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Submitted: 3/11/15 • Approved: 3/13/15 • Last Updated: 3/24/18 • R58649-G58648-S3
24 Feb 1932 - 4 Mar 2011
*Obituary
Published 6 Mar 2011
Amarillo Globe-News
WHITE DEER - Mary Kathryn Jewell Diggs, 79, died Friday, March 4, 2011, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Calvin Winters, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church of Fritch, officiating. Burial will be in White Deer Cemetery by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa.
Mrs. Diggs was born Feb. 24, 1932, in Eldorado, Ark. She graduated from West Texas State University in Canyon in May 1964 with a bachelor's degree in education. She later received her master's degree from WTSU.
Mary began teaching first grade in the fall of 1964 and retired from the White Deer ISD in 1999. She later taught for several years at Wilson Elementary in Pampa. She was a member of First Baptist Church in White Deer, where she played the organ.
Mary enjoyed Sunday school and mission work, traveling to Russia, Brazil, Peru, France and Spain. She was a member of the White Deer Senior Citizens Center and loved spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren. She made her primary purpose in life to serve the Lord.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and two great-granddaughters.
Survivors include a daughter, Melinda Meadows and husband Roger of Edmond, Okla.; two sons, Frank Diggs and wife Tammy of White Deer and Wayne Diggs and wife Sherry of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a brother, Robert Jewell and wife Joann of Whitesboro; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Contributed on 3/11/15
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