Obit of Hawkins, Dene (h252) - Kiowa County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 2 Sep 2004 Return to Kiowa County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kiowa/kiowa.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Dene Hawkins Dene Hawkins, 69, of Amarillo, died Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1999. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in N.S. Griggs & Sons Funeral Directors, Pioneer Chapel, 2615 Paramount Blvd., with the Rev. Terry C. Lowe of St. Stephen United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Hawkins was born in Saddle Mountain, Okla., and moved to Amarillo in his youth. He graduated from Amarillo High School in 1948. He attended Amarillo College and was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin in 1956. He served in the Marines during the Korean War. He married Janene Wrather in 1956. They moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for the National Security Agency. He later worked in wholesale electronic sales in the Amarillo and Dallas-Fort Worth areas. He was a member of St. Stephen United Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife; a son, Russell Hawkins of Amarillo; a daughter, Becky Childers of Perryton; a brother, Roy Hawkins of Amarillo; and three grandsons. The family requests memorials be to Kirkland Court Activity Fund, 1601 Kirkland, Amarillo, TX 79106 or the American Diabetes Association. The family will be at 4813 Gary Lane. Amarillo Daily News 7 Jan 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Kiowa County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kiowa/kiowa.html