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© The Amarillo Globe-News
20 February 2003

Madeline Grant (Gamble) Satterwhite

April 25, 1905 ~ Feb. 8, 2003

HIGGINS - Madeline Grant Gamble Satterwhite, 97, died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003.

Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Higgins Cemetery with Shawn Davis, minister of Panhandle Church of Christ, and Gordan Lawson, minister of Higgins Church of Christ, officiating. Arrangements are by Stickley-Hill Funeral Directors of Canadian.

Mrs. Satterwhite was born April 25, 1905, to Lon and Anna Gamble on the family farm in Rogers Mills County near Grimes, Okla. She was the oldest of seven children.

She helped her parents on the family farm and went to school through the ninth grade. She worked in a general store in Sayre, Okla., where she met Carl Satterwhite.

They were married Dec. 23, 1929, in Sayre and moved with the railroad for two years before moving to the family farm in the Bishop Community, Okla. She worked at the Weis Dry Good Store in Higgins for 25 years.

She was an active member of the Church of Christ in Higgins and a member of the Busy Bee quilting club for many years. She lived in Higgins from 1985 until moving to the Abraham Nursing Home in Canadian.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl; a son, Lon Satterwhite; and a grandson, Gary Satterwhite.

Survivors include a daughter, Margaret Erma Hackett of Amarillo; three sons, James Satterwhite and wife, Wilma, of Monument, Colo., Don Satterwhite and wife, "Tex" of Higgins and Max Satterwhite and wife, Vicky, of Panhandle; three sisters, Billye Peterman of Concord, Calif., Margaret Coffer of Amherst and Anna Dean Loe of Vidor; 10 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Abraham Memorial Home, 803 Birch, Canadian, TX 79014; Westview Boys Home, P.O. Box 553, Hollis, OK 73550; or to the High Plains Children's Home in Amarillo.

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