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   Rosie Mae Parkhill
   
   Rosie Mae Parkhill, 85, of Amarillo died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002.
   
   Services  will be at 4 p.m. today in Memorial Park Funeral Home Chapel
   of  Memories,  6969  E. Interstate 40, with Glen Walton of Bell Avenue
   Church  of  Christ  officiating.  Burial  will  be  in  Memorial  Park
   Mausoleum.
   
   Mrs.  Parkhill  was  born  May  3, 1917, in Vernon, the sixth child of
   eight born to W.A. "Bill" and Mary Hester Bailey Phillips. She married
   E.W.  Parkhill  on Dec. 14, 1937, in Vernon. They moved to Amarillo in
   1942.  She  retired  from  Colbert's Harry Holland after many years of
   employment. She was a member of North Amarillo Church of Christ.
   
   She  was  preceded  in  death  by  her husband in 1991; her parents; a
   daughter,  Carolyn  Sue  Parkhill  in 1944; a grandson, Terry Bynum in
   1993; a sister, Sarah McClain; and five brothers, Bob Phillips, George
   Phillips, Clyde Phillips, Claude Phillips and Lloyd Phillips.
   
   Survivors  include  three daughters, Rebecca Gwyn and husband, George,
   and  Mary Ann Bynum, all of Amarillo, and Rose Marie Ware and husband,
   Larry,  of  Granite,  Okla.;  a brother, Floyd Phillips of Victoria; a
   sister-in-law,  Fay  Bennett of Haltom City; two brothers-in-law, L.L.
   McClain   of  Cedar  Hills  and  Lonnie  Parkhill  of  Seagraves;  six
   grandchildren,  Acie  Chamberlain, Marcie Brown, Kim McKibban, Richard
   Bynum,  Everett  Ware  and Clay Ware; two stepgrandchildren, Pam Wiley
   and    Cindy    Littlefield;   12   great-grandchildren;   five   step
   great-grandchildren; and three step great-great-grandchildren.
   
   The  family suggests memorials be to Tipton Children's Home of Tipton,
   Okla.; High Plains Children's Home, P.O. Box 7448, Amarillo, TX 79114;
   or a favorite charity.
   
   Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 15, 2002