Mary Wyly

Graveside service will be at 10:30 A.M. on Monday, November 2, 2015 at Dreamland Cemetery with Lennie McCay, associate pastor of Washington Avenue Christian Church, officiating. Memorial services will be at 2:00 P.M. at Washington Avenue Christian Church in Amarillo with Jim Shelburne, pastor, officiating. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Sunday, November 1, 2015 at Brooks Chapel. Mary Wyly was born on March 1, 1931 in Tucumcari, New Mexico to Thomas and Mary Howell Avaritt. She graduated from Tucumcari High School in 1950 and was awarded a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music in New York for voice and classical music. Mary forfeited this scholarship to marry the love of her life, Duane Wyly, a farm boy from Friona, on January 1, 1951. After multiple moves in the early years of their marriage, they settled in Hereford for eleven years, where they raised their boys. They then made their final home Canyon in 1981 at a place they called Eazy Acres, where Mary delighted in her home. She was an extremely diverse woman with numerous interests and talents. Her work varied from the Air Force Base in Amarillo, Hereford ISD, secretary of the Music Department at WTAMU, hand writing analysis, and finishing out her work years as Director of Sagebrush Art Gallery. But Mary's career was always secondary to her. Her greatest delight and joy was being a wife, a wonderful homemaker, mother and grandmother. Her family and home were the most important and she made an incredible home life for her family. She was talented in music, home decorating, art, quilting, and handwork, and was a veracious reader. Mary will always be remembered for her unwavering, unshakable, lifelong faith and trust in Jesus Christ, her Lord and Savior. All things in her life were built upon this Rock. She made Washington Avenue Christian Church her church home and when she was no longer able to attend, she continued her ministry to her care givers, touching many lives for Christ. Mary was preceded in death by her parents and three sisters, Ophelia Woltman, Wanda Lumpee, and Melvena Scrivner. Survivors include her husband of 65 years, Duane Wyly, of Canyon; two sons, Shawn Wyly and wife, Michelle, of Amarillo and Brendan Wyly and wife, Kristen, of Ithaca, NY; and three grandchildren, Shane Wyly and wife, Samantha, of Manchester, New Hampshire, Cheyenne Wyly, of Amarillo, and Kathryn Wyly, of Ithaca, NY. The family suggests memorials be to the Christian Relief Fund, 1501 W. 58th Ave., Amarillo, TX 79110.