Obituaries

Jun 13, 2005

Johnnie Carrol ?Big John? Diggs, 57, of Hillsboro died Monday, June 13, 2005, at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas. Johnnie was born on March 24, 1948 in Vaughan, Texas the son of A. C. ?Pete? and Eunice Lee Diggs. On December 24, 1969 he married Dorothy Grones in Hillsboro. For 22 years he worked for Rockett Water Supply in...

Jun 10, 2005

Robert was born October 13, 1928 in Hill County, Texas to Rayburn and Early Mae West, Upchurch. Robert married Geneva Lois Nix at her parents residence in Covington the 12th of October, 1946. In 1985, after 38 years of service he retired from the Santa Fe Railway as a carman. Robert was a member of the Covington Church of...

Jun 6, 2005

Billy Joe Padgett passed away at Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Whitney on June 6, 2005. He was born in Hillsboro, Texas to Briggs Pierce and Emmie Hare Padgett. He was a farmer and rancher and served in the United States Air Force. Billy Joe was a member of the VFW; Disabled American Vets and the Sheriff's Association....

Jun 4, 2005

Marie Della Degner passed away on June 4, 2005 at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro, Texas. Marie was born on February 1, 1912 in Malone, Texas to Will and Emma Conrad Schronk. She spent most of her life in Hill County and on April 10, 1927, she was confirmed at Salem Lutheran Church in Malone. Maire married T. C....

Jun 3, 2005

Deborah Sue Noble passed away on June 3, 2005 at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro, Texas. She was born on February 26, 1952 in Dallas, Texas to Jack Alford and Vivian Lee Sanders Bryant. On July 3, 1983, Deborah married Harold Noble in Hillsboro. She had been a nurse at Children's Medical Center in Dallas for nine years and...

May 31, 2005

Edna Marie Batis, 91, of Houston, died Tuesday, May 31, 2005, in Houston. Edna was born January 1, 1914 in Milford, Texas the daughter of Luther and Della Vanlandingham. On September 29, 1940 she married J. Perry Batis and he preceded her in death on March 25, 1964. A daughter, Barbara, was adopted in 1956 from Sparta, Greece. After...

May 30, 2005

Paul R. McNally, 61, of Whitney passed away on May 30, 2005 at his residence. On November 13, 1943, Paul was born to Paul Edward and Edith Berton McNally in Sewickley, PA. He grew up in Ambridge and graduated from Ambridge High School. Paul moved to Texas in 1963 and lived and worked in the Metroplex area until 1968...

May 30, 2005

Rebecca Barfield, 58, of Waco, died Monday, May 30, 2005, at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco. Rebecca was born February 17, 1947 in Wichita Falls, Texas the daughter of John Henry Lewis and Hallie Aline Croft Nowell. She was raised and attended school in Corsicana. On June 12, 1965 she married William Dale Barfield in Corsicana. For the...

May 28, 2005

Bertha "Nita" Jones passed away on May 27, 2005 at the Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro, Texas. The daughter of Asbery B. and Sallie Harmon McMullin, she was born near Blum, Texas on July 20, 1916. She had lived in Hill County most of her life and married Harvey A. Jones in January 26, 1935. In her middle 50's,...

May 27, 2005

Lou Thornton, 81, of Hillsboro, passed away Friday, May 27, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. The daughter of John Lonnie and Della Austin Johnson, she lived in Hillsboro since the mid 1950's. After 49 years, she retired from H & R Drug Store in Hillsboro on May 15, 1998 and worked in the lunch room at Hillsboro...

May 22, 2005

Nelda Antonia Rose Radke Schulz, 83, of Hillsboro, died Sunday, May 22, 2005, at Providence Health Care Center in Waco. Nelda was born June 11, 1921 in the Honey Flat Community, east of Bynum, in Hill County, Texas the daughter of Otto and Mathilda Piel Radke. She attended school at Honey Flat and Irene. She was baptized and confirmed...

May 20, 2005

Billy Guy "Bill" Elliot, 71, of Aquilla passed away May 20, 2005 in Waco. Bill was born on October 24, 1933 in Hasse, Texas to Wilburn Willard and Ruby Davison Elliott. He married Betty on September 24, 1975 in McLennan County. For several years he worked in road construction as a heavy equipment operator. On November 11, 1988, Bill...

May 19, 2005

Margaret E. Frazier, 94, of Hillsboro, died Thursday, May 19, 2005, at Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Hillsboro. Margaret was born December 25, 1910 in Hillsboro the daughter of A. M. & Stevie Allen Frazier. She graduated from Hillsboro High School. She received her Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Texas in Austin. After living in...

May 16, 2005

Jerry Jackson, 74, of Hillsboro, died Monday, May 16, 2005, at Kindred Hospital Southwest in Fort Worth. Jerry was born May 24, 1930 in Fort Worth the son of Jerry Robert and Edna Mae Custer Jackson, Sr. He grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from high school there. Immediately after graduation he entered the U. S. Coast Guard...

May 11, 2005

Glenn Bratcher, 57, of Malone, passed away Wednesday, May 11, 2005. Glenn was born August 10, 1947 in Frost, Texas the son of Jimmy Mack and Opal Charlene Henthorn Bratcher. Glenn was raised in Irene and lived in Malone most of his life. On June 24, 1967 he married Connie Piel at St. Peter?s Lutheran Church in Malone. Since...

May 10, 2005

Donna Faye Baker Presley passed away at her residence on May 10, 2005. She was the daughter of Grady and Faye Pursley McCall. She was raised and attended school in Dawson. Donna lived in Dallas where she was an administrator -director in the radiology department at Methodist Hospital; retiring in 1995. On June 6, 1987 she married Kenneth Edwin...

May 9, 2005

Lenora Matilda Radke Trojan, 86, of West formerly of Malone, died Monday, May 9, 2005, at West Rest Haven Nursing Home. Lenora was born June 4, 1918 in Penelope the daughter of Otto and Matilda Piel Radke. She was the fourth of eight children and grew up and lived most of her life in the Malone area. On June...

May 7, 2005

May 7, 2005

Hardy was born Aug. 2, 1938 in Hillsboro to Curtis M. and Leta Faye Stanford Griffin and grew up in the Vaughan and Abbott communities. He served in the U.S. Army after he got out of school. A truck driver all his working life, he worked for many years at Leeway Motor Freight and ABF Freight where he retired...

May 7, 2005

Doris Aline McGlothlin Copeland, 95, a resident of Hurst for more than 50 years, passed from this earthly life on Saturday, May 7, 2005. She was born August 28, 1909 in Virden, IL, the youngest of four daughters born to Elizabeth Plowman McGlothlin and Charles Austin McGlothlin, a prominent farm couple of Central Illinois. She was preceded in death...