Simon Chol Deng, 42, of Amarillo, passed away June 24, 2024.  He was born in Sudan on January 1, 1982.

Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 20, 2024, at Lighthouse Funeral Home, 3707 Wolflin Ave.

Interment will follow at 1:00 p.m. at Llano Cemetery East, 34^th & Arthur Street, Amarillo.

I’d like the memory of me

To be a happy one.

I’d like to leave an afterglow

Of smiles when life is done.

I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly

Down the ways

Of Happy times and laughing times

And bright and sunny days.

I’d like the tears of those who grieve

To dry before the sun

Of happy memories that I leave

When life is done.