Jo Dee Mincey - Waits' Obituary
Jo Dee Mincey-Waits, 75, of Amarillo, Texas died Sunday, June 30, 2024 in Amarillo, Texas.
Services will be 10:00 AM Wednesday, July 3, 2024 in the First Methodist Church in Clarendon with Rev. Chris Downer, officiating. Burial will follow in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.
Viewing will be held Tuesday at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors in Amarillo starting at 11:00 AM with the family receiving friends for visitation from 3:00-5:00 PM.
Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Jo Dee was born August 8, 1948 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Dorothy Dee and Vestal Vaughn, Jr. She married James Dewey "Jim" Mincey on February 14, 1981 in Lubbock, Texas. She had been a resident of Clarendon for 27 years where she worked as a Registered Nurse in Home Health prior to her retirement. She loved going to the lake, working home health, crafts, paintings, and adored playing card games and bingo. She was a former paramedic for Clarendon EMS in the 1980's and early 90's and was a former member of the Clarendon Firebelles. She was inducted into the Texas Panhandle Nurse Honor Guard in August 2023. She was also a former member of the First Methodist Church in Clarendon. She always loved being around her grandkids and great grandkids.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Jim on September 1, 2006; and a sister, Vicki Lacy.
Survivors include her sons, Dewey Mincey and wife Kayla of Amarillo, John Klattenhoff and wife Elayne of Midland, Wayne Buckner and wife Traci of Orr City, and James Buckner of Carthage; her daughters, Cathie Flud and husband Josh of Lubbock, Jo Ann Cline and husband Bret of Jet, Oklahoma, Eileen Hood of Amarillo, Georgi Housh and husband Danny of Canyon, Samantha Hinton of Clarendon, and Edie Mincey of Midland; her sisters, Amy Windisch of Westmont, Illinois and Kim Douglass of Huntington Beach, California; 26 grandchildren; and 22 great grandchildren.
The family request memorials be sent to the Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department / PO Box 364 / Clarendon, TX 79226.
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