Obituaries
John Joseph Catalina
Mar 22, 2015
John Joseph Catalina, 93, died Sunday, March 22, 2015 at an Abilene Regional Medical Center. The son of Lena (Ropollo) and James William Catalina, John was born on February 5, 1922 in High Bank, Texas. Following graduation from high school, he served in the U.S. Navy from which he received a medical discharge. In 1942 he married Mary Ester Moore...
Nick Baker
Mar 22, 2015
Nick “Cowboy” Baker, 63, died Sunday, March 22, 2015 in Abilene, Texas at a medical center. Born in Coleman, Texas on March 18, 1952, Nick was the son of Norma Ruth (Jones) Miller and Howard Glenn Baker. After graduation from high school he attended college in Odessa, graduating in 1972. He was a lifelong barber, having worked at Town House...
Elsie Henryetta Norwood
Mar 21, 2015
Elsie Henryetta Britton Norwood of Abilene, Texas, passed away on March 21, 2015 in Abilene, Texas. Visitation will be on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 from 5:00-7:00PM at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. Memorial services will be held at on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 10:00AM at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal with...
Ruth Ellen Collins
Mar 21, 2015
Ruth Ellen Collins, 89, died Saturday, March 21, 2015 at an Abilene medical center. Born in Carbon, Texas on September 27, 1925, Ruth was the daughter of Millie M. (Mangum) and James Turner Peel. She graduated from Corbon High School and was married to LaFoy Collins, Jr. on June 26, 1943. She was a homemaker. She worked as manager of...
Wendy Walters Veigel
Mar 20, 2015
Wendy Brigham Walters Veigel Wendy Veigel, age 69, of Abilene Texas joined the angels in Heaven on March 20, 2015 in Abilene, Texas. Funeral services will be held at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal in Abilene TX on Friday March 27, 2015 at eleven o’clock in the morning. Burial will follow at the church’s columbarium. Arrangements are directed...
Lora Hughes Lesley
Mar 18, 2015
Lora Hughes Lesley, 75, of Clyde, Texas, died Wednesday, March 18, 2015, at an Abilene medical center. Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, March 20, in Clyde Cemetery directed by The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene.
Brian Curtis Brooks
Mar 17, 2015
Brian Brooks, age 89, died March 17, 2015. A native of Brown County, Texas, Brian Curtis Brooks was born on July 7, 1925 to Roscoe and Erin (Williams) Brooks. He graduated from Brownwood High School in 1942 and served in the U.S. Navy during WWII as an aviation radioman. After the war he obtained a BS degree in Animal Husbandry...
William Henry Roach
Mar 16, 2015
William H. “Bill” Roach, 81, died Monday, March 16, 2015 in Abilene, Texas. Bill was born in the small community of Telephone, Texas, on June 29, 1933 to “Buck” and Dora Faye Roach. When he was eight years old, his mother married Clarence Dozier, giving him three stepbrothers and a stepsister. For four short years, he enjoyed playing, competing and...
Brian Joseph Green
Mar 12, 2015
Brian J. Green, 56, of Abilene, passed away Thursday, March 12, 2015 at Baylor Regional Medical Center in Grapevine, Texas. Visitation will be from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. There will be a local celebration of Brian Green's life from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Wednesday at...
Jimmy Dean Womack
Mar 12, 2015
Jimmy Dean (J.D.) Womack went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Thursday, March 12, 2015. He was born in Cross Cut, Texas on July 5, 1925, to Jesse and Willie Payne Womack. Jimmy married the love of his life and best friend, Barbara Smith Womack, on December 17, 1955. They enjoyed 59 wonderful years together. God blessed...
Norris E. Ragle
Mar 11, 2015
Norris E. Ragle, Sr., 79, died Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at his residence in Abilene, Texas. Born in Olney, Texas on November 20, 1935, Norris was the son of Clara Leona (Norris) and Homer Virgil Ragle. After serving in the U. S. Army, he worked as a radio engineer for Lockheed, Abilene Christian University, and several television and radio stations....
Lane Patrick Frizzell
Mar 9, 2015
Lane Patrick Frizzell, also known as Laner, Slim, or Flaco to many, died peacefully surrounded by his family in Austin, Texas on March 9, 2015 at the age of 63 after a seven-year battle with frontal lobe and temporal dementia. Lane is survived by his parents, Jack and Pat Frizzell of Abilene, Texas; his wife, Holly Frizzell of Abilene; children...
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...
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