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Roy Carter

Roy Carter

Aug 8, 2005

Roy M. Carter, 65, passed away August 8, 2005. He was the son of Roy Maston and Susan Viola MorrisCarter. He graduated from East Texas State Uiversity in August 1962. On March 2, 1973, Roy married Linda Gale Overton. He worked as a claims manager for the insurance industry and retired in 1996. Roy served as a deacon from...

Jonas Jimenez

Jonas Jimenez

Aug 5, 2005

Jonas Jimenez, 3 days old, of Hillsboro died Friday, August 5, 2005 at Cook?s Children Hospital in Fort Worth. Jonas was born August 2, 2005 in Hillsboro. He was the son of Samuel and Alva Tello Jimenez. Survivors include his parents, Samuel and Alva Jimenez of Hillsboro; maternal grandmother, Lucy Tello of Hillsboro; and paternal grandparents, Gregorio and Elba...

Katherine Camp

Katherine Camp

Aug 2, 2005

Katherine Camp died Tuesday, August 2nd, at a Fort Worth hospice care facility. She was born May 25, 1914, in Blum, Texas to John Jack Camp and Bertha CheekCamp. The family moved to Whitney in 1916 where she attended school. Katherine attended Hillsboro Jr. College and received her teaching degree from North Texas State University in Denton. She taught...

Doris Pond

Doris Pond

Aug 2, 2005

Doris Lanell Pond, 53, of Malone, passed away Tuesday, August 2, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Doris was born December 23, 1951 in Hillsboro, Texas the daughter of Adolph and Elna Louise Reinke Lander. She was raised in the Birome and Penelope area and graduated from Penelope High School in 1970. On January 6, 1986 she married...

Verna Lawhon

Verna Lawhon

Jul 30, 2005

Verna Lawhon passed away on July 30, 2005 in a local Hillsboro hospital. She was the daughter of James Algie and Stella Watson Johnson. She lived in the Yates Community until moving to Bynum as a young woman. In 1932, she married Guy E. Lawhon and they lived in the Bynum area until moving to Fort Worth in the...

Mrs. N. J. Jones

Mrs. N. J. Jones

Jul 30, 2005

Ellen was the daughter of Charlie Martin and Mary Olif Johns Fikes. She grew up in McCulloch County, TX and graduated class valedictorian from the school in Katemcy in 1927. Shortly after her graduation, she married Rev. N. J. Jones on November 12, 1927 in Brady, Texas. He preceded her in death January 19, 1973. A very active musician,...

H. L. Borth

H. L. Borth

Jul 26, 2005

Hank was the son of Johnny Lee Borth and Ruby Jane Stovall Borth Wilkerson. At the age of 14 he began work as a ranch hand in New Mexico for Clint Weeks, whom he would later name a son after. At 15, he roughnecked in the oil fields of west Texas into the 1950's. He entered the U. S....

Walker Smith

Walker Smith

Jul 24, 2005

Walker Smith passed away on July 24, 2005 in Hillsboro. He was the son of Charlie and Lillie Mae Rose Smith. He served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War. He married Ella Belle Morin on January 4, 1946 and she preceded him in death on August 31, 1993. Walker went to work for Chance...

Marie Luther

Marie Luther

Jul 24, 2005

Marie was the daughter of Samuel Herbert and Joyce Mae Smith Anderson, Jr. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. On December 5, 1937, she married William G. Luther, and he preceded her in death on February 3, 1999. Survivors include her son, William David Luther of Austin, Texas.

William Desmond Jr

William Desmond Jr

Jul 23, 2005

William Robert "Willie" Desmond, Jr., 83 of Whitney died on July 23, 2005 at his residence. He was the son of William Robert Desmond, Sr. and Annie Elizabeth Holden Desmond, growing up and attending schools in Fort Worth. William married Sallie LaVerne Taylor on May 28, 1948. After serving in the U S Navy as Seaman First Class, he...

Angela Wiseman

Angela Wiseman

Jul 23, 2005

She was the daughter of Charles Auther and Nancy Abby Thaxton Smalley. Married John Peewee Wiseman on May 1, 1933 in Oklahoma and he preceded her in death on March 14, 1980. She received her Associate degree from Tarleton State and started teaching school at Island Grove, and then taught at Woodrow School. Then she worked for Wiseman Brothers...

Bohdan Prokop

Bohdan Prokop

Jul 15, 2005

Bohdan ?Bob? Prokop, 79, of Hillsboro, Texas, died Friday, July 15, 2005, at his residence in Hillsboro. Bohdan ?Bob? Prokop was born on February 9, 1926 in western Ukraine outside of Pyskorowice to Maria Kulhawec and Oleksandr Prokop. He has lived in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and Australia. For the past 40 years he had lived in the United States....

Betty Carter

Betty Carter

Jul 14, 2005

Betty Blue Carter, 74, of Whitney, died, Thursday, July 14, 2005, at Providence Health Care Center in Waco. Betty was born February 23, 1931 in Cleburne, Texas the daughter of George Burton and Lorine Renfro Blue. She lived in Alvarado most of her life. She married Billy Ray Carter. Betty was a member of the VFW in Alvarado and...

Frances Boliver

Frances Boliver

Jul 10, 2005

Frances Forbus Boliver, 88, of Whitney, died Sunday, July 10, 2005, at Park Plaza Nursing Home in Whitney. Frances was born September 16, 1916 in Texas. She owned Arrowhead Lodge and Water System. She was of the Baptist faith. Preceding her in death were her parents; and two husbands, J. T. Forbus and Rube Boliver. Survivors include several nieces...

Colleen Wilkins

Colleen Wilkins

Jul 9, 2005

Colleen Doak Wilkins, age 56, lived in Hillsboro, Texas and went on to the better place Saturday, july 9, 2005. Born February 6, 1949 in Dallas, she goes now to be with her mother, Jeannine Dollar. She is ssurvived by her father, J. Braxton Doak; husband, John Wilkins; a daughter, Denise Anne Presson and husband, Gaylon Presson, a daughter...

Cecil Marley

Cecil Marley

Jul 8, 2005

Cecil Wayne Marley, 72, of Hillsboro passed away at his residence on July 8, 2005. Cecil was the son of Zachary Andrew and Molly Jacobs Marley. He moved to Marlow, Oklahoma as a young child and grew up there and attended Marlow Schools. As a young man he moved to Brownfield. During the Korean War, he served his country...

Christine Garrison

Christine Garrison

Jul 8, 2005

Christine Garrison, 91, of Hillsboro passed away in a Waco hospital on July 8, 2005. She was the daughter of James Pierce and Bertha Jane Thompson Garrison. She was raised in the James and Union Bluff Communities and had lived in Hillsboro since 1936. Christine had worked as a sales clerk for S. H. Kress from 1943 until 1979....

Mary White

Mary White

Jul 7, 2005

Mary Ann White, 65, of Whitney passed away July 7, 2005 in Hillsboro. She was the daughter of Harland Wesley and Elsie D. Vickers Miller. She grew up in Detroit and lived most of her life in Arlington and Whitney. On January 30, 1965, she married Shelly Cuz White. Mary Ann had worked at Kountry Grocery and was now...

Mayse Bruton

Mayse Bruton

Jul 6, 2005

Mr. Mayse Bruton, 94, of Hillsboro, died Wednesday, July 6, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Mayse was born November 23, 1910 in Malone, Texas the son of Joe Jarrel and Mary Josephine Morgan Bruton. On May 9, 1930 he married Thelma Aline Hammock in Hillsboro. Since 1979 he had resided in Hillsboro. He farmed, raised registered cattle...

Dora Avery

Dora Avery

Jul 6, 2005

Dora Garcia Avery, 48, of Cleburne, died Wednesday, July 6, 2005, at the Emery J. Lilge Hospice House in Fort Worth. Dora was born July 10, 1956 in Abbott, Texas the daughter of A. C. and Frances Garcia. She was a child care worker and of the Catholic faith. On December 3, 1991 she married Elton Avery in Cleburne....

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