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Wildfire burns 300+ acres
- Clarendon fireman Ryan Hill sprays a hot spot last Thursday as part of the effort to extinguish a blaze north of Hedley off FM 2944. Enterprise Photo / Kari Lindsey
A wildfire north of Hedley consumed more than 300 acres last Thursday and Saturday, highlighting the need for caution as drought conditions continue.
Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Jeremy Powell said people need to be extremely careful and also said last week’s blaze threatened three structures – two barns and one house.
The fire began after 5 p.m. last Thursday, May 19, near FM 2944 and State Hwy. 203, and Powell said wind knocking a power line into tree limbs is believed to have started the blaze.
Hedley and Clarendon volunteer firemen worked until after midnight to get the blaze under control but not before it burned about 40 acres.
The fire re-ignited Saturday before noon and was brought back under control at about 2:30, but it caught fire again about 4 p.m. and jumped FM 2944 and burned northeast toward County Road 32.
Hedley fireman Leon Ward said the wind blew the fire through thick brush making it hard to get to with fire trucks and other equipment.
Assistance was called in from neighboring fire departments as well as from state and federal resources, and the fire was extinguished after 11 p.m.
The following fire departments helped with the fire on Saturday: Hedley, Clarendon, Briscoe, Wellington, Kelton, Allison, Wheeler, Mobeetie, and Samnorwood.
Also helping were Donley County maintainers and the US and Texas forest services. Air tankers and a helicoper were brought in to assist the local effort, Powell said.
Hedley names top graduates
Hedley High School has announced Reid Copelin and Kaylee Shields as the top students for the Class of 2011.
Copelin is the son of Ernie and Tangela Copelin and has a grade point average of 96.596. He played football, basketball, cross country, tennis, track, and golf during his time at HHS. Reid qualified for regionals in tennis and track his junior and senior years.
He was also first team all region basketball his junior year. He was very active in the FFA showing pigs, placing in several major shows. He was also president of the National Honor Society, and he competed in UIL science, qualifying for state his sophomore year.
Copelin was named the Donley County Young Man of the Year by the Clarendon Chamber of Commerce. He plans to attend WTAMU and major in biology.
Shields is daughter of Keenan and Sandra Shields and has a grade point average of 92.319. She played basketball for four years at HHS. During that time, she was awarded All-District her sophomore year and All-Region her junior year. She was also named Offensive M.V.P. She played tennis for three years and advanced to Regionals her junior and senior year. She advanced to regionals in cross country three years out of the four she ran
Shields is vice president of her senior class and also of NHS. During her senior year, she was named the Hedley Lions Club Sweetheart and was also the Donley County Young Woman of the Year. She plans on attending Clarendon College to major in Dentistry.
Copelin and Shields will be recognized during commencement services at Hedley on Friday, June 3, at 6:30 p.m.
Hedley ISD has also named Kati Adams and Madalyn Verstuyft as the school’s eighth grade valedictorian and salutatorian. Adams has an average of 97.167, and Verstuyft’s average is 95.75. The girls will be recognized during a service at the school on June 2 at 6 p.m.
Last month, Clarendon High School named Dominique Brady and Maegan Hysinger as its valedictorian and salutatorian for 2011. CHS commencement will be this Friday, May 27, at the Clarendon College Harned Sisters Fine Arts Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Margaret Ann Pettit
Margaret Ann Pettit, 84, died Tuesday, May 17, 2011, in Amarillo.
Services were held Friday, May 20, 2011, in Community Fellowship Church in Clarendon with Rev. Anthony Knowles, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Estelline, officiating. Interment was held at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon with Order of the Eastern Star Rites by Clarendon Order of the Eastern Star Chapter #6. Arrangements were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Margaret was born January 29, 1927, in Taylor, Texas, the eldest of four children born to the late Albert Emil & Maude Edna Tate Carlson. Margaret is also well known as Me Maw of Clarendon, Donley County. She married Clarence Irving “Peck“ Pettit on April 23, 1949, in Round Rock. Mrs. Pettit worked for Bell Telephone Company in Amarillo for many years. Margaret served as a Cub Scout leader for three years and Girl Scout leader for six years in Amarillo.
They retired and moved to Howardwick in 1980 where they continued to rear their granddaughter, Larinda Pettit Brown and were very active in both the Howardwick and Clarendon communities. She was a member of the Community Fellowship Church in Clarendon. Both Peck and Margaret served on the Board of Directors of the Panhandle Ski Club in the 1950s.
She served three years as Alderman and three years as Mayor of Howardwick. She was a very active member of the Rebekah Lodge beginning in 1983 having served as Noble Grand five times and held many, many offices. She was a member of Clarendon Order of the Eastern Star Chapter # 6 since 1985 and served in many offices including Worthy Matron four years and Worthy Patron with Peck two years and two years with Billy Powell. She also served on the Donley County Appraisal District Review Board for nine years.
Margaret was awarded Donley County Pioneer Woman of the Year by the Clarendon/Donley County Chamber of Commerce in 2007. In January 2010 after suffering a massive stroke and heart attack, Mrs. Pettit resided in Amarillo with her son and daughter in law, since that time. She was truly loved by all and will be greatly missed.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on June 23, 2005; two brothers; and a sister.
Survivors include her son, Larry Albert Pettit and wife Phyllis of Amarillo; her three grandchildren, Larinda Pettit Brown of Clarendon, Timothy Pettit of Tyler, and Marteka Pettit of Clovis, New Mexico; five great-grandchildren, Audrey Jones, Hadley Jones, Shaydee Brown, Erin Pettit, and Emma Pettit.
The family suggest memorials be to a favorite charity.
Sign our online guest book at www.RobertsonFuneral.com.
Amanda Sue Strange
Amanda Sue Strange, 70, died Sunday, May 22, 2011, in Amarillo.
Services were held Thursday, May 26, in First Baptist Church in Claude with Rev. Delbert Serratt & Rev. Jim Brown, officiating. A Private Family Burial was held in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon prior to services. Arrangements were under the direction of Robertson Armstrong Chapel of Claude.
Sue was born June 3, 1940, in Childress, Texas, to W.M. and Norma Lorance Corgill. She married Charles Dwain “Bud” Strange on February 3, 1962, in Tulia. She had been a resident of Claude since 1968 and was an active and devoted member of the First Baptist Church in Claude. Her life centered around family. She nurtured and guided them with faith and love. She adored and cherished her grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, W.L. Corgill; and a sister, Louise
Hood.
Survivors include her husband, Bud of Claude; a son, Bryan Strange of Amarillo; two daughters, Karen Latta and husband Tommy of Amarillo and Connie Wood and husband Lance of Clarendon; three grandchildren, Courtney, Cody and Colt Wood; three brothers, Ray Corgill of Tulsa, OK, Eugene Corgill and wife Sharon of Midland, Jerry Corgill and wife Mary of Levelland; twenty nieces and nephews and many extended family and friends.
The family suggest memorials be to the Olivia‘s Angels c/o BSA Hospice in Amarillo or First Baptist Church in Claude.
Bronnie Frank McNabb, Jr.
Bronnie Frank McNabb, Jr., Vice President and Chief Development Officer for Claremont School of Theology, in Claremont, California, died peacefully at Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Immediate members of his family were at his bedside continually before his death.
He was born in Corsicana, Texas on August 3, 1951, and is the son of Bronnie F. and JoAnn Nagy McNabb. He graduated from Coriscana High School in 1969 and attended Baylor University where he received a BS from Hankamer School of Business. He holds a graduate degree from Southern Methodist University Graduate School of Banking as well as a Master of Divinity degree from Duke University.
He was employed by First Bank and Trust in Clarendon, Texas for eighteen years, where he served as President and Chairman for eleven years.
He sat on numerous boards, including The Texas Bankers Association, The American Bankers Association, The Don and Cybil Harrington Cancer Center in Amarillo, Texas, and The Federal Reserve. He was also a member of the First United Methodist Church of Clarendon, where he served in many leadership capacities.
After obtaining his degree in Theology, he was ordained into the Methodist Ministry in the Western North Carolina Conference in 1997 and served as President of the United Methodist Foundation of Western North Carolina in Charlotte, North Carolina before acting as the Vice President and Chief Development Officer for Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California for the last nine years. Bronnie was an avid runner and reader and an active and devoted member of the United Methodist Church. His generosity and wisdom touched so many lives and his sense of humor and magnetic
personality will be truly missed by all who knew him.
He was preceded in death by his father, Bronnie Frank McNabb, Sr. and survived by Anna Beth Simmons McNabb; daughter, Margaret Anna McNabb; son, James Madison McNabb, all of Charlotte, North Carolina; mother, JoAnn Nagy McNabb, of Corsicana and Midland, Texas; sister, Nancy McNabb Graf of Vernon, Texas; and nephews, John Kenneth Graf of Dallas, Texas and Christopher McNabb Graf of Houston, Texas. He is also survived by Linda and Autry Stephens, and Joe and Lou Nagy of Midland, Texas, and Billy McNabb of Corsicana.
Mr. McNabb fought a courageous battle against glioblastoma multi-form, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, for over three years before the disease eventually took his life.
He received treatment at Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA where he participated in several clinical trials before finding one drug that he responded well to, Avastin. Bronnie was a key contributor in Avastin’s approval for brain cancer treatment by the FDA and in the last years of his life he worked to promote research for treatment of brain cancer so others diagnosed with this disease could benefit from successful treatment options. Memorial contributions can be made to UCLA Neuro Cancer Center, Glioblastoma Cancer Research Fund, attention: Timothy Cloughesy, MD, Los Angeles, California.
Memorial contributions may also be made to the Bronnie F. McNabb, Jr. Theological Library Collection at First United Methodist Church, Clarendon, Texas, The Building Fund of First Baptist Church, Corsicana, Texas, or The Scholarship Fund of Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California.
Memorial Services were held at First United Methodist Church of Corsicana on Saturday, May 21, with Rev. Terry Tamplen, Rev. B.F. Risinger, Jr. and Rev. Danny Reeves officiating. Burial was held at Dresden Cemetery on Saturday.
An online guestbook is available at www.corleyfuneralhome.com by selecting the Bronnie McNabb, Jr. obituary.
Make a run for it
Gaines brings home silver medals
Gaines qualified for the State Track Meet in Austin last weekend in three events, and even though Gaines missed out on the gold, by a combined two and three-fourths inches in the two events, his performance in the meet was stellar.
Gaines jumped to two silver medals and ran for a seventh-place finish in the 300-meter
hurdles.
Gaines jumped a distance of 22’2 ¾” in the long jump for second place, which was only three-fourths of an inch behind the gold medalist.
He then put together a fantastic leap in the triple jump at 45’4” to tie the longest distance at the meet in class 1A. Because of the tie, the winner was determined on the young men’s second longest mark and Gaines fell short again, and this time it was two
inches.
“Forty-five feet four inches was his personal best,” coach Johnny Nino said. “And achieved that jump on his last jump in the finals. He tied for first, but his next jump of 45’1” was less than the other jumper.”
Gaines ran a time of 40:33 in the 300-meter hurdles for a seventh-place finish. The winner of that race ran the distance in a time of 38.37.
“This was Johnny’s third trip to Austin, which is quite an accomplishment,” Nino said. “This year he received his first two medals. I was proud of the way he
competed. Johnny has always represented himself and Clarendon very well. This year was no different. I was very happy for him to finally get a medal at the state meet and I will surely miss his competitive spirit and leadership.”
The Lady Bronco 800-meter relay also competed in the state meet and finished the race in a time of 1:48.85, which was good enough for 8th place. The 1A team from Snook won the gold at a time of 1:43.28. Members of the relay are Amber Keelin, Sarah Luttrell, Marqueda Gaines, and Glory Bryley. Coach Alton Gaines was pleased with the ladies’ performance at the state level.
“The state meet was a real reward on the year for coaches and girls,” Gaines said. “They really worked hard this year to get to that point in the season. I am so honored to be their coach. They put another clip on my highlight reel. Ladies, thank you.”
Gaines knows the girls that ran at state are young and the experience they gained in Austin was huge.
“The meet was pretty intimidating,” Gaines said. “They were able to see what it is going to take to get back to the state meet next year and the hard work they are going to have to invest in, in order to run with that type of competition. They ran really well and we got the experience we needed to repeat next year. Again, thanks for a heck of a year ladies.”
Lonnie Robinson
Lonnie Robinson, age 76, died Monday, May 16, 2011, in Amarillo.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. today, May 19, 2011, in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon with Rev. Darrell Burton, officiating. Interment will be in Citizens Cemetery with US Navy Honors. Arrangements will be by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Lonnie was born September 9, 1934, in Franklin Furnace, Ohio, to Homer and Sophronia Daniel Robinson.
He married Elva Mitchell on October 24, 1959, in Amarillo. He was a US Navy veteran for four years where he was a firefighter. He had been a resident of Amarillo where he worked with the Amarillo Fire Department for seven years and with Owens Corning for several years prior to his retirement.
He had been a resident of Clarendon since 1990. He enjoyed fishing, bowling, watching basketball, loved to ride horses, tell stories and make people laugh. He attended the Martin Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Larry Robinson and Leroy Robinson; and a grandson, Bryan McFarland.
Survivors include his wife, Elva Robinson of Clarendon; two sons, Lonnie Robinson and wife Dawn of Helena, Montana, and David Robinson of Houston; two daughters, Deana Allen and husband Foy of Raceland, Kentucky and Chandra Larance and husband Ron of Amarillo; two sisters, Janet Brammer and Gladys Lewis; 12 grandchildren; four great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will be at 718 South Goodnight in Clarendon, and they request that memorials be sent to American Cancer Society.
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