Dad's obituary (Klostar is a family name ...)

Note: This obituary will not appear in the Amarillo Globe-News until later in the week and closer to the funeral. You can find it online at BoxwellBrothers.com.

James Marvin Klostar Wilcoxson, 70, of Amarillo, died Saturday, May 23, 2015, in Amarillo.                                 

Services will be at 10:00 A.M. on Monday, June 1, 2015 at Hillside Christian Church Chapel with Mike Nuthman officiating. Burial will be at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home, 2800 Paramount Blvd. 

Jim was born on Nov. 15, 1944, in Pilot Point to Marvin Klostar Wilcoxson and Annie Maude Wilcoxson. He grew up in Childress and graduated from Childress High School in 1963. Jim met the love of his life, Nicki Sooter, at Childress High School in 1960. Jim and Nicki married on Jan. 23, 1965, in Lubbock. 

Jim attended Texas Tech from 1963 to 1966 on a golf scholarship, where he lettered all three years. As a sophomore at Tech, he was undefeated in match play. Jim graduated in 1985 from West Texas State University with a bachelor of science in education. 

Jim lived with his family in Amarillo for 46 years. He worked in the golf business from 1968 to 1982 at Southwest Golf Course in Amarillo and Amarillo Country Club.   

Jim began his coaching career as a volunteer coach for his daughters’ Kids Incorporated teams. In 1981, Jim and Dr. Gerald Parker established a four-team Little Dribblers’ franchise in Amarillo, which later evolved into Southwest Amarillo Basketball Association and then into the Amarillo Basketball Association. 

In 1981, 1982 and 1983, Jim coached the Southwest Amarillo girls’ basketball teams to win national Little Dribblers’ championships. In 1982, the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame honored Jim with a Special Achievement Award for back-to-back Little Dribblers’ National Championships. In 1983, the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce Sports Committee gave him a sports achievement award for the Little Dribbler national championships.  

Jim served as a volunteer assistant coach to Kelly Chadwick at Amarillo College from 1983-1985.   

After Jim graduated from West Texas State University in 1985, he took his first girls’ high school coaching job at Booker High School in Booker. Jim coached girls’ basketball at Tascosa High School in Amarillo from 1986-1989. During the 1987-88 season, he coached the Lady Rebels to the regional playoffs for the first time in school history.  

Jim served as the girls’ basketball coach at Randall High School from 1989-2004, where he led the teams to 15 consecutive playoffs during those 15 years.  He led the 1992 and 1998 Lady Raider teams to the Class 4A State Championships. 

In 1992, Jim received the Texas Girls’ Coaches Association Coach of the Year award. He received the Texas Sportswriters Association Coach of the Year award in 1998. 

Jim was inducted into the Randall High School Raiders Hall of Fame in 2004. He received the Mike Newland Sportsmanship Award given by the Amarillo Basketball Officials Association in 2004. 

In 2005, Jim became the 135th inductee into the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame. 

During the 2006-07 basketball season, Jim, along with Dale Blaut, became an assistant coach for Coach Krista Gerlich and the West Texas A&M University Lady Buffs basketball team. 

Jim was inducted in 2012 into the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame.  

During retirement, Jim was an avid golfer. He became a certified person trainer and loved to work out. He was active in his grandsons’ lives and in his church.  

Jim was preceded in death by his parents, and by an infant daughter, Amy, in 1967. His wife most recently preceded him in death on May 13, 2015.

He is survived by two daughters Kim Migliaccio and husband Vince, of Flower Mound; Jami Wilmarth and husband Dorsey, of Amarillo; and three grandsons, Hart Wilmarth of Maryland; Jordie Henry of Amarillo; and Cole Migliaccio of Flower Mound. 

The family suggests memorials be sent to Lost But Not Forgotten, LBNF, PO Box 50292, Amarillo, TX 75159.