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Judy Ann
Amor
Dec 11, 1947 — May 22, 2019
Bison
Judy White Amor, 71, lost her hard-fought battle with cancer and passed away at the West River Hospital in Hettinger, ND on Wednesday, May 22, 2019.
Judy was born on December 11, 1947 to Forest Bryce White and Lila (Wilkinson) White on her father's birthday. Bryce said she was the best birthday present he ever had! The family started out in Prairie City; the town Bryce founded after buying land using his GI Bill after he returned from WWII. They moved to Bison before just started school to run the Sorum Telephone office where her mother was the switchboard operator and her father was the lineman and repairman. After the telephone company was sold to West River Telephone Cooperative, her family ran White's Truck Stop and gas station in Bison, and they lived just south of the elevator.
Judy graduated from high school in Bison and attended college at the School of Mines in Rapid City. She married Paul Chilcote, who was in the US Air Force stationed at Ellsworth Airbase in Rapid City. They later moved to Washington DC where Paul oversaw Air Force One during the Nixon administration. They had two sons, Jeffery Daren and Garette Wade, and were later divorced. Judy and her sons lived in Maryland where she managed several Hechinger stores from North Carolina to New Jersey and was the regional manager for Gamarel.
She moved to Stoney Creek, Ontario in Canada and married Ken Amor. They drove a delivery truck for Crossroads Express and moved back to her parents' home in Bison after retiring.
Judy is survived by her husband, Ken; sons, Jeffery Daren (Christi) Chilcote, Waldorf, Maryland, and Garette Wade (Kelly) Chilcote, Bristow, Virginia; six grandchildren, Amanda, William, Thomas, Alexandra, Joshua, and Isabella; stepchildren, Jeanette Riddel, Branford, Ontario, Mathew Amor, Edmonton, Alberta, and Adam Amor, Calgary, Alberta; sister, Judy (Reuben) Olson, Prairie City, SD. Her parents and grandparents preceded her in death.
Services will be held at 2:00 pm, Wednesday, May 29, at the Baptist Church in Bison, SD with Pastor Phil Hahn officiating. Burial will be later at the Glendo Cemetery next to where Judy's mother grew up at the old town of Glendo.
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