James Joseph Amos

James Joseph Amos passed away peacefully in his home in Ash Fork, Arizona, on May 9, 2025. James, “Jay” Amos, was born in Cody, Wyoming on September 22, 1951, to Donna Maxine Singleton Felker Young and Jim Felker.

Jay was a wonderful son and a kind and caring big brother to his two sisters. Jay loved sports, playing baseball, football, and basketball and was usually the team captain, as he was extremely popular among his peers. Jay married Christine Huttman in 1978, and they had many grand adventures together, from raising Schipperke dogs, selling custom T-shirts at Flea Markets, running Christmas Tree lots, to boarding and training hunting dogs, just to name a few. Jay was quite an entrepreneur. They eventually bought forty acres in Ash Fork, Arizona and created their beloved homestead. Jay lost his soulmate and life partner, Chris, in 2002. Jay was an avid and excellent golfer and began golfing at an early age and continued golfing his whole life. Jay loved training hunting dogs and guiding hunting parties in the Arizona wilderness, many of his clients became his good friends. Jay was quite successful and well known in the hunting world in Northern Arizona. Jay married a second time to Lianna Marie in 2017. Gratefully she was able to take him home and was by his side when he passed, just as he wanted it to be.

Jay is survived by his wife, Lianna Marie; sisters, Rebecca Singleton and Carla Rae Nguyen (Truong Nguyen); nieces, Maaike Hough, Kim-Elise Rentmeister, Kijla Randall, Kara-Lien Trumpy, and nephews, Joseph Hough and Travis Nguyen-Murphy. Jay’s family loved him dearly. His dry wit and humor and his infectious laugh will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

Jay is preceded in death by his mother, Donna Maxine Singleton Young; his father, Jim Felker; his stepfather, Wayne Young, and his wife, Christine Amos. Jay will be interred in the Wilford Cemetery, in St. Anthony, Idaho.

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