AMHERST - Douglas Anderson Gentry, 73, died Thursday, April 25, 2002, in Littlefield.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First United Methodist Church with the
Rev. David Cabellos, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery by
Hammons Funeral Home of Littlefield.
Mr. Gentry was born Feb. 25, 1929, in Asher, Okla. He had lived in several
Texas Panhandle communities where he was employed as a cowboy on
ranches and feedlots.
He enjoyed the outdoors and working with cattle. He moved to Amherst in July
1994 where he married Dorthea Nichols on Sept. 23, 1994. He was a member
of First United Methodist Church.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Kelly Gentry; and a sister, Aline
Hough.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Helen Looney of Stinnett, and Linda
McConnell and LeAnn Clark, both of Hereford; a stepson, Larry Nichols of
Ransom Canyon; a stepdaughter, Joyce Hart of Amherst; two brothers, Ray
Gentry of Ekalaka, Mont., and Roy Gentry of Elmore City, Okla.; three sisters,
Christine Breashears of Shawnee, Okla., Pauline Nowlin of Holdenville, Okla.,
and Maxine Melton of Wewoka, Okla.; 13 grandchildren; and 11
great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Cody Conaway Memorial Scholarship
Fund at H&H Credit Union in Stinnett.
Amarillo Globe-News, April 26, 2002
