Obituaries
Dorothy Stokes
Aug 13, 2005
Dorothy Lynn (Dottie) Stokes, passed away Saturday, August 13, 2005 at her home in Abilene. Services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 16, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home. She was preceded in death by her parents, George Lynn (G.L.) and Wynelle Smartt Francis and brother, G.L. Francis, III. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to...
John Michael Hicks
Aug 13, 2005
John Hicks, age 19, died Saturday, August 13, 2005. Funeral Services will be held Monday, August 15th, at 2 p.m. at the Hwy 36 Church of Christ with Dr. Ed Headrick and Jon Schwiethale officiating with burial to follow in the Tecumseh Cemetery under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Visitation will be held Sunday, August 14th from...
Berylgene Prather
Aug 4, 2005
Berylgene Prather, age 92, died Thursday, August 4, 2005 in Abilene. Funeral services will be held Sunday, August 7, 2005, @ 2 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel at 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. with Rev. H.B. Terry officiating. Burial will follow in the Moran Cemetery under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Berylgene Dawson Prather was...
Walter Pruitt
Aug 4, 2005
Walter Pruitt, age 78, of Abilene, died Thursday, August 4, 2005 at Hendrick Medical Center after an extended illness. Visitation will be Sunday, August 7th from 4 to 6 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be held Monday, August 8, 2005 at 10 a.m. at Hillcrest Church of Christ with Terry Brown officiating and assisted by...
Gladys Williams
Aug 3, 2005
Gladys O'Dere Williams, age 89, of Abilene, died Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at Windcrest. Visitation will be Friday evening, August 5th from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. Graveside services will be held Saturday, August 6, 2005 at 1 p.m. at Elmwood Memorial Park. Gladys O'Dere Tucker Williams was born on January...
Vernell Tyson
Aug 3, 2005
Vernell "Big John" Tyson, age 58, of Abilene, died Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at Hendrick Health Systems. Visitation will be Friday, August 5th from 5 to 7 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. Funeral services will be held Saturday, August 6, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. at New Light Baptist Church in Abilene with burial to...
James Howard
Aug 3, 2005
James Llyndle Howard, age 88, died Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at his residence in Abilene. Visitation will be Friday evening, August 5th from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. Funeral services will be Saturday, August 6th at 10 a.m. at Southern Hills Church of Christ with Danny Minton, Casey Overcamp and Bill...
Conner Roy Blanscett
Aug 2, 2005
Conner Blanscett, age 5 months, died Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at Brownwood Regional Medical Center. Graveside services will be held Friday, August 5, 2005, at 10:30 a.m. in the Elliott-Hamil Garden of Memories with Rev. Charles Fortenberry and Jerry Walsh officiating and under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd., Abilene, Tx. Conner Roy Blanscett...
Mildred M. Templeton
Jul 30, 2005
Mildred M. Templeton, age 77, of Harbor Point in Brown County, died Saturday, July 30, 2005 at Hendrick Medical Systems. Graveside funeral service will be held Saturday, August 6, 2005 @ 11:00 a.m. at The Potosi Cemetery under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. Mildred Smith Templeton was born on December 18, 1927 in...
Josephine N. Porter
Jul 25, 2005
Josephine N. Porter, age 87, died Monday, July 25, 2005 in Abilene. A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, July 31st, @ 11:00 a.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. The body will be cremated and the cremains will be buried in the Dallas/ Ft. Worth National Cemetery. Josephine Nelson Porter was born on July...
Beatrice Lillian Haney
Jul 25, 2005
On Monday, July 25, 2005, in Abilene, the irrepressible Bea Haney made her transition into heaven at Hendrick Memorial Hospice at the venerable age of 92. For almost half a century, her energy and spirited style shaped the fashion senses of the ladies of Abilene. Resourceful and always stylish, she lived exactly as she ordained and left this life surrounded...
Jimmy Tonto Hournbuckle
Jul 24, 2005
Jimmy Tonto Hournbuckle, age 46, died Sunday, July 24, 2005 in Lubbock. Graveside Services will be held, Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. in the Buffalo Gap Cemetery with Jerry Wade Copeland and Rev. David Cason officiating and under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Jimmy Tonto Hournbuckle was born on April 6, 1959 in San Carlos,...
Roy Herman Spykes
Jul 22, 2005
Roy Herman Spykes, age 82, of Abilene, died Friday, July 22, 2005 at Abilene Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Monday, July 25th, @ 10:00 a.m. at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel, 6449 Buffalo Gap Rd. Burial will be Monday afternoon, July 25th at 6:00 p.m. at the Forest Grove Cemetery in Telephone, Texas. Roy Herman Spykes...
Stephanie Dawn Stanley
Jul 10, 2005
Dawn Stanley, age 34, died Sunday, July 10, 2005 in Charlotte, N. Carolina. Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 16th, @ 10:00 a.m. at the First Baptist Church of Abilene with Dr. Phill Christopher and Russell Forest Stanley officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Visitation will be held...
Raymond Thomason
Jun 17, 2005
Raymond Thomason, Jr. On June 17, 2005 we lost our father, Raymond Thomason, Jr., the family patriarch. He was born in Memphis, Texas on January 20, 1926. He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Ruby and Raymond Thomason, Sr., with whom he had a special relationship, his brother Monty Don, his wife Maryana, his son David, and...
Billy Joe Seale
May 15, 2005
Billy Joe Seale passed away on May 15, 2005, after a brief illness. He was born on January 21, 1927, in Vernon, Texas. Even at an early age, it was evident that Bill was destined for a life of service. At the age of 13, he began working evenings and weekends at Henderson Funeral Home in Vernon. In 1944, Bill...
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