Beckham Co. - Obit for Bessie E. Yeary Megee Giddens

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   Bessie E. Yeary Megee Giddens
   ALLISON - Bessie E. Yeary Megee Giddens, 85, died Thursday, Sept. 16,
   1999.
   
   Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in First Baptist Church in Allison
   with the Rev. Bob Meller, pastor, Andy Taylor and Mike Dyer, both of
   Sayer, Okla., officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by
   Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.
   
   Mrs. Giddens was born in Lake Victor and moved to Morton after the
   death of her father. She moved to Wheeler from the Amarillo area in
   1933 then to Allison in 1942. In addition to farming, she wrote poems,
   children's stories and religious songs. She was a member of First
   Baptist Church in Allison.
   
   Her first marriage was to John B. Megee in 1929 at Clovis, N.M. He
   died in 1964. She married Carl A. Giddens in 1976. She was preceded in
   death by her husband in 1986 and a daughter, Bessie Mae Megee, in
   1932.
   
   Survivors include a son, G.W. Megee of Placerville, Calif.; three
   daughters, Lavesta Barber and Arlene Scheller, both of Amarillo, and
   Fae Davis of Elk City, Okla.; two stepdaughters, Patsy Stinnett of
   Buena Vista, Colo., and Phyllis Hefley of Briscoe; a brother, Carl W.
   Yeary of Von Ormy; 18 grandchildren; 30 greatgrandchildren; and a
   great-great-granddaughter.
   
   The family suggests memorials be to Crown of Texas Hospice, 1000 S.
   Jefferson, Amarillo, TX 79101.