Cecil R. Higginbotham, 73, of Amarillo, died Friday, December 28, 2001. MEMORIAL SERVICES will be at 2:00 PM on Monday, December 31, 2001 at Brooks Chapel in Canyon with Tim McMath, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church of Amarillo, Texas, officiating. Cecil R. Higginbotham was born on August 19, 1928 at Oklahoma City, OK to Joseph and Ode Ruth Foster Higginbotham. He moved to Arkansas and then to Texas in 1945. He was a truck driver for most of his adult life. The family will be at 4001 Harmony in Amarillo. Survivors include five brothers, Ovie Higginbotham, of Fayettville, AR, Raymond Higginbotham, of Reno, NV, Carl Lee Higginbotham, J. C. Higginbotham, and S. G. "Red" Higginbotham, all of Amarillo; four sisters, Maybelle Gibson, of Concord, CA,