Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Griggs-Schooler-Gordon Pioneer Chapel with Robert Field officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.
Arrangements are by Griggs-Schooler-
Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 S. Bell St.
Mr. Bevers was born Oct. 13, 1929, in Lakeview. He graduated in 1948 from Hedley High School and joined the Navy. He retired from the Amarillo Fire Department as District Chief in 1989.
Mr. Bevers was baptized in Bolton Street Baptist Church. He taught firefighting classes at Amarillo College, and he coached his children’s ball teams at
Kids, Inc.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Brenda Gay Gray; a son, Larry Glen Bevers; his mother, Lola Bevers; his father, J.C. Bevers; four brothers, Arthur Bevers, J.C. Bevers, Roy Bevers and Glen Bevers; three sisters, Arlene Bevers, Lorene Bevers and Jean Roan; and a granddaughter, Akysha Ardell Gray.
Survivors include a son, Gerry Bevers of Amarillo; a daughter, Donna Rhea and husband John of Fort Worth; two brothers, Leon Bevers of Hedley and Lewis Bevers of Clarendon; six grandchildren, Christopher Gray of Plainview, Micah Henderson of Trinity, Marca McCallie and husband Charlie of Flagstaff, Ariz., Erika Rhea and Matthew Rhea, both of Lubbock, and Christian Bevers of Amarillo; and four great-grandchildren, Aspen, Colt, Sierra and Blaise McCallie, all of Flagstaff, Ariz.
The family suggests memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony’s Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105; or American Lung Association of Texas, 5926 N. Mo Pac Expressway, Austin, TX 78731.
Sign the online guest book at www.griggsschoolergordon.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 4, 2012
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