Beckham Co. - Obit for Royce Cantrell 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 ************************************************ Royce Cantrell SHAMROCK - Royce "Bill" Cantrell, 77, died Thursday, May 14, 1998. Services will be at 2 p.m todayin First United Methodist Church with the Rev. John Dorn, pastor, and the Rev. Joe G. Jerigan, pastor of Calvary Christian Fellowship Church, officiating. Burial will be in Shamrock Cemetery by Wright Funeral Directors of Shamrock. Mr. Cantrell was born and raised in Shamrock. He served on the Shamrock school board for many years and on the board of trustees at the First National Bank in Trust in Shamrock. He was a member of the Rotary Club, the Masonic Lodge, where he was a 32nd Degree Mason, and a lifelong member of First United Methodist Church. He married Violette Parrish in 1942 at Shamrock. Survivors include his wife; two sons, R. Michael Cantrell of Oklahoma City and W. Patrick Cantrell of Houston; two daughters, Mollie Davis of Southlake and Kathie Rushing of Lubbock; a brother, C.G. Cantrell of Palm Springs, Calif.; a sister, Ruth Dugger of Elk City, Okla.; 12 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. The family requests memorials be to First United Methodist Church.