OK Obits

The Amarillo Globe News
December 1996

Edith Evylene Dodson

???? ~ Dec. 9, 1996 | Age 70

Edith Evylene Dodson, 70, of Amarillo, died Monday, Dec. 9, 1996.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Rector Funeral Home Chapel, 2800 S. Osage St., with the Rev. Larry Richardson, pastor of Palisades Fellowship Baptist Church, and the Rev. Gary Ashlock, associate pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Dreamland Cemetery at Canyon.

Mrs. Dodson was born in Paul's Valley, Okla. She moved at an early age with her family to Bovina, where they farmed. After her marriage, she moved to Bremerton, Wash., and lived there for two years. They then moved to Hereford. They owned a small grocery store and welding shop and started a small community church. They had a gospel music program on KPAN in the early 1950s

They moved to Amarillo in 1955 and owned a welding business here. She had been a cashier at the Ferrel-Manor for many years and at the Union 76 Truck Stop for seven years. She retired three years ago as a cashier at the Radisson Inn.

She was an accomplished cook and compiled and completed the cook book, "Family Heritage Cookbook."

Survivors include two daughters, Judy Bozarth and Brenda Hickam, both of Amarillo; a son, Jack Dodson of Amarillo; two sisters, Francis Owen of Amarillo and Eunice Horner of Friona; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center.

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