Chris will lie in state for visitation on Thursday, March 25, 2021 from 5pm to 7pm at Griggs Schooler Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 Bell St in Amarillo. A funeral service will be held in the funeral home’s Pioneer Chapel on Friday, March 26, 2021 at 2pm. All who attend will be required to wear a facial covering while inside the building. Burial will following Memory Gardens Cemetery. A livestream of the service will be available at www.facebook.com/griggsschoolergordon if you cannot or wish not to attend the service in person.
Chris, as she was so affectionately known, was born on October 18, 1929 in Junction City Arkansas to David Parks and Iris Inez (Wilson) Ledbetter. She made friends easily and enjoyed life to the fullest by remaining busy with projects, church, and bowling on many leagues until the Covid 19 Pandemic caused her to quarantine.
Chris was preceded in death by her parents, brothers; David, Malvin, and Stacey Ledbetter; and sisters: Bernice Lee Ledbetter, Edna McCulley, and Maurene Murray, and her husband Harley Houston McDougal, whom she married on July 11, 1946. Those left to cherish her memories are her brothers: Jerrell and Gilbert Ledbetter, sister: Betty Lou McGowen; and her beloved children James McDougal and wife Sharon, Tommy McDougal and wife Debbie, and Kathy Green and husband Jimmy. She also leaves behind her 9 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren, and 5 great-great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests you make a donation in honor of Chris McDougal to the WT Bowling Scholarship Fund c/o Eastridge Bowling Lanes (5405 Amarillo Blvd East Amarillo, TX 79107), the Library at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church (555 E. Hastings Ave Amarillo, TX 79108), BSA Hospice (5211 SW 9th Ave, ste 100 Amarillo, TX 79106); or a charity of your choosing.
