Obituaries
Bryan Gilbert Ball
Dec 2, 2014
Bryan Gilbert Ball, age 78, of Abilene, passed away on December 2, 2014. Bryan was born May 24, 1936 in Stephens County, Texas. He was the son of Ralph and Leona Ball. Bryan grew up around Breckenridge, Texas and graduated from Breckenridge High School. He served in the U.S. Air Force. After leaving the Air Force he worked for Dye...
Pam Christoferson
Nov 30, 2014
On the evening of November 30, 2014, Pamela Anne Christoferson peacefully left this Earth surrounded by the loving faces of her adoring family in Abilene. She was 64 years young. Pam was born a Saturday’s Child in St. Cloud, MN on April 8, 1950. She was the fifth of ten children born to Alice and Don Whiteman. Raised in Duluth,...
Carolyn Dittmar Edmison
Nov 27, 2014
Carolyn Dittmar Edmison Carolyn was born on September 30, 1942 in Austin, Texas and died on November 27, 2014 in Abilene, Texas. She was married to Jerry Edmison for nearly fifty years. She resided in Buffalo Gap and was president of the Buffalo Gap Republican Women’s Club, the Buffalo Gap Restoration Association and the Economic Development Board and was a...
Vijayakumari Kapu
Nov 24, 2014
Vijayakumari Kapu passed away peacefully on Monday, November 24, 2014 in Abilene, Texas. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 am on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Friends are welcome to gather at 10:00 am prior to the service. Vijaya was born in Retur, India to Nagabhushanam and Subbamma Nannapaneni on...
Rosemary Harris
Nov 23, 2014
Rosemary Harris, 87, of Abilene, passed away, Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Abilene Regional Medical Center. The body will be cremated and a private family service will be held at a later date. Arrangements were entrusted to The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene, Texas. Rosemary was born April 22, 1927 in El Dorado, Arkansas to...
Sidney Ray Peel
Nov 21, 2014
Sidney Ray Peel was born the oldest child and only son of S.H. (Sidney Hood) and Tennie Elmore Peel on September 23, 1930, in Spade, a community near Littlefield. He passed from this life in his home on November 21, 2014. Family visitation will be on Sunday, November 23, from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home,...
Justine Digby-Roberts Grisham
Nov 19, 2014
Justine Grisham, 86, died Wednesday, November 19, 2014, in Abilene. She was the daughter of Ida Marr Tobin of Austin and Frederick William Digby-Roberts of Abilene. She was born in Dallas on July 15, 1928. Justine was preceded in death by her husband Robert Douglas “Bob” Grisham on February 24, 2006; parents, Frederick and Ida Marr Digby-Roberts; and grandparents, Frederick...
Eileen Mary Borchert
Nov 18, 2014
Eileen Mary Borchert, 79, of Abilene, passed away Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at Abilene Regional Medical Center. Funeral Mass will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, November 21, 2014 at Holy Family Catholic Church. Father Fred Nawarskas will officiate. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park. Services are under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo...
Ima Gene Hurst
Nov 18, 2014
Ima Gene Hurst, 79, died Tuesday, November 18, 2014, in Abilene at Windcrest Alzheimer’s Care Center. Born in Zephyr, Texas on September 16, 1935, she was the daughter of Verneice (Murphree) and Melvin Stovall. She graduated from Early High School (1953), Hendrick Memorial Hospital Vocational School of Nursing (1969), Mary Meek School of Nursing (1978), and Saint Joseph’s College in...
Tammy Wilson
Nov 17, 2014
Tamara “Tammy !” Wilson, 48, died Monday, November 17, 2014 in Abilene, Texas. Please help celebrate Tammy’s life by wearing her favorite color, pink. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday, November 20, at the Abilene State Supported Living Center Chapel with Dr. Bill Spencer officiating, directed by The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. The...
William Jay
Nov 16, 2014
William “Billy Fred” Jay, 84, of Abilene died Sunday, November 16, 2014 at a local medical center. Born in Gorman, Texas, on September 28, 1930, William was the son of the late T.L Dick Jay and Vera A. CuBell (Pittman) Jay. He received his bachelor degree from Howard-Payne University in Brownwood. William had been the credit manager at Montgomery Wards...
John B. Kent
Nov 14, 2014
John B. Kent, 72, died Friday, November 14, 2014 at an Abilene medical center. John was born on June 23, 1942 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and graduated from Pawhuska High School in 1960 before attended trade school. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. John was an electronic technician for 27 years, having worked as an Avionics Technician for...
Norma Anders Enzor
Nov 13, 2014
Norma was born August 3, 1937 in a garage apartment in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to John and Myra Anders. Myra, a saintly woman, was married to John, who was a Master Pipefitter at the Esso Refinery, then the largest oil refinery in the world. She was the second of five children: J.D., Norma, Sandra (now deceased), Ronald Wayne and Carla....
Adam M. Flores
Nov 13, 2014
SFC (Ret) Adam Flores, 83, of Abilene and formerly of Merritt Island, Florida, passed away on 13 November 2014. He was surrounded by his family and died peacefully at home. The family will receive friends at a visitation at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene on Sunday, November 16, from 6 to 7 p.m. followed...
Lavanda Russell Dobbins
Nov 10, 2014
Lavanda Russell Hayward Dobbins, 74, of Abilene and formerly of Winters, TX. , went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, November 10, 2014. Funeral Services will be at 1:30 p.m., on Friday, November 14, 2014 at Belmont Baptist Church, 2117 Palm St., Abilene, TX, with Rev. Jimmy Griffith and Rev. David Cason officiating. Burial will follow...
Ellon B. Leggett Monk-Jones
Nov 8, 2014
Ellon, 92, of Abilene passed away on Saturday, November 8, 2014. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at South Side Baptist Church. Visitation will be Monday, November 10, 2014 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. Burial will be at Elmwood Memorial Park. Ellon is...
John Francis Meloy
Nov 7, 2014
John Francis Meloy, Sr., 92, of Abilene passed away on Friday, November 7, 2014, in Abilene. Visitation will be held 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be at 1:00...
Col. Leroy Earle Powell
Nov 5, 2014
Lt. Col. Leroy Earle Powell, USAF (Ret.) Leroy “Lee” Earle Powell, 91, of Abilene passed away on Wednesday, November 5, 2014. Funeral services will be held Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest. Lee Powell is survived by his wife, Carroll Reiley March Powell of 68 years, and four children and their spouses:...
Tom Harvey
Oct 31, 2014
Tom Harvey, 74, of Potosi, Texas passed away on October 31st, 2014 in Abilene, Texas. A memorial service will be held on November 15th, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene, with Rev. Charles Dunnam of Potosi United Methodist Church officiating. Tom was born in Kenton, Ohio to Madeline and...