Dallas Co. TX - Obits: Marie Bear DeLaughter ============================================================== Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved. Amarillo Globe-News http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ============================================================== Marie Bear DeLaughter Marie Bear DeLaughter, 83, of Amarillo died Sunday, Dec. 15, 2002. Services will be at a later date in Dallas by Laureland Funeral Home and Cemetery. Local arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle. Mrs. DeLaughter was born March 4, 1919, in Crockett to Minnie Augusta Meredith Bear and Hiram A. Bear. She married Arman D. "A.D." DeLaughter in Dallas on Aug. 2, 1940. Her husband was a Church of Christ minister and served several congregations throughout Dallas and East Texas. Mrs. DeLaughter was active in Church of Christ activities for many years. She was last a member of the Jefferson Boulevard Church of Christ in Dallas. She graduated in 1939 from Madisonville High School in Madisonville. She participated in the National Youth Administration while in high school. She retired from Abbott Laboratories in 1985 where she was a pharmacy order data operator. She led an active retirement life as a volunteer at Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Dallas and as a singer with the semi-professional Red Bird Singers, a group of retired women who sang for senior groups throughout the Dallas area. She was also active in the Oak Cliff Chapter of AARP and played in bowling leagues for many years at Red Bird Lanes in DeSoto where she won many honors including playing the nationally televised program, Bowling for Dollars. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1975; her parents; and all five siblings. Survivors include three children, Claudia DeLaughter Stravato of Amarillo, Nita Gaye DeLaughter of Bellingham, Wash., and Jerry N. DeLaughter of Kemp; five grandchildren, Anna Stravato Ashley of Birmingham, England, Michael Armand Stravato of Houston, Timothy Newton DeLaughter, Arman C. DeLaughter and Adam DeLaughter, all of Dallas; and three great-grandchildren, all of Dallas. The family will be at 6026 Goliad in Dallas. The family suggests memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176; or to Planned Parenthood of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle, 1501 S. Taylor, Amarillo, TX 79101. Amarillo Globe-News, Dec. 16, 2002 ---