Obituaries

Ann Heath

Ann Heath

Oct 28, 2004

Ann Heath, 79, of Whitney passed away on October 28, 2004 at her residence. She was the daughter of Austin and Mae Randall Melcher. She was raised in Detroit and went to college in Milwaukee. She moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1948 and worked for her first occupational therapy job. She worked for 25 years as a occupational...

Mary Howard

Mary Howard

Oct 27, 2004

Mary Lou Howard, 61, of Whitney was the daughter of Bill and Marie Taylor Morgan. She grew up in the West Texas and Panhandle area. Mary married Gary Howard, April 6, 1961 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Whitney, past president of the McCown Valley Association and was very active in...

Jewell Harmon

Jewell Harmon

Oct 27, 2004

Jewell Harmon, 87, of Laguna Park, was the daughter of Robert Lewis and Mary Etta Wright. She married France Harmon on May 24, 1923 and he preceded her in death on May 29, 1988. She had lived in the Laguna Park the past 38 years. She was of the Baptist faith and a living housewife and mother. Jewell will...

Steve Burgamy

Steve Burgamy

Oct 24, 2004

Stephen Wayne Burgamy, 48, of Whitney was the son of Harvel and Naomi Miller Burgamy. He grew up and graduated from Whitney High School in 1974. He played high school baseball where he received the nickname "Bird Dog". He also loved to play golf, pool and ride motorcycles. He worked as a computer numerical control machinist in the computer...

Aaron Mcdougall

Aaron Mcdougall

Oct 23, 2004

Aaron was the son of Gordon Mark and Joyce Marie Pool McDougall, Sr. He loved to play computer games and he loved to make people laugh. Aaron had an excellent personality and loved his family very much. He enjoyed life to the fullest. Survivors included his mother, Joyce Schramm of Bynum, TX; father, Gordon McDougall Sr. of Bangor, Maine;...

Willie Alford

Willie Alford

Oct 22, 2004

Willie Faye was born on August 23, 1925 in Whitney, Texas to William Preston and Stella Lee Ard Harlin. She was the third child, having three sisters, Wilma Lee, Dorothy Ruth, and Imogene. Raised in the Hill County area after she was born, her parents later moved to the Littlefield area. A graduate of Littlefield High School, she furthered...

Cordelia Murray

Cordelia Murray

Oct 21, 2004

Corky was born January 6, 1949 in Oklahoma City, Okalahoma to Cleddie Van and Eula Mae Hammett Shelton. She lived in Oklahoma City and Midwest City most of her life and graduated from Midwest City High School. For the past 10 years she has lived in Hillsboro, working at Hill Regional Hospital as an occupational therapist. She was of...

Ben Nowell

Ben Nowell

Oct 21, 2004

Bubba was the son of John Henry Lewis and Jo Ann Wade Nowell. He spent many of his early years in Mississippi. For many years, he worked in the construction industry, but more recently had been working in the oil field. Preceding him in death were both his mother and father. Ben is survived by his wife, Patricia Ann...

Wayne Dugan

Wayne Dugan

Oct 19, 2004

Wayne was born February 20, 1937 in Archer City, Texas to Walter and Mildred Frances Bradshaw Dugan. On March 6, 1956 he married Mary Hunt in Colorado City, Texas. He owned D & M Paint Company in Abbott for over 35 years. Preceding him in death were twin daughters, Terrie & Carrie; his parents; one brother, Jerry Dugan; and...

Peggy Mccoy

Peggy Mccoy

Oct 16, 2004

Peggy was the daughter of Hugh Tom and Mazie Belle Paschal Dobbs. She was raised in Hillsboro. Robert Lee McCoy and Peggy were married in November of 1964 and he preceded her in death on December 20, 2003. In 1979, she returned to Hillsboro from San Antonio. Mrs. McCoy was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Hillsboro....

William Hartis

William Hartis

Oct 14, 2004

William M. "Bill" Hartis, 90, of Clifton passed away Thursday, October 14, 2004 in Clifton. He was the fourth child of M. V. William and Myrtle Irene Whalen Hartis. Bill married Clara Mae McCain and was a retired business owner and rancher. He was a member of the Church of Christ in Glen Rose, Texas. He was laid to...

Gladys Ferguson

Gladys Ferguson

Oct 13, 2004

Gladys Dean Ferguson was born December 30, 1907 in the Hamil Branch Community in Hill County, Texas the daughter of Charles Dean and Katie Wilson Kuykendall. On January 1, 1929 she married Lloyd B. Ferguson in Hillsboro. She enjoyed crocheting, sewing and gardening. She also loved to cook and was very good at it. She was a member of...

Robert Evans

Robert Evans

Oct 11, 2004

Robert was born March 6, 1960 in Hillsboro, Texas the son of Franklin Delano ?Jug? and Emily Ann White Evans. For the past eight years he has lived in Sargent. He was a quality control inspector for H. B. Zachary Construction Company for the past 13 years. He was a member of Central Baptist Church in Hillsboro. Preceding him...

Kenneth Burleson

Kenneth Burleson

Oct 9, 2004

Kenneth was born December 30, 1922 in Aquilla to C. F. and Laura White Burleson. For most of his life, he farmed and ranched in Hill County. John Deere tractors were a love of his, and he enjoyed attending tractor shows in his spare time. In addition to farming and ranching, he also worked for Range Aire Corporation in...

John Huddleston

John Huddleston

Oct 6, 2004

John was born August 27, 1923 in Bisbee, Arizona to Ashley Strange and Mildred McGermott Huddleston. On December 4, 1948 he married Gertrude Walters in Weatherford. He served in the U. S. Navy and was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the time of the attack on December 7, 1941. He later enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Corp...

Charlotte Wallace

Charlotte Wallace

Oct 6, 2004

Charlotte M. Wallace, 87, of Tipton, Indiana, formerly of Whitney passed away on October 6, 2004 at Miller's Merry Manor in Indiana. She was the daughter of William Jacob and Belle Overstreet Rape. Charlotte married Roy Wallace on Octobber 26, 1968 and he preceded her in death on December 1, 1994. She had worked in the claims department at...

R. A. Johnson

R. A. Johnson

Oct 5, 2004

R. A. was born February 10, 1916 in the Yates Community of Hill County, Texas to Jim and Stella Watson Johnson. He grew up and attended school in the Yates Community and later moved to Bynum where he worked on the family farm. He spent most of this life in Carlsbad where he lived and worked in the San...

Welma Mcgirk

Welma Mcgirk

Oct 3, 2004

Mrs. McGirk was the daughter of Joseph Oscar and Levia Rayburn Heath. She grew up in East Texas and Oklahoma. Welma and Dwight McGirk were married on September 7, 1935 and they moved to Hillsboro in 1960. For several years, she worked at the school cafeteria as a cook. Her husband preceded her in death on July 22, 1975,...

Luther Neal Jr

Luther Neal Jr

Sep 21, 2004

Mr. Neal was born February 10, 1922 in Hillsboro the son of Maye Martin and Luther H. Neal, Sr. He grew up in Hillsboro and graduated from Hillsboro High School. He then went on to graduate from Hillsboro Junior College and received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Education from Southwestern University in Georgetown. During WWII he served in...

Clara Goates

Clara Goates

Sep 20, 2004

Clara Mae Dollins Goates, 91, of Waco formerly of Whitney passed away on Septembe 20, 2004 in Waco. Cara was born on November 29, 1912 in Gholson to Joseph and Clara Joines Dollins. She married William Riley Goates Jr. on August 19, 1934 in West. She and Riley raised their family in Gholson and moved to Lake Whitney to...