Dateline: March 9, 2006

Wilson family suffers tragedy in Amarillo fire 

By Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise

A former Clarendon family was devastated when a fire destroyed their home and caused the death of a six-year-old girl.

Shaniqua Wilson was killed in the fire, and her two-year-old sister, Tashonda, was sent to a Lubbock burns hospital, according to an article in Saturday’s Amarillo Globe-News.

Their four-year-old brother, Christopher, has returned to Clarendon to live with relatives and is now enrolled in Clarendon Elementary School.

The family is in need of a twin bed and clothes for the young man since of all of his belongings were lost in the fire. Interested parties can contact Jill Frausto at 874-1810 to help with this situation.

Larry Wilson told the Globe-News his nephew Ben Wilson, awoke during the fire and took Christopher outside through a window before kicking in the front door to look for the other residents.

The Wilson family moved to Amarillo a few months ago. According to the Globe-News, the three children, the children’s mother, Nettie Wilson, Ben Wilson, the children’s uncle, and Gloria Wilson, mother of Nettie and Ben Wilson, all lived in the house. Gloria and Nettie were not home at the time of the fire.