Rebecca Diane Metcalf

Rebecca Diane Metcalf passed away on August 4, 2015 at the age of 25.

Miss Metcalf was born in Irving, Texas on November 13, 1989 to Janet and Mike Metcalf and graduated from Amarillo High School in 2008.

She attended Texas Tech University as a Community and Family Addiction Sciences major at the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery and had been accepted into the masters program. The center graciously hosted a candlelight service in Miss Metcalf's honor Wednesday night where several friends and professors stood and talked about their love and admiration for her. She was also a member of the Chi Omega sorority.

Miss Metcalf worked at the Dove Tree Recovery Center, where she made many life-long friends. The family would especially like to thank Valerie Louis of Amarillo and Kristin Harper of Lubbock for all of their love and support as well as Jordan Baccus, her sister of the heart. She was very involved in the community where she did fundraising for the Lubbock chapter of Young People in Recovery, volunteered at the Collegiate Recovery Community, Association of Students About Service, and The Way Out Group. Miss Metcalf had a great love for animals and after adopting her dog Louis Vuitton, she spent time helping at the local ASPCA.

She is preceded in death by her grandparents Doris Metcalf, Darwyn Metcalf, Carley and J.W. Cosby, aunt Nancy Metcalf Merritt and a cousin Candace Cosby.

Survivors include her parents Mr. and Mrs. Mike Metcalf, her brother Casey Metcalf of Amarillo, aunt Sherry Kelley of Amarillo, aunt Sharla Hodges and husband Mark of Henderson, Uncle Barry Cosby and wife Valerie of Albuquerque, New Mexico, aunt Christie Ford and husband Terry of Henderson, an aunt of the heart Missy Stringer of Lubbock, as well as numerous cousins and special friends Jordan Baccus, Taylor Kelley and wife Ashley, Bryan Kelley and wife Betsy, Carley Kasparek and husband Andrew, Markus Hodges and wife Casey, Matthew Ashby and wife Kelsey, Lindsey Cromier and husband Geoff, Cristi Stearns and husband Dr. Chris Stearns, and Tate Cosby.

The family will be receiving visitors at Schooler Funeral Home in Amarillo Friday evening from 6:00-8:00. A service will be held at First United Methodist Church of Tulia on Saturday at 10:00am followed by the burial at Rosehill Cemetery in Tulia, Texas. Afterwards, the family and friends will return to the church for lunch and to celebrate Miss Metcalf's life. The family asks that memorials be made to the Texas Tech Collegiate Recovery Community, PO Box 41160, Lubbock, Texas, 79409, in lieu of flowers.