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Kelln Zimmer '03 September 3, 2010 2:49 PM
Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 22, 2010 Posted: Sunday, August 22, 2010
Kelln Anne Zimmer, 29, of Amarillo died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in First Presbyterian Church, 1100 S. Harrison St., with Dr. Murray Gossett and the Rev. Jo Roberts Mann officiating. Private burial will be at the family ranch in Moore County by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Kelln was born in Amarillo, May 21, 1981, to John Markley and Jill Marks Zimmer. She graduated from Tascosa High School in 1999. She attended Texas A&M University and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2003. She was President of Epsilon Rho Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a columnist and editorial board member for The Battalion. After graduation, Kelln was a Leadership Consultant and Chapter Advisor for Kappa Kappa Gamma. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas Tech School of Law in May 2008, and served as Managing Editor for the Texas Tech Law Review. She was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 2008.
Kelln was an associate with the Underwood Law Firm and was a member of the Amarillo Bar Association and Amarillo Area Young Lawyers Association.
Special thanks to her friend and doctor, Dr. Ibrahim Shalaby and her special nurse, Kristi Satterfield, of the Joe Arrington Cancer Center, Lubbock, for their love, care and compassion.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, John Peter Zimmer of Amarillo, Howard Dale "Bud" Marks and Geneva Turner Marks of Clovis, N.M.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by her brothers, John Ryan Zimmer of Amarillo and Bennett Reed Zimmer of College Station; her grandmother, Orpha Kelln Zimmer of Amarillo; her aunts and uncles, Susan and Roger Cox of Amarillo, Steve and Shari Zimmer of Miami, N.M., Jan and Ron Garrett and Rocky and Annette Marks, all of Clovis; and cousins, Andrew Cox, Madison Cox, J. Parker Zimmer, Marshall Zimmer, Cody Garrett, Lauren Garrett, Allison Epps, Megan Wilhite and Tyler Marks.
Memorials may be given to the Kelln Zimmer Epsilon Rho Scholarship, Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, P.O. Box 39, Columbus, OH 43216; or the Kelln Zimmer Memorial Scholarship, P.O. Box 9158, Amarillo, TX 79105, to be awarded to a Texas Tech University Law School student from the Amarillo area.
Kelln Anne Zimmer, 29, of Amarillo died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in First Presbyterian Church, 1100 S. Harrison St., with Dr. Murray Gossett and the Rev. Jo Roberts Mann officiating. Private burial will be at the family ranch in Moore County by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Kelln was born in Amarillo, May 21, 1981, to John Markley and Jill Marks Zimmer. She graduated from Tascosa High School in 1999. She attended Texas A&M University and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2003. She was President of Epsilon Rho Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a columnist and editorial board member for The Battalion. After graduation, Kelln was a Leadership Consultant and Chapter Advisor for Kappa Kappa Gamma. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas Tech School of Law in May 2008, and served as Managing Editor for the Texas Tech Law Review. She was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 2008.
Kelln was an associate with the Underwood Law Firm and was a member of the Amarillo Bar Association and Amarillo Area Young Lawyers Association.
Special thanks to her friend and doctor, Dr. Ibrahim Shalaby and her special nurse, Kristi Satterfield, of the Joe Arrington Cancer Center, Lubbock, for their love, care and compassion.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, John Peter Zimmer of Amarillo, Howard Dale "Bud" Marks and Geneva Turner Marks of Clovis, N.M.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by her brothers, John Ryan Zimmer of Amarillo and Bennett Reed Zimmer of College Station; her grandmother, Orpha Kelln Zimmer of Amarillo; her aunts and uncles, Susan and Roger Cox of Amarillo, Steve and Shari Zimmer of Miami, N.M., Jan and Ron Garrett and Rocky and Annette Marks, all of Clovis; and cousins, Andrew Cox, Madison Cox, J. Parker Zimmer, Marshall Zimmer, Cody Garrett, Lauren Garrett, Allison Epps, Megan Wilhite and Tyler Marks.
Memorials may be given to the Kelln Zimmer Epsilon Rho Scholarship, Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, P.O. Box 39, Columbus, OH 43216; or the Kelln Zimmer Memorial Scholarship, P.O. Box 9158, Amarillo, TX 79105, to be awarded to a Texas Tech University Law School student from the Amarillo area.
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