followed at Citizens Cemetery. Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Mrs. Huffman was born November 18, 1924, in Hall County to John Earl “Shug” Ryan, Sr., and Maude Dyer Ryan. She married Coleman “Colie” Huffman, Jr., on July 3, 1963, in Clovis, New Mexico. She loved sports and her family. The home and kids were her main priority throughout her life. Prior to moving to Amarillo in July 2009, Mrs. Huffman had lived in El Paso for 30 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her first husband Maurice Alton Hart in September 1961.
She is survived by her husband, Coleman “Colie” Huffman, Jr., of Amarillo; two sons, Phil Hart and wife Pamela of Dallas, Paul Hart of Midland; one daughter, Penny Hart of Amarillo; a brother, John “Bud” Ryan of Wichita Falls; two sisters, Rue Zell Hillis of Clarendon and Kathleen Mickelson of San Antonio; four grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.
The family request memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society.
Sign our online guest book at www.RobertsonFuneral.com
Randy Allen Tolbert
Randy Allen Tolbert, 43, died, Saturday, January 28, 2012, in Wheeler County.
Services were held at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 31, 2012, in the First Baptist Church in Clarendon with Rev. R.W. “Bobby“ Ellerbrook and Rev. Carl Cox officiating. Burial followed at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Mr. Tolbert was born August 19, 1968, in Amarillo to William and Verna Lockeby Tolbert. He married Vicky Ann Holman on September 23, 1992, in Clarendon. He was a devoted worker at K&C Services and loved his job. He also loved horses and loved his family dearly.
He was preceded in death by his father.
He is survived by his wife, Vicky Tolbert of McLean; his mother, Verna Lewis of Panhandle; his stepmother, Brenda Tolbert of Amarillo; three daughters, Kristen Archer of Amarillo, Kimberly Johnson of Howardwick, and Kirsten Tolbert of Clarendon; two sisters, Suzie Tolbert of Amarillo and Kristy Glenn of Lubbock; four grandchildren and one on the way; and a special aunt and uncle, Huey and Sheila Lockeby.
The family request memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society or Citizens Cemetery Association.
Sign our online guest book at www.RobertsonFuneral.com
Brody Micheal Lockeby
Brody Micheal Lockeby, 25, died, Saturday, January 28, 2012, in Wheeler County.
Services will be held 5:00 p.m. Thursday, February 2, 2012, in the First Assembly of God in Clarendon with Rev. Matthew Stidham, pastor, officiating. Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Mr. Lockeby was born May 11, 1986, in Memphis to Huey and Sheila Vernon Lockeby. He married Gabrielle “Gabby” Perales on August 7, 2010, in Crowley. He had been a longtime resident of Crowley before moving to McLean several months ago. At the time of death, he was a driver for K&C Services of Shamrock. He loved riding Harley Davidson motorcycles and loved working on his truck. He was tender hearted and had a contagious smile.
He was survived by his father and mother, Huey and Sheila Lockeby of Crowley; his wife, Gabby Lockeby of Clarendon; two sisters, Chrissy Wisener of Slaton and Jodie Lockeby-Landers and husband Steven of Crowley; and many other friends and family that loved him and will be missed dearly.
The family request memorials be sent to a favorite charity.
Sign our online guest book at www.RobertsonFuneral.com.
Hedley man dies in train collision
A Hedley man lost his life Wednesday afternoon, January 25, when the Donley County maintainer he was driving was struck by a train.
Randy Gene Woodard was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Denise Bertrand, according to information from Department of Public Safety Trooper Daniel Hawthorne.
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Woodard, age 51, was southbound on County Road 23 when a westbound Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train struck the left rear of the maintainer at about 2:29 p.m. Hawthorne said the impact caused Woodard to be ejected from the maintainer.
Donley County Sheriff Butch Blackburn said it appeared Woodard was grading CR 23 north of the railway and had picked up his blade to cross the tracks.
“You come up there at an angle, and it appears that he just made a fatal error,” Blackburn said.
The maintainer was dragged between one-quarter and one-half mile before the train was able to stop, the sheriff said.
Woodard had been employed as a Precinct 3 road hand since November of last year, the county said.
Funeral services for are under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors. A date for those services had not be set at the time of this posting.
Reader Opinion: CISD tech building ate our lunch
As a parent with children enrolled in our school district, I like many other parents have overlooked the hardships we truly face here in small Clarendon. The situation was not brought to my attention until basketball season rolled out the red carpet. I was appalled to find out that our athletic students were sitting on our buses eating sandwiches after out of town games. This is all grades 7th through varsity. The original problem I have is in November of 2011 the budget cut was around eight percent, but now the school website is approximately seven percent. That’s a big gap when you’re dealing with the details here, folks. So here are my nuts and bolts about this year’s budget cuts.
We are spending outstanding amount of money on rubbish. I want to point out that since we got these new computers that our student’s grades have dropped immensely. Why was that new technology building built when we had computer labs available for every campus? The computers purchased for students and teachers are nothing more than a Facebook and music frenzy in and out of school. The technology building attempts to block these sites, but guess what? It is not effective so I get to pay $40 per child to the school so my children can have a personal computer to carry around to play games on and we still have to buy BOOKS. These computers double the teachers work and take away learning time. So in all, with the budget cuts and the amazing sandwiches our athletes eat that are highly nutritious and embarrassing at the same time, we have no worries about logging on to Facebook or downloading the new hot songs. Our students can’t eat out, but every team we have played feeds their students.
The budget cuts affected all areas except central administration, and this could be due to our snappy new state of the art technology headquarters. While I am pointing out many facts here, I want to say the next time we go over budgets, as a parent, I want to be informed of the seriousness so I can get some parents together and start the fiscal year’s fund for all UIL students. As a parent, when I read the published budget I am seeing a lot of cuts – except for the central administration inflation. What a curious thing. The technology building and computers ate our lunch… literally.
If more budget cuts arise, the technology will not matter because we will be using candles.
The second financial fallacy I would like to shed some light on is the request for the iPads for city administration. I’m not sure which one I prefer to lean into here, the sandwiches or the ability to have numerous applications at your finger tips when who you need to speak with has a cell phone. I have been very humored at the small city vs. county trash wars because of the financial situation of our city. I have also enjoyed the pothole and brown water complaints, but I believe personally this iPad request topped the cake. Our trash water and sewer fees rise continually, and we obviously do not have money for luxuries. I thought to myself: “We can’t even feed dogs we catch, how are we going to WiFi our city to success?” Thank God our aldermen are aware of this.
Shanna Herndon,
Clarendon
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