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Naomi Horton Beckel, 75, of Amarillo died Saturday, March 19, 2016.

Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Llano Cemetery with Brother Cecil Burch of Northside Church of Christ and Charles and Doug Kelley of Amarillo officiating. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.

Naomi was born May 21, 1940, in McCurtain County, Okla., to Lester and Hester Horton. She was a graduate of Borger High School. She worked for Clowe & Cowan, where she met Terry Beckel. They were married on July 4, 1962, in Amarillo. Naomi was a member of Church of Christ.

Survivors include her husband, Terry Beckel; a son, Michael Dean Beckel of Pagosa Springs, Colo.; a daughter, Michelle Beckel Corley and husband Phillip of Eagle, Idaho; four sisters, Ruth Pugh of O’Donnell, Jo Nell Amaral of El Monte, Calif., Natha Barbour of Euless and Louise Kirkpatrick of St. Louis, Mo.; two brothers, David Horton of Ardmore, Okla., and Kenneth Horton, of Tulsa, Okla,; and three grandchildren, Austin and Skylar Corley and Dakota Beckel.

(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 21, 2016)





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