Obituaries
Robbie Jean Vaughn
Aug 17, 2009
Robbie Jean Vaughn, 76, died Monday, August 17, 2009, at her residence at Hodges, Texas after a long battle with heart problems. The daughter of Nellie (Pace) and Zeb Ice, she was born on March 4, 1933 in Glen Rose, Texas, where she graduated from high school. Jean married David Vaughn on January 23, 1953 in Abilene, and moved from...
John Reid Crawford
Aug 17, 2009
JOHN REID CRAWFORD, JR., loving husband, father, brother, and grandfather, died peacefully on Monday morning, August 17, 2009. He was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on November 24, 1926, the son of John Reid Crawford and Pearl Bethune Crawford who was a descendant from the Isle of Skye, Scotland. John attended Fayetteville High School and upon graduation, attended North Carolina...
Mary Bob Means Grimes
Aug 14, 2009
Mary Bob Grimes, 85, a longtime resident of Abilene, died Friday, August 14, 2009, at an Abilene medical center. The daughter of Annie Atwood Wilder Means and Robert (Bob) Madison Means, she was born on May 8, 1924 in Abilene, Texas. She spent her early childhood in Andrews, Texas, returning to Abilene where she graduated from Abilene High School. She...
John Phillip Rogers
Aug 13, 2009
John Phillip Rogers, Sr., 79, died Thursday, August 13, 2009, at an Abilene medical center. The son of Ruby Virginia (Payne) and Otto Lee Rogers, John was born in Pecos, Texas on February 27, 1930, and as a young child moved to Clyde where he was reared and graduated from Clyde High School. He attended Hardin-Simmons University, and served in...
Nona John Petty
Aug 10, 2009
Nona John Harp Reno Petty, 81, passed away on August 10, 2009 in Abilene, Texas. She was born Nona John Harp on April 19, 1928 in Groesbeck, Texas to parents Andy Lee and Nina Elizabeth (Richardson) Harp. She grew up in Kirkland and Childress, Texas where she graduated from Childress High School. She attended Texas Tech and graduated with a...
Iva Wallace Black
Aug 10, 2009
Iva Wallace Black, RN, 82, died Sunday, August 9, 2009, at a nursing center in Abilene, Texas Iva was born in Hamlin, Texas on September 18, 1926 to Floyd Wallace and Lota (Morris) Wallace. She graduated from Hamlin High School then entered Hendrick Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1944. She was in the 1944 class of the United States...
Elizabeth Grey Hejl
Aug 6, 2009
Betty Grey Hejl, age 84, died in an Abilene medical center on Thursday, August 6, 2009 after suffering several years with Alzheimer's. Born Elizabeth (Betty) Grey McKinney on 0ctober 30, l924 to B.D. & Louise (Arrington) McKinney in Sweeny, TX, she graduated from Sweeny High School in 1942 and Abilene Christian College in 1946 with a major in music (voice)....
Finnie Seale
Aug 5, 2009
Finnie Seale passed away on Wednesday, August 5, 2009, at Windcrest Alzheimer's Care Center in Abilene. Finnie was born in Lamesa, Texas on March 7, 1928 to James William Hightower and Vardie Winter Hightower, and graduated from high school in Vernon, Texas. She married Bill Seale on January 2, 1948 in Vernon, and in 1963 moved to Snyder where they...
Samantha Brittney Davis
Aug 5, 2009
Samantha Brittney Davis Samantha Davis, 24, formerly of Abilene, died Wednesday, August 5, 2009, in Elmore, Alabama. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Monday, August 10, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. Dennis McKinley will officiate. Burial will follow in Oplin Cemetery. Lunch will be served at the Oplin Community Center following the...
Hazel Laverne West
Aug 3, 2009
Hazel Prichard West, 92, died Monday, August 3, 2009, at an Abilene nursing center. The daughter of Birdie Dell (McElhannon) and Job Prichard, Hazel was born on December 20, 1916, in Stonewall County, Texas, and graduated from Woodson High School. She married Oscar West on December 24, 1939, in Breckenridge. Since 1957, she had been a resident of Abilene where...
Paul L. Baker
Aug 3, 2009
Paul L. Baker, 64, died Monday, August 3, 2009, at his residence in Clyde, Texas. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, August 6, in the Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene with Lance Voorhees officiating, directed by The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. The family will receive friends from 6 to...
Rose Ann Moyers
Aug 1, 2009
Rose Ann Moyers, 90, passed away on Saturday, August 1, 2009, in Abilene, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 4, at Frelsburg Baptist Church in Frelsburg, Texas, with Pastor Gary Henneke and Minister Bruce Lewis officiating. Burial will follow in the Masonic Cemetery in Crowville, Louisiana, on Wednesday, August 5. Rose was born in Mangham,...
Ann Eldridge Hall
Aug 1, 2009
Abilene native Ann Eldridge Hall passed away on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at the Calvary Hospital in New York City after a valiant struggle with cancer. A memorial service will be held in Abilene at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, September 25, at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal, with a reception to follow at the church. A graveside service...
Linda Kay Lambert
Jul 30, 2009
Linda Kay Lambert, 57, formerly of Abilene, went into the arms of her Heavenly Father, Thursday, July 30, 2009, in Uvalde, Texas. Born in Abilene, Texas on July 31, 1951, Linda was the daughter of Maxine (Humphrey) and H. M. Landers. In Abilene, she graduated from Cooper High School in 1969 and Glen & Lottie's School of Beauty on March...
James Othel Barnett
Jul 29, 2009
Jim Barnett, 79, a longtime resident of Plains, Texas and current resident of Abilene, Texas went to be with our Lord on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at Hendrick Medical Center with his family by his side. Jim was born to Omar Futhey and Beatrice Fay (Whitesides) Barnett on January 3, 1930, in Rochester, Texas. He lived in Morton, Texas 27...
Jo Anne Clark
Jul 27, 2009
Jo Anne Clark, 83, of Abilene, died Monday, July 27, 2009 at her home. Funeral services will be at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Burial will follow at 2:00 p.m. at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene, 7457 West Lake Road. Jo Anne was born on April...
Donald Eugene Herron
Jul 27, 2009
Donald E. Herron, 74, of Coleman, passed away Monday, July 27, 2009 at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo, Texas. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Graveside services, with full military honors, will be at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday at the Texas State Veterans...
Robin DeLynn Johnson
Jul 21, 2009
Robin DeLynn Johnson, 48, passed away Tuesday, July 21, 2009, in Abilene, Texas. Robin was born in Artesia, New Mexico, on April 3, 1961, and moved from Artesia to Abilene twelve years ago. She was a homemaker and a Christian. Survivors include her father, Gilbert Orosco of Artesia, NM; mother, Katie Hefley Gunter and stepfather, Tommy Gunter, of Abilene; son,...
Laura Grey Packer
Jul 20, 2009
Laura Grey Hejl Packer, 56, of Abilene, TX passed away on July 20, 2009 in Abilene, TX. Visitation will be 5 - 7 p.m., Thursday, July 23, 2009 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, July 24, 2009 at Hillcrest Church of Christ, 650 E Ambler...
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