Gene Davis
Nov 21, 2006
Gene Davis passed away on November 21, 2006 in Whitney. He was the son of Eugene Thomas and Eva Warren Davis. Gene married Patti Schlaepfer on June 3, 1983 in Fort Bend County, Texas. He served his country in the United States Army and was an avid fisherman, hunter and loved trucks and motorcycles. He was of the Baptist...
Sexton Dees
Nov 20, 2006
Sexton Dees passed away on November 20, 2006 at Town Hall Estates in Whitney. He was the son of Venus and May Anderson Dees and grew up in the Richland - Corsicana area. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Sexton married Maude Coccocan in 1943. She preceded him in death 2005. He married Louise...
Gail Mcconathy
Nov 19, 2006
Gail was the daughter of E.L. and Bonnie Hale Gray. She graduated from Hillsboro High School and later from cosmetology school. She was married to Donald Ray Harwood. Later she married Ray McConathy in April, 1993. For many years she was an apartment manager in the Fort Worth area. Gail enjoyed collecting dolls. She was a member of Walnut...
Violet Pahrump
Nov 19, 2006
Violet Hubachek passed away on November 19, 2006 in Pahrump, Nevada. Violet was the daughter of James Frances and Viola Kendell Norris. She came to Texas in 1964 and located in Carrollton, TX. She married Clyde Raymond Knudson on Sept. 9, 1935 and he preceded her in death on April 11, 1968. On Oct. 10, 1970, she married Clarence...
Nina Ashley
Nov 18, 2006
Nina was the daughter of George Henry and Winnie Yocham Johnson. She grew up in the Osceola community where she attended school. In May of 1947 she married Larry Ashley. For many years she lived in Oregon before moving back to Texas in 1964. On April 5, 1981, she married Edward C. Underdown and he preceded her in death....
Orval Johnson
Nov 15, 2006
Orval B. Johnson, 86, of Waco died Wednesday, November 15, 2006, at his residence. Orval was born February 5, 1920 in the Woodbury Community of Hill County, Texas the son of Benjamin Levington and Ocie Yocham Johnson. He grew up and attended school in the Shiloh community of Hill County. On May 4, 1940 he married Dorothy Lee James...
Thomas Wade
Nov 13, 2006
Mr. Thomas Riley Wade, 57, of Hewitt went Home to be with the Lord on Monday, Nov. 13, 2006, in a Waco hospital, after battling brain cancer. Thomas was born July 9, 1949 in Houston, the son of Thomas R. and Katybel Wade. He grew up in Bay City, Texas where he played football and many of his friends...
Walton Ward
Nov 12, 2006
Walton Ward, 78, of Whitney went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2006 in the Whitney Hospital surrounded by his loving family. He was born on Nov. 23, 1927 in Hill County, the son of Stanley and Ollie McGuire Ward. Walton was instrumental in the forming of the Whitney Ministerial Alliance and a proud member of...
Nana Zuspan
Nov 10, 2006
Nana Janelle Zuspan, 52 of Whitney passed away on Nov. 10, 2006 in Hillsboro. Nana was born Jan. 23, 1954 in Dallas to the late Hansel and Elaine Zuspan. She spent most of her life in Dallas and moved to Whitney in 1999. She was a self-employed real estate investor. Survivors include her daughter, Tenby Turner of Austin; sisters,...
Sara Craft
Nov 8, 2006
Sara Bernice Craft, nee, Robinsondied Nov. 8, 2006, at her residence in Whitney, TX at the age of 66. She was born Feb. 5, 1940, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She was preceded in death by her parents, Marshall and Elizabeth Robinson; step-father, Sam Turner; brother, Wayne Robinson and Sister, Delores Taylor. Survivors include two daughters, Peri Ruth Avant and Toni...
Leona Radke
Nov 7, 2006
Leona Trompler Radke, 89, of Hubbard and formerly of Malone, died Tuesday, November 7, 2006, at a local nursing home. Leona was born January 26, 1917 in Bynum, Texas the daughter of Henry and Gertrude Muesse Trompler. She grew up in the Malone area. On December 5, 1935 she married Alvin Radke and he preceded her in death on...
Taylor J. Sims, Iii
Nov 3, 2006
Taylor J. "Jack" Sims, III was born September 19, 1917 and died November 3, 2006 in Hillsboro, where he was a lifetime resident, at the age of 89. He was the son of Taylor J. Sims and Bobbie Boykin Sims. Jack graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1934. He was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and the...
Tommy Hobbs
Nov 3, 2006
Born July 2, 1922 in Des Arc, Arkansas, Tommy was the son of Thomas Henry and Sally Richardson Hobbs. On May 19, 1942, he married Ludie Mae Hines. During World War II, he served as a sergeant with the U.S. Army. For 33 years he worked for El Paso Natural Gas in the Permian Division in Goldsmith, Texas. Tommy...
Linda Hunt
Nov 1, 2006
Linda was the daughter of Jerry and Hazel Paris Montgomery. She grew up in Hillsboro and graduated from Hillsboro High in 1976 and married Charles Hunt in November of 1977. Linda was preceded in death by her mother and grandfather. Her survivors are her husband, Charles Hunt of Hillsboro; Father, Jerry Montgomery of Hillsboro; Grandmother, Doris Murphrey of Toole;...
Rachel Reed
Oct 31, 2006
Rachel was the daughter of Ed and Vera Ward Owens. On October 18, 1941, she married Jessie Reed. He preceded her in death October 10, 1996. Also preceding her in death were her parents, and son, Donald Reed on July 13, 2002. Rachel was a member of the Alsbury Baptist Church in Burleson. Survivors include: daughter-in-law, Mary Reed of...
John Standefer
Oct 31, 2006
John A. Standefer Sr. was the youngest of three children born to Julius L. "Judy" and Esther McNeill Standefer. This Hillsboro community leader was a 1944 graduate of Clifton High School. John served his country during World War II in the U.S. Army. He married his wife of 57 years, Eleanor L. "Twoey" Willard, on June 4, 1949. John...
Margaret Taylor
Oct 30, 2006
Margaret was the daughter of Joseph Wilson and Ethel May Graff Chrisman. Her family moved to Covington, where she attended school until her final year. She received her high school diploma from Hillsboro High School, then continued her education at Hillsboro Junior College and North Texas State University. After beginning her teaching career at Hope School near Hubbard and...
Ethelene Gainer
Oct 25, 2006
Ethelene Gainer, 85, of Hillsboro died Wednesday, October 25, 2006, at her residence. Ethelene was born May 27, 1921 in Ackerman, Mississippi the daughter of Arasmus Pinkney and MaryLou Ethel Black Stephens. On April 11, 1942 she married Charles Henry Gainer and he preceded her in death on October 21, 1973. Also preceding her in death were her parents;...
Jerry Anderson Iii
Oct 24, 2006
Jerry was the son of Jerry W. and Julie Rose Graves Anderson, Jr. As a small child he moved to Whitney were he grew up and attended school. He was preceded in death by a sister, Crystal Gail Graves. Survivors include: parents, Jerry W. and Julie Rose Graves Anderson, Jr. of Whitney; grandmother, Karen Rose Graves of Whitney; aunt...
Henry Fortner
Oct 23, 2006
Henry S. ?Hank? Fortner, 76, of Grand Prairie died Monday, October 23, 2006 at Methodist Hospital in Dallas. Hank was born April 3, 1930 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, where he was raised, the son of James Clarence and Naomi Bentley Fortner. In 1961 he moved to Texas and was a resident of Arlington and Grand Prairie the rest of...
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