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Submitted: 10/26/21 • Approved: 10/26/21 • Last Updated: 10/29/21 • R465258-G0-S3
US Army Air Corps
World War II
May 16, 1919-September 5, 2007
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Obituary
WHEELER - Richard D. DeArment, 88, died Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ernie McGaughey of Tulia and the Rev. Tom Woodward, pastor of the church, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.
Mr. DeArment was born May 16, 1919, to Roy and Merrill Griswald DeArment. He served in World War II in the Army Air Corps as a B-24 bomber pilot. Richard graduated from Texas A & M and received a master's degree from OSU. He moved to Wheeler in 1952. He retired from Texas Parks and Wildlife in 1986.
Mr. DeArment was active for many years in the showing of the lesser prairie chicken, served as a member of the Wheeler Volunteer Fire Department and was a member of the Audobon Society.
Survivors include his wife, Jerene DeArment of Amarillo; a son, Rick DeArment of Lovington, N.M.; a daughter, Dixie Chick of Amarillo; two stepsons, Kevin Dawson of Amarillo and Keith Dawson of Colorado Springs, Colo.; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a brother, Harold DeArment of St. Petersburg, Fla.
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Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 7, 2007
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Contributed on 10/26/21
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