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Submitted: 2/7/22 • Approved: 2/12/22 • Last Updated: 2/15/22 • R488010-G488007-S3
Margie L. Wright Crowley Acker Pettus
December 17, 1924 - May 13, 2010
*Obituary
Margie (Acker) Pettus, 85, of Amarillo, formerly of Dimmitt, died Thursday, May 13, 2010.
Vigil will be at 5:30 p.m. today in Colonial Funeral Home Chapel of Dimmitt. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Holy Family Catholic Church in Nazareth with the Rev. Ken Keller and Deacon Jerome Brockman as celebrants. Burial will be in Holy Family Catholic Cemetery in Nazareth.
Margie was born Dec. 17, 1924, in Texhoma to William Hubert and Flora Wright. She grew up in Texas and graduated from Dumas High School. She was a longtime resident of Castro County and a homemaker all of her life.
She married Ed Pettus on March 19, 1989, and resided in Amarillo. She was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church in Nazareth, and she enjoyed reading.
Survivors include her husband, Ed Pettus of Amarillo; three sons, Keith Acker and wife Brenda of Dimmitt, Harold Acker and wife Debra of Hereford and Dan Crowley and wife Terry of Peach Springs, Ariz.; two daughters, Karen McSpadden of Amarillo and Danelle Crowley of Canyon Lake; two sisters, Lucille Dabney of Amarillo and Betty Martin of Holly, Colo.; a brother, Gene Wright of Arlington; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and four stepsons, Mark, Matt, Tim and Jeremy Pettus, all of Florida.
The family suggests memorials be to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1905.
*Photo courtesy of David Sifford
Contributed on 2/7/22
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