Obituaries
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...
Sylvia Elaine Renfro
Oct 31, 2009
Sylvia Elaine Renfro, 69, of Abilene, went to be with her Lord and Savior, after a courageous battle with cancer, on October 31, 2009, in her home with her family by her side. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Rev. David Cason of...
Patrick E. White
Oct 30, 2009
Patrick Ellison White, Jr., of Abilene, passed away on October 30, 2009, in Abilene, Texas. Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M., Monday, November 2, 2009, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 P.M. on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, at the Southern Hills Church of Christ with John Risse...
Ernest Edmond
Oct 28, 2009
Ernest Edmond, 89, passed from this earth to be with his Lord on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at a local hospital with family and friends at his side. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Sunday at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. A celebration of Earnest's life will be held at 1:00...
Joyce Stills
Oct 26, 2009
Joyce Stills, age 70, passed on Monday, October 26, 2009 in Abilene, Texas. Funeral services will be held 10:00 a.m. Friday, October 30, 2009 at Broadview Baptist Church with Rev. David Cason of Broadview Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow at Elmwood Memorial Park directed by The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. The family will...
Virginia Lois Curry
Oct 25, 2009
Virginia Lois Curry, age 83, went peacefully home to be with her Lord on Sunday, October 25, 2009. She was born July 5, 1926 in Cherokee, Oklahoma to Edna Mae Harper Mann and Abe L. Mann. She was predeceased by her husband, Jim B. Curry; her daughter, Carol Ann Nelson and her sister, Dorothy Ziemian. She is survived by her...
Patsy Jeanne Gilmer
Oct 25, 2009
A life of wit and artistic talent ended Sunday morning with the death of Patsy Jeanne Gilmer. Mrs. Gilmer had moved here just two weeks ago from Clovis, N.M. and was residing at Wisteria Nursing Home on South Willis, Abilene, Texas. Graveside services will be 3:00 p.m. Saturday, October 31, in Lovington City Cemetery in Lovington, New Mexico, directed by...
Lonnie Odell Bearden
Oct 25, 2009
Lonnie Odell Bearden, 83, entered his eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven on Sunday, October 25, 2009. The son of Naomi (Jackson) and Lonnie Alford Bearden, he was born on September 15, 1926, in Dierks, Arkansas, where he graduated from high school. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict, having attained the...
Lanetta Jo Timmons Mobley
Oct 24, 2009
Lanetta Jo Timmons Mobley Lanetta Jo Timmons Mobley, 64, of Abilene, died Saturday, October 24, 2009, in Abilene. Born in Abilene, Texas on February 26, 1945, she was the daughter of Lanetta Pearl (Bishop) and Jack Carl "J.C." Davenport. She was a homemaker. Jo was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Jackie Davenport and Eddie Davenport. Survivors...
Billiroi Boswell
Oct 23, 2009
Billiroi Boswell, 91, went to her heavenly rest on Friday, October 23, 2009 at an Abilene nursing home. Born in Paint Rock, Texas on July 16, 1918, she was the daughter of Nellie (Hall) and Walter Boswell. Billiroi was a longtime resident of Concho County and a rancher. Fifteen years ago she moved from Paint Rock to Abilene. She was...
E. Brady Cox, Jr.
Oct 22, 2009
Enoch Brady Cox, Jr., D.D.S., 84, passed away at home in Abilene on October 22, 2009, following a brief illness. Dr. Cox was born in Roscoe, Texas to Enoch and Lena (King) Cox on August 12, 1925. The family moved to Abilene when he was 8 months old. Brady graduated from Abilene High School in 1943. During World War II,...
Kenneth Odel Long
Oct 22, 2009
Kenneth O. Long, 89, of Abilene, passed away on Thursday, October 22, 2009, in Abilene, Texas. Visitation will be from 12 noon until 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. Following the visitation, graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 24th, at Elmwood Memorial Park, 5750...
Elaine Leiter
Oct 22, 2009
Elaine Leiter, 53, died Thursday, October 22, 2009, at an Abilene medical center. Elaine Perkins was born July 16, 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was the third child and second daughter of Frank Warren Perkins and Pauline Dearman Perkins. Elaine attended Christian High School, later Lexington Christian Academy from 1970-1974. She graduated with a College Preparatory Diploma. In June of...
Lena Belle Franklin
Oct 21, 2009
Mrs. Gene (Lena Belle) Franklin passed away peacefully in her home of sixty-two years in Potosi on October 21, 2009. The family will be receiving guests at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, October 23. The funeral service will be held at Highway 36 Church of Christ...
Subscribe
Get alerts when new obituaries are posted
