Obituaries
Tommy K. Estes
Jul 24, 2022
Tom (Tommy) Kenneth Estes passed away on Sunday, July 24, 2022.
Visitation will be Friday, July 29, 2022 from 5-7pm at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.
Funeral service for Tommy will be Saturday, July 30th at Pioneer Drive Baptist Church at 10am, with Reverend Stan Allcorn officiating.
Tommy was born on November 22, 1934, to Dr. Bob and Lucille...
Willis Bivins
Jul 24, 2022
Willis Bivins Jr. 63, husband to Zola Traci Bivins and son of the late Willis Edward Bivins and June M. Grosebeck Haines passed away peacefully at his home in Hawley, TX on Sunday, July 24, 2022.
Visitation will be 6:00PM – 8:00PM Thursday July 28, 2022 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene, TX.
Funeral Service will be...
Dorothy Joyce McCoy
Jul 24, 2022
Dorothy Joyce (Taylor) McCoy passed away surrounded by her loving family on July 24, 2022 at Hendrick Medical Center, Abilene, TX.
Dorothy was born on October 27, 1929 in Liberty Hill, TX to Robert Taylor and Thelma (Berry) Taylor. She graduated from Lincoln High School in Tacoma, WA in 1947. In later years, she attended McMurry University.
Dorothy was a busy...
Joann Ruth (Orr) Boyd
Jul 24, 2022
Joann Ruth (Orr) Boyd quietly returned to her Creator on July 24, 2022. She was born in Denver, Colorado on August 1, 1935, the second child of Harold and Florence (Warlick) Orr. She spent her school years in Kingman, Arizona, excelling in music and academics, and graduated at the top of her class. She majored in elementary education at Abilene...
Donna Lee Shipp
Jul 22, 2022
Donna Lee Shipp, 64, passed away on July 22nd in Abilene, TX.
Visitation will be at 5:00 to 6:00 pm on Monday, August 1, 2022, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.
Funeral services will be held at 11 am on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home with Dirk Littlefield officiating. Interment will be a...
Payton A. Womack
Jul 22, 2022
Payton Austin Womack, age 42, of Hawley, Texas passed away July 22, 2022, at Hendrick Hospice Care. Graveside service will be Monday July 25, 2022, at 2:00 pm at the Hawley Cemetery.
Payton was born October 30, 1979, in Abilene the son of Lee Ann Snow and Douglas Womack. Payton had dialysis for the past 12 years after a brown recluse...
Joann Burns Adcock
Jul 21, 2022
Joann Burns Adcock, age 74, joined our Heavenly Father July 21, 2022.
Joann was born in Abilene, Texas to J. L. ‘Spec’ and Marie Burns on August 29, 1947. Her father passed away when she was six and her mother married Melvin Layne who raised her like his own. Joann graduated from Abilene High School in 1965. After graduation, she attended...
Stephen Paul Ornelas, Jr.
Jul 21, 2022
Stephen Paul Ornelas, Jr., of Abilene, TX, passed away on his 21st birthday, July 21, 2022.
A visitation and Rosary will be on Monday, July 25th at Hamil Family Funeral Home at 6449 Buffalo Gap. The visitation will begin at 6:00 pm with the Rosary beginning at 7:00 pm.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 am on Tuesday, July 26th, at...
Gerald "Jerry" Schwalb
Jul 18, 2022
Gerald P. “Jerry” Schwalb, 88, of Abilene, passed away on Monday, July 18, 2022, in Abilene.
Visitation will be from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 27, 2022, with prayer service and rosary to follow at 5:30 p.m., at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, Abilene.
Funeral Mass will be held at 9:00 a.m., Thursday, July 28, 2022,...
Geraldine "Jerry" Wright
Jul 16, 2022
Geraldine (Jerry) Elaine Wright, 91, of Abilene, passed away on July 16, 2022, in Abilene, Texas.
Jerry is survived by her sons Alan Wright and wife, Sue, of Abilene, Texas, and Gary Wright and wife, Leah, of Burleson, Texas; daughter-in-law Lauren Wright of Abilene, Texas; her brother, Vaden Hays and wife Carol; fourteen grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren and two nieces...
Debra Lee Morris
Jul 16, 2022
Debra Morris, 68, of Tuscola, passed away Saturday, July 16, 2022, at her home. She was born October 26, 1953, to David and Barbara Aycock.
Mass will be held at 10:00 am on Thursday, July 21, at Holy Family Catholic Church, with Rev. Adam Droll officiating. Services are under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.
In lieu...
Howard Glen Steakley
Jul 16, 2022
Howard Steakley, 75, of Abilene, Texas, went home to be with the Lord July 16, 2022. Howard passed away peacefully at home, with his family by his side.
Howard was born in the small town of Novice, Texas to Bill and Flora Steakley. He was the youngest of five children. He frequently shared many stories of his childhood surrounded by family,...
Donald Norman Glandon
Jul 16, 2022
Donald Norman Glandon, 67, of Abilene, Texas, passed away on Saturday July 16th, 2022. Don was born June 4th, 1955, in Canyon, Texas to Roger Glandon and Shirley Glandon. Don is survived by his children Lynette (Mark) Wyatt and Nathan Glandon. His siblings Sidney (Steve) Hiser and Scott Glandon. He is preceded in death by his parents Roger and Shirley...
Ruth Cox
Jul 10, 2022
Ruth Cox, 95, of Abilene passed away on Sunday, July 10, 2022 in Abilene. Viewing will be Friday, July 15th from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Graveside service will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 16, 2022 at Elmwood Memorial Park Cemetery with Greg Melton officiating. Services are under the direction of The Hamil Family...
Carolyn Strain
Jul 4, 2022
Carolyn Henshaw Strain, 88, passed away at home on July 4, 2022.
Carolyn was born to Virginia Whitman & Edward B. Henshaw on August 12, 1933 in Haskell, Texas. At age six, her family moved to Spur, Texas for ten years before moving back to Haskell where she graduated from Haskell High School. Upon graduation, she attended the University of Texas...
Kay Babington
Jul 3, 2022
Kay Babington, 70, of Abilene, passed away on Sunday, July 3, 2022, in Abilene.
Visitation will be held 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Thursday, July 7, 2022, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.
Funeral service will be held 12:30 am, Friday, July 8, 2022, at St. Paul United Methodist Church with Benji Van Fleet and Rev. Bill Libby officiating....
Bettie Lou Cutright
Jul 2, 2022
Bettie Cutright passed away on July 2, 2022, in Abilene, TX. Visitation will be held 5-7 pm Friday July 8th at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd.
Funeral services will be held at 10 am Saturday July 9th, 2022, at Wylie Baptist Church with Darrin Ray officiating. Burial will follow at Potosi Cemetery.
Bettie was born in Ballinger, TX...
Bob Rodgers
Jun 30, 2022
Bob Rodgers, 81, of Abilene, peacefully passed away surrounded by family on June 30, 2022, after a courageous battle with bladder cancer. Bob was born May 18, 1941, near Snyder, Texas. He was preceded in death by his loving wife, Carolyn Rodgers (2015), his parents, H.W. Rodgers (1997), and Arlie Rodgers (2005), brother Jerry Paul Rodgers (1967), sisters Joyce Drake...
Beatrice Marie Glenewinkel
Jun 29, 2022
Beatrice Marie Glenewinkel, 91, passed from this earth on June 29, 2022, in Granbury, Texas after a brief illness.
Bea was the third of four children born to Albert and Alma Hohhertz on October 22, 1930. As a young girl, her father purchased a small dairy farm near Merkel, Texas where she would live out her childhood. Bea graduated from Merkel...
Jack R. Yonge, Jr.
Jun 28, 2022
Jack Yonge passed peacefully into the waiting arms of his Lord and Savior on the morning of June 28, 2022. Jack loved his friends, family and his faith. He will be remembered for his cheerfulness, kind words, warm nature, and listening ear to others.
Jack was born on January 9, 1930, to Jack Rienzi Yonge and Lois Shackelford Yonge in Abilene,...
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