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Amarillo Globe News 13 Mar 1998

William E. Penn

William E. Penn, 84, of Amarillo, died Thursday, March 12, 1998.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in N.S. Griggs & Sons Funeral 
Directors Pioneer Chapel, 2615 Paramount Blvd., with Lee Roark, chaplain 
for Baptist St. Anthony's Health System, officiating. Graveside services 
will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in Stratford Cemetery at Stratford.

Mr. Penn was born in Greer County, Okla. He graduated from Panhandle State 
University at Goodwell, Okla.

He retired from Carbon Black Industry in 1972 after 25 years of service. 

He then began working for Cimarron Feeders at Griggs, Okla., and retired 
from them in 1986.
Mr. Penn moved to Amarillo from Texhoma, Okla., in 1992. He was a member 
of the Masonic Lodge in Hobbs, N.M., where he had been presented with his 
50-year pin. He was Methodist.

He married Clara Graham in 1937 at Oklahoma. She died in 1983. He married 
Ethelyn Brown in 1985 at Stratford. She died in 1991.

Survivors include two daughters, Cherie "Penny" Plunk and Linda "Dodie" 
Korell, both of Amarillo; two stepdaughters, Linda Roberts of Texhoma and 
Charla Huse of Gatesville; 12 grandchildren; and seven great-
grandchildren.
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