Obituaries
Esther Wood
Jan 4, 2011
Esther A. Wood, age 92, passed away Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at Hospice in Odessa. Esther was born in Zalma, Missouri on September 12, 1918 to Mae and Marvin Moore. She was the seventh of 14 children who grew farming on Friends Hill in Oran, Missouri. After graduating from high school in Oran, Missouri, Esther received her BA degree...
John Church
Jan 2, 2011
John Armstrong J.A. Church, 84, of Odessa, died Sunday morning at his residence. He was born October 29, 1926 in Houston, Texas to Dick Sybil and Myrtle Gwendolyn Danner Church the oldest of twin boys. His father died in December 1927 and the family moved to San Angelo where Mrs. Church and her sister opened a room and boarding...
Rick Hodges
Jan 2, 2011
Rick Hodges was born in Moodys, Oklahoma on November 9, 1946. At the age of ten, his family relocated to Odessa, Texas. Rick attended Odessa High School where he played drums in the band and performed well academically. He graduated from OHS as an Honors student in 1965. He was Baptized into the Church of Christ as a teenager....
Roger Eaton
Dec 31, 2010
Roger Louis Eaton, age 48, passed away Friday, December 31, 2010 in Lubbock. He was born August 10, 1962 in Gary, Indiana to Ernest D. Eaton and Rosemary Meyer Eaton. He graduated from Seminole High School in Seminole, Texas and attended Odessa College. He married Karen Malcolm on April 8, 1989, they were divorced in 1995. He was preceded...
Beryle Simpkins
Dec 30, 2010
Beryle Simpkins, 83 passed away Thursday, December 30, 2010 at Medical Center Hospital. She was born March 11, 1927 in Wortham, TX to Jessie James Whitmore and Minnie Emily Musick. She graduated high school in East, TX and went to Kilgore Junior College. She married in October 29, 1948 to Grover Lee Simpkins. She is preceded in death by...
Lee Hadden
Dec 29, 2010
Well known Odessa attorney, Lee Evans Hadden, went to be with our Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 55 on Wednesday, Dec 29, 2010 at The Hospice House in Odessa. Lee was born August 17, 1955, in Odessa, Texas, to Will and Jean Hadden. He graduated from Permian High School in 1973, where he participated in baseball and...
Ina Adams
Dec 24, 2010
Blanche Haney Adams of Odessa passed away December 24, 2010 at age 68. Ms. Adams was born August 6, 1942 in Brownwood, Texas to Issac and Viola Haney. Mrs. Adams is survived by her daughters Teresa Adams and her companion Susan Moffatt, Stormy Bartley and husband Keith and the light of her life, her two grandchildren Andrea and Casey...
Wanda Truesdell
Dec 24, 2010
Wanda Gayle Truesdell 79 of Odessa went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, December 24th. She was the daughter of Oscar and Gertrude Hughes born September 8, 1931 in Elbert, Texas. She married the love of her life Donovan J. Deane Truesdell on September 28, 1952 in Cisco, Texas. The Truesdells moved to Odessa in 1952,...
Richmond Stallcup
Dec 23, 2010
Frank Stallcup of Odessa passed away on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, at the age of 92. He is survived by his wife Ollie Digby Batte Stallcup. After the passing of both of their spouses, Ollie and Frank spent 31 wonderful years together a meaningful joining of two loving families. Frank is also survived by daughter Anne Wylie of Ratliff...

Scott Harris
Dec 21, 2010
Scott Harris passed away Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at Medical Center Hospital, Odessa, Texas. He was born December 17, 1919 in Jennings Oklahoma, to Elza Harris and Laverda Marley. He attended school in Oklahoma. He later served in the army from 19441946. He worked in the Oilfield related business as sales and service. He was preceded in death by...
Betty Fuhrman
Dec 21, 2010
Betty Fuhrman of Odessa, passed away December 21, 2010 at age 82. Mrs. Fuhrman was born April 24, 1928, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Betty married Alfred Fuhrman April 19, 1947, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Mrs. Fuhrman is preceded in death by her husband, Alfred Fuhrman her parents Joseph and Eva Mataska brothers Charles, Richard and Bob Mataska and great...
Ruth Manus
Dec 20, 2010
Ruth L. Manus passed away December 20, 2010 in her home at Parks Methodist Retirement Village. She was born in Clayton New Mexico on August 17, 1926 to Robert E. Hamblen and Ruth Hamblen. She attended high school and business college in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She later married William A. Manus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ruth was an owner...
Fay Holden
Dec 18, 2010
Fay Griffith Wharton Holden a beloved mother and grandmother entered into eternal rest on Saturday, December 18, 2010 at a private retirement home in Odessa, Texas. Fay was borned on March 2, 1920 in Palestine, TX and lived there graduating from Palestine High School. She later went to hair dressing school and graduated to become a beauty operator. It...

Alice Stubbs
Dec 16, 2010
Alice Anna Stubbs, age 83, passed away Thursday, December 16, 2010 in Odessa. She was born January 22, 1927 in Ft. Lee, New Jersey to Burton Earnest Scott Tice and Catherine Ann Kenzer. She was raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia and moved to Odessa in 1945 after high school graduation. She married Leland Ross Stubbs on July 12, 1952...
Sandra Moore
Dec 15, 2010
Sandra Kay Moore, age 71, passed away Wednesday, December 15, 2010 in Odessa. She was born May 3, 1939 in Colorado City, Texas to Elbert Scarborough and Inez Callaway. She was raised in Colorado City, where she met her husband, Kenneth Moore. They were married in Lovington, New Mexico August 12, 1955. They lived in Monahans, Texas for 30...
Tyler Nicely
Dec 14, 2010
Tyler Scott Nicely came into this world on May 15, 2010 in Odessa, Texas and went to be with his Lord and Savior on December 14, 2010. He was loved by everyone whom he came into contact with in his short but fulfilled life. Bubba could bring a smile to anyones face. He is survived by his parents, Michael...
Ashley O'Connell
Dec 13, 2010
Ashley Nicole OConnell was called home to be with her Lord on December 13, 2010. She was born in El Paso on July 13, 1989, to Jaime Contreras and Annette Saldivar. She married Casey OConnell on November 8, 2008. They lived in Odessa where their daughter, Aniya Faith, was born. She was seven months along in carrying their second...
James Paysinger
Dec 11, 2010
James Jim Cam Paysinger, age 72, passed away Saturday, December 11, 2010 in Odessa. He was born October 26, 1938 in Stafford, Kansas to Robert and Vivian Paysinger. In 1956 he graduated from high school in Liberal, Kansas. He attended Wichita University in Wichita, Kansas from 19561960. He served in the U. S. Army, Special Forces, from 1970 until...
Candelario Baesa
Dec 10, 2010
Candelario Muniz Baesa, age 76, passed away Friday, December 10, 2010 in Odessa. He was born May 2, 1934 in Casleton, Texas to Adolfo Baesa and Epitasia Muniz. He grew up in Alpine and Ft. Stockton. He was a true cowboy and loved to break horses. He grew up on a farm and loved to rodeo as a young...

Lois Larson
Dec 10, 2010
Lois Joan Larson, 73, of Odessa, passed away at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa TX after an illness. Joan was born June 23, 1937 in Prescott, Iowa to Samuel Geary and Ethel Sampson Geary. She has lived in Odessa since 1969. Joan attended Antioch Christian Church in Odessa TX. Joan is preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd Larson....