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Kathryn McFarland Stowe

Kathryn McFarland Stowe, 82, of Amarillo died Saturday, April 6, 2002.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church Sanctuary with Dr.
Howard K. Batson officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery by
Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St.

Mrs. Stowe had resided in Amarillo since 1977. She was born in Hugo, Okla.,
on Oct. 30, 1919, and later moved to the Rio Grande Valley where her family
had citrus farms.

In 1937 she married Andrew Warren Stowe and moved with him to Waco
where he was enrolled in ministerial studies at Baylor University. She also
attended Baylor University.

She was an active worker with her husband in Baptist churches in Big Spring
and Brownfield as well as Raton, N.M., Guymon, Okla., and Canon City,
Colo. After her husband's retirement from full-time pastorate in 1977, she
served for two decades as a Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church in
Amarillo where she also helped establish the Laotian and Vietnamese ministry.
In addition, she worked alongside her husband during his interim pastorate at
Washburn Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Stowe Galloway, in 1988.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Caroline Stowe Chamblin; five
grandchildren, Andrew Chamblin of Los Alamos, N.M., Jonathan Chamblin of
Albuquerque, N.M., Rhonda Galloway Boyce of Austin, Kimberly Galloway
Holston and Mark Galloway, both of Amarillo; and four great-grandchildren,
Jaron Loera, Bailey Boyce, Madison Jonas and Spencer Jonas.

The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice; or the Women's Health
Research Institute at Texas Tech Medical Center.

Amarillo Globe-News, April 7, 2002