Wanda Raulston
Feb 5, 2005
Mrs. Raulston was the daughter of Calvin and ColumbiaAckerman Jean and was a liflong resident of Hill County. Joe Raulston and Wanda were wed on October 1, 1949 and for a total of 30 years , she worked as a seamtress for J.M. Wood Manufacturing, Malouf, and Rose Marie. The accomplishment of getting her G.E.D. after she became a...
Beatrice Sandoval
Feb 4, 2005
Beatrice S. Sandoval, 92, was received into God's arms on Friday, February 4, 2005, at Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Hillsboro. Beatrice was born December 6, 1912 in Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Phillip and Selsa Gallegos Sotello. Before moving to Hillsboro, she lived in Fort Worth most of her life. She married Gregory Sandoval and he...
Emily Hudson
Feb 2, 2005
Emily Hudson, 90, passed away Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at Emery J. Lilge Hospice House in Burleson. Emily Hudson was born January 26, 1915 in Hillsboro, Texas the daughter of C. C. and Callie McFadden Isbell. She attended elementary, junior high, and high school in Hillsboro. In 1933 she graduated from Hillsboro High School, from Hill College in 1935,...
Dora Bonds
Feb 2, 2005
Areda was born on May 9, 1922 in Hillsboro, the daughter of Cornelius Wagner and Mary BelleNiles Harris. She had lived in the Hillsboro and Whitney area most of her life and attended school at Grubb Hill Community. Areda first married Marvin Leroy Brown in 1941 and later married Pope Allen ?Gogie? Bonds in 1958. She was a member...
Tommie Beene
Feb 2, 2005
Tommie Bledsoe Beene, 98, passed away Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital. Tommie was born April 11, 1906 in Peoria, Texas the daughter of Charlie and Addie James Bledsoe. A native of Hill County and lifelong resident, she graduated from Hillsboro High School and completed college in Fort Worth. Mrs. Beene was a 73 year member of...
Dorothye Bishop
Jan 31, 2005
Dorothye L. Bishop, 81, of Hillsboro passed away Monday, January 31, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Dorothye was born April 18, 1923 in Monticello, Arkansas the daughter of James Monroe and Anna Lee Moore Mitchell. From 1963-1986 she owned House of Flowers in Hillsboro and worked as a florist until 1999. On May 15, 1955 she married...
William Fleming
Jan 31, 2005
William "Gene" Fleming, 84, of Hillsboro passed away Monday, January 31, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Gene was born July 23, 1920 in Bonham, Texas the son of Jesse and Nancy Chaffin Fleming. He was raised in Bonham. He joined the U. S. Army Air Corp during WWII in the European Theater, serving at Normandy, Central Europe,...
Ruby Mcdowell
Jan 29, 2005
Ruby Faye was the daughter of James William and Donia McClister Eagan. She grew up in Hill County and graduated from Bynum High School. After high school, she moved to Dallas and worked there most of her adult life. Ruby returned to Bynum and Hillsboro for a few years to take care of her parents before returning to the...
Leon Vorpahl
Jan 29, 2005
Rev. Vorpahl was born September 21, 1918 in Guadalupe County to George and Selma Amanda Bargfrede Vorpahl. He attended schools in Tavner, TX before graduating from Richmond High School. Following high school, he helped his brother on the family farm for a time before heading to Baylor University, from where he graduated in 1943. The following year on August...
Mary Walker
Jan 28, 2005
Mary Katherine Walker was the daughter of Clarence and Athalee Frank Myers. She grew up in Hillsboro and graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1952. During that time she was a member of Line St. United Methodist Church. Mary attended Draughn's Business College in Dallas. She married James Pendergrass in 1953 and moved to Pawnee, Oklahoma then later moved...
Mary Craig
Jan 27, 2005
Mary Frances Craig, 88 of Cleburne died on January 27, 2005 at Walls Regional Hospital in Cleburne. A registered nurse, she was a caregiver at Cleburne Memorial Hospital until her retirement in 1982. Mary was married to Edward Gleen Craig until he preceded her in death on January 26, 1964. Also preceding her in death were her parents, Bun...
Hayzen Plunkett
Jan 27, 2005
Hayzen Irene Ashley Plunkett, 88, of Hillsboro, passed away Thursday, January 27, 2005, at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Hayzen was born May 19, 1916 in Newport, Oklahoma the daughter of John Calvin and Enna Myrtle Chapman Ashley. On December 23, 1936 she married A. B. Plunkett and they made their home in Abbott. They had one daughter, Janette...
Verla Poston
Jan 25, 2005
Verla Ann Poston, 69, of Hillsboro, passed away Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at Hill Regional Hospital. Verla was born November 1, 1935 in Bay City, Texas the daughter of She was the daughter of Gilbert and Sylvia Vaughn Walters. Since 1968 she had lived in the Woodbury Community. On May 15, 1952 she married William T. ?Bill? Poston and...
Violet Burson
Jan 22, 2005
Violet Ernestine Mullan Burson, 88, of Hillsboro passed away Saturday, January 22, 2005 at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Violet was born July 25, 1916 in Forrest, Texas the daughter of Eugene and Sara Josephine Swain Mullan. She graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College with a degree in elementary education. She married her college sweetheart, Robert Denis "Dickey...
Harold Lehmann
Jan 22, 2005
Harold Dean Lehmann, 70, of Whitney passed away in Waco on January 22, 2005. He was the son of John Wiliam and Laura Hodde Lehmann. He lived in Hill County all of his life. He lived in the Malone area until moving to Whitney in 1949. He worked for the Whitney Gin from the early 50's until the middle...
Bernice Carpenter
Jan 17, 2005
Bernice "Penny" Carpenter, 76. of Waco passed away Monday, Jan. 17, 2005 in Waco. Bernice was the daughter of Otto and Leta White Ratliff and had lived in the Aquilla area for 20 years. She married James Oren Ferguson and he preceded her in death in 1967. Later she married Billy Carpenter in 1979 and he preceded her in...
Dennis Holliday
Jan 17, 2005
Dennis "Doc" Holliday, 57, of Whitney passed away at his residence on January 17, 2005. He was the son of Aubrey Dale and Rowena Ballard Holliday. He had lived in Fort Worth and Whitney most of his life. He was a member of Sons of American Legion, Post 522, Whitney, TX. He married Susan Henshaw in June 1994 in...
Edna Johnson
Jan 16, 2005
Edith Johnson 91, of Whitney passed away at her residence on January 16, 2005. Edna was the second of twelve children born to Hayden and Jessie Lasiter Chasteen. She moved to a farm in Grapevine in 1929. She met and married Lee Bridges in 1936. Three boys were bron to them. In 1963 she married Charles Johnson. She was...
Raleigh Rogers
Jan 16, 2005
Raleigh Wayne Rogers, 82, of Hillsboro passed away Sunday, January 16, 2005 at Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro. Raleigh was born May 29, 1922 in Hillsboro, the son of George Sherman and Lula Pearl McCoy Rogers. On August 29, 1941 he married Reba Walker in Mexia, Texas. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Hillsboro where he...
Robert Maass
Jan 15, 2005
Robert Maass, 38, of Bynum passed away January 15, 2005. Robert was born October 31, 1966 in Hillsboro, the son of James and Mary Ann Shirey Maass. He was a lifetime resident of Hill County. He graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1985, Hill College, and received a Business Degree from Southwest Texas State University in 1990. A farmer...
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