Services will be 2:00 P.M. on Friday, June 9, 2006 at the First Assembly of God Church with Rev. Terry Callis, pastor, and Rev. Billy Nickell, pastor of First Assembly of God Church in Amarillo, officiating. Burial will follow at Dreamland Cemetery. Sherry Hendricks McDowell was born April 16, 1936, in Hardeman County, Texas, to Lewis and Lettie Leonard Hendricks. She attended Norwalk Elementary School in Norwalk, CA, and Quanah public schools where she graduated in 1954. After high school graduation, she worked two years at the ASC office in Quanah before entering West Texas State University in 1956. She received her Bachelor of Business Administration in 1960. She worked in the Randall County District Clerk"s office until September 1966 when she began her teaching career in Happy High School. She retired after teaching 26 years and worked as part-time secretary at the Assembly of God Church in Canyon for nine years before fully retiring. McDowell led student groups to Europe in "75, "76, "78, "80, "82, "84, and "88. She returned to London in "93 and toured Brazil in "98. She was a member of TSTA, TBEA, TAJE, and CRTA. In 1991, she was awarded a life-time membership in Texas Association of Journalism Educators for her work as yearbook advisor. In 1993, she was named Taylor Publishing Company"s yearbook advisor of the year. She was a member of Canyon First Assembly (joined in 1957). Survivors include; her husband, Aubrey McDowell of the home; two sons, Bobby Lee McDowell of Canyon and Jeffrey Lewis McDowell and wife, Charlie of Missouri City; two granddaughters, Haley Marie and Samantha Nicole McDowell of Missouri City; one sister, Zonell Dickerson of Canyon; and many nieces and nephews.