Joe Gordon Humphrey

Joe Gordon Humphrey

CHICKASHA, Okla. - Joe Gordon Humphrey, 68, formerly of Chickasha, of Amarillo, Texas, died Saturday, Sept. 21, 2002, in Amarillo.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. today in Sharon Baptist Church of Chickasha. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery by Sevier Funeral Home.

Mr. Humphrey was born Nov. 2, 1933, east of Chickasha to Holland G. and Mildred Taylor Humphrey.

He farmed and lived east of Chickasha all of his life, until moving to Amarillo on May 1, 2002.

He married his high school sweetheart, Linda Ann Lair, on May 8, 1954, in Chickasha. They were married 48 years.

He attended Friend School, graduating in the class of 1951.

He served two years in the Army, then returned to farming, including farming the land upon which he was born.

He served on the Friend School Board for seven years, served as president of Grady County Alfalfa Grower's Association and was a founding member of University of Oklahoma Beef Club.

He was an avid fan of OU sports, having been a long-time season ticket holder of the football program. He also had held season tickets for the men's and women's basketball programs. He was his happiest attending any of the OU sporting events. He also attended the Oklahoma state high school basketball tournaments all of his life.

He was a life-long member of Sharon Baptist Church (which was a church founded by his paternal grandmother) where, over the past 50 years, he had served as trustee, Sunday school director, training union director and a member of the choir. He had taught Sunday school classes for many years for the young married group and most recently, for the adult men's class. He was a member of Paramount Baptist Church in Amarillo.

He was working for Craig Methodist Retirement Center in Amarillo.

He was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and friend. He was much loved and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. He had a kind and generous heart.

He was preceded in death by his father in 1968; his mother in 1971; and two brothers, Kenneth Humphrey in 1972 and Marshall Humphrey in 1974. Survivors include his wife of Amarillo; a daughter, Jacqueline Humphrey and husband, Rob Chafin, and their 10-year-old daughter, Jacqueline Humphrey Chafin, all of Amarillo; two sons, Joe Humphrey Jr. and wife, Susan, and three-year-old son, Cale Gannon, of Frisco, and Holland Humphrey and wife, Rebecca, and their six-year-old son, Andrew Peterson, all of Mobile, Ala.; four sisters, Florence Dunn, Melba Kell, Sarah Kell and Carolyn Albright, all of whom live east of Chickasha; an uncle, Jack Taylor of Coarse Gold, Calif.; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

The family suggests memorials be to University of Oklahoma Women's Basketball Program, in care of OU Athletic Department, 180 W. Brooks St., Norman, OK 73019.