Gay Lynne Vandiver

1948 - 1970  (21 years)

• Name	Gay Lynne Vandiver
  Born	14 Apr 1948	Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	5 Feb 1970	Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA
  Buried	7 Feb 1970	Llano Cemetery - Amarillo, Texas, USA
  Person ID	I11458	Cody LeBlanc's Family Tree
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Chester Clifton Vandiver,   b. 29 Nov 1913, Duster, Comanche County, Texas, USA ,   d. 12 Nov 1972, Amarillo, Randall County, Texas, USA  (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Ethel Mae Stinson,   b. 3 May 1919, Oklahoma, USA ,   d. 16 Sep 1981, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA  (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F5159	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 14 Apr 1948 - Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA Died - 5 Feb 1970 - Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA Buried - 7 Feb 1970 - Llano Cemetery - Amarillo, Texas, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Gay Lynne Vandiver 1970 University of Texas at Arlington Yearbook Photo Arlington, Texas, USA Accounting
  		Gay Lynne Vandiver 1969 University of Texas at Arlington Yearbook Photo Arlington, Texas, USA
  		Gay Lynne Vandiver 1966 Tascosa High School Yearbook Photo Amarillo, Texas, USA
  		Gay Lynne Vandiver 1965 Amarillo High School Yearbook Photo Amarillo, Texas, USA Howard Graham, Jan McDaniel, juniors, and Miss Conerly accompany Gay Vandiver who visited Amarillo High School Jan. 9 when she was made an honorable Sandie.
  		Gay Lynne Vandiver 1964 Tascosa High School Yearbook Photo Amarillo, Texas, USA

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Amarillo Poster Girl Aids Muscular Dystrophy Drive Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times on November 24, 1961
  		Wheelchair Whips Handicap For Pleasant Valley Girl, 17 Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times on April 6, 1966
  		For Help To Others - Gay Lynne Vandiver Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times on December 14, 1966
  		Obituary of Gay Lynne Vandiver Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times on February 5, 1970
  		Services Saturday for MD Poster Girl Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times on February 6, 1970

  
  

  Headstones

  Headstone of Gay Lynne Vandiver Llano Cemetery - Amarillo, Texas, USA Plot: Section E, Lot 106, Space 3

  
  

• Notes

  Obituary: Muscular Distrophy Poster Girl Is Dead A 21-year-old Amarillo woman, a former Panhandle district poster girl for the Muscular Dystrophy drive, died about 1 a.m. today at Northwest Texas Hospital. Miss Gay Lynne Vandiver of 119 W. Central, a victim of the disease since she was 9, had been hospitalized since Saturday with a perforated ulcer and peritonitis. Confined to a wheelchair since she was 11, she graduated from Tascosa High School in 1965 as a member of the National Honor Society. She was a student at the University of Texas at Arlington where she was a senior. Miss Vandiver was selected poster girl in the 1961 campaign for muscular dystrophy in the Panhandle district. For years shew as a familiar sight, riding an electric wheelchair around Pleasant Valley, up a ramp into a family van or into a filing station for repairs of her vehicle. She had helped her mother in office work and had taken some telephoning jobs herself. "She had a beautiful life," said her mother, Mrs. Nolan Rucker of 119 W. Central. A $4,000 Gay Vandiver Memorial Scholarship has been established at the Fielder Road Baptist Church in Arlington by a member of that congregation. Miss Vandiver was a member of the church while attending college. Survivors include her mother, her father, C. C. Vandiver of Amarillo; two sisters, Mrs. Jerry Hawk of 163 Hyman in Amarillo and Mrs. Randy Hughes of Lockney; and a stepsister, Miss Gay Sue Rucker of the home. Funeral arrangements will be announced by N.S. Griggs & Sons Funeral Directors. (Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times on February 5, 1970)