Beckham County, OK - Obits:  Madeline Grant Gamble Satterwhite, 2003
Tuesday, February 11, 2002

Submitted by:  dmorgan@efn.org  (David Morgan)
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   Madeline Grant Gamble Satterwhite
   
   HIGGINS  -  Madeline Grant Gamble Satterwhite, 97, died Saturday, Feb.
   8, 2003.
   
   Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Higgins Cemetery with
   Shawn  Davis,  minister  of  Panhandle  Church  of  Christ, and Gordan
   Lawson,   minister   of   Higgins   Church   of  Christ,  officiating.
   Arrangements are by Stickley-Hill Funeral Directors of Canadian.
   
   Mrs.  Satterwhite  was  born April 25, 1905, to Lon and Anna Gamble on
   the  family farm in Rogers Mills County near Grimes, Okla. She was the
   oldest of seven children.
   
   She  helped  her parents on the family farm and went to school through
   the  ninth grade. She worked in a general store in Sayre, Okla., where
   she met Carl Satterwhite.
   
   They  were married Dec. 23, 1929, in Sayre and moved with the railroad
   for  two  years  before  moving  to  the  family  farm  in  the Bishop
   Community,  Okla. She worked at the Weis Dry Good Store in Higgins for
   25 years.
   
   She  was  an  active  member  of the Church of Christ in Higgins and a
   member  of  the  Busy  Bee  quilting club for many years. She lived in
   Higgins  from  1985  until  moving  to  the  Abraham  Nursing  Home in
   Canadian.
   
   She   was  preceded  in  death  by  her  husband,  Carl;  a  son,  Lon
   Satterwhite; and a grandson, Gary Satterwhite.
   
   Survivors include a daughter, Margaret Erma Hackett of Amarillo; three
   sons,  James  Satterwhite  and  wife,  Wilma,  of Monument, Colo., Don
   Satterwhite  and  wife, "Tex" of Higgins and Max Satterwhite and wife,
   Vicky,  of  Panhandle;  three  sisters,  Billye  Peterman  of Concord,
   Calif.,  Margaret  Coffer  of  Amherst  and Anna Dean Loe of Vidor; 10
   grandchildren;       14       great-grandchildren;      and      three
   great-great-grandchildren.
   
   The  family suggests memorials be to Abraham Memorial Home, 803 Birch,
   Canadian,  TX  79014;  Westview  Boys  Home,  P.O. Box 553, Hollis, OK
   73550; or to the High Plains Children's Home in Amarillo.
   
   Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 10, 2003
   
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   amarillonet.com:
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