Obit for Colson, Walter Carroll - Washita County OK

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::Llano Cemetery--Amarillo TX

Walter Carroll Colson

Walter Carroll Colson, 93, of Amarillo, died Saturday, Nov. 20, 1999.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Schooler Funeral Home, Brentwood 
Chapel, 4100 S. Georgia St., with the Rev. Wayne Hicks, of Valley 
View Church of the Nazarene, officiating. Burial will be in Llano 
Cemetery.

Mr. Colson was born in Canute, Okla., and worked as a field 
supervisor for AMOCO Oil Company until his retirement in 1971. He 
started the senior adult ministry at Valley View Church of the 
Nazarene in Amarillo and helped start the Nazarene Church in Pampa, 
where he worked in the music department.

He married Treva Fay Hinkle in 1925 at Washita County, Okla.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Lynn Colson of College Station; 
four daughters, Elwanda Romines of Duncan, Okla., Jeanne White of 
Topeka, Kan., and Rosalie Imel and Jeanette Hess, both of Amarillo; 
two brothers, James Colson and Hurshell Colson, both of Grants Pass, 
Ore.; two sisters, Mae Felder of Nampa, Idaho, and Opal Felder of 
California; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a great-
great-grandchild.

The family suggests memorials be to Valley View Church of the 
Nazarene Building Fund, 7601 S. Western, Amarillo, TX 79110-4755.

Amarillo Daily News Nov. 22, 1999
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