Ramon Luis Overgaard

Ramon Luis Overgaard died in Amarillo on July 18, 2026. He was 96. Born in Amarillo on November 25, 1929, into a Mexican-American household that treated work as a language. From the start, he treated promises like tools: keep them sharp, do not lend them lightly. He rode pens that never held still. A pen rider chalk tally board wiped dry outlasted two bosses. Colleagues still mention a pen rider chalk tally board. He and Carmen married in 1953 and raised a daughter and two sons without needing an audience. After Carmen's death in 2019, he held to quiet habits—coffee before dawn, a tended yard, a voice on the phone that still checked in. Neighbors remember a shovel borrowed and returned sharper. He preferred the hour before a town fully wakes. Amarillo was home enough that he never rehearsed an introduction. The radio is still tuned to the station that played while work got done. What remains is not a legend but a practice: showing up, keeping a promise, leaving a place better than you found it. His life was the kind America is built from and too often forgets to name.