Jimmy Lynn Garland, 84, of Goodnight passed away on Thursday, March 16, 2023, in Amarillo.
Jimmy Lynn Garland
Funeral services will be held on Monday, March 20, 2023, at 10:30 AM at First Baptist Church of Clarendon with Rev. Lance Wood officiating. Burial will follow in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.
Viewing will be held at the funeral home in Clarendon on Sunday, March 19th from 1:00 – 6:00 PM with family receiving friends from 4:00 – 6:00 PM.
Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Jimmy was born on August 14, 1938, in Goodnight to AJ and Alberta (Reed) Garland. He started working at the young age of 9 working cattle. He attended Goodnight High School and graduated from Clarendon High School. He was also a graduate of Clarendon JR College and Sul Ross University. He served in the National Guard. He was a farmer and rancher most of his life. He obtained his Realtor Broker license in 1970. He started to work at First National Bank of Memphis. He later worked at First National Bank of Amarillo as a cattle inspector. He started at First Bank & Trust of Clarendon in 1981. He opened Pilgrim’s Bank in 1998 until his retirement in 2000. He then did his Realty business full time. He actually closed his last deal in February 2023.
His hobbies were hunting, birddogs, shooting sports( trap, skeet, sporting clays). He enjoyed traveling to places to shoot and made life long friendships. He enjoyed watching his grandchildren grow up and his great grand child grow up.
Jimmy is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Audrey Beth Garland; and brother, Marion Dave Garland.
He is survived by his son, Stan Garland of Quanah; daughter, Twanna Kiker and husband, Richie, of Allison; grandson, Matt Kiker and wife, Kinsey, of Allison; granddaughter, Kaylynn Kerns and husband, Matt, of Kansas City, MO; great-grandson, Keegan Kiker; nephew, Allen Garland and wife, Neyra, of Dumas; niece, Kelly Strawn and husband, Duane, of Mansfield; as well as numerous great nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Clarendon Masonic Lodge #700, PO Box 932, Clarendon, TX, 79226.
Retired architect Kent Derelle Rattan, 71, died Oct. 17, 2022, in his Buena Vista, Va., home.
Kent Derelle Rattan
The son of Dennis Meral Rattan of Quitaque, Texas, and Toni Ethelyn (nee McBrayer) Rattan of Memphis, Texas, and younger brother of Ronald Rattan, Kent was born Feb. 28, 1951, at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, Texas.
The Rattans lived in Amarillo where Kent spent the first few years of primary school at Alice Landergin Elementary School. The family briefly moved to Springdale, Ark., where Kent attended Springdale Elementary School. The Rattans then settled in Clarendon, Texas, where Dennis started his own successful TV repair and cable management shop, Rattan TV. The family was a member of the local Baptist church, which instilled in
Kent the importance of God’s love that he would carry with him throughout his life.
As a child in Clarendon, Kent played baseball, directed plays in the local community theater, and attended Sunday school. Kent showed an early talent for academics, graduating from Clarendon Junior High School as Salutatorian. Kent graduated from Clarendon High School as the Class of 1969 Valedictorian and was president of the local National Honor Society chapter as well as the Spanish Club.
After high school, Kent accepted a scholarship to Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where he graduated cum laude in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After college, Kent taught at a prep school in Little Rock, Ark.,
and then pursued his graduate studies at the University of Texas, Austin, earning his Master of Architecture in 1983. Between 1983 and 1986, Kent lived and worked as an architect in Dallas, San Antonio, and Little Rock. In 1986, he moved to Bethesda, Md., where he worked as a Senior Project Manager at Marriott International.
Kent met Nicki A. Miller, of Erie, Pa., at the American Institute for Architects in Washington, DC. On March 25th, 1989, Kent and Nicki married. Together they raised their four children, Sean M. Porterfield, Julia R. Porterfield,
Elizabeth S. Rattan, and Claire H. Rattan in Frederick, Md. Kent remained with Marriott from 1986 until 1998, and then accepted a construction management and design position at Sodexo USA from 1998 to 2005. In 2005, the Rattan family moved to Austin, Texas, where Kent launched his own business, Design Services Plus, Inc. as the President and Project Director, using his project management and design skills for architecture projects. In 2011, Kent and Nicki moved to Buena Vista, Va., where Kent based his business until 2019, when he retired.
In his free time, Kent enjoyed fly fishing, hiking, traveling, playing the harmonica, making bad jokes, staying on top of current affairs, reading travel novels and British comedy, and spending time with family, friends, and pets.
He leaves behind his children: son Sean Porterfield, of Frederick, Md., and daughters Julia Porterfield of Baltimore, Md.; Elizabeth Rattan of Philadelphia, Pa.; and Claire Rattan of Staunton, Va.; older brother –
Dennis Ronald Rattan and sister-in-law Pam Rattan of Austin, Texas; nephew Brandon Rattan of San Francisco, Calif.; niece Jessica Fetzer of Houston, Texas; as well as ‘brothers’ Larry Springer of New Braunfels, Texas; and Nathan Noble of Alexandria, Va. Nicki A. Miller, his spouse of 33 years, died on Nov. 28, 2022.
A graveside memorial service for Kent will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 22, 2023 at Citizens Cemetery, SH 70, Clarendon, Texas.
Additional candidates for the Hedley City Council were announced last week after the Enterprise went to press.
Mayor Carrie Butler said two candidates had left their applications in a city drop box and the paperwork was not discovered until after the filing deadline. With the addition of those two new candidates, there are now six people running for three full terms on the council.
Aldermen Trisha Chambless, Alicia Hanes, and Jennifer Floyd are seeking re-election. Christine Coyle was previously announced as a challenger, and now Calvin Holland and Tanya White Gibson will also appear on the ballot.
Butler also said a special election will be held alongside May’s regular election to fill two unexpired terms – those are seats belonging to Sandy Wilkinson, who resigned several months ago, and Danny Russell, whose resignation is scheduled to be voted on at the next regular Hedley city council meeting March 9.
Butler said the council last month appointed Clayton Beagle to Wilkinson’s seat and that he will be a candidate in the special election.
Thursday, March 2, 2023 – the day the light went out in Canadian.
There wasn’t a power failure or an eclipse or anything of the sort. No, it was a different kind of darkness that fell over the city. The light of truth and fairness and justice went out.
Roger Estlack, Publisher & Editor
After 132 years, The Canadian Record published its last issue. Well, “suspended publication” is the phrase that was used – holding out hope that the paper might yet have a rebirth. Still, the fact remains, Canadian is without a newspaper.
The Canadian Record – for 75 years under the guidance of the Ezzell family – was the best weekly newspaper in the Panhandle. Period. Some might even say it was the best in Texas, and I wouldn’t argue with them. It was the gold standard of community journalism doing all the things that a weekly newspaper does best – be a cheerleader for its town, holding elected officials accountable, and zealously reporting the local news from City Hall to the elementary school.
Laurie Ezzell Brown, who has published and edited the paper since her father passed away some 30 years ago, was and is a close friend of mine. We are two sides of the same coin. She is an unapologetic liberal Democrat and I’m a libertarian Reagan Republican. But we have always been united on the things that mattered – open government, transparency, and the public’s right to know. I know a lot of small-town journalists, but Laurie Brown is the best. When I’ve had tough stories to cover, it was her who I would turn to for advice and counsel. And I could count on her to tell me what I needed to know, whether I was going to like it or not.
It was Laurie and her advertising manager Mary Smithee who I always looked forward to seeing at press conventions. Over the years, they became like extended family members. The newspaper family is like none other, bonding over getting the big scoop or swapping tales of crazy public meetings.
Just a couple of weeks ago, the Cub Reporter was in Canadian for a tennis match and the team went for a coffee. Brown Bag Roasters is run by Laurie’s son and is right next door to the newspaper in Canadian. The Record staff saw Ben walk by, snatched him from the coffee shop, and pulled him into the newspaper to say hello and catch up with him. I think he was both startled and happy to see them.
Through good times and bad, Laurie Brown, like her father before her, bravely recorded the happenings in Canadian fairly and accurately. It was right there in black and white; and you didn’t have to like it, but it was the truth. Some people can’t handle the truth, and that can bring unwanted repercussions. Any good newspaper has had to deal with that, and the Record is certainly no different.
When Laurie wanted to share her personal thoughts, you could find those clearly labeled on page two of the Record in her “Field Notes” column. She wasn’t afraid to let you know what she thought on the opinion page; but when you turned past page two, it was unbiased reporting, and the readers were given as much information as possible to make up their own minds.
Laurie has been trying to sell her paper for several years, but she did not want to sell to just anyone or to some group that would strip the Record of its soul for profit. The job of a community editor can wear on you, and it’s worn on her to the point she can no longer do it. With no buyer, she reluctantly closed the doors.
The Record lives on for now as a social media and web presence, but it’s not the same. It’s not the same as having the paper – in either a physical or digital format – to record kids’ latest school project, to celebrate the state championships, to uncover what’s happening at City Hall, to hold commissioners’ feet to the fire, or to rally the community around a worthwhile project.
Businesses in Canadian that have depended on the Record to help get their message to their customers will feel the newspaper’s absence, and taxpayers, too, will be losers without a paper help them keep tabs on local governments.
What will become of the public notices that once were published in the Record? I suppose the city and the county and the school there will put those up on their websites when it’s time to raise taxes or call for a bond election. The people of Canadian will just have to trust that their officials are telling them the truth, because there won’t be a third party to verify anything. It will be the fox guarding the henhouse. What could go wrong?
At the Enterprise, our hearts are broken both for the people of Canadian, for the Record staff, and for Laurie personally. We can only imagine what it must feel like to sign “30” to the newspaper itself and lay down the pen after decades of service. We will miss their influence and the constant push they gave us all to do better and be better. We are eternally grateful for the friendship, the example, and the high standards they shared with us. Thank you, our friends, for everything.
The Bronco Band earned a One Rating in concert contest Tuesday and a Two Rating in sightreading.
This Tuesday, I went to contest for Concert and Sightreading with the band.
For the last couple of months, we have been working on perfecting our concert music and strengthening our sightreading abilities.
I really enjoy sightreading and for those of you who don’t know, sightreading is when they give you a piece of music and you have to learn the entire piece in seven minutes, then play it for judges.
The judges score you on a scale of five to one with five being the worst and one being the best, that is also how they judge our concert music.
This is our first concert competition with our new band director, and we were very hopeful that we would do good.
We started out with concert band and scored a 1, 1, and a 2 which average out to a one. Then we went and did sightreading which we scored a 2, 2, and a 1 which averaged out to a 2.
We didn’t make sweepstakes this year, but we did get a plaque for our 1 in sight reading, and hopefully we can dominate next year in both marching and concert band.
Sam Shelley, 72, of Clarendon died Sunday, March 5, 2023, in Clarendon.
Sam Shelley
Rosary was said on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, in Robertson Funeral Directors Saints’ Roost Chapel in Clarendon. Mass was celebrated on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, in St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Clarendon with Rev. Arokia Raj Samala, as the celebrant. Burial will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Clarendon.
Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Sam was born November 22, 1950, in Amarillo to Francis and Samuel Shelley. He married Leitha Martin on August 20, 1977, in Tucumcari, New Mexico. He worked as an airplane mechanic for many years prior to his retirement. Sam loved cooking, fishing, swimming, taking trips with his family, and the outdoors. He also loved helping people. He had been a resident of Clarendon since 1992 and was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church.
He is preceded in death by his parents; his wife in 2016; and a sister, Cindy Malone.
He is survived by his sons, Sam Shelley, III and wife Roxy of Lubbock and Jeremy Shelley and wife Jamie of Clarendon; his daughters, Luichi Shelley of Amarillo, Samara Shelley and Nicky Shelley both of Clarendon; a sister, Cathy Penn of Amarillo; 13 grandchildren; and 5 great grandchildren.
Sign the online guestbook at www.robertsonfuneral.com
Charles Paul Brown, 86, of Dumas died Saturday, March 4, 2023, in Dumas.
Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Robertson Saints’ Roost Chapel in Clarendon. Burial will follow in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.
Charles Paul Brown
Viewing will be Wednesday at the funeral home with family receiving friends for visitation from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Arrangements are under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Charles was born January 20, 1937, in Wellington to Ross and Ellen Gossett Brown. He married Barbara Gail Hewett on June 27, 1958, in Clarendon. Charles served our country in the US Navy. He had been a longtime resident of Amarillo before moving to Dumas four years ago. He had worked for City Machine and Welding as Vice President for 18 years prior to his retirement. He enjoyed working in the yard and outside, wood working, and remodeling his daughter’s house. He also loved his pets and hunting. Charles was a member of the Masonic Lodge.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Barbara in 2009; three brothers, Leroy Brown, Ray Brown, and Troy Brown; and a sister, Margaret Leffew.
He is survived by his daughter, Angela Blackshear and husband Brandon of Dumas; his brothers, Tommy Brown and wife Elma of Fort Worth and Mack Brown of Borger; his sister, Jo Ward and husband Dal of Flower Mound; two grandsons, Tyler Borron and Chad Borron both of Dumas; a step grandson, Ryan Blackshear and wife Brittney of Dumas; his step great grandchildren, Chloe and Braun; and several nieces and nephews.
The family request memorials be sent to Dumas Memorial Hospice.
The Office of US Rep. Ronny Jackson (TX-13) announced upcoming mobile office hours in Panhandle hosted by congressional staff.
The mobile office will be held in the Panhandle City Council Chambers on Wednesday, March 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1 Main Street in Panhandle.
Constituents are invited to attend if help is needed with a federal agency or to learn more about the services a congressional office can provide. If a constituent would like assistance with a federal agency case, please bring all supporting documentation.
No appointment is necessary. Additional questions should be directed to Congressman Jackson’s Amarillo office at (806) 641-5600.
Kensy Robyn Morrow, 38, of Clarendon died Friday, February 24, 2023, in Dallas.
Kensy Robyn Morrow
Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 28, 2023, in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Viewing will held Tuesday from 8:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Kensy was born September 13, 1984 ,in Honduras to Earl B. and Sharyn Bruce Morrow. She had been a lifetime resident of Clarendon and was a 2003 graduate of Clarendon High School. She had worked for several years at the Clarendon Outpost, where she always had a smile for every customer. Kensy was very talented and was a great artist and she loved to draw and paint. She also enjoyed laughing all the time. Kensy loved life, her kids, her family, her dogs, her friends, and her classmates. She always supported her kids and backed them in everything they did.
She is preceded in death by her father, Earl B. Morrow; and a sister, Delease Kilgore.
Survivors include her mother, Sharyn Morrow of Clarendon; her kids, Coltyn Campbell of Abernathy, Alexis Phiilips and Xander Phillips both of Clarendon; her brothers, Micheal Morrow of Clarendon and Ryan Murphy of California; her sisters, Dorothy Burkhalter of Amarillo, Kelly Ellis of Arizona, and Tracy Morrow of Amarillo; and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Sign the online guestbook at www.robertsonfuneral.com
Elections will be held this May to elect positions on the Clarendon school board and the Hedley City Council following last Friday’s deadline to file for office.
Clarendon CISD Trustee Chrisi Tucket is seeking re-election and will be joined on the ballot by Mike Word and Ginnie Siefkas in a race for two seats on the board. Incumbent Kyle Davis did not file for reelection.
Hedley incumbent Aldermen Trisha Chambless, Alicia Hanes, and Jennifer Floyd also filed for reelection, and they will be joined on the ballot by Christine Coyle as voters pick three seats on the city council.
The City of Clarendon will also have an election to reauthorize the one-quarter cent sales tax for street maintenance, but Mayor Jacob Fangman and Aldermen Terri Floyd and Eulaine McIntosh are unopposed in their reelection bids.
Three other local taxing entities are expected to cancel their spring elections with none of their races being contested.
Howardwick incumbents, Mayor Tony Clemishire and Aldermen Johnny Floyd and Jada Murray, all filed for reelection. Rose Lemley, Jeff Robertson, and Melinda McAnear filed to run again for their Place 1, 2, and 3 positions on the Donley County Hospital District Board of Directors.
Likewise, all Hedley ISD incumbents – Troy Monroe, Shauna Herbert, and Tangela Copelin – all filed for office again.
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