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::Memory Gardens Cemetery--Amarillo TX

Lagatha B. Andrews

Lagatha B. Andrews, 82, of Amarillo died Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in South Georgia Baptist Church 
with the Rev. Bob Miller officiating. Burial will be in Memory 
Gardens Cemetery by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St.

Mrs. Andrews was born Dec. 12, 1921, in Coleman County to Alex L. and 
Rutilla Crutcher. She grew up in Rockwood and Coleman County. She 
moved to Oklahoma where she met Lampert J. Andrews. They were married 
Dec. 24, 1944, in Sayre, Okla.

Mrs. Andrews had a long professional career in the retail business. 
She was office manager and display director at Perry Bros. in Coleman 
before moving to Sayre as a store manager of Spears & Warren, a 
division of Perry Bros.

She and her late husband, Lampert Andrews, moved to Cordell, Okla., 
to open a grocery store. They later returned to Coleman where she 
worked for the Burrs Department Store and J.C. Penney Co.

In Abilene, she worked for WT Grant and Co. as a floor walker and 
cashier. In Amarillo, she worked in the women's retail clothing 
business at Blackburn's department store and was executive secretary 
to John W. Wright, president of Blackburn's, for more than 17 years.

She was secretary/coordinator of volunteers for Northwest Texas 
Hospital for 6 years. She retired in 1986, but soon returned to work 
in 1990 as a sales clerk at the Pampered Lady dress shop. She briefly 
worked at Dunlap's before going to work at Helen's Fashions women's 
clothing store.

Mrs. Andrews was active with the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce Women's 
Council and worked with the Rural Homemakers Day for several years. 
She had been a member of Beta Sigma Phi sorority for more than 50 
years and was president of the city council for Beta Sigma Phi in 
1961-62. She was elected president of Xi Epsilon chapter in 1963. She 
was named Beta Sigma Phi Outstanding Member in 1964. In 1986, she 
helped found the first daytime chapter of the sorority for 
professional women, Exemplar-Preceptor Kappa Zeta.

Mrs. Andrews joined the American Business Women's Association in 
1963. She was president of the Charter Chapter in 1967 and was the 
Woman of the Year for the chapter in 1969-70. In 1975, she was 
general chairwoman for the southwest regional meeting in Amarillo, 
which drew members from Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nevada and 
New Mexico.

She helped found the Tascosa chapter in 1978 and was the group's 
first president. The chapter named her 1979 Woman of the Year to 
recognize her work. She held several offices and chaired several 
committees in Tascosa ABWA. She served as president of the Tascosa 
ABWA in 1991-92 and 1994-95. The chapter named her Woman of the Year 
in 1996.

She was preceded in death by her father in 1958; her mother in 1974; 
a brother, Luke Gail Crutcher in 1934; and her husband on Jan. 9, 
1985.

Survivors include a daughter, Betty Andrews Coleman of Amarillo; five 
sisters, Neily Vie Bell of Lubbock, Edith Ada Norris and husband, 
Vernon, of Oklahoma City, Arliss Laverne Garner of Brownwood, Tressie 
Edrene Tucker of Mansfield and Ludy Jane Bryan of Santa Anna; a 
brother, Collis Timothy Crutcher and wife, Yvonna, of Waskom; two 
grandchildren, Tobi Beth Coleman of Yukon, Okla., and Shane Coleman 
of Amarillo; and two great-grandchildren, Justin Christian and 
Nicholas Dalton, both of Yukon; and many wonderful loving sisters-in-
law, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews and friends.

The family suggests memorials to the American Heart Association.

The family will be at 4401 S. Austin St.

Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 2, 2004
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