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::Castro Memorial Gardens Cemetery--Dimmitt TX

Amarillo Globe News 2 Oct 1997

Faye A. Kenmore

Faye "Mamma Faye'' A. Kenmore, 94, of Amarillo, died Monday, Sept. 
29, 1997.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church at 
Dimmitt with Dr. George Ray officiating. Burial will be in Castro 
Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Dimmitt by Schooler-Gordon Funeral 
Directors, 5400 Bell St.

Mrs. Kenmore was born in Gould, Okla. She graduated from Hollis, 
Okla., High School and received her teaching certificate from 
Weatherford College at Weatherford, Okla.

She married Ferron Harvel Kenmore in 1921. He died in 1940.

Mrs. Kenmore taught school at Prairie Hill and Louis Hill, Okla. She 
and her husband owned and operated a grocery store in Oklahoma before 
moving to Dimmitt in 1933. They also farmed, ran a machine shop and a 
Gulf Oil Service Station and were dealers for Diamond T. trucks, 
Dodge-Plymouth cars and Allis-Chalmers tractors.

After the death of her husband, Mrs. Kenmore owned and operated a 
kindergarten, was a Peggy Newton cosmetics representative, an 
employee of M-System Grocery and an Avon representative.

After serving 20 years as a teller at First State Bank of Dimmitt, 
she retired in 1968. During her retirement, she was a representative 
for Fuller Brush products.

She moved to Amarillo into the Northwest Retirement Village in 1981 
and into the Canyons Retirement Community in 1992.

Mrs. Kenmore served many years as a Pink Lady volunteer at Plains 
Memorial Hospital in Dimmitt and High Plains Baptist Hospital in 
Amarillo. She was active in business and professional women's 
organizations and the Elephant Birthday Club of Dimmitt for many 
years.

She was an active member of First Baptist Church of Dimmitt for 48 
years. She joined Coulter Road Baptist Church after moving to 
Amarillo.

She also was preceded in death by two infant sons and an infant 
daughter.

Survivors include two sons, Herschel Kenmore of Brooks, Alberta, 
Canada, and Hoyt Kenmore of Payson, Ariz.; a daughter, Monnette Ray 
of Rochester, Minn.; a sister, Bernice Hunter of Eldorado, Okla.; 
special friend, Bernice Morris of Amarillo; 11 grandchildren; 19 
great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

The family suggests memorials be to Castro Memorial Gardens c/o Jerry 
Lilly, Foskey Funeral Home, Dimmitt, Texas 79027; or a favorite 
charity.

The family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the 
funeral home.

Visitation will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in 
Dimmitt.
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