Obituaries
Ruby Belle Marshall
Nov 20, 2009
Ruby Belle Marshall, 99, died Friday, November 20, 2009, at an Abilene medical center. The daughter of Lucetti (Archibald) and Albert Richardson, Ruby was born on September 9, 1910 in Oletha, Texas in Limestone County. She was a homemaker, and for several years worked at L - B Drug Store in Kermit, Texas, while her husband was serving in the...
Charles Nay Vickers
Nov 20, 2009
Charles "Vic" Nay Vickers, 83, passed away Friday, November 20, 2009 in a local hospital. The son of Tom and Iva Vickers, Charles was born on August 16, 1926 in Isla, Sabine County, Texas. He graduated valedictorian from Freeport High School. While working for Dow Chemical he met and married Abbie "Lydia" Brown. They were married for over 50 years,...
Howard James Hodgson
Nov 19, 2009
Howard James Hodgson, 73, passed from this life Thursday, November 19, 2009, at his home following a seven-month battle with cancer. Howard, the son of Wesley James and Marion McInnis Hodgson, was born April 14, 1936, in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. He left the family home in Forest, Ontario in 1955 to work and further his education in Toronto. One...
Glen Dale Hawkins
Nov 18, 2009
Glen Dale Hawkins, 84, died Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at an Abilene medical center. The son of Grace (Roberts) and Burton Hawkins, Glen was born on March 3, 1925 in Greenville, Texas. He was a 1942 graduate of Abilene High School. Glen served in the U. S. Army Air Corps in Italy during World War II (1943-1945) flying B-17's and...
Valerie Joann Croy
Nov 17, 2009
Valerie Joann Croy, 28, died Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at a Dallas hospital. The daughter of Sherry Rene' (McCraw) and Greg Alan Wood, Valerie was born on December 11, 1980 in Abilene, Texas. She married Jason Parker Croy on December 6, 1997 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Valerie was a mother and a homemaker. She was a member of the Prairie...
Blanche Evelyn Petree
Nov 17, 2009
Evelyn Petree, 93, of the View community passed away on November 17th, 2009. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, November 19th at 2:00 PM at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Burial will follow the service at Elmwood Memorial Park. Evelyn, born on June 22, 1916, was the first child of Eva Lee and R. Y....
Willard Edward Burnett
Nov 16, 2009
Willard Edward "Pete" Burnett, 84, died Monday, November 16, 2009, in Abilene. Born in Poteau, Oklahoma, on May 24, 1925, he was the son of Lillie Mae (Shockley) and Willard Samuel Burnett. Having served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, he flew 32 missions as a ball turret gunner aboard a B-17 in the 94th Bomb Group over France, Germany...
Vera Mae Mills
Nov 15, 2009
Vera passed away Sunday, November 15, at Hendrick Medical Center Hospice Care, Abilene, Texas. She was a resident of Wesley Court Retirement Home in Abilene. Vera was born August 27, 1916, in Dallas, Texas, to parents, Ray and Roxie Lanphear. She was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Abilene, Texas. A celebration of her life will be Wednesday, November...
Carl Clarence Young
Nov 15, 2009
Carl Clarence Young went to be with our Lord Sunday morning November 15, 2009. He was born in Valliant Oklahoma on November 26, 1926 and grew up in Hugo, Oklahoma. He graduated from Hugo High School in 1945 and went immediately into the Army Air Corp as a flight Engineer, and was honorably discharged as a Sergeant in 1946. After...
Mary Kathryn Barber
Nov 15, 2009
Kathryn Barber, 81, died Sunday, November 15, 2009, at an Abilene medical center. Born in Copperas Cove, Texas on June 20, 1928, she was the daughter of Maude (Parker) and H. R. Gotcher. On January 8, 1949, she married Johnny Barber in Sweetwater, Texas, and moved in 1972 from Sweetwater to Abilene. She was office manager for American National Insurance...
Ty Hunter Nordstrom
Nov 13, 2009
Ty Hunter Nordstrom earned his angel wings on the morning of November 13, 2009, in his home in Abilene, Texas at the age of six years old. His final days were spent surrounded by his loving family--his mother Toni, father Lyle and little brother Aiden. Ty's life was too short, but those who met him understood that the quality of...
Edward Neil Fry
Nov 13, 2009
Edward Neil Fry, 81, of Abilene, died Friday, November 13, 2009 at a local nursing home. Funeral services will be held on Monday, November 16 at 12:30 pm at Hillcrest Church of Christ. Burial will be at 2:00 pm at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene. The family will receive friends from 3:00 to 5:00 pm Sunday at The...
Billy Norman Gilmer
Nov 12, 2009
Bill Gilmer only waited 18 days to join his beloved wife of 59 years in their celestial home. Pat and Bill, as they were known to family and friends, married June 3, 1950 in Hamilton, Texas. Pat died October 25 and Bill November 12, both at Hendrick Hospital in Abilene. Bill was born in Hamilton, Texas, February 3, 1929 to...
Willa Hollingsworth
Nov 9, 2009
Willa Hollingsworth Willa Hollingsworth, 73, died Monday, November 9, 2009, at an Abilene medical center. Born in Peabody, Kansas on May 6, 1936, Willa was the daughter of Eleanor Marian (Allen) and Howard Richard Ubben. She graduated from Amarillo High School in Amarillo, Texas, where she married Charles Hollingsworth on August 14, 1954. In 1966, they moved from Liberal, Kansas...
Johnny Rex Surratt
Nov 8, 2009
Johnny Rex "Sugar" Surratt died last Sunday at Abilene Regional Medical Center. Johnny was born March 10, 1951 in Jacksonville, Texas. He grew up in East Texas and Eudora, Arkansas before moving with his family to Abilene in 1967. He attended Abilene High School and was an outstanding athlete who played basketball and ran track. It was during an AHS...
Warthia Mae Woods
Nov 8, 2009
Warthia Mae Woods Warthia Mae Woods, 91, of Abilene, died Sunday, November 8, 2009, in Abilene. The daughter of Estella (Traylor) and James Edmond, she was born on June 26, 1918, in Cason, Texas, and for over 40 years had been a resident of Abilene where she married Johnny Woods. Warthia Mae was a member of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church...
John C. Skeen
Nov 6, 2009
Retired SFC John C. Skeen John C. Skeen, 89, of Tye, Texas passed away on Friday, November 6, 2009 in Seagoville, Texas. John Skeen was born in Lebanon, Tennessee to Doyle Skeen and Irma Kate Perkins on March 1, 1920. He went to school in Lebanon. He married Jean Harris on February 27, 1965 in Abilene, Texas. John worked as...
Rosa Robertson
Nov 5, 2009
Rosa Robertson, 88, died Thursday, November 5, 2009, in Abilene, Texas. Born in Medina, Texas on March 19, 1921, Rosa was the daughter of Serena (Bessent) and Jessie Slaughter. She attended school in Medina and Mullin, Texas, and received her LVN from the Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Sweetwater. She worked as a nurse. In 1954, she...
Arthur E. Hall
Nov 5, 2009
Arthur E. "Trey" Hall, III, 53, died Thursday, November 5, 2009, at Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene, Texas. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, November 7, in Elmwood Memorial Park under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene, with Dr. Phil Briggs and the Reverend Mary Glover officiating. Trey was...
Wilda Maxine Allen McCowen
Nov 5, 2009
Wilda Maxine Allen McCowen, 83, passed away peacefully, taking her last breath and entered her Saviors' arms on November 5, 2009 surrounded by her loving family and friends. Her task on this earth began July 18, 1926 in China Grove community in Scurry County Texas. She was the second of four children born to Harry and Bettie Allen. She attended...
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