Beckham Co. - Obit for Otis Jackson Sanders Jr., 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 ************************************************ Otis Jackson Sanders Jr. WEATHERFORD, OKLA. - Otis Jackson Sanders Jr., 75, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006, in Benton, Ark. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Lynn Brack officiating. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery in Elk City, Okla., by Lockstone Funeral Home of Weatherford. Mr. Sanders was born June 20, 1931, in Rankin to Otis Jackson and Daisy Marcella Bates Sanders. He retired from education after 38 years, three years in public education at Jet and Amarillo, Texas, high schools, and 35 years in higher education, teaching and coaching. Survivors include his wife, Adelia Beth Sanders; a daughter, Viki Lynn Richardson of Guymon; a son, Jack Sanders of Mustang; eight grandchildren; and a sister, Shirley Jacobs of Riverside, Calif. The family suggests memorials be to the Panhandle State University 1961 Football Scholarship Fund or First United Methodist Church Scholarship Fund.