Memorial services will be at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at the First Presbyterian Church of Canyon with The Rev. Dr. Don McDonald officiating. Graveside services will be at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday at Dreamland Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday, August 14, 2009 from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. at Brooks Chapel. Burial will be in Dreamland Cemetery. Jack Edmondson was born on December 10, 1918 at Little Rock, Arkansas to Lonnie and Elizabeth Anthony Edmondson. He came to West Texas State College on a football scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor of Education. He was drafted into the Calvary and then to the Army Air Corps. He returned to West Texas and received his Master"s degree and moved to Pampa where he served as assistant principal, high school principal, and then superintendent from 1946 to 1965. He moved to Canyon in 1965 and began working at West Texas State College as Director of Placement and Professor of Education and later retired from Region 16. He married Jane Boone at Lamesa, Texas in 1942. Survivors include his wife, Jane, of Canyon; a son, Tony Edmondson and wife, Dotty, of San Antonio; two daughters, Terry Langwell and husband, Eddie, of Claude, and Jerry Owens and husband, Gerrel, of Pampa; ten grandchildren, Sander Edmondson, Clint Allen, Rick Edmondson, Troy Owens, Cannon Allen, Lynn Leigh McCollum, Dusty Langwell, Casey Owens, David Owens, and Tonya Garza; and thirteen great grandchildren. The family suggests memorials be to Olivia"s Angels, PO Box 950, Amarillo, Texas 79105, or the First Presbyterian Church, 904 19th St., Canyon, Texas 79015.