Obituary

Funeral services for Rance J. Higginbotham, 55, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at 11th and Amarillo Street Church of Christ with J. Henderson officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park by Bartley Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 7-9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Mr. Higginbotham died Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, at his residence. He was born July 18, 1951, in Plainview to William Wesley and Opal Jo Higginbotham. He married Kathy Irene Clay on March 5, 1972, in Dickens. He lived in Plainview all of his life, graduating from Plainview High School in 1970. He was owner and operator of his own trucking company from 1974-90 and was working for Hendricks Trucking. He was a member of 11th and Amarillo Street Church of Christ. Survivors include his wife; two sons and one daughter-in-law, Dustin Scott and ShaMarie Higginbotham and Jason Dale Higginbotham, all of Plainview; his mother, Opal Jo Higginbotham of Lubbock; one brother and sister-in-law, Bill and Vicki Higginbotham of Lubbock; and four nieces, Melissa Moore, Erin Higginbotham and Shannon Higginbotham, all of Lubbock, and Shawn Parrott of Idalou. His father, William Wesley Higginbotham, is deceased.