Obituaries
Penny Hite
Sep 6, 2008
Penny Hite passed away on September 6, 2008 in Odessa, Texas. Penny was born April 28, 1942 in Rising Star, Texas to J.D. and Avis Ives. In 1949 her family moved to Kermit, and finally settled in Odessa in 1953. She graduated from Odessa High School. She married Wayne Hite in February, 1971. Throughout her childhood she learned to...
Leonard Brown
Sep 6, 2008
Leonard Albert Brown, 87, of Odessa, passed away September 6, 2008 at the Odessa Hospice House. Graveside services will be held at Sunset Memorial Gardens on Monday, September 9, 2008 at 11:00 am with Reverend Bob Brathcher officiating. Arrangements are being directed at Sunset memorial Funeral Home. Mr. Brown was born in Longworth, Texas. Survivors include his wife, Rita...
Nils Allison
Aug 29, 2008
Nils Allison passed away on August 29, 2008 in Odessa, Texas. Nils was born July 21, 1961 in Tucson, AZ to Don and Fay Allison. He attended Elementary and Junior high school in Odessa and graduated from Odessa High School in 1979. In his younger years, he enjoyed playing baseball and football for the Boys Club. In Junior High...
Gordon Brunner
Aug 26, 2008
Gordon Alan Al Brunner passed away Tuesday, August 26, 2008 in Odessa Regional Medical Center Hospital, with his family and loved ones surrounding him. One day short of his 59th birthday.. Al was born August 27, 1949 in Ravenna, Ohio to Margrieute Nelson and Floyd Fredrick Brunner. He came to Odessa in 1955. He owned and operated Precision Alignment....
Marie Scott
Aug 26, 2008
Marie Jones Scott, 68, passed away Tuesday, August 26, 2008 in Odessa. She was born May 29, 1940 in Mineral Wells, Texas. She was preceded in death by her mother, Johnnie Russell. She is survived by her husband, Gerald D. Scott, Sr. of Odessa; three daughters, Carolyn Watts and husband Tommy of Midland, Sarah Algiere of Houston and Donna...
Willie Brackens
Aug 16, 2008
Willie lee Brackens passed away saturday, august 16, 2008 in Odessa. He was born May 19, 1950 in Midland, Texas to Elmer Brackens and Littie Lee Sorrells. He worked in the lawn care business in Odessa. Mr. Brackens is survived by a sister, Annie T. Washington of Inglewood, Californial. Arrangements are with Sunset Memorial Funeral Home, no services are...
Donald Coleman
Aug 15, 2008
Donald Don E. Coleman passed away Friday, August 15, 2008, in Midland. He was born May 1, 1959, in Odessa, Texas, to Harold Dean Coleman and Nelda Faun Sims Coleman. He grew up in West Texas and graduated from Odessa High School in 1978. He served in the U.S. Navy and had over 30 years of service in the...
Charles Payne
Aug 6, 2008
Charles Robert Payne, 74, went to be with the Lord on August 6, 2008, at the Hospice House in Odessa. He was born on November 26, 1933, in Rondo, Arkansas to Charles Samuel Payne and Grace Cambell Payne. He was a retired professor from Odessa College and was also retired from the U.S. Army. He is survived by his...
Victor Crumrine Sr.
Aug 5, 2008
Victor Lee Crumrine, Sr. joined his mother, father, brother and sister in heaven on August 5, 2008. He passed from this life due to complications of diabetes and heart problems at Medical Center hospital in Odessa, Texas. Vic was born March 4, 1934 to Elmer and Ruth Goodale Crumrine in rural Woodson County, Kansas, where he was raised and...
Ada Grissom
Aug 5, 2008
Ada Lee Wilbanks Grissom was born Oct. 10, 1920 in Butler, OK to Ada and Leslie Bryan Wilbanks. She lived there helping her parents in their store and barbar shop until completing high school in 1937 at the age of 16. Ada Lee had her own radio show her senior year where she sang the top hits of the...
Wayne Jackson
Aug 5, 2008
Wayne Jackson went peacefully to be with his Lord on August 5, 2008 at Medical Center Hospital with family at his side. Services are scheduled for 2:00 pm Friday, August 8, 2008, at Sunset Memorial Chapel with Charles Jones, Elder of Greenwood Church of Christ, officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be Thursday evening, August...
Maria Carrasco
Jul 31, 2008
ODESSA Maria Carrasco, passed away on July 31, 2008, after an eleven year battle with breast cancer. BRBR She was born on November 6, 1948 in Chihuahua, Mexico. She was the eldest of four children. She married Amado Carrasco and moved to Odessa, TX in 1969. They had two children, Amado and Karime. She will be remembered for her...
Kyle Watts
Jul 30, 2008
Kyle Dee Watts, 59, joined his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on July 30, 2008. Kyle was born on November 4, 1948 in Pecos, TX to Kyle and Tommie Ruth Watts. He married Karen McLain in1967 in Pecos, TX. Kyle and his family moved from Pecos to Odessa in 1979. He is retired from Phillips Petroleum. He was a...
Norma Hanson
Jul 28, 2008
Norma Alene Hanson, 82 of Odessa passed away on July 28, 2008 at Hospice House in Odessa. She was born on May 28, 1926 in Cotton Valley, LA to Walter and Maggie Neugent. She came to Penwell in 1951 from Snyder to Odessa in 1961. She loved playing cards, dominos, and arts and crafts. She is survived by her...
Belle Atkinson
Jul 26, 2008
Belle Pauline Smith Barton Atkinson, 94, passed away Saturday morning, July 26, 2008 at a local care facility. Belle was born to David Thomas Smith and Sarah Elizabeth Laymance on July 19, 1914, in Henderson County, Texas. She was raised in Brownsboro, Texas. She had three brothers and four sisters. Belle married Richard Alvin Barton July 22, 1935. They...
Billy Fitzhugh
Jul 25, 2008
Billy Charles Fitzhugh passed away on July 25, 2008, at the Hospice House in Odessa, Texas at the age of 53. BRBRHe was born January 27, 1955, in Fort Worth, Texas to Charles Henry and Jewel Fitzhugh. BRBRHe married Pamela Moore on November 23, 2001 in Odessa, Texas. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He worked as...
Roy Brown
Jul 19, 2008
Roy R. Brown, 77 a longtime resident, passed away Saturday, July 19, 2008 at Hospice House. He had struggled with Alzheimers disease for the past two years. Roy was born December 8, 1930 in Bakersfield, CA. He married Hazel Lee Reid on December 1, 1951 in Kilgore, TX. They were happily married for 56 years. This marriage was blessed...
Carl Peek, Sr.
Jul 18, 2008
Carl David Peek, Sr. 81 of Midland, TX died Friday afternoon, July 18, 2008 at Midland Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be 11:00 AM Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bob Porterfield officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. Visitation will be 6:00...
Alicia Lara
Jul 16, 2008
Alicia L. Lara, 68, went to be with the Lord on July 16, 2008 at her residence in Odessa, TX. She was born on May 30, 1940 in Barstow, TX to Pedro Larez Lopez and Rosa Dominguez Pineda Lopez. She is survived by two daughters; Sonya Lara of Casper, Wyoming and Selena Alvarado and husband Frank of Odessa, TX;...
Betty Fields
Jul 16, 2008
Betty Lois Fields passed away Wednesday, July 16, 2008 in Andrews, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Buster. She was born February 17, 1931 in Stamford, Texas to Hugh Thomas Massey and Ella May Grigsby. On November 2, 1951, she married Buster Fields in Stamford, Texas. They moved to Odessa in 1958 and...
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