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   Lee Roy Hartwell
   
   Services  will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in N.S. Griggs and Sons Funeral
   Directors  Pioneer  Chapel,  2615 Paramount Blvd., with Bret McCasland
   officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Mausoleum Chapel.
   
   Mr.  Hartwell  was  born  in Bennington, Okla., and was raised in Hall
   County.  He  served  in  the Army during World War II, from 1943 until
   1946 in the Army Corps of Engineers 73rd Combat Division. He fought in
   many  battles  including  the Battle of the Bulge with Gen. Patton. He
   served  from  1946  to  1948 in Japan and was recalled to serve in the
   Korean conflict.
   
   He married Opal Webb on Aug. 15, 1958, at Portales, N.M. In the 1950s,
   he  worked  in  the  oil  fields  in Texas and New Mexico. He moved to
   Amarillo and owned and operated an appliance repair business.
   
   He  worked for Great Western Distributors for 27 years before retiring
   as  warehouse  manager  in  1987.  He  was a member of Texas Panhandle
   Chapter  of  Model  A  Ford  Club  as  well as a member of Veterans of
   Foreign Wars. He was a member of the Church of Christ.
   
   He  was  preceded  in  death  by a brother, G.W. Hartwell, who died in
   France during World War II.
   
   Survivors  include his wife; a brother, James Hartwell and wife, Noni,
   of   Amarillo;  a  sister,  Arletta  Cobb  and  husband,  Phillip,  of
   Wellington; and many nieces and nephews.
   
   The family suggests memorials be to American Cancer Society, 3915 Bell
   St., Amarillo, TX 79109.
   
   Amarillo Globe-News, Dec. 11, 2001
   
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