Obituaries
Joshua Stearns
Jan 15, 2013
Joshua Edward Stearns, 27, of Odessa died Tuesday, January 15, 2013. Josh was born July 9, 1985 in Richland Hills, TX. Josh attended elementary school in the Haltom City area and Bowie Schools. He moved to Odessa in March of 2012 after living in many cities in TX. Josh just began working for CapStar Drilling of Odessa. Josh had...
Jeffie Knowles
Jan 15, 2013
Jeffie Lynn Knowles, age 90, passed away January 15, 2013 at Deerings Nursing Home in Odessa, Texas. She was born December 16, 1922 in Roscoe, Texas to Jeff Franklin Stephens and Linda Scott Stephens. She was a resident of Odessa for over 65 years and a member of Belmont Baptist Church. She is preceded in death by her parents,...
Mary Collerd
Jan 14, 2013
Mary S. Collerd, 85, of Odessa, passed away Monday, January 14, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. Mary was born August 8, 1927 in Newburyport, Massachusetts to Joseph and Anastasia Kulik. She attended Newburyport High School. Following high school, Mary worked in an electric fuse factory until 1949, at which time she enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served until 1952....
Georgia Duesler
Jan 13, 2013
Georgia Dean Duesler, 94, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, January 13, 2013 at Hospice House, Odessa, Texas after a lengthily illness. Georgia was born September 22, 1918 in Rock Port, Missouri to Arthur McKay Jones and Mauda Agnes Berry Jones. Georgia is preceded by her first husband, James Franklin Fetters, and their children, Nora Agnes Fetters, Charles Fetters and...
Lillian Mingus
Jan 13, 2013
Lillian Estelle Mingus, of Irving, passed away Sunday, January 13, 2013. She was born November 8, 1912 in Gentrys Mill, Texas. She was a longtime member of MacArthur Blvd. Baptist Church in Irving. At her 100th birthday celebration, she received Gov. Perrys Yellow Rose of Texas Award, the U.S. Congressional Recognition Award, as well as a House of Representatives...
Lynett Sousa
Jan 13, 2013
Lynett HughinsSousa died Sunday, January 13th, 2013, at her home in Odessa, Texas. She was born September 7th, 1948 in Minot, North Dakota to Jack and Gladys Hughins. Lynett was raised on a farm in Tehama County, California and graduated from Corning High School in 1966. Enlisted in the U.S. Army and attended Intelligence school in Fort Hollabird, MD...
Ross Bryant
Jan 11, 2013
Ross Hayden Bryant, age 79, of Odessa, passed away Friday, January 11, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. He was born December 10, 1933 in Stanton, Texas to Joseph Coleman Bryant and Lottie Alice McMurry Bryant. He was raised in Big Spring until the age of 17, then moved to Kermit where he met and married Ruby Joyce Algood on June...
Ronald Gilbert
Jan 11, 2013
Ronald Forbes Gilbert, 79, of Odessa passed away Friday, January 11, 2013 in Odessa, TX at his home. Visitation will be Sunday, January 13, 2013 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 2:00 pm Monday, January 14, 2013 at First Baptist Church in Odessa with Curtis Brewer officiating. Burial will follow...
Yuvonne Miller
Jan 10, 2013
Yuvonne McDonnell Miller, age 80, devoted mother, grandmother, and teacher will be greatly missed. She went to be with her Lord Jesus on January 10, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. She was born Oct 13, 1932 in Lamesa, TX. She married D.A. Miller Dec. 30, 1952, and he died June 4, 1999 in Odessa. She taught Special Ed for 25...
John Munoz
Jan 9, 2013
John Albert Munoz passed away at Odessa Regional Medical Center, Wednesday January 9, 2013. He was born July 11, 1962 in Ft. Stockton, Texas. He graduated from Odessa High School in 1980 and was employed by the city of Odessa. Survivors parents, John Munoz and wife Lupe of Ft. Stockton and Vickie Pacheco of Odessa. Fiance, Robbin Smith of...
Paul Jones
Jan 4, 2013
Paul D. Jones passed away on January 4, 2013, at the Hospice House in Odessa at the age of 88. He was born on July 22, 1924, in Oxford, Nebraska, to Bonnie and Carney Jones. After graduating from high school in Oxford, Paul began doing pipeline work in Kansas. In 1943 he joined the U.S. Army. In 1944 he...
Peggy Busby
Dec 27, 2012
Peggy Busby, age 93, of Odessa, passed away Thursday, December 27, 2012 in Odessa. She was born March 16, 1919 in Wichita Falls, Texas. She was raised in Wichita Falls where she married Roy Busby. She worked as a church secretary for 10th and Broad Church of Christ. She moved to Hobbs, Oil Center, then to Eunice, New Mexico,...
Abbott Sykes
Dec 26, 2012
Abbott Barnes Hap Sykes, age 87, of Odessa, went to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, at home on Wednesday, December 26, 2012, after a short illness preceded by a severe stroke on August 24, 2004. He lost his ability to converse but remained upbeat and cheerful. The youngest of nine children, Hap was born to Abbott...
Jimmy Davis
Dec 26, 2012
Jimmy Milton Davis was born to Luther Milton and Frankie Opal Davis on September 16, 1933 in Sweetwater, Texas. He is survived by his wife Frances Partlow Davis of Midland son, Jim and wife Amanda Davis and children Brad and Katy of Midland daughterinlaw, Angie Davis of Odessa and children Kyle Davis and wife Emily, children Jayden Brock, and...
William Jessup
Dec 25, 2012
William A. Jessup was born June 17, 1916 at Oswego, Illinois to Caroline Sorensen and William Jessup Sr. He learned to fly at the age of eight on the family farm. During barnstorming days, Bill and his father flew to county fairs giving airplane rides for a penny a pound. In World War II, Jessup instructed at Coleman Flying...
Betty Lewis
Dec 21, 2012
Betty Meralea Lewis, 64, of Odessa, passed away on Friday, December 21, 2012 in Odessa, Texas at Hospice House. A visitation will be held the Sunday afternoon as a comeandgo visitation at Sunset Funeral Home. A funeral service will take place at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at Grace Christian Fellowship with the Pastor Clark Racca of Grace...
Jack Lawson
Dec 21, 2012
Jack Alton Lawson, 54, was born October 8, 1958, in Odessa, Texas, to Don and Mary Lawson. He passed away at Midland Memorial Hospital on December 21, 2012. Jack lived in Odessa until junior high when his family moved to Sonora, Texas. He graduated from Sonora High School in 1977. During these years, he met his high school sweetheart...
Joyce Mcafee
Dec 21, 2012
Joyce Loraine McAfee, 84, joined her Lord and Savior on Friday, December 21, 2012, in Odessa, TX. Funeral services will be at Bethel Assembly of God Church in Odessa on Wednesday, December 26, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. with John Van Hoose officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Odessa. Joyce was born on February 16, 1928, in...
Robert Evans
Dec 20, 2012
Robert Lee Evans, age 75, of Odessa, passed away Thursday, December 20, 2012 at The Hospice House in Odessa after a lengthy illness. Robert Lee Evans was born on October 23, 1937 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Charles Robert Evans and Freida Campbell Evans. He moved to Terminal, Texas in 1946. He graduated from Midland High School in 1955. He...
Lenora Jessup
Dec 20, 2012
Lenora Elberta Nodie Jessup, 94, of Odessa, died on December 20, 2012 at Parks Methodist Retirement Village of natural causes. Nodie, as she was known by family, was born August 15, 1918 in Geneseo, Rice County, Kansas to Eva and John Hupman. Nodie was preceded in death by her parents two sisters, Bertha and Edna and son, John Wesley...
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