Obituaries
Roy Wingate
Feb 4, 2010
Roy Wingate, age 26, passed away Thursday, February 4, 2010 at Hospice House in Odessa. He was born August 2, 1983 in Odessa to Roy Allen Wingate and Cecelia Ione Leek Wingate. Roy was a very caring and compassionate husband, son, uncle and brother. Known as Bubba, he loved his nephew Taylor very much. He loved all things outdoors,...
Elvira Gonzalez
Feb 3, 2010
Elvira Gonzalez, age 78, passed away Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at Hospice House in Odessa. She was born October 12, 1931 in Tierras Nuevas, Mexico to Jose Carrasco and Victoriana Lujan. She married Martin Fierro Gonzalez. Survivors include her husband, Martin Gonzalez of Odessa her daughters, Magali Reyes of Odessa, Yahara Lisa Guitierrez and husband Jeff Peacher of El...
Oscar Miller
Feb 1, 2010
Oscar Rex Miller, age 87, passed away Monday, February 1, 2010 in Crane, Texas. He was born April 17, 1922 in Commanche County, Texas to Eddie Thomas Miller and Lena Elizabeth Ross. He grew up in Commanche County and married Florence Verdell Frazier on December 26, 1945 in Commanche. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World...
George Coenen, Jr.
Jan 27, 2010
George Lucian Coenen, Jr. of Midland passed away Wednesday, January 27, 2010 after a year long battle with cancer. George was born September 5, 1940 in Harlingen, Texas to George Lucian Coenen and Norma Kimmerly Coenen. He attended Elementary schools in Laredo, Texas and graduated from Tyler High School and Tyler College in Tyler, Texas. He married Eva Reza...
Dorothy Glass
Jan 26, 2010
Dorothy Stagner Glass passed away on Tuesday, January 26, 2010. She was born on October 13, 1919 in Luling, Texas to Quill and Nena Stagner. Dorothy married Weldon Glass on November 9, 1941 in Luling, Texas. Dorothy worked for Humble Oil and Refining Co. in administration for the South Texas and West Texas District. Weldon and Dorothy came to...
Mary Parker
Jan 23, 2010
Mary Ann Parker, age 89, passed away Saturday, January 23, 2010 in Odessa. She was born September 10, 1920 in Moran, Texas to Arthur James Jackson and Lizzie Beth Settle Jackson. She was raised and educated in Moran, Texas, and was baptized in a creek near Moran, by Church of Christ Minister Brother Edwards. She was preceded in death...
Matthew Oehlschlager
Jan 22, 2010
Matt Oehlschlager, 54, of Odessa, passed away Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at BCA Care Center from natural causes. Matt was raised in Odessa and continued his education in Houston, Texas. Matt was a pilot and jump master with DP Cooper Rating, and was a senior rigger he was also a professional sound technician and was using that talent at...
Dorothy Olive
Jan 14, 2010
Dorothy Jean Smith Olive was born on June 23, 1929 in Kansas to James Lee and Maude Mae Smith. Dorothy came to Odessa with her husband, James R. Olive in 1956 from Longview, Texas. In their early years, she was busy being a homemaker and raising children. In the spring of 1968, she embarked on the journey of her...
Lyndal Preslar
Jan 14, 2010
Lyndal Lynn Buford Preslar Lynn entered this world January 14, 1920, to Mr. and Mrs. James H. Preslar in Sanco, Tom Green County, Texas. Exactly 90 years to the day, January 14, 2010 our Heavenly Father called him home. He is preceeded in death by both his parents and his sisters, Oneta and Laveta. He is survived by his...
Patricia Franklin
Jan 14, 2010
Patricia Mae Hayes Franklin, 78, left for her heavenly home on January 14, 2010. She was born January 4, 1932 at San Angelo, Texas to John H. and Mae Elizabeth Hayes. She graduated from high school in 1950 from San Angelo and attended North Texas State University on a music scholarship. She played the Bassoon for Symphonies in San...
Juanita Clayton
Jan 12, 2010
Juanita Louise Nita Clayton, age 89, passed away at Brownwood Regional Medical Hospital in Brownwood, Texas on Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Family visitation will be 68 PM Friday, January 14, 2011 at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. A Celebration of Life service will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home Chapel, Odessa,...
Alice Wood
Jan 12, 2010
Alice Virginia Wood, 84, passed on to be eternally with her Lord on January 12. She was born August 18, 1925 in Wewoka, OK to Matthew and Martha Campbell. Alice was the sixth of ten children. Alice loved her Lord and loved living. Her vibrancy for life was daily demonstrated through her caring, charismatic personality. She managed to see...
Wayne Howard
Jan 11, 2010
Wayne Norton Howard, 91, passed away Monday, January 11, 2010 in Odessa. He was born October 9, 1918 in Knox City, Texas to Oscar Carl Howard and Alice Maude Horton Howard. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 until 1945. He was a prisoner of war for 28 months in Germany. He married Opal Doris Dobson on December...
Mabel Riggs
Jan 9, 2010
Mabel Light Riggs, 89, passed away January 9, 2010 in Odessa, surrounded by her loving family. She was born November 23, 1920 near Inadale, Scurry County, Texas, to Jim Light and Stella Wade Light. She attended a country school in the Pryon community, also in Scurry County, and graduated Salutatorian of her class at the age of 16. She...
George Scott
Jan 9, 2010
George Buford Scott, 66, passed away January 9, 2010 in Odessa. He was born in Odessa, TX, July 22, 1943 to G. B. and Faye Scott. He attended Permian High School and graduated in San Diego, CA. He turned cowboy from age thirteen and rode bulls and broncos. He then joined the Army August 10, 1960. While in the...
Ethel Hancock
Jan 9, 2010
She was loyal, committed and faithful to her Lord and Savior, to her husband, family and friends. The void she leaves in the hearts of many will be felt for years. Ethel Lillian Hancock went into the arms of her Lord Saturday morning January 9, 2010 in her home following years of tender loving care resulting from a stroke...
Richard Elizondo, Sr.
Jan 8, 2010
Richard R. Elizondo, 71, of Odessa, Texas went to join our Father in Heaven on January 8th, 2010. Richard was born in McAllen, Texas to Raul and Jesusa Elizondo. He was raised in Houston and eventually settled in Odessa TX. All his life he was a welder here in Ector County, yet when he retired he went to work...
Donna Carrasco
Jan 8, 2010
Donna Kay Carrasco, 51 of Odessa passed away Friday, January 8, 2010. She was born July 23, 1958 in Baltimore, Maryland to Walter M. and Kathrine Stuart. She married the love of her life Phillip H. Carrasco on October 21, 1978. Donna graduated from Odessa High School in 1976 and went on to graduate from UTPB with a Bachelors...
Charles Babb
Jan 7, 2010
Charles Esteze Babb was born June 11, 1930 to Charles and Eva Babb. He grew up in Columbus, Kansas, and later moved to Holbert, Oklahoma. He married the love of his life, Emma Shorter, on July 2, 1949. Mr. Babb was a hard worker. He worked for Kaiser Steel Corporation from 1951 to 1977 in Eagle Mountain, California where...
Gary Ford
Jan 7, 2010
Gary Lee Ford, 51 of Odessa died January 7, 2010, he was our son, loving husband, caring father and papaw and a dear loving friend. He was born November 19, 1958 in Monahans to Jr. and Patsy Ford. He attended Sudderth Elementary and Huddleston Jr. High School and was a 1977 graduate of Monahans High School. Mr. Ford earned...
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