Obituaries
Mary Cosby
Dec 31, 2013
Mary Ellen Dean Cosby, 105, of Odessa, Texas passed away peacefully in her home on December 31, 2013. Mary Ellen Dean was born November 23, 1908, in her parents home in the rural area of Chikala Mountain, in Yell County Arkansas. She was the baby daughter and last born child of Jessie Edward Dean and Ida Alice Limbird. She...
Timothy Eckel
Dec 31, 2013
Timothy Dale Eckel Papa, 62, passed into the arms of his Lord on Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 at home in Odessa, Texas. He was born November 29, 1951 to Emery and Norma Eckel in Odessa, Texas. He attended Odessa High School and had various continuing education classes in conjunction with his job as part owner of Eckel Manufacturing Inc....
Billy Rea
Dec 29, 2013
Billy F. Rea, 75, of Odessa, Texas passed away in his home at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas after a brief illness on December 29, 2013. Bill was born in Calhoun, Louisiana to Mary Etta and Britton Rea on July 4, 1938. He graduated from Kermit High School in 1956. Bill married Mary Elizabeth Means, the love of his life,...
Dorothy Williams
Dec 25, 2013
Dorthy Christine Williams passed peacefully from this earthly world into her heavenly home on December 25, 2013. While her kind, beautiful spirit will be missed by the family she leaves behind, we know in addition to being with our Lord, she is now in the arms of her beloved husband, Albert. We know also that her spirit will live...
John Taliaferro
Dec 25, 2013
John Kenneth Taliaferro, 63, of Brownwood, Texas, passed away on December 25, 2013, in Odessa, Texas. John was born in Odessa to Marquis and Dorothy Taliaferro on October 6, 1950. He graduated from Odessa High School and attended Howard Payne University. John served as the VicePresident of Operations for Texas Reamer Company. He was then the owner and President...
Patricia Moore
Dec 24, 2013
Patricia Anne Moore passed away on December 24, 2013 in Odessa TX. Services will be held on Monday December 30th 2013 at 10:00 A.M. at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Malcolm Tyree of Grace Point will be conducting the service. Patricia was born in Norristown, PA to Francis and Marion OBrien on August 3rd 1951. She went to school in...
Floyd Allen
Dec 21, 2013
Floyd Thomas Allen, 81, of Odessa, TX, passed away on Saturday, December 21, 2013 at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, TX. Funeral service is scheduled for Thursday, December 26, 2013 at Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home at 1:00 pm with Leo Copeland and Lon Briley officiating. Graveside service will be on Friday, December 27, 2013 at 2:00 pm...
Christopher Smart
Dec 20, 2013
Christopher Alan Smart was born on March 24, 1975, in Ft. Collins, Colorado to Larry Smart and Sandra Stain Smart. They soon returned to the MidlandOdessa area, where Chris was raised. He attended Emerson Elementary, Goddard and Lee High School. Chris loved music, fishing, all animals, his family and the Dallas Cowboys. He was a loving, funny and generous...
Catherine Hybert
Dec 19, 2013
Catherine Ann Wills Hybert of Englewood, Colorado went to live with our heavenly father on December 17th 2013. Funeral services will be held December 28th 2013 at 10:00 oclock A.M. at Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home with Reverend Dr. Byron McWilliams and Reverend Curtis Brewer officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Cemetery. Cathy was born in Odessa, Texas to...
Charles White
Dec 16, 2013
Charles Snelling White, 96, of Odessa, TX, passed away on Monday, December 16, 2013 at the Watkins Logan Texas State Veterans Home in Tyler, TX. Visitation will be 5:007:00 p.m. Friday, December 20, 2013 at Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 21, 2013 in the Sunset Funeral Home...
Margaret Kull
Dec 15, 2013
Margaret H. Maggie Kull, 78, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, December 15, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. She was born March 4, 1935 to Jack Helen Hampton in Ballinger, Texas. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She graduated from Ballinger High School. She married Ed Kull in September 1974. She worked for and retired from the City...
Maria Gimenez
Dec 14, 2013
Maria Lourdes Gimenez, 55, of Odessa, TX, passed away on December 14, 2013 in Odessa, TX. Rosary will be Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 5:30pm at Sunset Memorial Chapel. Celebration of Life will be held at St. Marys Catholic Church on Monday, December 16, 2013 at 11:00am with Father Santiago officiating. Arrangements are by Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home....
J. Walraven
Dec 13, 2013
J.L. Jake Walraven of Odessa, Texas passed away on Friday, December 13, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. Visitation will be come and go at Sunset Memorial Gardens Sunday, December 15, 2013. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Monday, December 16, 2013 at Sunset Memorial Gardens with Brian Trant of Kingston Avenue Baptist Church officiating. Jake was born November...
Shirley Swanson
Dec 12, 2013
Shirley Jeanette Swanson, 76, of Odessa, passed away on December 12, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. Visitation will be Monday December 16th from 6:008:00 pm at Sunset Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, December 17th at 1:00 pm in the Sunset Funeral Home Chapel, With Pastor Ken and Dene Redmon officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens....
Joyce Burkholder
Dec 10, 2013
Joyce Halsey Burkholder, 90, passed away December 10, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. Joyce was born to Mark and Esther Halsey on July 29, 1923 in Belton, Texas. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 10:00 AM at Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Jimmy Braswell officiating. Joyce was a native of Lubbock,...
Leemore Cook
Dec 10, 2013
Leemore F. Cook passed from this earth to Heaven on December the 10, 2013. Born on January 15, 1928 to Hazel Macon Fuqua and Jack Fuqua of Stamford, Texas. Married Clinton Kimbell Cook, Jr. on June 25 1949 in Stamford, Texas. Leemore graduated Salutatorian from Stamford High School in 1945 and attended North Texas State Teachers College now, University...
Dorothy Richerson
Dec 5, 2013
Jeanne Richerson, 87, of Odessa, TX, passed away on December 5, 2013 in Midland, TX. Burial will be at Rowe Cemetery in Hedley, TX. Arrangements are by Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. Jeanne was born in Childress, TX to Silas and Nettie Richerson on January 3, 1926. She was the youngest of 8 children all of which preceded her...
Ima Moore
Dec 4, 2013
Ima Faye Branam Moore Capps passed away Wednesday, December 4, 2013 in Midland, Texas following a short illness. Faye was born on May 14, 1929 in Camp Arkansas, as the oldest child of Troy and Minnie Branam. At an early age her parents moved to Crane, Texas and later Monahans, Texas for her father to find work. Fay Graduated...
Lida Hammitt
Dec 4, 2013
Lida Ardell Dale Hammitt passed away December 4, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 7, 2013 at Southside Baptist Church with Pastor Shaun Lynch officiating. Burial will follow at Monahans Memorial Cemetery. Dale was born in Cherokee, Kansas to Walter and Belle Windsor on July 13, 1926. Dale married Bill T....
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