Obituaries
Gay Joyner
Jan 18, 2009
Gay Dawn Joyner, 69 of Odessa passed from this life on Sunday, January 18, 2009 at Medical Center Hospital. She was born in Vaughn, New Mexico on June 25, 1939 to Thomas and Dorothy Edsall Celey. She was a resident of Odessa for most of her life. She retired from Texas Instruments and later retired from the eastside Odessa...
Michael Anderson
Jan 17, 2009
Michael Lee Anderson, 58 passed away from this life on January 17, 2009. He was born in Odessa, TX on April 23, 1950 to Billly and Tuffy Ardon Anderson. Michael was retired. Michael is preceded in death by his wife Patricia Mobley Anderson, his father and mother Tuffy and Billly Anderson and his brothers, Ardon Anderson and Bobby Anderson....
Minerva Jones
Jan 16, 2009
Minerva Garcia Jones, 63, passed on January16, 2009 in Odessa, TX. She was born on November 18, 1945, in Ozona, TX to Silvester R. Garcia and Maria L. Alba. Minerva was raised in Odessa. She attended school in Odessa and taught kindergarten at the Baptist Mission and she worked at Ladys Boutique. She sang in the church choir, was...
Richard Smith
Jan 15, 2009
Richard Smith, 66 of Midland died Thursday, January 15, 2009 at his home surrounded by his family. He was born January 21, 1942 in Spur, Texas to Jack and Jimmie Smith. The family moved to Monahans, Texas in the mid 1940s where he was reared and educated. Richard entered the US Army in January 1959 and was stationed in...
Robert Nelson
Jan 13, 2009
Robert Alton Nelson was born August 3, 1949 in Odessa, Texas to Mary and Alton A. Nelson. He attended all twelve years in Odessa-ECISD-schools, graduating in 1967 from Odessa High School. At O.H.S. he competed on the track team and won an athletic scholarship to Odessa College and later to Wayland Baptist College in Plainview, Texas. He then received...
Shirley Powers
Jan 13, 2009
Our beloved mother and grandmother, Shirley June Powers, went to be with Jesus on Tuesday, January 13, 2009. Born November 8,1935 in West, Texas. She was proceeded in death by sons, Billy Jack Washburn and Raymond Lee Washburn, mother Myrtle Mae Clark and father Robert Arnold Dunn, and brothers, B.F. Keats Dunn and Tony Dunn. BR BRGrandma has many...
Blake Amonett
Jan 9, 2009
Blake Amonett, 43, of Dallas formally of Odessa died at Methodist Hospital in Dallas on January 9, 2009. He was born July 6, 1965 in Seminole, Texas to Ron and Nancy Amonett. The family moved to Odessa in 1968, Blake attended Odessa schools and was a 1984 graduate of Permian High School. He joined Texas Electric in Odessa in...
Hazel Gotcher
Jan 8, 2009
H. Helen Gotcher Hazel Helen Gotcher, 68, died peacefully, after a lengthy illness, Thursday, January 8, 2009 at Hospice House in Odessa, TX. She was owner of Gotcher Cable Service, Inc. Mrs. Gotcher was born December 26, 1940 in Wilton, Arkansas and moved to Odessa from Houston in 1979. She was a member of Temple Baptist Church. A loving...
Esther Woodall
Jan 5, 2009
Esther Rose Holladay Woodall, 82, daughter of John D. and Tommy Pace born November 13, 1926 in San Angelo, TX went to be with the Lord January 5, 2009. Raised in San Angelo where she met and married Fritz Woodall. Lived in North Cowden and Gardendale, TX where she served as Postmaster for 31 years until retiring and moving...
Danny Reynolds
Jan 4, 2009
Danny Max Reynolds, 55, of Austin, Texas passed away January 4, 2009 following a hospital stay in UTMB Brackenridge Hospital in Austin. He was born December 16, 1953, in Snyder, Texas to Clyde and Mary Reynolds. He graduated from Snyder High School, Class of 1972 and two years later received an Associates Degree from Western Texas College in Snyder....
Lajuan Miller
Jan 4, 2009
LaJuan Miller, 88, died at Sherwood Place on Sunday, January 4, 2009. She was born June 26, 1920 in Spur, Texas. Graduated Spur High School 1938. Moved to the Odessa area in 1960, working various jobs before becoming a bookkeeper in 1980 for Southwest Energy where she worked until retiring. Survivors: Son, Eddie Miller and his wife, Lydia, two...
Lois Whitney
Jan 3, 2009
Lois Marie Whitney, 81, of Odessa, passed away at Medical Center Hospital on Saturday, January 3, 2009 after a short illness. Lois was born September 30 1927 in Seymour, TX to Vance and Myrtle McMurry. She was raised and attended school in Levelland, TX. She married Cecil Boggs and they moved to Odessa in 1956. In 1968, she married...
Lawrence Reynolds
Jan 2, 2009
Loyd Reynolds II Larry 62, passed away Friday, January 2, 2009 in Odessa, Texas. He was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma on July 25, 1946 to Lawrence and Margaret Margie Reynolds. He was the oldest of their four children. He and his wife Sylvia owned and operated Big M Answering Service in Odessa. Mr. Reynolds was preceded in death by...
Mary Roach
Dec 30, 2008
Mary Louise Turrentine Roach, 89 years of age, passed peacefully from this life on Dec. 30th at her home in Odessa, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband Luther Eugene Roach. She is survived by her brothers, George Turrentine of Hereford, Texas, and Daniel Turrentine of Pacific Grove, California. She is also survived by her children, William...
Billy Martin
Dec 29, 2008
Billy Carol Martin, 74, passed away Monday, December 29, 2008 in Odessa. He was born March 12, 1934 in Lamesa, Texas to Fred Lee Martin, Sr. and Bertie Cawley. He served in the U.S. Army and worked in Law Enforcement in Conroe, Texas. Mr. Martin was preceded in death by his brothers, Rowland Martin and Kenneth Ray Martin. He...
Bart Burdick
Dec 25, 2008
Bart Dewayne Burdick, 48, passed away on December 25, 2008 in Midland Memorial Hospital. He was born on October 16, 1960 in Denver City, Texas to James and Leo Burdick. He married Vija A. Massey on August 10, 2008 in Odessa, Texas. He is preceded in death by his parents, James and Leo Burdick; brother, Bobby Burdick; and daughter,...
Kenneth Forrester
Dec 25, 2008
Kenneth Don Forrester, 80, of Odessa, passed away Thursday, December 25, 2008, at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. Graveside services will be held at 4:00 P.M. on Saturday, December 27, 2008, at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Odessa. Kenneth was born to William Forrester and Lena Landers on October 22, 1928, in Forestburg, Texas. He married Jean Maxine Burns on...
Ruth Hill
Dec 25, 2008
Ruth Hill, 71, of Odessa, passed away December 25, 2008 at Hospice House. Ruth was born September 30, 1937 in Dickens, TX to Jimmie Allen and Cleo Phery Lewis Chesney. Ruth married Ray V. Hill on August 12, 1995 at Oak Creek Lake in Blackwell, TX. Ruth is survived by her husband, Ray Hill of Odessa; son, Michael Harvey...
James Waldrop
Dec 25, 2008
James Arthur Waldrop, Art to friends family was born November 23, 1915 in Abilene, Texas to Charlie and Roxy Waldrop. God called him home on December 25, 2008. He was a wonderful loving Husband, Father, Grandfather and loyal friend to many. Arthur met Luva Glenn Ince, a classmate and the love of his life and they married March 07,...
Clara Allred
Dec 24, 2008
Clara O. Allred passed away December 24, 2008 in Coleman, Texas. She was born October 19, 1915 in Fulsom, Oklahoma to Henry Pack and Ella E. Watkins. Funeral services are scheduled for 2:00 PM Monday, December 29, 2008 in Sunset Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Johnny Thompson officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Survivors include her son,...
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