Obit of Joel Neal Wassom Sr. (w250) - Stephens County, Oklahoma

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Joel Neal Wassom Sr.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in W.W. Rix Funeral Home Chapel in 
Lubbock. Burial will be in City of Lubbock Cemetery. Local 
arrangements are by N.S. Griggs and Sons Funeral Directors, 2615 
Paramount Blvd.

Mr. Wassom was born in Lubbock. He attended Roswell High School in 
Roswell, N.M., where he became an All-American High School Football 
Player. In 1960 he joined the Navy where he was in the first 
graduating class of the Navy Seals.

He served in the Vietnam War where he received 47 medals including 
the Purple Heart. He was discharged in 1964.

He graduated from University of Texas at Permian Basin with a 
master's degree in archaeology. He moved to Amarillo in 1982 from 
Odessa. He married Barbara Butler on Dec. 28, 1984, in Clovis, N.M. 
He retired in 1987.

Survivors include his wife; four sons, Joel Neal Wassom Jr. of 
Spring, James Wassom and Richard Butler, both of Amarillo, and Ryan 
Butler of San Antonio; three daughters, Lourie Winegar of Lubbock, 
Angie Leewright of Kress and Beverly Shannon of Forest; his mother, 
Hazel Courtney of Duncan, Okla.; a sister, Kathy Mickler of Park 
City, Utah; and 13 grandchildren.

The body will be available for viewing from 8 a.m. today to noon 
Saturday at N.S. Griggs and Sons.

Amarillo Globe-News, April 19, 2002
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