Beckham Co. - Obit for Juanita Sparkman Tucker Harmon Brown, 2006 Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ Juanita Sparkman Tucker Harmon Brown SHAMROCK - Juanita Sparkman Tucker Harmon Brown, 81, died Monday, Feb. 27, 2006, in Amarillo. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Mike Martin, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Shamrock Cemetery by Wright Funeral Directors. Juanita, the eldest daughter of Lonnie Herbert Sparkman and Lela H. Miller, was born April 13, 1924, on her grandfather's farm near Samnorwood, Collingsworth County. She was reared in the Plymouth, Dozier and Samnorwood communities in Collingsworth County, mostly on the farm of her grandparents, Wesley S. and Dora Alice Stephens Sparkman, with her parents, grandparents and siblings. After Dora's death, Wesley married Mrs. Lovie Banks. Juanita attended Prairie View and Samnorwood schools. Juanita and her first husband, Clarence Reed Tucker, son of Lloyd M. Tucker and Susie A. Reed, married on Aug. 19, 1939, in Sayre, Beckham County, Okla., and born to their union were three children. Clarence died on Aug. 17, 1946, in Wellington. Juanita married Lon B. Harmon, son of Oran F. Harmon and Carrie Ingram, in 1947 in Shamrock; no children to their union. Juanita and Lon moved from Shamrock to Elk City, Okla., for a year and to Amarillo in 1948. Lon died in Amarillo in 1990. Juanita married James Paul Brown in Amarillo in late 1990 and he died in Amarillo in 1998. After Juanita and Lon reared the three children from her first marriage to Clarence Reed Tucker, Juanita and Lon left Amarillo and returned to Shamrock. Juanita worked for Furr's Super Markets in Amarillo and was a dispatcher for Shamrock Police Department. Juanita is a member of First Baptist Church in Shamrock. Juanita enjoyed family, friends, quilting and traveling. She was also preceded in death by three sisters, Doris Oleta Kinnikin of Shamrock, Morine Ovell Warmack Stafford Carney of Amarillo and Lela Patricia Johnson Keys of Shamrock; three brothers, Lonnie Sparkman Jr. of Norman, Okla., Leon Earl Sparkman of Orlando, Fla., and Hubert Lee Sparkman of Samnorwood; two nephews, Rex Alan Kinnikin of Shamrock and Wesley Wallace Sparkman of Orlando; and a grandmother, Ethel G. Rowan Miller Musick. Survivors include three children, Clifton R. Tucker and wife Alice of Amarillo, Anita Poole and husband James R. of Forney and Mary Stovall and husband Harry of Shamrock; a brother, John Wesley Sparkman of Michigan; a sister, Mrs. D.W. (Mary) Rankins of Shamrock; an aunt, Emma Beth Musick Hall Cypert of Las Vegas; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; 15 nieces and nephews; many great-nieces and great- nephews; devoted extended family, Frances Gardner of Amarillo; and her dear friends. Juanita Sparkman Tucker Harmon Brown said, "Each member of my very large family is special, including my brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law from all my marriages and all a Blessing from above." The family suggests memorials be to Southwest Hospice of Amarillo, 1500 Coulter St., Ste. No. 3, Amarillo, TX 79106.