Obit of Trammell, Virgil C. (t654) - Grady County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 13 Oct 2004 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Virgil C. Trammell Virgil C. Trammell, 72, of Amarillo, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors Bell Avenue Chapel, 5400 Bell St., with the Rev. Sherman Eastland, chaplain of Northwest Texas Hospital, officiating. Burial will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Mr. Trammell was born in Oklahoma in the Rocky Ford community. During World War II, he served in the Army and was discharged in 1945. He was a farm and ranch worker in the Texas Panhandle for about 30 years and later worked in the oil fields of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. In 1983, he started his own business, Trammell Concession, selling food / refreshments at carnivals and fairs. He married Lillian Brown in 1956 at Wildorado. She died in 1994. He also was preceded in death by a stepson, Bill Shelton, in 1985. Survivors include a son, Ricky C. Trammell of Amarillo; a stepdaughter, Ann Embry of League City; a stepson, C.D. Shelton of New Braunfels; three sisters, Betty Jo Gann of Edmond, Okla., Juanita Moriss of Huntsville, Ala., and Mitzie Ford of Lawton, Okla.; two brothers, Arnold Trammell of Wynnewood, Okla. and M.J. Trammell of Moore, Okla.; 12 grandchildren; and 11 greatgrandchildren. The family requests memorial be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, Texas 79176-001. The family will be at 4017 S. Ong St. Amarillo Globe-News, February 17, 1997 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html