Avonne Frazier
May 4, 2010
Avonne Frazier, 86, of Hillsboro died Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at a nursing home in Corsicana. Avonne was born June 30, 1923 in Hill County the daughter of the late Elbert and Johnnie Pope Toon. On December 11, 1941 she married Monroe Frazier and he preceded her in death on January 13, 2003. She lived in Hill County all...
Mary Summerhill
May 2, 2010
Mary was the daughter of John C. and Leona Knox Boyse. At an early age, she moved to Abbott where she was raised. She graduated from Abbott High School where she was an outstanding basketball player. On April 5, 1944, Mary married Weldon Summerhill, and the couple would share the next 66 years together. Following their wedding, they moved...
Joshua Anderson
May 2, 2010
Joshua R. J. Anderson passed away on May 2, 2010 after a car accident. Joshua was born on May 23, 1992 in Mesquite. He was the son of Ron and Denise Wheeler Anderson. Joshua was a senior at Aquilla High School and was an avid football and motorcycle fan. He enjoyed being with family and friends. He was Mommys...
Emmett Gentry
May 1, 2010
Emmett was born on February 21, 1925 in Hemphill, TX to Edgar Morris Gentry and Mary Walton Blankenship. He was a graduate of East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, TX now Texas A&M Commerce with a BBA degree and the University of Houston, Houston, TX with a MBA. He served in the US Army during WW II in the...
Lydia Kunkel
Apr 28, 2010
Lydia Kunkel, 89, of Bynum died Wednesday, April 28, 2010, at Itasca Nursing Home. Lydia was born September 7, 1920 in Hill County, where she lived all her life, daughter of the late William and Marie Schreiber Priebe. She attended White School in eastern Hill County. On December 21, 1938 she married Albert Herman Kunkel. After marriage, the couple...
Nadine Lentz
Apr 21, 2010
Nadine Stanford Lentz, 89, of Hillsboro died Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Hillsboro. Nadine was born September 11, 1920 in Hillsboro, where she lived all of her life, daughter of the late Bozie Brice and Fannie Lou Williford Stanford. Following graduation from Hillsboro High School, she worked with her grandparents doing all the...
Alta Schlaepfer
Apr 20, 2010
Alta was born on February 25, 1927 in Graham, the daughter of the late Edward James and Myrtle King Kilpatrick. She married L. J. ?Red? Schlaepfer on April 10, 1948 in Breckenridge and he preceded her in death on April 8, 2005. She worked as an LVN at Kermit Memorial Hospital in Kermit for several years. A woman of...
June Price
Apr 18, 2010
June Price, 85 of Whitney passed away on April 18, 2010 in Austin. June was born on June 1, 1924 in Clarendon; the daughter of the late Bert and Ruth Jane Barton Willey. After moving from the West Texas area she grew up in Glen Rose and lived there until moving to Hill County in 1957 where she lived...
Johnnie Best
Apr 15, 2010
Johnnie Milburn Best, 79, of Hillsboro died Thursday, April 15, 2010, at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco. Johnnie was born September 2, 1930 in Ovalo, TX son of the late Raymond and Alcie Best. As a young child he moved to Crane and graduated from Crane High School. During the Korean War, he served his country in the...
Doyce Sanders
Apr 9, 2010
Doyce Nathaniel Sanders, 90, of Fort Worth died Friday, April 9, 2010, at Jacksboro Healthcare Center in Jacksboro, TX. Doyce was born October 25, 1919 in Aquilla, TX son of the late Lee Harrison and Mary Cummings Sanders. He lived in the Hillsboro, Fort Worth, and Dallas areas most of his life. During WWII, he served his country in...
Wayne Bearden
Apr 8, 2010
Wayne Toots Bearden, 85, of Hillsboro died Thursday, April 8, 2010, at Providence Health Care Center in Waco. Wayne was born October 26, 1924 in the Mountain View Community in Hill County, son of the late Loyd Benton and Ollie Jane Spear Bearden. He grew up in Hill County most of his life. During WWII, Wayne served his country...
Sue Rogers
Apr 7, 2010
Sue Rogers, 79 of Whitney passed away on April 7, 2010 at her residence. Sue was born on September 22, 1930 in Hill County; the daughter of the late James Oscar and Hattie Shelton Sims. Known as Granny Sue, she always had something cooked on the stove with plenty of food for everyone. An active volunteer in the community...
Harold Mccoy
Apr 4, 2010
Harry was born in Hillsboro on Sep. 30, 1929 to Bonnie Emma Haney and Amos Virgil McCoy. He grew up in Hillsboro and graduated from Hillsboro High School where he played football. Following high school, he attended Hillsboro Junior College. In February of 1951 he entered the U.S. Army. It was on November 21st of that same year that...
Delpha Butler
Apr 4, 2010
Delpha was born January 3, 1931 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the daughter of the late Preston Harold and Violet Leone Thomas Glover. She grew up in Texas City and moved to Whitney as a young woman. She was in the pest control business for a number of years. After marriage to Bill Butler on August 6, 1989 she lived...
Judy Graham
Apr 4, 2010
Judy Faye Strickland Graham, 59 of West Rest Haven went home to be with the Lord on April 4, 2010. Judy was born October 23, 1950 in Hillsboro, TX. She was the daughter of William Daniel and Kathryn Halbert Strickland. Judy lived in Hillsboro all of her life and worked at Town Square Furniture and Malouf Manufacturing. She married...
Adam Adkins
Apr 3, 2010
Adam was the son of Edward Neil and Glenda Sue Brumbalow Adkins. He grew up in Itasca. On July 25, 1995, he married Brandy Votaw. Adam worked for the City of Mansfield in the Police Dept. for 14 years as a Deputy Marshal. He was an avid fisherman with many friends. Adam was a member of the Church on...
Hilda Mcnutt
Mar 31, 2010
Hilda Earlene McNutt, 85, of Fort Collins, CO, and formerly of Hillsboro, passed peacefully into the arms of her Lord on March 31, 2010. Born May 29, 1924 in Whitney, TX to Thomas Ramsey and Myrtle Owens, she was preceded in death by her parents and her siblings Frank, Lee Lloyd, Faye and Juanita. She is survived by her...
Virginia Boswell
Mar 30, 2010
Virginia Jane McCown Boswell, 83 of Brenham and formerly of Whitney passed away on March 30, 2010 in Brenham. Jane was born on April 8, 1926 in Whitney to the late Tal and Vera McCown. She had lived in Whitney most of her life. On December 17, 1948 she married H. A. Cutter Boswell in Mc Allen, TX. She...
Veleta Johnson
Mar 29, 2010
Veleta Faye ?Midge? Johnson, 64, of Irene died Monday, March 29, 2010, at Lake Whitney Medical Center in Whitney. Midge was born November 20, 1943 in Floydada, TX to the late Elbert and Birdie Young Johnson. Midge loved to shop, put puzzles together, and play Monopoly. She was of the Church of Christ faith. Survivors include six brothers, Jimmy...
Lt. Col. Ret. Elwood Fogleman
Mar 28, 2010
Lt. Col. Ret. Elwood Fogleman, 99 of Whitney passed away on March 28, 2010 in Hillsboro. Elwood was born on August 18, 1910 in Pollock, Louisiana; the son of the late John O'Quinn and Annie Allie Keller Fogleman. He grew up in Louisiana and entered the Army after high school. After serving for 32 years in the service he...
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