
Ed Kennedy
Jun 15, 2005
Edward Claude Kennedy, 90, of Blum passed away at a Glen Rose nursing home on June 15, 2005. He was the son of Holley Claude and Clara Elizabeth Coody Kennedy. He was rasied in Wise County and moved to Hill County in 1946. During World War II he served his country in the United States Air Force as a...
Kenny Janes
Jun 15, 2005
Kenny Janes, 17, of Whitney died Wednesday, June 15, 2005, near Aquilla. Kenny was born August 22, 1987 in Hillsboro the son of Kenneth Alan and Johnnie Grace Merritt Janes, Sr. He would have been a senior at Aquilla High School. He was a member of Vaughan Baptist Church. Preceding him in death were his great-grandparents, Odell and Aleta...

Mark Adams
Jun 15, 2005
Mark Paul Adams, 53, of Nemo, Texas, died Wednesday, June 15, 2005, at Medical Center of Arlington. Mark was born October 14, 1951 in Sunnyside, Washington the son of Paul and Georgia Newton Adams. He grew up in the Peoria area and graduated from Hillsboro High School. He worked in the automotive industry all of his life. He was...
Johnnie Diggs
Jun 13, 2005
Johnnie Carrol ?Big John? Diggs, 57, of Hillsboro died Monday, June 13, 2005, at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas. Johnnie was born on March 24, 1948 in Vaughan, Texas the son of A. C. ?Pete? and Eunice Lee Diggs. On December 24, 1969 he married Dorothy Grones in Hillsboro. For 22 years he worked for Rockett Water Supply in...

Robert Upchurch
Jun 10, 2005
Robert was born October 13, 1928 in Hill County, Texas to Rayburn and Early Mae West, Upchurch. Robert married Geneva Lois Nix at her parents residence in Covington the 12th of October, 1946. In 1985, after 38 years of service he retired from the Santa Fe Railway as a carman. Robert was a member of the Covington Church of...

Billy Padgett
Jun 6, 2005
Billy Joe Padgett passed away at Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Whitney on June 6, 2005. He was born in Hillsboro, Texas to Briggs Pierce and Emmie Hare Padgett. He was a farmer and rancher and served in the United States Air Force. Billy Joe was a member of the VFW; Disabled American Vets and the Sheriff's Association....
Marie Degner
Jun 4, 2005
Marie Della Degner passed away on June 4, 2005 at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro, Texas. Marie was born on February 1, 1912 in Malone, Texas to Will and Emma Conrad Schronk. She spent most of her life in Hill County and on April 10, 1927, she was confirmed at Salem Lutheran Church in Malone. Maire married T. C....
Deborah Noble
Jun 3, 2005
Deborah Sue Noble passed away on June 3, 2005 at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro, Texas. She was born on February 26, 1952 in Dallas, Texas to Jack Alford and Vivian Lee Sanders Bryant. On July 3, 1983, Deborah married Harold Noble in Hillsboro. She had been a nurse at Children's Medical Center in Dallas for nine years and...

Edna Batis
May 31, 2005
Edna Marie Batis, 91, of Houston, died Tuesday, May 31, 2005, in Houston. Edna was born January 1, 1914 in Milford, Texas the daughter of Luther and Della Vanlandingham. On September 29, 1940 she married J. Perry Batis and he preceded her in death on March 25, 1964. A daughter, Barbara, was adopted in 1956 from Sparta, Greece. After...
Rebecca Barfield
May 30, 2005
Rebecca Barfield, 58, of Waco, died Monday, May 30, 2005, at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco. Rebecca was born February 17, 1947 in Wichita Falls, Texas the daughter of John Henry Lewis and Hallie Aline Croft Nowell. She was raised and attended school in Corsicana. On June 12, 1965 she married William Dale Barfield in Corsicana. For the...

Paul Mcnally
May 30, 2005
Paul R. McNally, 61, of Whitney passed away on May 30, 2005 at his residence. On November 13, 1943, Paul was born to Paul Edward and Edith Berton McNally in Sewickley, PA. He grew up in Ambridge and graduated from Ambridge High School. Paul moved to Texas in 1963 and lived and worked in the Metroplex area until 1968...

Bertha Jones
May 28, 2005
Bertha "Nita" Jones passed away on May 27, 2005 at the Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro, Texas. The daughter of Asbery B. and Sallie Harmon McMullin, she was born near Blum, Texas on July 20, 1916. She had lived in Hill County most of her life and married Harvey A. Jones in January 26, 1935. In her middle 50's,...

Lou Thornton
May 27, 2005
Lou Thornton, 81, of Hillsboro, passed away Friday, May 27, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. The daughter of John Lonnie and Della Austin Johnson, she lived in Hillsboro since the mid 1950's. After 49 years, she retired from H & R Drug Store in Hillsboro on May 15, 1998 and worked in the lunch room at Hillsboro...

Nelda Schulz
May 22, 2005
Nelda Antonia Rose Radke Schulz, 83, of Hillsboro, died Sunday, May 22, 2005, at Providence Health Care Center in Waco. Nelda was born June 11, 1921 in the Honey Flat Community, east of Bynum, in Hill County, Texas the daughter of Otto and Mathilda Piel Radke. She attended school at Honey Flat and Irene. She was baptized and confirmed...
Billy Elliott
May 20, 2005
Billy Guy "Bill" Elliot, 71, of Aquilla passed away May 20, 2005 in Waco. Bill was born on October 24, 1933 in Hasse, Texas to Wilburn Willard and Ruby Davison Elliott. He married Betty on September 24, 1975 in McLennan County. For several years he worked in road construction as a heavy equipment operator. On November 11, 1988, Bill...

Margaret Frazier
May 19, 2005
Margaret E. Frazier, 94, of Hillsboro, died Thursday, May 19, 2005, at Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Hillsboro. Margaret was born December 25, 1910 in Hillsboro the daughter of A. M. & Stevie Allen Frazier. She graduated from Hillsboro High School. She received her Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Texas in Austin. After living in...
Jerry Jackson
May 16, 2005
Jerry Jackson, 74, of Hillsboro, died Monday, May 16, 2005, at Kindred Hospital Southwest in Fort Worth. Jerry was born May 24, 1930 in Fort Worth the son of Jerry Robert and Edna Mae Custer Jackson, Sr. He grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from high school there. Immediately after graduation he entered the U. S. Coast Guard...

Glenn Bratcher
May 11, 2005
Glenn Bratcher, 57, of Malone, passed away Wednesday, May 11, 2005. Glenn was born August 10, 1947 in Frost, Texas the son of Jimmy Mack and Opal Charlene Henthorn Bratcher. Glenn was raised in Irene and lived in Malone most of his life. On June 24, 1967 he married Connie Piel at St. Peter?s Lutheran Church in Malone. Since...

Donna Presley
May 10, 2005
Donna Faye Baker Presley passed away at her residence on May 10, 2005. She was the daughter of Grady and Faye Pursley McCall. She was raised and attended school in Dawson. Donna lived in Dallas where she was an administrator -director in the radiology department at Methodist Hospital; retiring in 1995. On June 6, 1987 she married Kenneth Edwin...
Lenora Trojan
May 9, 2005
Lenora Matilda Radke Trojan, 86, of West formerly of Malone, died Monday, May 9, 2005, at West Rest Haven Nursing Home. Lenora was born June 4, 1918 in Penelope the daughter of Otto and Matilda Piel Radke. She was the fourth of eight children and grew up and lived most of her life in the Malone area. On June...
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