Obituaries

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wanda Crowell

Wanda Crowell

May 8, 2007

Wanda Crowell, 78, of Hillsboro died Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Wanda was born August 29, 1928 in Irene, Texas the daughter of Hubert and Grace Carroll Hoyle. She grew up in Frost and moved to Abbott in 1941. On November 29, 1947 she married Bob Crowell. She was a member of the Hillsboro...

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...

Dorothy Neel

Dorothy Neel

May 1, 2007

Dorothy Mae Neel, 78, of Whitney passed away on May 1, 2007 at Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Whitney. Dorothy was born on Sept. 15, 1928 in Valley Mills, TX to Clinton M. and Sarah Lou Gilcrest Reeves. She married Oscar Neel, Jr. in Hobbs, New Mexico on Oct. 21, 1946. She was a homemaker and a member...

Jo Snellgrove

Jo Snellgrove

Apr 29, 2007

Jo Snellgrove, 58, of Aquilla passed away at her home on April 29, 2007. She was the daughter of William R. and Opal L. Miller Moore. She grew up in Bell County. She received her Licensed Vocational Nursing education at King?s Daughter Hospital in Temple and lived in Bell County most of her life and in Grande Isle, La.,...

Bobby Ball

Bobby Ball

Apr 26, 2007

Bobby Ball, 71, of Whitney died Thursday, April 26, 2007 at his residence. Bobby was born January 15, 1936 in Hill County, Texas the son of George and Clara Bell Ball. On November 30, 1985 he married Dianne Pierce in Whitney. He was an avid reader and collector of small cap guns and old toy cars. Bobby was a...

Cheryl Rose

Cheryl Rose

Apr 26, 2007

Cheryl Arlene Rose, 57, of Hillsboro died Thursday, April 26, 2007, at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco. Cheryl was born June 7, 1949 in Hillsboro, Texas, where she grew up, the daughter of Arlee, Sr. and Mary Dickey Grubbs. She graduated from Hillsboro High School and Hill College Cosmetology School. For many years she owned and operated Cheryl?s...

Jim Carmichall

Jim Carmichall

Apr 24, 2007

Jim J. Carmichall, 77, of Hillsboro passed away Tuesday, April 24, 2007, at his residence. Mr. Carmichall was born February 27, 1930 in Blum, Texas son of the late Joseph Ernest and Anna Lee Coody Carmichall. He graduated from Blum High School and attended Hill College, University of North Texas, and Baylor University. In 1954 he married June Overton...