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Allan Pattison, Jr

Allan Pattison, Jr

Jun 18, 2008

Allan Kenneth Pat Pattison, Jr., 84, of Hillsboro died Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at his residence in Hillsboro. He was born December 21, 1923 in Jamestown, New York, where he grew up, the son of Allan Kenneth, Sr. and Lucille Best Baker Pattison. He joined the U. S. Army and then the U. S. Air Force, where he retired...

Viola Booth

Viola Booth

Jun 18, 2008

Viola Booth, 93, of Whitney passed away on June 18, 2008 in Whitney. Viola was born on May 24, 1915 in Whitney to William Arthur and Cora Lee Dunn Shelley. She lived in Whitney all of her life and graduated from Whitney High School. She married Marshall Booth on Sept. 9, 1933 and he preceded her in death on...

Diane King

Diane King

Jun 17, 2008

Diane King, 61, of Laguna Park passed away on June 17, 2008 in Clifton. Diane was born on January 3, 1947 in Melledgeville, GA to William Woodrow and Vivian Rayburn White. She married Jimmie King on August 6, 2006 in Tulsa, OK. She was currently employed at O'Neida at the Hillsboro Outlet Mall as a sales clerk. Diane loved...

Charles Cunningham

Charles Cunningham

Jun 16, 2008

Charles William Cunningham, 82, of Hillsboro, went to the Lord on Monday morning June 16, 2008 after a battle with cancer. He was born February 25, 1926, in Hillsboro, to Marvin and Mary Cunningham and attended Hillsboro schools before he was drafted into the Army for World War II. He served with the Battery B 672 Field Artillery Battalion...

Robert Bruton

Robert Bruton

Jun 16, 2008

Robert Bruton, 97, of Hillsboro died Monday, June 16, 2008, at Homestead Nursing & Rehab in Hillsboro. Robert was born May 31, 1911 in Malone, Texas the son of William Robert and Sally B. Pound Bruton. For a number of years he lived in the James community and had lived in Hill County all of his life. During World...

June Mckibben

June Mckibben

Jun 12, 2008

June McKibben, 85, of Whitney passed away on June 11, 2008 in Clifton. June was the daughter of Sterling and Pearl Hembry Stubblefield. She grew up in Oklahoma. On Oct. 2, 1943, she married Chester McKibben. They have lived in Whitney for the past 15 years. She was a member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Preceding her in death...

Patsy Sides

Patsy Sides

Jun 11, 2008

Patsy Sides, 78, Fort Worth died Wednesday, June 11, 2008, at the Emery J. Lilge Hospice House in Fort Worth. Patsy was born November 14, 1929 in Hillsboro, Texas the daughter of Wilber W. and Mamie Ozella Campbell Jordan. She grew up in Hillsboro where she graduated from Hillsboro High School. On July 1, 1950 she married Billy R....

Lillian Kay

Lillian Kay

Jun 11, 2008

Lillian Kay, 102, of Hillsboro died Wednesday, June 11, 2008, at Homestead Nursing and Rehab in Hillsboro. Lillian was born May 30, 1906 in Fort McKavett, Texas in a wagon by a military doctor, the daughter of Marvin and Buena Alley. Her father was a Spanish-American veteran. She spent her early years in Sonora, TX, where she accompanied her...

Bill Van Devender

Bill Van Devender

Jun 6, 2008

Bill Van Van Devender, 68, of Whitney passed away on June 6, 2008 in Clifton. He was the son of Everett Van Devender and Charlotte Sweeney. He grew up spending time in Idaho and Texas. He joined the Navy and moved to Texas after his military duty was over. Bill has lived in Whitney for the past 25 years...

Doris Chenault

Doris Chenault

Jun 4, 2008

Doris Chenault, 80, of Whitney passed away on June 4, 2008 in Whitney. Doris was the daughter of Ted J. and Sudie Mae Miller Farmer. At the age of three she and her family took the train to Dallas where her father went to work for Proctor & Gamble. She graduated from Sunset High School. In 1946, she married...

Rayburn Thomas

Rayburn Thomas

Jun 3, 2008

Rayburn was born to Sidney and Maudie Moore Thomas on April 13, 1925 in Bosque County, where he grew up hunting and fishing with his brother Elmoe on the Brazos River. He attended Walling Bend schools and others. In 1942, he met Sue Dobbs and from the start they had an eye for each other. At the age of...

Bobby Hightower

Bobby Hightower

Jun 2, 2008

Bobby Clifton Hightower, 35, of Whitney passed away Monday, June 2, 2008. Bobby was born Nov. 14, 1972, in Longview, to James Clifton Butch and Rebecca Jane McKay Hightower. He moved to Whitney in 1986 and graduated in 1991 from Whitney High School. He married his high school sweetheart, Deanna Lee Hyslop, Aug. 15, 1992. He worked for many...

Charles Pritchett

Charles Pritchett

May 29, 2008

Charles Pritchett, 87, of Hillsboro died Thursday, May 29, 2008, in Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Hillsboro. Charles was born September 10, 1920 near Aquilla, in the Culp Community where he grew up, Texas the son of Charles Malone and Lula Margaret Biggs Pritchett. On August 26, 1939 he married Edna Kerley and she preceded him in death...

Felix Schulz

Felix Schulz

May 26, 2008

Felix was the son of Herman and Emma Kaddatz Schulz. He was baptized March 30, 1924 at Salem Lutheran Church in Malone and was confirmed there on April 10, 1938. His confirmation verse was Matthew 6:33. On December 14, 1944, he married Adeline Emma Sonnenburg in Malone. She preceded him in death on April 15, 1998. Felix worked for...

Johnny Jorgensen

Johnny Jorgensen

May 25, 2008

Johnny Jorgensen, 75, of Whitney passed away on May 25, 2008 in Whitney. Johnny was born Feb. 28, 1933 in Sullivan, Wisconsin. to John and MableWagie Jorgensen. He loved riding motorcycles, boating, fishing and raising chickens. He drove a truck for a cememt company. He was a Protestant. He was preceded in death by his parents. His survivors include...

Sharron Booth

Sharron Booth

May 20, 2008

Sharron Booth, 63, of Whitney passed away at her residence on May 20, 2008. Sharron was a lifelong resident of Whitney, daughter of Frances Middlebrook and the late Thomas L. Middlebrook, Sr., graduating from Whitney High School. An avid reader and collector of rabbit figurines, she also enjoyed working in her yard and raising all kinds of animals with...

Thomas Middlebrook Sr

Thomas Middlebrook Sr

May 19, 2008

Thomas was born on Jan. 6, 1921 in Whitney to W. T. Talbot and Lelia Agnes Morgan Middlebrook. As a lad, Thomas grew up going to school at Whitney and working for his uncle E. L. Middlebrook and his father, W. T. Middlebrook, in a General Merchandise Store now the Forum which included groceries, hardware, cotton ducking and mens...

Bettye Ryno

Bettye Ryno

May 18, 2008

Bettye Simpson Ryno of Whitney passed away peacefully on May 18, 2008 at Goodall Witcher Nursing Facility in Clifton, Tx. with her loving daughter, Renee Fossett, and beloved nieces, Glenda Braud and Rita Zimmerman by her side. Bettye was born March 17, 1933 in Whitney, Tx. the daughter of James Perry and Mamie Adeline Ivy Shelley. She grew up...

Leona Lucas

Leona Lucas

May 17, 2008

Leona was the daughter of Asa M. and Ila Velma Carroll Howard. She lived in the Malone area most of her life. On Sept. 10, 1948, she married J D Lucas. He would precede her in death on Oct 17, 2001. During her working years, Leona was a nurse's aide at both Callaway-McNutt Nursing Home in Hillsboro and the...

Dorothy Herrin

Dorothy Herrin

May 6, 2008

Dorothy Herrin, 82, of Lewisville, Texas, formerly of Hillsboro, Texas, died Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at Lewisville Estates Assisted Living in Lewisville. Dorothy was born May 20, 1925 in Magnolia, Mississippi the daughter of William and Mary Neely. She grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1942 she married Henry McClurg and they were married for 22 years. Then in...

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