- Thomas Leslie Asher, 85, of Amarillo died Wednesday, April 18, 2007.
Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. today in Memory Gardens Cemetery with Dr. Jim Smith, pastor of St. Stephen United Methodist Church, officiating. Arrangements are by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Mr. Asher was born Oct. 1, 1921, in Campbell, Mo., and was raised in the Athens-Mertchison area. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. He married Margie DeLong in 1943 in Albuquerque, N.M. She passed away in 1991. He married Elma Jo Landers in 1994. He had been a resident of Amarillo since 1960. He drove a bus for Greyhound Bus Co. for 37 years before his retirement.
He moved to Houston in 1994 and then to LaPorte.
He was preceded in death by a son, Thomas Lance Asher, in 1997; five sisters; and two brothers.
Survivors include his wife, Elma Asher; three daughters, Lora J. Reynolds-Roudebush and husband Don of Amarillo, Patricia Ann Blewett of Roswell, N.M., and Carol Leslie Sherrer and husband Ed of Springfield, Va.; a stepson, Steve Landers and wife Paula of Katy; two sisters, Clara John Hatton of Amarillo and Lois Ivy of Dallas; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Amarillo Globe-News, April 24, 2007
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