Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Amy Michelle Buchanan
January 28, 1974 - July 9, 2021

Graveside services for Amy Buchanan were held on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, at 
2:00 p.m. at Greenwood Cemetery in Teague. 

Amy Michelle Buchanan of Elgin, Texas passed away at St. David’s North Austin 
Medical Center in Austin on Friday July, 9, 2021 after a lengthy illness. Amy 
was 47 years old.

Amy was born in Austin, Texas on January 28, 1974. Amy was a member of the 
Church of Christ.

Amy graduated from Brentwood Christian High School at Austin, Texas in 1992. She 
graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA degree in 
English in 2002.

Amy loved all kinds of music, Longhorn football, reading and writing. One of her 
favorite memories was seeing Celine Dion in Concert in Las Vegas with her sister, Julie. Amy loved horseback riding and participating in equestrian event jumping with her thoroughbred horse, Sandpiper. Amy never met a horse she didn’t like. She loved her dog Happy and her cat Stormy dearly. Her hobby was to collect model horses and old books.

Amy is survived by her parents, James Edwin (Ed) Buchanan, and Linda, of Elgin, 
TX; her sister Julie Ann Buchanan of Austin, TX. Her Aunt Joy Bowers and husband 
Bill, her cousins Christina Mims and husband Ritchie and sons, Brian Bowers and 
wife Julie and family.

Amy was preceded in death by her grandparents Pete and Marcelline Buchanan of 
Lamesa, Texas and Judd and Callie Brown of Teague, Texas.

Services for Amy and Interment will be at Greenwood Cemetery in Teague, Texas 
close to her grandparents, who she loved and enjoyed spending happy times 
together.