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Obit for Marion Tidwell

Marion Tidwell

DIMMITT - Marion "Buster" Tidwell, 79, died Friday, July 26, 2002.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Howard
Rhodes officiating. Burial will be at 1:15 p.m. in Castro Memorial Gardens by
Foskey-Lilley-McGill Funeral Home.

Mr. Tidwell was born Dec. 28, 1922, in Haskell. He married Maxine Winters
on Oct. 5, 1946, in Littlefield. He grew up in Beula and graduated from Beula
High School in 1941.

He joined the Army Air Corps and served in the South Pacific. He was part of
the first wave that went in to occupy Japan. After serving his country, he
returned and farmed for 12 years.

He then began to work in agriculture aviation. He retired in 1994. He was a
member of the First Baptist Church and was a lifetime member of the VFW.
He served on the Dimmitt Chamber of Commerce and many other civic
boards.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Rhoda Wise and husband, Gary, of
Frisco; two brothers, G.W. Tidwell of Ureka, Calif., and Carl Tidwell of Loop;
four sisters, Mary Harmon of Rocklin, Calif., Betty Sanders of Hart, June Elliot
of Rosenberg and Glenda Miller of Lubbock; and four granddaughters, Holly
Davis and husband, Chad, of Dimmitt, Heather Wise of Lubbock and Hayli
Wise and Hanna Wise, both of Frisco.

The family suggests memorials be to First Baptist Church of Dimmitt or
Hospice Cares of Dimmitt.

Amarillo Globe-News, July 28, 2002