OBIT: Chaffee County, COlorado - Rev. George W. Fyke http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/chaffee/obits/fyke.txt Submitted by David W. Morgan ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** The Rev. George W. Fyke, 68, of Amarillo, died Tuesday, Feb 28, 1995. Services will be at 4 p.m. Thursday in Bell Avenue Chapel of Schooler-Gordon * Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors, 5400 Bell St, with Dr. Stan Coffey, pastor of San Jacinto Baptist Church, and the Rev. Richard Higley, co-pastor of Southeast Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. The Rev. Fyke was born in Buena Vista, Colo. He graduated from Shawnee High School in Shawnee, Okla., in 1944. He was a veteran, serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II and also serving in the Korean War. He married Leta Barber in 1946 at Shawnee. He graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee in 1954 and received his master's degree in religious education from Southwestern Theological Seminary at Fort Worth. He served as the minister of education and music at Highland Baptist Church in Waco, at Faith Baptist Church in Wichita Falls and at First Baptist Church in Dalhart. The Rev. Fyke moved to Amarillo in 1975 from Wichita Falls and served as minister of education and music at Tascosa Baptist Church. He was camp manager for High Plains Baptist Assembly and then worked for Amarillo National Bank. He retired in 1989. He was a member of San Jacinto Baptist Church, the American Legion and the Kiwanis Club in Canyon. Survivors include his wife; two sons, Paul Fyke of Amarillo and Alan Fyke of Cibolo; two daughters, Terri Morris of Temple and Jan Childs of Wichita Falls; three sisters, Jane Irby of Kennewick, Wash., Mervyn Engel of Noxon, Mont., June Barber of Modesto, Calif.; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials be to American Heart Association, 2404 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, Texas 79106.