Obit of McNamee, Dwight Beecher - Woodward County OK

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::Higgins Cemetery--Higgins TX

Dwight Beecher McNamee

HIGGINS - Dwight Beecher McNamee, 101, died Friday, Dec. 27, 1996.

Services were at 2 p.m. Sunday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. 
Clifford Baze officiating. Burial was in Higgins Cemetery by Mason 
Funeral Home.

Mr. McNamee was born in Merriman, Neb., where he attended elementary 
school and completed the ninth grade. He moved to Oklahoma and became 
the depot agent at Quinlan, Okla. He then served in the Army during 
World War II. He returned to Oklahoma and worked as a depot agent at 
Harmon, Okla., then Amarillo and Follett for 23 years. He then became 
a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. He carried the 
route out of Higgins for 23 years, retiring in 1960. He was a member 
of Higgins Masonic Lodge and American Legion. He enjoyed the outdoors 
and fishing.

He married Blanche Vom Hoff in 1938 at Beaver, Okla.

Survivors include his wife; and a daughter, Anita Darlene McNamee 
Childress of Houston.

The family requests memorials be to V.A. Nursing Care Home Care 
Center, 6010 Amarillo Blvd. West, Amarillo, Texas 79106.

Amarillo Globe 30 Dec 1996
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