Obituaries
Dolores Smith
Jan 29, 2009
Dolores Dianne Loftis smith, 66 of Midland, died Thursday, January 29, 2009 in Midland Memorial Hospital. She was born august 22, 1942 in Lorenzo, Texas to A.J. and Marie Loftis. The family moved to Modesto, California where she was reared and educated. She met C.D. Smith in Modesto, California and they married in Odesssa on August 8, 1988, where...
Mayra Valverde
Jan 27, 2009
Mayra Valverde, 22 of Odessa died January 27, 2009 she was born October 20, 1986 in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico to Arnulfo and Maria Navarrete. The family moved to Portales, New Mexico in 1996 then to Odessa in 2000. At the age of 16 she graduated from the Odessa Career Center. Mayra earned her Bachelors Degree in Education from the...
Eva Hagan
Jan 27, 2009
Eva M. Peggy Hagan was born December 18, 1933 in England. She met and married Harvey R. Red Hagan while he was serving in the U.S. Army and stationed in England. They had two children, daughter Lindsey and son Kelvin. Peggy worked for many years for Nittany Enterprises, Inc. as Operations Manager. In those years, she impacted the lives...
Mercedes Baeza
Jan 27, 2009
Mercedes Chavez Baeza, 60 of Odessa, passed away Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at Hospice House in Odessa, Texas. Mercedes stood 4 foot 10 inches in stature, but her loving heart made her a giant amongst friends and family. Born June 21, 1948 in a border town by the name of Candelaria, Texas, to Juan Chavez and Luisa Jurado Chavez,...
Lydia Wallace
Jan 25, 2009
JUANITA WALLACE Lydia Juanita Vaughan was born on Thursday, September 25, 1924, to Herman and Vala Faye McDaniel Vaughan in Mexia, Texas. She was the middle child born into this family. Her older brother, Warren Vaughan was killed in World War II, and her younger brother, Thomas Earl Vaughan lives in Houston with his wife, Jackie. Juanita was raised...
Norma Nichols
Jan 25, 2009
Norma Lee Nichols, 71, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, January 25, 2009. She was born September 2, 1937 in Jean, Texas to Newman Ephfrom Lasley and Mary Louise McGinn Lasley. She was raised in Allney, Texas and moved to Alamogordo, New Mexico around 1948, after the loss of her father. In 1980, she married Terry Dale Nichols in Odessa....
Ruben Evaro
Jan 21, 2009
Ruben Aguilar Evaro, 54 passed away Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at Medical Center Hospital. Ruben was born in Odessa on October 16, 1954 and was a life-long resident of Odessa. He graduated from Ector High School, earned his Bachelors degree from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and later earned his Masters degree from Sul Ross University....
Carol Brandenburg
Jan 21, 2009
Funeral services for Carol Brandenburg, 62 of Odessa will be 2:00 PM Monday, January 26, 2009 at Sherwood Church of Christ with Lonnie Hamil officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 3:00 5:00 PM Sunday, January 25, 2009 at Sunset Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be, Joe Burton, Clayton Dennis, John Swift, Hank Weldy, Danny Willey,...
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...
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