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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)