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Obit for Billy McCarty 


Billy McCarty: 1923-2002 

Billy McCarty 

DALHART - Billy "Bill" McCarty, 79, died Saturday, April 13, 2002. 

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church with the Rev.
Stephen Lowrie, pastor of the church, and Clifford Dane, minister to senior
adults, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery of Dalhart by
Horizon Funeral Home of Dalhart. 

Mr. McCarty was born Feb. 3, 1923, in Carlton to William T. and Dolive
(Clark) McCarty. They moved to Dalhart that same year. He was a 1941
graduate of Dalhart High School and attended West Texas State University
before entering the Navy. 

After World War II he attended Oklahoma State University and graduated with
a degree in accounting. On Feb. 14, 1945, he married Mary Thomson and in
1949 they moved to Dalhart. He was a member and Deacon Emeritus of the
First Baptist Church and a member of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.
He retired in 1990. 
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He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister; and three brothers. 

Survivors include his wife; a son, Tommy McCarty and wife, Suzi, of Borden,
Ind.; a daughter, Nancy Clayton and husband, Sammy, of Dalhart; a sister,
Grace Stephens of Oklahoma City; a sister-in-law, Minnie McCarty of
Amarillo; eight grandchildren, Andy McCarty and wife, Sandra, of San Jacinto,
Calif., Scott McCarty and wife, Gina, of Shelbyville, Ind., Amy Allen and
husband, Dean, of Amarillo, Sherry Brading and husband, Robert, of
Henryville, Ind., Thad (T.J.) McCarty of Borden, Shawn and James Laurie of
Arlington, Matthew Clayton and wife, Sarah, of Houston and Mary Burkholder
and husband, Jamie, of Knoxville, Tenn.; and 11 great-grandchildren, A.J.
McCarty, Joey McCarty, Grant McCarty, Cate McCarty and Silas McCarty,
all of San Jacinto, Macie McCarty of Shelbyville, Christopher Laurie and
Kristen Laurie, both of Arlington, Lee Clayton and Brittany Clayton, both of
Houston, and Holly Burkholder of Knoxville. 

The family suggests memorials be to Harrington Cancer Center; or the First
Baptist Church, building fund. 

Amarillo Globe-News, April 15, 2002