Obituaries

Wanda West

Wanda West

Apr 28, 2009

Wanda West, 71, of Hillsboro died Tuesday, April 28, 2009, in Hillsboro. Wanda was born September 22, 1937 in Hillsboro the daughter of Albert Colquitt and Faye Bell Hamilton Woodin. On December 3, 1962 she married William Thomas West and he preceded her in death on July 10, 1987. Her favorite past times were watching television, listening to music,...

Evelyn Anderson

Evelyn Anderson

Apr 28, 2009

Evelyn Daisy Anderson, 87, of Abbott died Tuesday, April 28, 2009, in Abbott. Evelyn was born January 14, 1922 in McLennan County the daughter of John and Leona Knox Boyse. She had lived in Hill County all of her life. On December 9, 1941 she married Rudolph Anderson and they were married for 62 years before his death on...

Tennie Isbell

Tennie Isbell

Apr 27, 2009

Tennie Isbell, 85, of Fouke, Arkansas died Monday, April 27, 2009, in Fouke. Tennie was born October 1, 1923 in Hillsboro the daughter of W. G. and Iola Scott Middleton. On August 31, 1946 she married Woodrow Isbell in Hillsboro and he preceded her in death on December 27, 2008. For over 35 years she was a homemaking teacher...

Margaret Hazen

Margaret Hazen

Apr 27, 2009

Margaret Hazen, 72, of Hillsboro died Monday, April 27, 2009, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Margaret was born May 15, 1936 in Farmington, New Mexico the daughter of Wallace and Garcie McMurtry Bowen. On November 12, 1953 she married Billy Don Hazen, Sr. and he preceded her in death on May 30, 2002. Her husband was a career...

Bobby Marsh

Bobby Marsh

Apr 27, 2009

Bobby Glenn Marsh, Sr, 73, of Houston and formerly of Whitney passed away on April 27, 2009 in Houston. Bobby was born on November 24, 1935 in Whitney, the son of Guy Leslie and Lola Grace Bilton Marsh. Graduating from Whitney High School in 1954, he began serving his country in the 36th Division of the National Guard enlisting...

Charlene Wingate

Charlene Wingate

Apr 22, 2009

Charlene Wingate, 79, of Hillsboro died Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Charlene was born December 19, 1929 in Hill County the daughter of Charlie and Bessie Farquhar Gillaspie. She lived in Hill County all of her life and attended Abbott schools. On December 20, 1951 she married Joe Riley Wingate in Milford and he...

Evelyn Hodge

Evelyn Hodge

Apr 21, 2009

Evelyn Hodge, 63, of Hillsboro died Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Evelyn was born February 26, 1946 in Nashville, TN the daughter of Paul and Margaret Pollock Ballanfant. On December 26, 1962 she married Lee Hodge in Nashville, TN. Shortly after their marriage, the couple came to Texas spending time in the DFW metroplex...

Alvin Arnold

Alvin Arnold

Apr 21, 2009

Alvin Arnold, 75, of Lewisville died Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at Carrollton Health and Rehab. Alvin was born June 22, 1933 in Hillsboro the son of John B. and Edna Lucille Garrett Arnold. On August 25, 1956 he married Shirley Miller in Hillsboro. He served his country in the National Guard for several years. For many years he was...

Mary Mayfield

Mary Mayfield

Apr 18, 2009

Mary L. Mayfield, 72 of Greeley, Colorado passed away on April 18, 2009 while visiting her daughter, Dean-na Higgs in Whitney, Texas.

Clyde Hudspeth

Clyde Hudspeth

Apr 14, 2009

Clyde Hudspeth, 78, of Hillsboro died Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at Westview Manor in McGregor. Clyde was born September 18, 1930 in Aquilla the son of Clyde and Mary Jewel Wills Hudspeth. He served his country in the U. S. Marine Corps and was honorably discharged. He married Callie Oletha Erwin and she preceded him in death on October...

Zak Stout

Zak Stout

Apr 14, 2009

Zak Stout, 18, of Whitney passed away on April 14, 2009 following an automobile accident. Zak was born on October 23, 1990 in Cleburne, Texas, the son of Ronald and Brenda Martin Stout, Sr. He had lived in Whitney all his life and was a sophomore at Whitney High School. Active in the German Club, track, tennis and theater...

Brandon Shelton

Brandon Shelton

Apr 14, 2009

Brandon Gean Shelton, 16, of Whitney left this Earth to be with our Lord due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident on April 14, 2009. Brandon was born on Oct. 22, 1992 in Hillsboro, the son of Bobby and Jean Cox Shelton. He grew up in Whitney and attended Whitney High School. He enjoyed skateboarding, playing video games...

Hertha Dungan

Hertha Dungan

Apr 14, 2009

Hertha Dungan, 69, of Hillsboro died Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Hertha was born August 6, 1939 in Council Bluffs, Iowa the daughter of Herman and Louise Wurdeman Sudmann. She grew up in Treynor, Iowa. In 1955 she married Miles Dungan in California Junction, Iowa and he preceded her in death on May 6,...

Theodore Motley

Theodore Motley

Apr 13, 2009

Theodore T Motley, 90, of Hillsboro died Monday, April 13, 2009, at Central Texas Health Care System in Temple. Mr. Motley was the son of James Pendelton and Idora Bonner Motley of Hubbard. For a short period of time in his youth, he moved to Amity, Arkansas with his parents during the depression of 1929, moving back to the...

Mina Hairrill

Mina Hairrill

Apr 9, 2009

Mina Faye Mitchell Hairrill, 92, of Hewitt died Thursday, April 9, 2009, at her residence. Mina was born June 19, 1916 Hill County the daughter of L. L. and Geneva Irby Mitchell. She was of the Baptist faith. Preceding her in death were her parents and husband, Vernon Lee Hairrill, on August 15, 2001. Survivors includ three sisters, Nina...

Lucy Leeman

Lucy Leeman

Apr 8, 2009

Lucy Leeman, 79, of Whitney passed away on April 8, 2009 at Park Plaza Nusing Home. Lucy was born on June 26, 1929 in Rotan, Texas, the daughter of Johnny Taylor and Tommie Lucille Wilkes Harkins. She graduated from Sunset High School in Dallas. On February 14, 1947, she married David Leeman, Sr. They moved to Whitney in 1975....

Jim Fortenberry

Jim Fortenberry

Apr 4, 2009

Jim Weldon Fortenberry of Whitney went to be with his Lord and Savior on April 4, 2009. He was born in Pampa, Texas on Feb. 13, 1932 to Frederick Joseph Fortenberry and Allie Rose McDaniel Fortenberry. Following graduation from Central High School in Oklahoma City, he attended Oklahoma University. Jim and his wife, Helen, were founding members of White...

Roy Thomas

Roy Thomas

Mar 30, 2009

Roy Manuel Thomas was born in Silver Valley, Texas on August 2, 1915 and passed away in Whitney, Texas on March 29, 2009. He was the youngest of eight children born to Joseph Carl Thomas, a Confederate soldier ad early settler of Bosque County, and Sarah Stacey Thomas. Roy grew up in Cedron, Bosque County, Texas. He married Willie...

William Roberts

William Roberts

Mar 29, 2009

William Roscoe Roberts, a retired salesman, 86 of Hillsboro died Sunday, March 29, 2009, in a local nursing home after a long illness. Mr. Roberts was born October 23, 1922, to Rachel Jane Pollard Roberts and Robert Henry Roberts at home in the Mertens area. He attended school in Mertens and Milford. On October 21, 1944 he married the...

Isabell Allison

Isabell Allison

Mar 27, 2009

Isabell Delitha Allison, 87, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma died Friday, March 27, 2009, in Sallisaw. Isabell was born May 31, 1921 in Hillsboro the daughter of Carrie and J.N. Lloyd. She married Chester Thurman Allison on August 31, 1940. Isabell was a resident of White Settlement for 50 years before moving to Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by her...