Obituaries
Harold Nixon
Apr 10, 2016
Harold Dean Nixon, age 89 years, passed from this life into eternal life with Jesus Christ on Sunday, April 10, 2016, with his loved ones surrounding him. A celebration of his life and legacy will be held on Friday, April 15th at 1:00 pm at First United Methodist Church, 202 Butternut. Pastor Jeff Zirkle will officiate. Burial will follow at...
Ruth Chase Newton Clark
Apr 9, 2016
Ruth Chase Newton Clark, 85, of Abilene, passed away Saturday, April 9, 2016. Graveside services will be at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at the Tye Cemetery. Rev. Corey Graham will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Monday, April 11 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Ruth was...
Mary Elizabeth Rasco Williams
Apr 7, 2016
Mary Elizabeth Rasco Williams known to her family and friends as Betty, age 86, of Abilene, passed from this world to her eternal home with Jesus on April 7, 2016 Visitation will be from 6:30 to 7:30 P.M. on Friday, April 8th at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. Funeral services will be held at 10:00...
Hollis Newberry
Apr 7, 2016
Hollis Newberry, 91, of Abilene, passed away suddenly on Thursday, April 7, 2016 in Bedford, Texas. Funeral services will be at 11:00 am on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Rick Grant will officiate. Burial will follow in the Potosi Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on...
Santos Sosa
Apr 3, 2016
Santos Sosa, 67, of Abilene, passed away on April 3, 2016. Santos was in born Haskell, Texas to Ramon and Felisitas Sosa on September 15, 1948. He attended Abilene High School. He graduated from Abilene Christian University with a Bachelors degree in Psychology in 1979. He married Elva Villarreal on September 21, 1979 in Abilene. He was the Director of...
Inge Laird
Apr 2, 2016
Inge Laird, 76, of Abilene, Texas, passed away on 2 April 2016. Visitation will be 5pm to 7pm, Thursday, 7 April 2016 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. Memorial Service will be held at 11am, Friday, 8 April 2016, at First Baptist Church of Abilene with Pastor Phil Christopher officiating. Inge Laird was born on...
Benny Preston Barker
Mar 31, 2016
Benny Preston Barker, 78, passed from his earthly restraints to reside with his Lord in Heaven on March 31, 2016. He died peacefully in his sleep on his beloved ranch near Drasco, Texas. Funeral services and celebration of his life will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Monday, April 4, 2016, at the First Baptist Church in Winters, Texas, officiated...
Linda Ann Murphy
Mar 30, 2016
Linda Ann (Johnson) Murphy died peacefully on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in Hendrick Hospice Care at Hendrick Medical Center after a courageous battle with cancer. Her life was built upon a solid foundation of faith, family and friends, and she was blessed throughout her life with an abundance of all three. Linda was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, to George Kenneth...
Virgil L. Stewardson
Mar 29, 2016
Virgil L. Stewardson, 90, of Abilene, Texas, passed away on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at home. Virgil was born in Santa Anna, TX to John and Willie B. (Scarbrough) Stewardson on October 1, 1925. He graduated from Santa Anna High School, enlisted in the Navy and went straight into WWII. He was assigned to the USS Custer, manning a landing...
Evelyn Sleeper
Mar 22, 2016
Evelyn Chesbro Sleeper died peacefully on March 22, 2016 in Abilene, Texas at the age of 82. Evelyn was born on May 12, 1933 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada to John and Mabel Chesbro. She married Drew Cutter Sleeper, 2nd Lieut. of the U.S. Air Force, of Scarsdale, New York in 1952. Evelyn spent the first 30 years of marriage supporting...
Leroy Ates
Mar 22, 2016
Leroy “Lee” Ates, 91, died Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at his residence in Abilene, Texas. A graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, March 25, in Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene, 7457 W. Lake Road, with Rev. Jim Ritter officiating, directed by The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. Visitation will be 6 to...
Joan Hallum Blackwell
Mar 21, 2016
Joan Hallum Blackwell died peacefully on Monday, March 21, 2016, after a brief illness. She was 74. Joan was many things to many people: wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother and beloved friend. She lived for more than 50 years on Victoria Street with her husband, Eddie, who passed away in 2012. She made the people in her life happy. Born...
Dorothy Eloise Crowell
Mar 14, 2016
Dorothy Eloise Newman Crowell of Abilene, Texas passed away at age 98 on Monday, March 14, 2016 in Abilene. Dorothy was born in Roby, Texas to Elmer and Jesse James Newman. She graduated from Abilene High School at age 16 and McMurry College at age 19. After college she taught elementary school in Roby for several years. In 1939 Dorothy...
Lorain Kauffman
Mar 13, 2016
Lorain Kauffman, of Abilene, passed away on Sunday, March 13, 2016 at the age of 100. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Graveside services will be at 2:00 pm on Thursday at Elmwood Memorial Park. Dr. Jeff Reid will officiate. Lorain...
Jeane Krieger
Mar 12, 2016
Jeane Krieger passed away on Saturday, March 12, 2016 in Abilene, Texas. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 15th at The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Celebration of life will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 16th, at Brook Hollow Christian Church with Rev. Penny Biddy and Jim Bob Solsbery officiating. Services are under the...
Margaret McCarty
Mar 11, 2016
Margaret Mae Magill McCarty, 90, of Abilene, passed away on Friday, March 11, 2016 in Abilene, Texas. Visitation will be from 5-7 pm on Thursday, March 17 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 pm, Friday, March 18 at Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal with The Reverend Luke Back...
Andrew Willyoung
Mar 11, 2016
Andrew "AJ" Willyoung, 33 of Abilene, passed away on Friday, March 11, 2016 at his residence. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 16th at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. AJ was born at Hill AFB, Utah to Leslie Willyoung and Jeff Willyoung. He graduated from Cooper high school in 2000....
Nelda Ruth Hodges
Mar 10, 2016
Nelda Ruth Kunkel Hodges, 81, the beautiful Grande Dame of our family passed away in Abilene on March 10, 2016 into the loving arms of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. She experienced a stroke the same day last week that she lost her husband. Nelda’s mother’s family (Schuster) emigrated from Germany to Texas and eventually settled in Priddy, TX....
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