Mark Louis Timmons

Mark Louis Timmons, beloved father and sailor, fell into his final slumber May 2, 2008. Services will be at 11:00 AM Wednesday at Rector Funeral Home Osage Chapel with Msgr. Joseph Tash of St. Thomas the Apostle Church officiating. Graveside services will be at 4:00 PM Thursday at Northfield Cemetery in Northfield with Glen Walton of Bell Avenue Church of Christ officiating. Arrangements are by Rector Funeral Home Osage Chapel, 2800 S. Osage St. Amarillo, Texas A resident of Amarillo, he was born Jan. 8, 1951, in Childress, Texas, to Walter Louis and Geneva Timmons. Mark was raised in Northfield, Texas and in 1968, graduated from Matador High, where he was a football and track athlete. He joined the U.S. Navy in August 1970 and married Karen Kappel of Port Washington, N.Y., in March 1972, and one year later, their first daughter Casandra was born in Pensacola, Fla. The family relocated to Amarillo after Mark graduated from mortuary school in 1977, and in 1981, daughter Angela was born. Mark re-joined the Navy three years later and in 1986, became a Navy corpsman in San Diego, Calif. After transferring to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, Mark earned a Bachelor of Science from the esteemed George Washington University. Following retirement, he worked at Columbia University's medical school in New York, N.Y. until he and Karen returned in 2001 to Amarillo, where he also returned to funeral directing. Mark was a lifelong Texas Tech Red Raider fan and later in life and a devoted pet owner. He is survived by ex-wife, Karen of Amarillo; daughter Casandra Uythoven and husband Sean of Burleson, Texas; daughter Angela of Austin; 1 sister Montie Dawson and husband Donnie of Amarillo, as well as various close friends and relatives. In lieu of flowers, the family asks memorial donations be made to the Amarillo-Panhandle Humane Society, (806) 373-1716.