Obituaries
Kathryn Ann Petree
Aug 29, 2010
Kathryn Ann Petree, 92, died Sunday, August 29, 2010, at a Stamford hospital. The daughter of Willie Annie (White) and Ernest H. Wylie, she was born on September 21, 1917 in Allen, Texas. A resident of Abilene since 1948, Kathryn moved to Stamford in 2004 to be near her daughter. Kathryn married Aubrey P. Petree on March 17, 1941 in...
Bobby Joe Linahan
Aug 25, 2010
Bobby Joe Linahan of Hamby passed peacefully from this life on August 25, 2010. He was born on December 25, 1953 in Ballinger, Texas to Johnny Clay and Shorty Hampton Linahan. Bobby Joe graduated from Albany High School in 1973. He married Bette Lu Carlile in Albany, Texas in 1977. They had been best friends since the age of 14...
H. L. Templeton
Aug 25, 2010
H. L. Templeton, 78, of Abilene, died Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at an Abilene medical center. Born in Silver Valley, Texas in Coleman County, H. L. was the son of the late Irene Agatha (McAnally) and Herbert Lee Templeton. He graduated from Novice High School. For fifty-one years, H. L. had been a resident of Abilene where he worked as...
Jeanne Buch
Aug 25, 2010
Jeanne Marie Buch passed away on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. She was born in Wellsville NY on January 25, 1923 and lived in Abilene over eighty years. Jeanne was preceded in death by her parents Erwin and Hilda Buch, and by her siblings Erwin "Tex" Buch and wife Dora and son Roger, George Quentin "Bud" Buch and wife Patty, and...
Floyd Rogers
Aug 23, 2010
Floyd (Pud) Rogers, 72, of Nugent went home to be with the Lord on Monday, August 23, 2010. Floyd walked into the arms of his wife after 34 years of confinement to a wheelchair. Floyd fought the good fight but even on his bad days he would say "Any day you serve the Lord is a good day". When you...
Johnny Bell
Aug 22, 2010
Johnny Bell, 92, formerly of Abilene, died Sunday, August 22, 2010 in Round Rock, Texas. Born in Iowa Park, Texas on April 13, 1918, Johnny was the son of Lucy (Mills) and John Thomas Bell. He grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and returned to Iowa Park his senior year, graduating from Iowa Park High School. Johnny married Claydene Teal...
Callan Tate Meers
Aug 20, 2010
Callan Tate Meers, 3, of Abilene, died Friday, August 20, 2010. Funeral services will be at 10:00 am on Thursday, August 26, 2010 at Wylie Methodist Church. Burial will follow at the Hamby Cemetery. Pastor Greg Clemmer and Pastor Jeff Hatcher will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at The...
Richard Kendall Sollivan
Aug 18, 2010
Richard Kendall Sollivan died in a local medical center on August 18, 2010. Dick, as he was best known, was born in Philadelphia, PA on April 25, 1917 to Eleanor Kendall Sollivan and Raymond Alford Sollivan. At age nine, the family moved to Los Angeles, CA where he attended UCLA majoring in Engineering and Marketing. During World War II he...
Danny R. Bunce
Aug 16, 2010
Danny Ralph Bunce died Monday at an Abilene medical center. The son of Joyce (Schultz) and R. D. Bunce, Danny was born in Baldwin, Wisconsin. He served in the U. S. Air Force in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, attaining the rank of staff sergeant. After retirement from the military, he worked at Abilene Aero as manager. Danny married Estela...
Harvey Lee Farthing
Aug 15, 2010
Harvey Lee Farthing Jr, 62, of Abilene, Texas, peacefully went home to be with his Lord and Savior on August 15, 2010, after a sudden illness due to cancer. He was surrounded by the love of family and friends. Born in Danville, Virginia on April 20, 1948, he was the son of Harvey Lee Farthing Sr. and Onie (Oakes) Farthing....
John Henry Woods
Aug 12, 2010
John Henry Woods, 92, died Thursday, August 12, 2010, at an Abilene medical center. Born in Normangee, Texas on September 21, 1917, John was the son of Carrie (Collins) and Gilmo Woods. He attended school in Midway, Texas, and served in the US Army as a staff sergeant during World War II in Europe, Russia, France and Germany. He was...
Nollie Jaynes Hass
Aug 12, 2010
Nollie Jaynes Hass, 89, died Thursday, August 12, at an Abilene nursing center. Born on November 19, 1920, in Comanche County, Texas, Nollie was the daughter of Elma (Gaines) and Joe D. Jaynes. She married Thomas Gordon Hass on July 2, 1940 in Merkel, Texas, and resided in Merkel, Graham, Baird, Dudley and Potosi. She was a member of Potosi...
Thomas Kute
Aug 9, 2010
Thomas Kute, 76, died Monday, August 9, 2010, at an Abilene medical center. The son of Anna (Yergo) and Kyran Francis Kute, Thomas was born on August 2, 1934 in Lykens, Pennsylvania, where he attended Lykens High School. In 1954 while in the U. S. Air Force, he was transferred to Dyess Air Force Base (then Abilene Air Force Base)....
Floy Sipe Skelton
Aug 9, 2010
Floy Sipe Skelton, 73, an Abilene resident and formerly of Sweetwater, died Monday, August 9, 2010, in Abilene. The daughter of Lucille (Hale) and Noah Sipe, Floy was born on December 24, 1936 in Sweetwater, Texas, where she graduated from high school in 1955. In 1960, she moved from Sweetwater, Texas to Abilene. Floy worked for the City of Abilene...
B. Randolph Harrison
Aug 8, 2010
Dr. B. Randolph Harrison, 69, of Abilene, passed away on August 8, 2010 in Abilene. Dr. Harrison was born in San Antonio, Texas to V. A. and Charlene Harrison on November 1, 1940. In 1982, on his 42nd birthday, he married the love of his life, Bonnie Schroeder, in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Dr. Harrison graduated in 1957 from Alamo Heights...
2nd Matthew B. Fenner
Aug 8, 2010
2nd Lt. Matthew B. Fenner, US Army 2nd Lt. Matthew B. Fenner of the United States Army was born on August 25, 1984 to Patrick and Debra Fenner in Abilene, Texas. He passed away on Sunday, August 8, 2010, at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. Funeral services will be held Monday, August 16th, at 10:00 a.m. at Holy Family Catholic Church...
Geraldine Shultz
Aug 6, 2010
Geraldine McCaleb "Gerry" Shultz, 93, died Friday, August 6, 2010 at a private residence following a short illness. She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Col. V. M. "Dutch" Shultz. She is survived by three sisters: her identical twin, Maxine Hill of Abilene, TX, D'Nola Holding, also of Abilene, and Robbe Baldwin of Holyoke, CO. She...
Kevin Lynn Massey
Aug 4, 2010
Kevin Massey, 47, died Wednesday, August 4, 2010, at his residence in Abilene, Texas. The son of the late Dorotha Sue (Dottie) Easterling Massey and Milton Lindsay (Lynn) Massey, he was born on January 21, 1963 in Boise, Idaho. Kevin was a 1981 graduate of Abilene Wylie High School and attended college for two years at Western Texas College, Snyder,...
Byrdie Swinson Daniels
Aug 3, 2010
Byrdie Swinson Daniels, 73, died Tuesday, August 3, 2010, at an Abilene medical center. The daughter of Emmie Cordelia (Reeves) and Cicero Van Swinson, Byrdie was born on November 24, 1936 in Cisco, Texas. A lifelong resident of the Abilene area, she graduated from Lueders High School and then worked for the refinery. She later became a legal secretary for...
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