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::Memory Gardens Cemetery--Amarillo TX

Amarillo Globe News 24 Jun 1997

Miles Colbert Sr.

PAMPA - Miles Colbert Sr., 96, died Saturday, June 21, 1997.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Open Door Church of God in 
Christ with the Rev. Hubert Kelly, pastor, and the Rev. Carter Smith 
of Amarillo officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery by 
Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors.

Mr. Colbert was born in Idabel, Okla. He moved to Pampa in 1959 from 
Mangum, Okla.

He married Allene Templeton in 1925 at Idabel. She died in 1995. He 
also was preceded in death by two sons, Aaron Colbert in 1987 and 
John Colbert in 1972.

Mr. Colbert was employed by Palmer Chevrolet in Mangum for many 
years. He was a custodian for Carver School and Coronado Hospital in 
Pampa for several years. He was a member, deacon and superintendent 
of Sunday school at Open Door Church of God in Christ.

Survivors include a son, Miles Colbert Jr. of Amarillo; five 
daughters, Laverne Crenshaw and Ontario Miller, both of San Diego, 
Jewel Adams of Denver, Loretta Watie of Baytown and Helen Stone of 
Pampa; a sister, Johnnie Green of Sacramento, Calif.; 17 
grandchildren; 25 greatgrandchildren; and two great-great-
grandchildren.
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