Obituaries
Robert Rollins
Dec 19, 2011
Robert Leroy Rollins, age 72, passed away peacefully on Monday, December 19, 2011 in Mansfield, Texas He was born on April 12, 1939 in Oshkosh, Nebraska to the late Forrest and Viola Rollins. Bob graduated from Hotchkiss High School in Hotchkiss, Colorado in 1958. He joined the Air Force in 1959 and served for 4 years, with 13 months...
Doris Hooks
Dec 19, 2011
Doris Nell Hooks passed away Monday, December 19, 2011 in Odessa, Texas. She was born April 28, 1926 to Emmett and Hattye Belle Parrish Blassingame in the Buford community in Mitchell County. She attended Buford School and graduated from Colorado City High School in 1943. She then attended the Dallas Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in September 1946....
Jessie Blakney
Dec 18, 2011
Jessie Huitt Blakney, age 96, passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 18, 2011, at Trinity Care Center in Round Rock, Texas. Jessie was born April 16, 1915, in Corsicana, Texas to the late Arthur and Mary Lee Huitt. Jessie married Robert Lee Blakney on August 1, 1936. He preceded her in death in October, 1987. She was also preceded...
Mary Heaton
Dec 16, 2011
Mary Nell Orren Heaton Mary Nell Orren Brubaker Heaton, 89, passed away Friday, December 16, 2011 in Austin, Texas. Nell was born August 4, 1922 in Saltillo, Texas, the third of five children, to C. A. Orren and Monnie Mimi Valrie Orren. She grew up in east Texas and her family moved to Odessa in 1939. She graduated from...
Billye Goode
Dec 11, 2011
Billye Sue Bender Goode, age 85, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, December 11, 2011 in Midland, Texas. Mrs. Goode was born in Eastland, Texas on June 1, 1926 to the late Earl and Willie Arnold Bender. She was a longtime resident of Odessa and taught in the public schools for over 30 years. She retired to Eastland, Texas on...
Jane Matthews
Dec 11, 2011
Jane Matthews of Odessa, TX passed away Dec. 11, 2011. Jane was born in El Paso to George Ellis Crysler and Sadie Jane Dool on April 11, 1916. Jane had many brothers and sisters including George, Mae, Austin, and Florence. Jane married Terrell Monon Matthews d. 2009, on Sept. 8, 1938 at 1st Methodist Church El Paso, TX. by...
Myrtle Holder
Dec 11, 2011
Myrtle Ione Granny Holder Myrtle Ione Granny Holder, age 89 passed away Sunday, December 11, 2011 at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas. She was born November 12, 1922 to Newt and Udale Rannels. She was a homemaker and a Baptist. She married Boyd Holder on June 29, 1942. She was preceded in death by her husband Boyd and...
Ray Tindall
Dec 11, 2011
From his earthly home and surrounded by his loving family, Ray Tindall went to his heavenly home to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, December 11, 2011. He was born on September 8, 1920, in Damascus, Arkansas to Floy Mahan Tindall and James Otto Tindall. He was preceded in death by his son, Harrell Dean Tindall, his...
David Brownlow
Dec 9, 2011
David Mason Brownlow, 21, went to Heaven on Friday, December 9 in Lubbock, Texas. Mason was born on September 12, 1990 in Odessa, Texas. He was the son of David Brownlow and Lori Dubose Brownlow of Odessa and the brother of Kayley Sister Brownlow of Lubbock. Mason graduated from Permian High School in 2009. He was a junior at...
Geri Swindler
Dec 9, 2011
Geri Swindler was born on October 14, 1922 in Eldorado, Oklahoma and returned to her loving husband of over 50 years, Richard, on December 9, 2011. After her mothers death at a very young age, she was raised by her sisters, Thelma and Zelpha, in Enid, Oklahoma. She met her husband, Richard Quay, at a USO dance. She liked...
Edwinna Carr
Dec 8, 2011
Edwinna Vincent Carr went to be with the Lord on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at Parks Methodist Retirement Village in Odessa, Texas. She was surrounded by her three daughters, Sidney Arrick of Odessa, Texas, Mariless Frazier of Tarpley, Texas, llameta Moore of Landrum, South Carolina, her soninlaw, John Arrick of Odessa and her long time nurse Sharon Fowler, who...
Othella Ross
Dec 5, 2011
Othella M. Ross, age 89, of Odessa, passed away Monday, December 5, 2011 in Odessa. She was born November 21, 1922 in Roxton, Texas to Noble and Virgil Layton. She married Kenneth Robert Ross in Wareham, Massachusetts on October 27, 1942. Othella lived a life dedicated to caring for her family and working in the church. She will be...
Warren Witherspoon
Dec 4, 2011
Our beloved Father, Brother, Uncle, and Friend, Warren A. Witherspoon, age 77, of Odessa, went home to join our loving Heavenly Father on Sunday, December 4, 2011 in Odessa. He was born September 13, 1934 in Scurry County, Texas to Alberta Witherspoon Carnes and John Calvin Witherspoon, Jr. Among Warrens many talents, he was a retired fiber optics directional...
Billie Terry
Nov 30, 2011
Billie Jean Terry, age 81, of Odessa, passed away Wednesday, November 30, 2011 in Odessa. She was born March 11, 1930 in Ira, Texas to William Bill Thomas Childress and Bernice Jewel Haney. She married H. Hollis Terry on November 20, 1948 in Snyder. She graduated as valedictorian from Ira High School. She was offered three scholarships to attend...
Harold Wedgeworth
Nov 27, 2011
Wayne Wedgeworth, a long time resident of Hobbs, New Mexico went home to Jesus on Sunday, November 27, 2011 in Odessa. He loved fishing on his boat. He loved his family and friends. He will be remembered as a hard working family man. He worked in the oil industry for 35 years. He will be greatly missed. He is...
Robert Friday
Nov 26, 2011
Robert Thomas Friday, 86, of Odessa passed away Saturday, November 26, 2011 in Odessa. Bob was born on March 26, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri to Jesse Thomas and Helen Wolfram Friday. Bob attended Westminster University and Missouri University where he was a member of Beta Theta Phi fraternity. He was also a member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton...
Margurette Mckinley
Nov 20, 2011
Margurette Mog Lanell McKinley, age 91, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, November 20, 2011 in Odessa. She was born July 20, 1920 in Baird, Texas to John Thomas Miller and Katie Elizabeth Rose. She married Claude Lee McKinley, Sr. on June 16, 1940 in Potosi, Texas. She worked for Mark Knox Florist and was a homemaker. She was loved...
Marvin Burleson
Nov 17, 2011
Marvin Earl Burleson 1953 2011 Marvin Earl Burleson, 58, passed away Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, in Odessa, TX. Marvin was born December 10, 1953, in Big Spring, TX, and had resided in Burleson, TX for over 20 years prior to living in Odessa. He was preceded in death by his father and mother, E. Wayne and Eleanor Burleson. Survivors...
William Kerley
Nov 14, 2011
William Kerley, 75, of Runaway Bay, TX went to be with his Lord on November 14th, 2011. He was born to the late Robert and Zelma Kerley on November 27, 1935 in Gordonville, TX. He graduated from Odessa High School in 1955 and received a BA in Business Administration from North Texas State University in 1968. After serving in...
Ralph Packer
Nov 14, 2011
Ralph David Packer, age 68, passed from this life at home in Odessa on Monday, November 14, 2011. He died peacefully and was surrounded by his loving family. David was born July 23, 1943 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania to Ralph J. Packer and Helen Harpster. He had one sister, Karyl. He grew up in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and attended Cumberland...
Subscribe
Subscribe to get alerts on new obituaries
Visit www.prepaidfunerals.texas.gov for information relating to the purchase of pre-need funeral contracts including descriptions of the trust and insurance funding options available under state law.