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George Franklin Saunders
7 Nov 1922 – 21 Jul 2005
| Birth | 7 Nov 1922 |
| Death | 21 Jul 2005 |
| Cemetery | Fairview Cemetery Pampa , Gray County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Darryl Caldwell on 12 Mar 2015 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118178006 |
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(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, July 24, 2005) LUBBOCK - George F. Saunders, 82, died Thursday, July 21, 2005. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors Colonial Chapel in Pampa with Jeff Foster, grandson, David Fultz, retired Church of Christ minister, Dalton Key, minister of North Amarillo Church of Christ, and Glen Walton, minister of Bell Avenue Church of Christ of Amarillo, officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Pampa. Mr. Saunders was born Nov. 7, 1922, in Panhandle to Guy Cecil Saunders and Ora Viola Robertson Saunders. He graduated from Pampa High School and attended Abilene Christian College. He married Laverne Roberts on Jan. 28, 1945, in Pampa. In his early life, he was a registered Angus rancher in McLean. He served Forgan Church of Christ in Forgan, Okla., for more than 30 years as minister of the Gospel. He was a member and past president of the McLean Lions Club, a board member of the McLean Branch of the Lovett Memorial Library, a member of the Texas and American Angus Associations and served on the Lubbock Christian University board of trustees from 1964 to 2004. He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Barney; and a sister, Louella. Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Janice Wright and husband, Loyd, of Flower Mound, Joyce Foster and husband, Jim, and Judy Organ and husband, Joe, all of Lubbock; six grandchildren, Jeff Foster and wife, Melanie, of Cortez, Colo., Laura Wright of Irving, Julie Bollinger and husband, Joe, of Amarillo, Alan Wright and wife, Julie, of Spring and Jase Foster and wife, Tosha, and Jeana Culbert and husband, Mark, all of Lubbock; and nine great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials be to In Search of the Lords Way, P.O. Box 371, Edmond, OK 73083-9901 or Lubbock Christian University, 5601 W. 19th St., Lubbock, TX 79407.
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