Dorothy Loverne Furrh

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday January 8, 2013 in Memorial Park Chapel of Memories with Theron Baker officiating. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by Memorial Park Funeral Home, 6969 E. Interstate 40.

The family of Dorothy Loverne Baker Furrh announces with saddened but rejoicing hearts her passing on Jan. 3, 2013. Dorothy was born the oldest of five children to ranchers J.S. and Gertrude Baker on Sept. 27, 1932, in Clarendon. Dorothy married the love of her life, Billy D. Furrh, on June 11, 1949. They moved from Turkey to Amarillo in 1953, where she worked as a bookkeeper for Kimball Foods and City Machine and Welding until she and Billy opened and ran B&C Machine and Welding for almost 30 years. Dorothy laughed a lot, had a big infectious smile and liked to keep things simple. That is how she will be remembered.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Marvin Baker.

Survivors include her husband, Billy; two daughters, Judy Martin and husband Paul of Amarillo and Edie Gibson and husband Roy of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a brother, Joe Baker III of Amarillo; two sisters, Dora Richmond of Palisade, Colorado and Lena Kaczmarczyk of Amarillo; a sister-in-law, Francis Baker of Amarillo; four granddaughters, Michelle Montague of Hermann, Mo., Raquel Gibson-Ford of Colorado Springs, Jennifer Reid of Divide, Colo., and Fanchon Gibson-Cimino of Henderson, Colo.; seven great-grandchildren; many cousins, nieces and nephews; and her furry companion, Mister.

The family would like to thank the Harrington Cancer Center, Baptist St. Anthony’s Hospice, our friends at Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins and Mott law office and South Mirror neighbors that hugged us, wiped our tears and fed our family through every stage of Dorothy’s leukemia for over four years.

The family suggests memorials be to Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, 1500 Wallace Blvd, Amarillo, TX 79106.