Joe Wingate
Feb 14, 2005
Joe Wingate, 78, passed away Monday, February 14, 2005, in Hillsboro. Joe was the son of Raymond and Gay Nell Rose Wingate. Living in Hill County all of his life, he graduated from Whitney High School in 1945 and served as a bus driver for the school while in high school. Five days after graduation, he entered the U....
Darlene Cato
Feb 13, 2005
Darlene "Mitch" Cato, 45, of Irving passed away Sunday, February 13, 2005 at Navarro Regional Hospital in Corsicana. Darlene was the daughter of James Donald and Odette Minson May, Sr. She was preceded in death by her father. Survivors include her mother, Odette May; her son, Louis Daniel Cato, Jr. of Irving; two brothers, James May, Jr. of Corsicana...
Burlon Ivie
Feb 12, 2005
Burlon was the son of Travis and Mildred Willis Ivie. He was born in Hillsboro and lived there most of his youth. On May 4, 1957, he married LaVelle Cacy in Hillsboro. In 1958 he went to work for the Hillsboro Fire Department before joining the Carrollton Fire Department in 1960. In January 1992, he retired from Carrollton as...
Tommy Basham
Feb 10, 2005
Tommy was the son of Billy and Corynne Duncan Basham; he lived in Whitney as a youth and later moved to Dallas where he grew up. He was a musician and a machinist. Preceding him in death were his parents and step-father, Jodie Andrews. Survivors include his former wife, Linda Basham of Ferris; children, Tammy Lancione of Duncanville, Tina...
Nelson Gatlin
Feb 10, 2005
Nelson was the son of Elvin and Florence Lumpkin Gatlin. He enlisted in the Unites States Navy on August 19, 1942 and was discharged on January 9, 1946. He married Louise Lee on July 27, 1946 in Whitney. Retiring in 1986, he had worked as a maintainer operator for Hill County. He was a member of the American Legion...
David Middleton
Feb 9, 2005
On February 9, 2005, Glen, at home, surrounded by his love ones, went to be with his Lord and Savior after a long battle with kidney failure due to diabetes. Glen was the son of Frank Morton and Zelda Loraine Fincher Middleton. He was born in Hillsboro on January 18, 1962. He attended Hillsboro schools and graduated in 1980...
Joe Ward Jr
Feb 8, 2005
Joe Bailey Ward, Jr. was born on December 13, 1922 in Whitney, Texas to Joe Bailey and Ina Simmons Ward and died on February 8, 2005 in Jacksonville, Arkansas. Mr. Ward was the Valedictorian of Whitney High School class of 1941. Shortly after graduation, he married his high school sweetheart, Nell Basham. Mr. Ward then volunteered for military service...
Wendell Morgan
Feb 7, 2005
Wendell Clifford Morgan, 82, of Abbott, Texas passed away Monday, February 7, 2005, in Abbott, Texas. Mr. Morgan was born March 16, 1922 in Abbott, Texas the son of Benjamin C. and Blanche Bruce Morgan. He attended school in Abbott. On September 27, 1942 he joined the U. S. Army at Camp Walters and was discharged on January 31,...
Wanda Raulston
Feb 5, 2005
Mrs. Raulston was the daughter of Calvin and ColumbiaAckerman Jean and was a liflong resident of Hill County. Joe Raulston and Wanda were wed on October 1, 1949 and for a total of 30 years , she worked as a seamtress for J.M. Wood Manufacturing, Malouf, and Rose Marie. The accomplishment of getting her G.E.D. after she became a...
Beatrice Sandoval
Feb 4, 2005
Beatrice S. Sandoval, 92, was received into God's arms on Friday, February 4, 2005, at Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Hillsboro. Beatrice was born December 6, 1912 in Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Phillip and Selsa Gallegos Sotello. Before moving to Hillsboro, she lived in Fort Worth most of her life. She married Gregory Sandoval and he...
Tommie Beene
Feb 2, 2005
Tommie Bledsoe Beene, 98, passed away Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital. Tommie was born April 11, 1906 in Peoria, Texas the daughter of Charlie and Addie James Bledsoe. A native of Hill County and lifelong resident, she graduated from Hillsboro High School and completed college in Fort Worth. Mrs. Beene was a 73 year member of...
Emily Hudson
Feb 2, 2005
Emily Hudson, 90, passed away Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at Emery J. Lilge Hospice House in Burleson. Emily Hudson was born January 26, 1915 in Hillsboro, Texas the daughter of C. C. and Callie McFadden Isbell. She attended elementary, junior high, and high school in Hillsboro. In 1933 she graduated from Hillsboro High School, from Hill College in 1935,...
Dora Bonds
Feb 2, 2005
Areda was born on May 9, 1922 in Hillsboro, the daughter of Cornelius Wagner and Mary BelleNiles Harris. She had lived in the Hillsboro and Whitney area most of her life and attended school at Grubb Hill Community. Areda first married Marvin Leroy Brown in 1941 and later married Pope Allen ?Gogie? Bonds in 1958. She was a member...
William Fleming
Jan 31, 2005
William "Gene" Fleming, 84, of Hillsboro passed away Monday, January 31, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Gene was born July 23, 1920 in Bonham, Texas the son of Jesse and Nancy Chaffin Fleming. He was raised in Bonham. He joined the U. S. Army Air Corp during WWII in the European Theater, serving at Normandy, Central Europe,...
Dorothye Bishop
Jan 31, 2005
Dorothye L. Bishop, 81, of Hillsboro passed away Monday, January 31, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Dorothye was born April 18, 1923 in Monticello, Arkansas the daughter of James Monroe and Anna Lee Moore Mitchell. From 1963-1986 she owned House of Flowers in Hillsboro and worked as a florist until 1999. On May 15, 1955 she married...
Ruby Mcdowell
Jan 29, 2005
Ruby Faye was the daughter of James William and Donia McClister Eagan. She grew up in Hill County and graduated from Bynum High School. After high school, she moved to Dallas and worked there most of her adult life. Ruby returned to Bynum and Hillsboro for a few years to take care of her parents before returning to the...
Leon Vorpahl
Jan 29, 2005
Rev. Vorpahl was born September 21, 1918 in Guadalupe County to George and Selma Amanda Bargfrede Vorpahl. He attended schools in Tavner, TX before graduating from Richmond High School. Following high school, he helped his brother on the family farm for a time before heading to Baylor University, from where he graduated in 1943. The following year on August...
Mary Walker
Jan 28, 2005
Mary Katherine Walker was the daughter of Clarence and Athalee Frank Myers. She grew up in Hillsboro and graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1952. During that time she was a member of Line St. United Methodist Church. Mary attended Draughn's Business College in Dallas. She married James Pendergrass in 1953 and moved to Pawnee, Oklahoma then later moved...
Hayzen Plunkett
Jan 27, 2005
Hayzen Irene Ashley Plunkett, 88, of Hillsboro, passed away Thursday, January 27, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Hayzen was born May 19, 1916 in Newport, Oklahoma the daughter of John Calvin and Enna Myrtle Chapman Ashley. On December 23, 1936 she married A. B. Plunkett and they made their home in Abbott. They had one daughter, Janette...
Mary Craig
Jan 27, 2005
Mary Frances Craig, 88 of Cleburne died on January 27, 2005 at Walls Regional Hospital in Cleburne. A registered nurse, she was a caregiver at Cleburne Memorial Hospital until her retirement in 1982. Mary was married to Edward Gleen Craig until he preceded her in death on January 26, 1964. Also preceding her in death were her parents, Bun...
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