Obit of Cook, Lahoma June Russell - Kay County, Oklahoma

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Lahoma June Russell Cook

Lahoma June Russell Cook, 79, of Amarillo died Monday, Sept. 8, 2003.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in First Baptist Church with the 
Rev. Lynn Garrett, minister to senior adults, officiating. Burial 
will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum by Boxwell Brothers Funeral 
Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.

Mrs. Cook was born in Tonkawa, Okla., to R.C. and Vera Russell. After 
graduating from White Deer High School she attended Fleming Business 
College in Amarillo and worked at Pampa Army Air Base during World 
War II.

In her working career, Lahoma stood out. She ordered cooking supplies 
for the kitchen and commissary, "all by pencil and paper, we didn't 
have computers in those days."

She was supervisor of the IBM Department for Commerical Insurance Co. 
in the 1960s. Later, she became supervisor of the new IBM Department 
for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Albuquerque, N.M., during the 
1970s.

Lahoma served as church secretary for River Road Baptist Church in 
Amarillo and South Crest Baptist Church in Lubbock. She returned to 
Amarillo in the 1980s where she continued to live.

She was a member of First Baptist Church. She loved to cook. Many 
people in the singles and couples classes at her church enjoyed the 
fruits of her talent. Her pecan pies and cinnamon rolls are famous in 
Texas and New Mexico.

She was a kind, loving, generous, fiercely independent woman. She 
loved her family and friends and was very loyal to them. Her 
Christian values were reflected in advocacy for any and all persons 
in need of help.

She was honored for her work by being named a "Good Neighbor" by the 
Amarillo Extra in 1990. She was also awarded the Distinguished Member 
award by First Baptist Church in Albuquerque.

She was preceded in death by three husbands, B. Doyle Bagwell, Bill 
Sartor and W.W. Cook.

Survivors include a son, Paul Bagwell and wife, Dr. Beth Bagwell, of 
Amarillo; a daughter, K. Carol Hamilton and husband, Doyle, of Elgin; 
a sister, Imogene Russell of Los Lunas, N.M.; three brothers, Rex 
Russell of Odessa, Jim Russell of El Paso and Roscoe Russell of Los 
Lunas; grandchildren, Doyle Tillman and wife, Theresa, of Lakewood, 
Wash., Jeanne Borchardt and husband, David, of Marion, Dr. Paul W. 
Bagwell Jr. and wife, Melissa, of Las Vegas, N.M., Jason Bagwell and 
wife, Meredith, of Pampa, Kimberly Peet and husband, Tracy, of Pampa, 
Justin Bagwell, Kelli Bagwell and Zane Pratt, all of Amarillo, and 
Cassie Hicks of Odessa; great-grandchildren, Neil and Jeff Riggen, 
Jennifer and Phillip Tillman, Derek and Jessica Bitner, Megan and 
Heather Borchardt and Jackson Bagwell; and a great-great-grandchild, 
Jayden Riggen.

The family will be at 4201 Roxton.

The family suggests memorials be to First Baptist Church Music 
Department, 13th and Tyler, Amarillo, TX 79101; or to Craig Methodist 
Retirement Center, 5509 W. Ninth, Amarillo, TX 79106.

Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 11, 2003
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