Obituaries
Kay Lynne Seals
Aug 28, 2009
Kay Lynne Seals, 58, died Friday, August 28, 2009, at an Abilene medical center. The daughter of the late Alice Claudine (Harvell) and Earl Smith Cross, Kay was born on October 7, 1950, in Abilene, Texas. She graduated from Cooper High School and lived most of her life in Abilene. She was booking officer at the Taylor County Jail for...
Jack V. Goodrich
Aug 27, 2009
Jack V. Goodrich, 79, died Thursday, August 27, 2009, at a nursing center in Abilene, Texas. Born in Konawa, Oklahoma on August 31, 1929, Jack was the son of Freda Rebecca (Pairret) and Frank Goodrich. He was a U. S. Army veteran, and worked in the oilfields as a driller. Since 1980, he had been a resident of Abilene, where...
William James Monk
Aug 25, 2009
William "Billy" James Monk, 66 of Glenn Heights, passed away Tuesday, August 25, 2009, at his home. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 29, at South Side Baptist Church with Rev. Kevin Ueckert officiating, directed by The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. Billy was born in Abilene, Texas to Roy...
Jim McKeever
Aug 24, 2009
Jim McKeever, 81, of Abilene, died Monday, August 24, 2009 at a local hospital. Funeral services will be at 10:00 am on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at Pioneer Drive Baptist Church. Rev. Stan Allcorn will officiate. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Friday at The Hamil Family Funeral...
Lucian Connell Taylor
Aug 24, 2009
Lucian Connell Taylor, 89, of Abilene, passed away Monday, August 24, 2009 at his home. The family visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Funeral services, with Rev. Jack Ridlehoover officiating, will be held at 10:00 am on Thursday in the chapel at the...
Betty Jo Cummins
Aug 23, 2009
Betty Jo Cummins, 89, of Abilene passed away Sunday, August 23, 2009 at her home. Graveside services will be held at 10:00 am on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at Elmwood Memorial Park, 5750 Highway 277 South. Services are under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Betty was born to Harry Glenn and Florence Elizabeth (Lovelace) Chambers on June...
Irene Taylor
Aug 21, 2009
Irene Taylor, loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, died peacefully on Friday, August 21, 2009 at the age of 87 years. The daughter of Albert and Ona Briscoe, Irene was born on June 10, 1922 in Santa Anna, Texas. The family moved to the Abilene area where she graduated from Abilene High School. Irene married John Basil Taylor in...
Frances Gardner
Aug 17, 2009
FRANCES GARDNER 1924 - 2009 Frances Gardner, a resident of Wesley Court, died Monday, August 17, 2009. She was born August 24, 1924 in Avoca, Texas to William and Flora Gardner. Frances attended school in Avoca, where she graduated from high school. She went to Fort Worth and attended Brantley Draughon's Business College. After graduation she worked in civil service,...
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...
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