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Ora Bobbitt

Ora Bobbitt

Jun 7, 2007

Ora Maye Stricklin Bobbitt, 96, of Hillsboro died Thursday, June 7, 2007 at Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Hillsboro. She was the daughter of Inez Stricklin and J.D. Stricklin. She had four brothers, Paul, Gilford, Don and Thomas Lee. All are deceased. She married James Lee Bobbit on December 24, 1941. He passed away October 26, 1963. During...

Maurine Deford

Maurine Deford

Jun 6, 2007

Maurine DeFord, 94, of Hillsboro died Wednesday, June 6, 2007, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Maurine was born April 2, 1913 in Malone, Texas, where she grew up, the daughter of Charles Preston and Ethel Walling Barrett. She graduated from Malone High School. In 1931 she married Buddy DeFord and he preceded her in death in 1957. She...

W. D. Parks

W. D. Parks

Jun 5, 2007

W. D. Pat Parks, born March 28th, 1916 in Allen Bend, Texas left us on June 5, 2007. He was the son of Frank and Emma Golden Parks. He served in the United States Army during World War II. He was also owner and operator of a grocery store. He married Louise Necessary on April 10, 1950. He was...

Kaydence Eaton

Kaydence Eaton

Jun 5, 2007

Kaydence Nichole Eaton infant daughter of James and Nikki Mills Eaton passed away on June 5, 2007. Survivors include her parents, James and Nikki of Whitney; maternal grandmother, Sheila Mills of Whitney; maternal grandfather, Tommy Strickland of Whitney; aunts and uncles, Bennett and Sheila Craven of Whitney, Evelyn and Ernest Lowery of Waco, Sharon and Jeff Lowery of Waco,...

Judith Price

Judith Price

Jun 3, 2007

Judith Ann Price, 54, of Whitney passed away at her home on June 3, 2007. She was the daughter of Melvin and Janice McKay. On March 29, 1980, she married Donald Wayne Price. Judi was preceded in death by her husband on May 19, 1999 and her father, Melvin McKay on March 31, 2007. Judi is survived by her...

Chandler Fossett

Chandler Fossett

Jun 2, 2007

Chandler Francis Fossett, 8 of Hillsboro passed away at his home on June 2, 2007. He was the son of Steve Fossett and Mica Faglie Fossett. Chandler lived in the metroplex until age 3 when he moved to Hillsboro with his family. He was a member of Walnut Street Baptist Church. Preceding him in death were his grandmothers, Ina...

Paul Froloff

Paul Froloff

May 29, 2007

Paul William Froloff passed away on May 27, 2007 in Temple. He was the son of William and Mary Deneitt Froloff. Paul served in the United States Army during World War II where he earned the purple heart, bronze star medal, good conduct medal, American campaign medal, European-African-Middle Eastern campaign medal with four bronze stars, World War II victory...

Jack Shadle

Jack Shadle

May 28, 2007

Jack was the son of John E. and Sarah A. Mitchell Shadle. He grew up in Pennsylvania and served in the U.S. Army during WWII in the Army Air Corp. On May 20, 1949, he married Dorothy Heckman. Jack worked for Keasbey-Mattison, which later became Certain-Teed, and he was transferred to Hillsboro in 1961. After that time, he continued...

Carroll Kuykendall

Carroll Kuykendall

May 27, 2007

Carroll Bruce Kuykendall, 63, of Hillsboro went to be with his Lord & Savior in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 27, 2007, after a courageous battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Bruce was born on October 29, 1943 in Waxahachie, Texas the son of Wilson and Oleta Frank Kuykendall. Bruce was raised in the Midway community and graduated from...

Marie Adams

Marie Adams

May 26, 2007

Marie Adams, 78, of Odessa died Saturday, May 26, 2007, at Odessa Medical Center in Odessa. Marie was born March 6, 1929 in Bynum, Texas the daughter of James E. and Martha Taylor Isbell. She grew up in Hillsboro and married Orville Adams on January 18, 1947. He preceded her in death on April 1, 1983. In 1964, she...

Charlotte Steel

Charlotte Steel

May 25, 2007

Charlotte Maxine Maxey Steel, 93, of Waco died Friday, May 25, 2007, at Providence Health Care Center in Waco. She was born December 29, 1913 in Lorena, Texas the daughter of Herbert and Nell Loraine Schaeffer Maxey. She graduated from Waco High School. She went to work in the lab at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center where she was head...

Major C. H. Lewis, Jr

Major C. H. Lewis, Jr

May 23, 2007

Major C. H. ?Mike? Lewis, Jr., 85, of Hillsboro died May 23, 2007 at his residence. Born October 28, 1921 in Shelbyville, TN, Major Lewis was the son of Claude H., Sr., a Baptist minister, and Laviria Yancey Lewis, a school teacher. Attending Middle Tennessee State Teachers College when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, Major Lewis started his...

Frank Orenbaun

Frank Orenbaun

May 18, 2007

Frank Orenbaun, 78, of San Antonio died Friday, May 18, 2007, at Morningside Manor in San Antonio. Frank was born April 22, 1929 in Hillsboro, Texas the son of Thomas Richard and John Beatrice Dixon Orenbaun. During the Korean War, he served in the United States Navy on the USS Kearsarge. He then served in the United States Air...

Eron Bodine

Eron Bodine

May 18, 2007

Eron Boaz Bodine was born in Grayson County, Texas and married James Thomas Tom Bodine on November 21, 1936 in Hillsboro. The couple moved to San Antonio for many years before moving to Whitney in 1970. A wonderful storyteller, Eron loved to tell the story about the time she rode out a hurricane in the rumble seat of a...

Nell Mccreight

Nell Mccreight

May 16, 2007

Nell Sue McCreight, 86, of Hillsboro died Wednesday, May 16, 2007, at Hill Regional Hospital. Nell was born July 30, 1920 in Cameron, Texas the daughter of Benjamin Boyd and Otilda Eve Braden Reynolds. She graduated from Yoe High School in Cameron. On June 28, 1946 she married Bennie D. McCreight in Orange, Texas and he preceded her in...

Ellar Owens

Ellar Owens

May 15, 2007

Ellar Mae Britton Sanders Owens, 87, of Jenks, Oklahoma, and formerly of Whitney, Texas, joined her heavenly family on Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Ella was born in Okfuskee, Oklahoma on August 28, 1919 to the late John R. and Minnie Britton. She lived the majority of her life in Anson, Abilene and Whitney, Texas. She moved to Sand Springs,...

Gene Brumbalow

Gene Brumbalow

May 13, 2007

Gene Brumbalow, 63, of Milford died Sunday, May 13, 2007 at Plaza Medical Center in Fort Worth. Gene was born August 21, 1943 in Hamilton, Texas the son of Joe Edward Brumbalow and Barbara L. Bingham Mazzola. He grew up in Hillsboro and moved to Oklahoma in 1997. In 2003 he moved back to Hillsboro where he was a...

Dusty Walther

Dusty Walther

May 13, 2007

Dusty Glen Walther, 26, of Whitney, passed away on May 13, 2007. He was the son of Robert and Evelyn Goerdel Walther. Dusty was born and raised in Hamilton. He graduated from Iredell in 1999 and attended Tarleton State University for three years. Dusty was Sales Manager and a valued staff member at W. B. Ranch. He was the...

Mary Morgan

Mary Morgan

May 9, 2007

Mary Mozelle Morgan, 82, of Hillsboro died Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at her residence. Mary was born July 11, 1924 in Bynum, Texas the daughter of Arthur and Mary Jane Walters Martin, the youngest of six children. In 1941 she graduated from Bynum High School and in 1943 she graduated from Hill College. On January 5, 1948 she married...

Margaret Hanstad

Margaret Hanstad

May 8, 2007

Margaret Cole Hanstad, 95, of Laguna Park passed away on May 8, 2007 in Whitney. She was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Bowden Cole. Margaret worked for many years as a cashier at M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston; retiring in 1980. Her husband, Carl was a photo engraver for the Houston Chronicle. Margaret was a member of...

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