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  Amarillo
   
   Homer C. Read
   Homer C. Read, 82, of Amarillo, died Monday, Feb. 7, 2000.
   
   Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Memorial Park Funeral Home Chapel
   of Memories, 6969 E. Interstate 40, with the Rev. Claud Tugwell
   officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
   
   Mr. Read was born in Willow, Okla. During World War II, he served with
   the Army in northern France, the Rhineland, the Ardennes and Central
   Europe. He moved to Amarillo in 1945.
   
   He was a well tender for a petroleum company. He was a member of the
   Silver Streak camping club and Wheels-A-GoGo camping club.
   
   Mr. Read married Koby in 1945 at San Antonio. She died in 1988.
   
   Survivors include a son, Clay Read of Amarillo; three sisters, Thelma
   McLeod and Crystal Lee Read, both of Amarillo, and Ruby Hayden of
   Phoenix; two brothers, Glenn Harris of Amarillo and Eddie Read of
   Ringgold; two grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
   
   The family suggests memorials be to the American Heart Association.
   
   Amarillo Daily News, Feb. 10, 2000