Obituaries
Albert Wayne Watts
Jul 17, 2019
Albert Wayne Watts, 73, passed away Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at his residence in Hamby, Texas.
Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 19, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. Funeral services will be 2:30 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at Broadview Baptist Church, 2500 South 27th Street, officiated by Jim Ritter, Pastor of...
Flossie Jane Stovall
Jul 17, 2019
Flossie Jane Stovall was born on August 12, 1937, in Abilene, TX to Bryant O. Williams and Gracia Wright Williams. She left this earth on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in Abilene, to be joined with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to whom she gave her life. She was a woman of great faith. A true child of God. She...
Billy Boyd Dunlap
Jul 16, 2019
Billy Boyd Dunlap died on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, after a long, hard-fought and courageous battle with prostate cancer. He was born January 1, 1942 to Frances Matson Dunlap and S. N. Dunlap in Baird, Texas. He graduated from Baird High School. He attended Hardin-Simmons University for two years and graduated from McMurry University with a Bachelor of Business Administration...
Mickey Dean Horton
Jul 15, 2019
Mickey D. Horton, 68, passed away Monday, July 15, 2019 after a 3-year battle with cancer. Graveside services were held Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at Elmwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Mickey was born in Abilene in 1950, graduated from Abilene High School, married Rosemary Montell in 1977. He worked for Walmart for 20 years and was a Vietnam veteran serving in...
Carolyn Short Rinard
Jul 12, 2019
Carolyn Short Rinard, 74, of Abilene, passed away on Friday, July 12th, 2019 in Abilene.
Visitation will be 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 am on Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at First Baptist Church of Abilene with Dr. Philip Christopher officiating. Burial will follow at...
Carmen Louise Milton
Jul 10, 2019
Carmen Louise Cheron Milton, 92, of Abilene, Texas and Aberdeen, Maryland, passed away on July 10, 2019 in Abilene.
A celebration of her life will be held at 3:00 pm on Thursday, July 18, 2019 at Wesley Court Senior Living Atrium, 2617 Antilley Rd, Abilene. Burial will be at a later date in Aberdeen, Maryland. Arrangements are under the direction of...
Wynona Quay Hollister
Jul 9, 2019
Wynona Quay (Stringer) Hollister, 79, of Abilene, Texas passed away suddenly on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. She was born in Yazoo, Mississippi on January 14, 1940, to the late Rev. J.M. Stringer and Winnie (Purvis) Stringer.
Wynona moved to Abilene in the mid-1950s from East Texas. She attended Elmcrest Baptist Church, where she played the organ and piano for 30 years....
Sidney R. Harp
Jul 8, 2019
Sidney R. Harp, 89, passed away on Monday, July 8, 2019 in Abilene, Texas.
Born in Hale Center, Texas on July 11, 1929, he was the son of the late Florence (Jacobs) Harp and Sidney Marshall Harp. Following retirement from the U. S. Air Force after a 21-year military career, Sidney had a second career with the Texas Employment Commission.
He married...
Bettye Jeane Lindsey
Jul 8, 2019
Bettye Jeane Britt Lindsey passed away on July 8, 2019 in Abilene, Texas. She has run the good race, finished her fight with Alzheimer Disease, and has now stepped into her Heavenly home.
Bettye, the oldest daughter of the late Tom and Sydelle Britt, was born on May 14, 1938, in Chillicothe, Texas, at the home of her grandparents, the late...
Ronald Glen Bruce
Jul 7, 2019
Ronald Glen Bruce was born on November 7, 1961 in Cumberland County, North Carolina. He was called home to Heaven on Sunday, July 7, 2019 in Abilene, TX.
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 am on Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at the Abilene State Supported Living Center Cemetery, with Chaplain Billy Stewart officiating. Ronald will be available to view in...
C.W. "Wallace" Young
Jul 5, 2019
C.W. “Wallace” Young, 86, of Abilene, passed away on Friday, July 5, 2019 in Abilene.
Visitation will be from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, July 7, 2019 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, July 8, 2019 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel with Terry Hirtzel, officiating. Graveside services will follow...
Robert L. Gurnea
Jul 4, 2019
Robert L. (Bob) Gurnea was welcomed into the arms of his Heavenly Father on July 4th, 2019 at the age of 81.
Bob was born in Des Moines, Iowa on April 23, 1938. He was the son of the late Emma Ruth (Weidner) Gurnea and Willard Sherman Gurnea. In 1955, Bob came to Abilene to Dyess Air Force Base where he...
Myrtle B. Whisenhunt
Jun 29, 2019
Myrtle B. (Reynolds) Whisenhunt, 97, passed away on Saturday, June 29, 2019 in Abilene. She was born on March 2, 1922 in Seymour, Texas to Ben and Ida Mae (Burch) Reynolds. Myrtle attended high school in Rule, Texas, moved to the Abilene community in February of 1940, then on October 5, 1940, she married Arlie Whisenhunt in Merkel, Texas. He...
Pete Prentice
Jun 29, 2019
Melvin "Pete" Prentice, 86, of Buffalo Gap, TX passed away on Saturday, June 29, 2019. Pete had one of the biggest hearts around and would do anything for anybody, especially for his loving wife Velma. Born to Bradley and Gladys Prentice on January 25, 1933 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, Pete was the youngest of his siblings and always took...
Lt. Col. Carl William Gentine, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Jun 29, 2019
Lt. Col. Carl William Gentine, U.S. Army (Ret.) entered his heavenly home on Saturday, June 29, 2019 at home surrounded by his loving family.
Lt. Col. Gentine was born in Ft. Monmouth, NJ to CWO Paul William and Helen Gentine on July 25, 1943. Being in the military as a child, he moved every three or four years, finishing his senior year...
Clyde Leroy Watson
Jun 28, 2019
Clyde L. Watson, 80, passed away on June 28, 2019.
A memorial service to celebrate his life will be held at 10:30 AM on Monday, July 8, 2019 at Faith Baptist Church, 2300 S. 20th in Abilene, TX with Pastor Steven Parker officiating. Services are under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.
Clyde was born on...
Don Bunton
Jun 27, 2019
Don Bunton, 71, passed away on Thursday, June 27, 2019, in Abilene, Texas.
Born in Graham, Texas on November 13, 1947, Don was the son of Oscar Denwood Bunton and Geneva Ann (Bowen) Bunton. He was a 1966 graduate of Ranger High School and attended Ranger Junior College where he met Linda Doris Davis, whom he married on January 29, 1969,...
Doris Ruth Lloyd
Jun 27, 2019
Doris Strain Lloyd, 82, passed away peacefully at home with her family by her side on Thursday, June 27, 2019.
Doris was born on August 18, 1934 in Brownwood, Texas to Jim and Victoria Strain. Doris spent most of her school years in Haskell, Texas (a town full of people with whom she developed close relationships and friendships, and she loved...
Carl O. Trusler, M.D.
Jun 27, 2019
Carl O. Trusler, M.D., died on Thursday, June 27, 2019 at Abilene Regional Medical Center, following a short illness. He was 72 years old. He was reared at Hendrick Home for Children in Abilene, Texas. After graduating from Abilene Cooper High School in 1964, he received his bachelor's degree from Hardin-Simmons University in 1968 and his Doctor of Medicine degree...
Dr. Richard L. Moorehouse
Jun 24, 2019
Dr. Richard L. Moorehouse, 88, of Long Beach, California, passed away on June 24th, 2019 in Abilene, Texas.
Graveside services and burial will be held at 1:00pm on Thursday, June 27th, 2019 at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene, 7457 W. Lake Road, Abilene, Texas. Services are under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road,...
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