Obituaries
Floy Ruth Brown
Mar 8, 2015
Floy Ruth McWilliams Brown, age 93, passed away in Abilene, Texas on Sunday, March 8, 2015 at her home in Wesley Court Nursing Center. Floy was born on February 4, 1922 in Brownfield, Texas to Scott and Nola McWilliams. Floy grew up in McCamey, and after business school was employed for a number of years as a secretary in the...
David Wendall Howell
Mar 8, 2015
David Wendall Howell, SM/Sgt., USAF (Retired), 74, died Sunday, March 8, 2015 in Abilene. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 12, 2015 in The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene.
Fletcher H. Hall lll
Mar 7, 2015
Fletcher H. Hall III (Buddy) 62, of Abilene Texas, passed away on March 7, 2015 in a local hospital. Fletcher H. Hall III was born in Roswell, New Mexico to Fletcher H. Hall Jr. and Emma Gene Hall on October 30, 1952. He went to high school at Capitan High School and attended Abilene Christian University. He married Paula Sue...
Tommye Jesalyn Skiles
Mar 6, 2015
Tommye Jesalyn Brasher Skiles was born on March 20, 1927 in Dallas, Texas and passed away on March 6, 2015 in Marble Falls, Texas. She was 87. Tommye was preceded in death by her parents, James Leonard Brasher and Jesalyn Park Brasher, and husband, Lloyd Warren Skiles. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Roger G. Skiles, M.D. and...
Clarke Orr
Mar 4, 2015
Clarke Putnam “Pappy” Orr, 95, died Wednesday, March 4, 2015 in Abilene, Texas at his residence. The son of Nancy Emaline (Clarke) and Porter B. Orr, M.D., Clarke was born on January 8, 1920 in Asheville, North Carolina. He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in 1937. He attended Mars Hill College near Asheville for two years. In 1939 he...
Eddie Rodriguez
Mar 4, 2015
Eddie Nasario Rodriguez, 53, passed away on March 4, 2015 in Abilene, Texas. Visitation will be 2:00-4:00 p.m. Sunday, March 8, 2015 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Monday, March 9, 2015 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Father Bush officiating. Burial will follow at Elmwood...
Karla Barnett
Mar 2, 2015
Karla Barnett, of Abilene joined her Heavenly Father on the morning of March 2, 2015, passing peacefully into the arms of the angels who carried her home. Visitation will be Friday, March 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Funeral services will be Saturday, March 7, beginning at 11:30 a.m. at...
Bob Procter
Mar 2, 2015
Elsie Lorene Procter passed away on Monday, March 2, 2015 in Austin, Texas. Ms. Procter was 93 years, 7 months, and 8 days old. Elsie was born on July 22, 1921 to Douglas McWhorter and Nancy Tharp McWhorter in Paris, Texas. She married her high school sweetheart, Robert (Bob) Lee Procter, on September 10, 1939. Elsie and Bob were married...
Loris Norris
Mar 1, 2015
Loris Norris, 77, of Abilene, passed away Sunday, March 1, 2015 at Hendrick Medical Center. Funeral services will be at 11:00 am on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Jim Harcourt will officiate. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 pm on Tuesday...
D.G. Porterfield
Feb 28, 2015
D. G. Porterfield died February 28, 2015. The funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at Elmwood West United Methodist Church with Rev. David Porterfield and Rev. Amy Wilson Feltz officiating. Entombment will follow at Elmwood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at...
Hubertina Maria Bolders
Feb 27, 2015
Hubertina “Tina” Maria Bolders passed away February 27, 2015, at Hendrick Hospice Center. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 7:00 pm on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. A prayer service will begin at 7:00 pm, followed by a rosary. Tina’s life will be celebrated at the Mass of the...
Stella Louise Burke Walls
Feb 26, 2015
Stella Louise Burke Walls, 71, passed away Thursday, February 26, 2015 in Buffalo Gap, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 pm on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at Big Cove Holiness Church. Burial will follow in the Green Valley Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Wednesday at Spry Funeral Home, 2411 North Memorial Parkway in...
Mike Hendrix
Feb 22, 2015
Mike Hendrix, 71, of Tuscola, Texas died Sunday, February 22, 2015 at his residence. The son of Lillian Faye (Scarbrough) and Willard Nolan Hendrix, Mike was born on September 11, 1943 in Ballinger, Texas, and graduated from Winters High School in 1961. He married Gweneth Jo Caskey on August 26, 1963 in Winters, Texas. Mike was a farmer and rancher....
Biddie Jackson
Feb 21, 2015
Mrs. J. Oliver (Biddie) Jackson Bridget "Biddie" Marie Rowland Jackson, age 93, was born on December 14, 1921. She passed from this life on February 21, 2015. A private burial is planned followed by a family visitation on Wednesday, February 25 from five until seven PM at Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene, TX. A memorial service...
Cearley Read Kinard
Feb 20, 2015
Cearley Read Kinard, 98, passed away on Friday, February 20, 2015. Death was at home in his apartment, at the Wesley Court Retirement Community on Antilley Road, under hospice care, after a six week long slow decline following influenza and pneumonia. A memorial service, followed by a reception, will be held on Saturday, March 7, 2015, at 4:00 pm at...
Thomas Edward Bowser
Feb 19, 2015
Thomas Edward Bowser, 88, died Thursday, February 19, 2015 in Abilene, Texas. The son of Nell (Powell) and Roy P. Bowser, Thomas was born on February 9, 1927 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania. He first served in the Merchant Marines and re-enlisted in the U.S. Air Force for which he was an air traffic controller. From 1950 to 1986 he worked for...
Billy Joe Dutton
Feb 19, 2015
Billy Dutton Sr., 77, of Hawley, Texas, left this earth to be with our Lord on February 19th 2015 in Abilene, Texas. Born in Concordia, Kansas, March 8th 1937, he was the son of Edward Thomas Dutton and Oneta (Bombardier) Dutton. He married Virginia Stephens on October 12th 1958 in Murtaugh, Idaho. Bill attended school in Bellville, Kansas until he...
Elna Davis
Feb 18, 2015
Our sweet Mama entered Heaven on Wednesday, February 18, 2015. She was born Elna Juanita Pickering on September 5, 1917 in Sagerton, TX to Etta Muriel (Hill) and John Walter Pickering. She was one of eight children born prior to the Great Depression and knew all too well the hardships of that period. She remembered times of having nothing to...
John K. Casey
Feb 17, 2015
John Casey, 82, died Tuesday, February 17, 2015, at an Abilene nursing home. Born in Runnels County, Texas on April 24, 1932, John was the son of Ethel Etta (Hamner) and Joseph Thomas Casey. He was a lifelong resident of the Abilene area. He married Monna Vinson on June 3, 1955 in Abilene. John was a self-employed concrete contractor. He...
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