Obituaries
John Hue Kennedy
Oct 20, 2015
John H. Kennedy, 78, of Abilene passed away on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 in Abilene. Visitation will be 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. Thursday, October 22 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held 10:30 Friday, October 23 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home with Mike Bailey officiating. Burial will follow at Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene....
Karen Bowden
Oct 19, 2015
Karen Sue Glover Bowden, age 45, passed away Monday, October 19, 2015 in Merkel. Funeral service will be at 10:00 A.M. Thursday October 22, 2015 at the Wylie Baptist Church. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. Burial will be in the Iberis Cemetery....
Violet Casity Lee
Oct 15, 2015
Violet Casity Lee, 97, died Thursday, October 15, 2015, in Abilene, Texas. The funeral service will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, October 18, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. Visitation will be 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday prior to the service. Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, October 19, in Gruver...
Winona C. Benchoff
Oct 12, 2015
Winona C. Benchoff, 93, of Abilene, passed away Monday, October 12, 2015 at a local nursing home. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm on Thursday, October 15, 2015 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park. Friends may come by to view and sign the guest register book from...
Wanda Fay Lunn
Oct 11, 2015
Wanda C. Lunn died October 11, 2015, at the age of 84 at her home. She was born April 4, 1931, near Avoca, Texas, to Bennie and Lottie Fay Cox. She grew up in Jones County and graduated as Valedictorian from Leuders High School in 1948 where she received a scholarship to Draughon’s Business School in Abilene. A goal of...
Margaret Anne Morford
Oct 11, 2015
Maggy Morford, age 94, left this world on October 11, 2015 to join family and friends in her Eternal dwelling with her Lord and Savior. Maggy lived an interesting and eventful life that started with her birth. Her father was working in the Copper Mines in Nacozari, Mexico and her mother went to Bisbee, Arizona for a few days prior...
Stephanie Renea Foster
Oct 11, 2015
Stephanie Renea Holland-Foster passed away suddenly on Sunday, October 11, 2015 at her home in Potosi. Visitation will be from 5:00-7:00 pm Thursday, October 15, 2015 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 am Friday, October 16, 2015, at Beltway Park Church, 4009 Beltway South, with Randy Reese and...
Thomas E. Maloney
Oct 10, 2015
Thomas Edmund Maloney III, 55, of Abilene, Texas passed away on Saturday, October 10, 2015. Funeral service has been set for 10:00 A.M. Wednesday, October 14 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Tuesday October 13. Thomas Edmund Maloney III was born in Denton, Texas, to Thomas Jr....
Elizabeth Hope
Oct 10, 2015
Elizabeth Anne Satterfield Hope entered eternal life on Saturday, October 10, 2015. Memorial services will be held at 10:00 am on Friday, October 16, 2015 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Elizabeth Anne, better known as Lib, was born in Jackson, Mississippi on October 6, 1928. She grew up in Canton, Mississippi with her parents, Peggy...
Eugene Wilson Sumner
Oct 9, 2015
Eugene Wilson Sumner, 83 years old, passed away on October 9, 2015 at his residence in Abilene, Texas. Visitation will be Monday, October 12, 2015 from 6:00-8:00 pm at The Hamil Family Funeral Home 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. Graveside services will be held Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at Potosi Cemetery. His son, Rodney Wilson Sumner, and grandson, Luke Hurst...
Beatrice Minnie Shackelford
Oct 9, 2015
Beatrice, “Bee,” Agnew Shackelford of Abilene passed away on October 9, 2015 in her home, surrounded by her daughters. Bee and her twin sister, Betty, were born in Mannington, West Virginia to William and Phema Agnew on January 2, 1919. She graduated from Abilene High School in 1937, where she was a cheerleader and named “Friendliest Girl.” Bee never met...
Judith Pratt
Oct 8, 2015
Judith "Judie" T. Pratt of Abilene, Texas passed away on October 8, 2015. Visitation will be Sunday October 11, 2015 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. Funeral services will be held Monday October 12, 2015 at 2 P.M. at Lytle South Baptist Church with Rodney Watson officiating. Burial will follow...
Karen Younts Schubert
Oct 7, 2015
Karen Younts Schubert, 67, of Abilene, Texas, passed away on Wednesday, October 7, 2015. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 pm on Saturday, October 10, 2015 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene. Rev. Tommy Needham of Amarillo will preside. Karen Ann Younts was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, to Bob and Jeanette Younts...
Alma Louise Strickland
Oct 3, 2015
Louise Strickland, 91, of Abilene, passed away on October 3, 2015 in Abilene. Visitation will be from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 6, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 7, at Baker Heights Church of Christ, 5382 Texas Avenue, with Wes McAdams officiating. Arrangements...
Orval O. Ely
Oct 3, 2015
Orval Ely, 90, of Abilene passed away on October 3rd, in Abilene. Visitation with be held on Monday evening, October 5th, from 5 until 7 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning, October 6th, at 11 a.m. at the Wylie United Methodist Church with Reverends Charles Williams,...
O.W. Hickey
Oct 2, 2015
Born November 16, 1923, and raised in the piney woods of East Texas, Oliver William (Bill) Hickey left this life on the evening of October 2nd while in residence at the home of his daughter and son-in-law in Coronado’s Camp. He was 91. After graduating from what is now the University of Texas at Arlington in 1942, Bill entered the...
Glenna Mae McInroe
Sep 26, 2015
Glenna Mae McInroe, 82, of Abilene, passed away on September 26, 2015 attended by family in Abilene, Texas. She was a dedicated Christian, wife, mother, and partner. Glenna was born in Lubbock County to J.C. and Stella Taylor on July 20, 1933. She went to school and graduated from Whitharral, Texas. She married Wendell McInroe on June 10, 1952 in...
Doris Pearson
Sep 25, 2015
Doris Starritt Pearson, 96, of Tyler (formerly of Abilene), passed away on Friday, September 25, 2015 in Tyler, Texas. Visitation will be from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, September 28, 2015, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Funeral services will follow at 1:00 pm with Pastor David Cason officiating. Burial will follow at Elmwood...