Obituaries

Joyce Stills

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

William D. Young

William D. Young

Oct 21, 2009

William D. "Bill" Young passed away on Wednesday October 21, 2009. Bill was born on February 24, 1922 in Hale Center, Texas to Ray and Annice Young. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Elmdale, where he grew up on the family ranch and went to school graduating from Eula High School. Bill served his country in the Army...

Thelma Evans Westfall

Thelma Evans Westfall

Oct 20, 2009

Thelma Evans Westfall went home to be with the Lord on October 20, 2009. Thelma was born January 17, 1917 to John and Lillie Evans in Nevada, Collin County, Texas. She married Amos David Westfall on January 12, 1935. Amos preceded her in death August 2, 1984. Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, October 22, in Elmwood...

Jonnye Opal Bradford

Jonnye Opal Bradford

Oct 19, 2009

Jonnye Opal Bradford, 101, died Monday, October 19, 2009 at an Abilene medical center. The daughter of Annie (Jacobs) and Jesse B. Campbell, Jonnye was born on October 9, 1908 in Newberg, Arkansas. Twelve years ago, she moved from Hemet, California, to Abilene, Texas. Mrs. Bradford was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church in Abilene. She was...

Kyle Williams

Kyle Williams

Oct 14, 2009

Kyle Wheatley Williams of Abilene, TX passed away on October 14, 2009 after a valiant battle with cancer. She was 52. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 pm on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal, 602 Meander St., Abilene, TX. The Right Reverend J. Scott Mayer, Bishop; The Reverend Mary Glover, Associate...

Edith Maida Cross

Edith Maida Cross

Oct 11, 2009

Edith Maida Seitz Cross, 76, died Sunday, October 11, 2009 at an Abilene nursing center. The daughter of Erna Leona (Andrews) and Ronald St. John, she was born on November 1, 1932 in Mobeetie, Texas. She graduated from Mobeetie High School and attended Wayland Baptist College for two years. In 1954 she married Alton Seitz. They moved to Abilene in...

Roddy Dale Lawson

Roddy Dale Lawson

Oct 9, 2009

Roddy Dale Lawson, 47, of Abilene, died Friday, October 9, 2009. Visitation will be held from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday at Kinney-Underwood Funeral Home, 210 South Ferguson St., Stamford, Texas. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, October 12, at the First Baptist Church in Stamford. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery in Stamford. Local arrangements are being...

Martin Cargile

Martin Cargile

Oct 8, 2009

Martin Cargile, 86, died Thursday, October 8, 2009, at an Abilene medical center. Born in Roaring Springs, Texas on August 2, 1923, he was the son of Homer Cargile and Bertha (Martin) Cargile. He graduated from Spur High School in 1940, and served in World War II as a tail gunner on a B17 in the 100th Bomb Group, 8th...

Paul R. Ellis

Paul R. Ellis

Oct 6, 2009

Paul R. Ellis died in Abilene, Texas on October 6, 2009. Mr. Ellis was born in Quincy Illinois to Lucian and Alta Mae Ellis on December 10, 1921. His one elder brother, Lucian, died during World War II. Mr. Ellis graduated from the United Sates Military Academy at Westpoint in 1943 and immediately entered the war as a member of...

Virlent Marion Whaley

Virlent Marion Whaley

Oct 5, 2009

Virlent Marion Whaley, Jr., 64, of Abilene, died Monday, October 5, 2009 at a local hospital. Funeral services will be at 10:00 am on Thursday, October 8, 2009 at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Wednesday at the funeral home. Following the funeral service, Mr. Whaley...

Edythe Virginia James

Edythe Virginia James

Oct 4, 2009

Edythe Virginia James, 84, died Sunday, October 4, 2009 at an Abilene medical center.

Born in Port Arthur, Texas on January 29, 1925, she was the daughter of Jewell Virginia (Blackman) and Clyde Smith. A retired school teacher, Mrs. James served with her husband doing missionary work for many years for the Church of Christ in various places including Guatemala, Panama,...