James Glendall Calcote Sr., 81, of Amarillo died Monday, March 25, 2013.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel with the Rev. Danny Mize and Georgia King officiating. Burial will be in Citizen’s Cemetery in Clarendon. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
James was born May 9, 1931, in Clarendon to Verlis J. and Jessie Lee Morgan Calcote. He attended school in Clarendon and served in the Army from April 1946 to Oct. 1947 as an airplane and engine mechanic.
He married Helen Jean Eakins on April 23, 1950, in Bartlesville, Okla. The couple lived in Amarillo and Borger in the early years of their marriage while Jim worked for Superior Manufacturing, Amarillo Air Force Base, Panhandle Pipe and Steel and Ford Brick and Tile. In 1965, they moved their family to Mangum, Okla., where Jim served as general manager and president of Mangum Brick Co. until 1981. He joined U.S. Brick as general manager of the Mineral Wells plant in 1981. In 1984, Jim and Helen formed Tascosa Brick in Amarillo as brick distributors, where he served as owner and CEO, representing the products of several brick companies. They had made their home in Amarillo since.
Jim was a licensed ham radio operator and belonged to local ham radio organizations wherever he lived. He enjoyed fishing, boat racing and water skiing and taking his boys out on the water on a regular basis. He was a charter member of the Panhandle Boat and Ski Club. He also held a private pilot’s license and at 65 years of age acquired an A&P license and enjoyed flying and restoring antique airplanes. He and a few of his flying aficionados created a grassroots flying gang known as Blue Sky Airfield in south Amarillo. He liked to spend time at the hangar, restoring antique
airplanes.
Jim had a deep dedication to education and during his years in Mangum, served many years on the Mangum school board of trustees and held the office of president for several of those years. He also was a member of the Oklahoma State School Board Association and served a term as its president. During that time, he was a delegate to the National School Board Association.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Sula Fae; two nieces, Marthella and Christy; and a nephew John Harvey.
Survivors include his wife, Helen; his sons and daughters in-law, JC and Anna of Amarillo and Kevin and Jeri Lou of Mineral Wells; three grandchildren, Nicole Calcote, of Chicago; Kenyon Calcote, of Norman, Okla., and Chad Calcote of Flagstaff, Ariz.; and his good friend, Steve Ellard.
Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 28, 2013)
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel with the Rev. Danny Mize and Georgia King officiating. Burial will be in Citizen’s Cemetery in Clarendon. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
James was born May 9, 1931, in Clarendon to Verlis J. and Jessie Lee Morgan Calcote. He attended school in Clarendon and served in the Army from April 1946 to Oct. 1947 as an airplane and engine mechanic.
He married Helen Jean Eakins on April 23, 1950, in Bartlesville, Okla. The couple lived in Amarillo and Borger in the early years of their marriage while Jim worked for Superior Manufacturing, Amarillo Air Force Base, Panhandle Pipe and Steel and Ford Brick and Tile. In 1965, they moved their family to Mangum, Okla., where Jim served as general manager and president of Mangum Brick Co. until 1981. He joined U.S. Brick as general manager of the Mineral Wells plant in 1981. In 1984, Jim and Helen formed Tascosa Brick in Amarillo as brick distributors, where he served as owner and CEO, representing the products of several brick companies. They had made their home in Amarillo since.
Jim was a licensed ham radio operator and belonged to local ham radio organizations wherever he lived. He enjoyed fishing, boat racing and water skiing and taking his boys out on the water on a regular basis. He was a charter member of the Panhandle Boat and Ski Club. He also held a private pilot’s license and at 65 years of age acquired an A&P license and enjoyed flying and restoring antique airplanes. He and a few of his flying aficionados created a grassroots flying gang known as Blue Sky Airfield in south Amarillo. He liked to spend time at the hangar, restoring antique
airplanes.
Jim had a deep dedication to education and during his years in Mangum, served many years on the Mangum school board of trustees and held the office of president for several of those years. He also was a member of the Oklahoma State School Board Association and served a term as its president. During that time, he was a delegate to the National School Board Association.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Sula Fae; two nieces, Marthella and Christy; and a nephew John Harvey.
Survivors include his wife, Helen; his sons and daughters in-law, JC and Anna of Amarillo and Kevin and Jeri Lou of Mineral Wells; three grandchildren, Nicole Calcote, of Chicago; Kenyon Calcote, of Norman, Okla., and Chad Calcote of Flagstaff, Ariz.; and his good friend, Steve Ellard.
Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 28, 2013)
James Glendall Calcote Sr., 81, of Amarillo died Monday, March 25, 2013.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel with the Rev. Danny Mize and Georgia King officiating. Burial will be in Citizen’s Cemetery in Clarendon. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
James was born May 9, 1931, in Clarendon to Verlis J. and Jessie Lee Morgan Calcote. He attended school in Clarendon and served in the Army from April 1946 to Oct. 1947 as an airplane and engine mechanic.
He married Helen Jean Eakins on April 23, 1950, in Bartlesville, Okla. The couple lived in Amarillo and Borger in the early years of their marriage while Jim worked for Superior Manufacturing, Amarillo Air Force Base, Panhandle Pipe and Steel and Ford Brick and Tile. In 1965, they moved their family to Mangum, Okla., where Jim served as general manager and president of Mangum Brick Co. until 1981. He joined U.S. Brick as general manager of the Mineral Wells plant in 1981. In 1984, Jim and Helen formed Tascosa Brick in Amarillo as brick distributors, where he served as owner and CEO, representing the products of several brick companies. They had made their home in Amarillo since.
Jim was a licensed ham radio operator and belonged to local ham radio organizations wherever he lived. He enjoyed fishing, boat racing and water skiing and taking his boys out on the water on a regular basis. He was a charter member of the Panhandle Boat and Ski Club. He also held a private pilot’s license and at 65 years of age acquired an A&P license and enjoyed flying and restoring antique airplanes. He and a few of his flying aficionados created a grassroots flying gang known as Blue Sky Airfield in south Amarillo. He liked to spend time at the hangar, restoring antique
airplanes.
Jim had a deep dedication to education and during his years in Mangum, served many years on the Mangum school board of trustees and held the office of president for several of those years. He also was a member of the Oklahoma State School Board Association and served a term as its president. During that time, he was a delegate to the National School Board Association.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Sula Fae; two nieces, Marthella and Christy; and a nephew John Harvey.
Survivors include his wife, Helen; his sons and daughters in-law, JC and Anna of Amarillo and Kevin and Jeri Lou of Mineral Wells; three grandchildren, Nicole Calcote, of Chicago; Kenyon Calcote, of Norman, Okla., and Chad Calcote of Flagstaff, Ariz.; and his good friend, Steve Ellard.
Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 28, 2013)
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel with the Rev. Danny Mize and Georgia King officiating. Burial will be in Citizen’s Cemetery in Clarendon. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
James was born May 9, 1931, in Clarendon to Verlis J. and Jessie Lee Morgan Calcote. He attended school in Clarendon and served in the Army from April 1946 to Oct. 1947 as an airplane and engine mechanic.
He married Helen Jean Eakins on April 23, 1950, in Bartlesville, Okla. The couple lived in Amarillo and Borger in the early years of their marriage while Jim worked for Superior Manufacturing, Amarillo Air Force Base, Panhandle Pipe and Steel and Ford Brick and Tile. In 1965, they moved their family to Mangum, Okla., where Jim served as general manager and president of Mangum Brick Co. until 1981. He joined U.S. Brick as general manager of the Mineral Wells plant in 1981. In 1984, Jim and Helen formed Tascosa Brick in Amarillo as brick distributors, where he served as owner and CEO, representing the products of several brick companies. They had made their home in Amarillo since.
Jim was a licensed ham radio operator and belonged to local ham radio organizations wherever he lived. He enjoyed fishing, boat racing and water skiing and taking his boys out on the water on a regular basis. He was a charter member of the Panhandle Boat and Ski Club. He also held a private pilot’s license and at 65 years of age acquired an A&P license and enjoyed flying and restoring antique airplanes. He and a few of his flying aficionados created a grassroots flying gang known as Blue Sky Airfield in south Amarillo. He liked to spend time at the hangar, restoring antique
airplanes.
Jim had a deep dedication to education and during his years in Mangum, served many years on the Mangum school board of trustees and held the office of president for several of those years. He also was a member of the Oklahoma State School Board Association and served a term as its president. During that time, he was a delegate to the National School Board Association.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Sula Fae; two nieces, Marthella and Christy; and a nephew John Harvey.
Survivors include his wife, Helen; his sons and daughters in-law, JC and Anna of Amarillo and Kevin and Jeri Lou of Mineral Wells; three grandchildren, Nicole Calcote, of Chicago; Kenyon Calcote, of Norman, Okla., and Chad Calcote of Flagstaff, Ariz.; and his good friend, Steve Ellard.
Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 28, 2013)
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