Obit for Dorman, George Virgil - Oklahoma County OK

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Amarillo Globe News 9 & 10 Aug 1997

George Virgil Dorman

WHEELER - George Virgil "Bus" Dorman, 83, died Thursday, Aug. 7, 1997.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Church of Christ with Bill 
Morrison, minister, and Tommy Seay of Round Rock officiating. Burial will 
be in Shamrock Cemetery at Shamrock by Wright Funeral Home.

Mr. Dorman was born in Wheeler County and had been a lifelong Wheeler 
County resident. He married Myrtle Green in 1933 at Hollis, Okla.

He played semi-pro baseball at Twitty from 1932 to 1933. After moving to 
Oklahoma City in 1934, he took the team from Apache, Okla., to the state 
tournament. He then played at Beaumont and Lake Charles, La., before 
moving to Amarillo.

Mr. Dorman was an original member of the Amarillo Gold Sox professional 
baseball team. He played with them from 1939 to 1941 and played in Mexico 
in 1942. His professional baseball career ended in Little Rock, Ark., in 
1944.

In 1947, he served for one year as the unofficial coach of the Amarillo 
High School baseball team and led the team to the state tournament.

In 1978, Mr. Dorman was inducted into the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame 
and was presented the Special Achievement Award. He was awarded the 
Pioneer Spirit Award by the Wheeler Chamber of Commerce in 1996.

Mr. Dorman moved to Wheeler and was elected as Wheeler County sheriff, 
serving from 1951 until retiring in 1976. He was a founding member of the 
Shamrock Sheriff's Posse and a member of the Texas Sheriff's Association. 
He also was a member of the Wheeler Athletic Booster Club, the Wheeler 
Kiwanis Club and the Shamrock Booster Club.

He was a member of the Church of Christ.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Yolanda Williams of Portales, 
N.M., and Becky Case of Wheeler; a son, Danny Dorman of Wheeler; a sister, 
Viola Carver of Amarillo; four brothers, B.F. Dorman and Jerry Dorman, 
both of Pampa, Charles Dorman of Grand Junction, Colo., and Don Dorman of 
Granbury; nine grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and three great-
great-grandsons.

The family requests memorials be to High Plains Children's Home, Box 7448, 
Amarillo, Texas 79114; the Westview Boys Home, Rt. 2, Box 89, Hollis, 
Okla., 73550; or the Ronald McDonald House, 1501 Streit, Amarillo, Texas 
79106.
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