Services will be at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Brooks Chapel with George Hamontree, First Baptist Church deacon and Canyon Cares director, officiating. Music will be by Lorrie and Gene Jones, Associate Pastor of Second Half Ministries, First Baptist Church. Burial will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Willie Iona Avary Osborn Diggs, 96, died Wednesday, June 22, 2016 in Amarillo. She was born April 23, 1920 in Childress County to Samuel Newton and Lydia Myrtle Franks Avary, and grew up on a farm south of Carey, Texas, in the home her parents built in 1925. Willie attended first grade at Valley View before transferring to Carey Consolidated High School in 1928, graduating in 1938. Before settling on teaching, Willie worked at a newsstand in Vernon; the Federal Housing Administration; the National Youth Administration making overalls during World War II; Webb Studio in Childress; and Bright Studio in Amarillo. On December 23, 1944, Willie married William Carroll "Dub" Osborn, Jr. at Clayton, New Mexico. Together they attended and received bachelor degrees from West Texas State Teachers College in Canyon, Texas. Willie received a Master of Education degree in 1953 from West Texas State College. She and Dub taught school in Community Center, Cee Vee, Muleshoe, Cactus, Dimmitt, Tulia, and Hereford where she retired, in 1980. Willie taught first, third, fifth, and sixth grade students and was at the forefront of teaching children with learning disabilities. Willie married Oliver Shirley Diggs on May 26, 1987 in Canyon. Willie was a Christian, a member of the First Baptist Church in Canyon where she belonged to the quilt ministry and LLL. She was active in Canyon Senior Citizens. Competitive in spirit, she loved to play "88" and Bingo, and delighted in beating her dear friend, Sean York, in Skip-Bo. Preceding her in death were her parents, Sam Avary (1953 Lubbock); Myrtle Franks Avary (1961 Childress); her husbands, Dub Osborn, (1984 Amarillo) and Oliver Diggs (2006 Amarillo); her brothers, Charles Russell Avary (KIA 1950 Korea) and Thomas Luke Avary (2013 Amarillo); and her sisters, Marie Avary Faulkenberry (2005 Lubbock) and Frances Inez Avary Hall Bass Barnett (2010 Canyon). Survivors include her sister, Lucille Avary Faulkenberry, of Seagraves; nieces, Jean Bagley, Jeanette Hadaway, of Seagraves, Nadyne Lynn, of Amarillo, Ginger Cochran, of Ojai, CA, and Dona Walker, of Laguna Woods, CA; nephews, Dean Faulkenberry, of Seagraves, Don Faulkenberry, of Carrollton, Joe Faulkenberry, of Canyon, Jerry Bass, of Del Rio, Larry Bass, of El Paso, and James Bass, of Canyon; and other family including Bobby Gene Diggs, of Austin, Billie Dean Diggs and Patricia Ann Diggs, of Amarillo. The family suggests memorials be to the First Baptist Church, 1717 4th Ave. Canyon, TX 79015 or to Canyon Cares or Canyon Senior Citizens, both at 1719 5th Ave. Canyon, TX 79015.