Obituaries

Aug 25, 2005

Mrs. Nelma Ayers "Beba" Dillon, 92 of Kosse passed away Thursday August 25, 2005 in Hewitt. Mrs. Dillon was born August 3, 1913 in Kosse to Joe Dewitt and Mary Omega Seale Ayers. She married John Taylor Dillon in 1936. Mrs. Dillon retired from the VA Hospital in Waco and moved back to Kosse in 1979. She was a member...

Aug 20, 2005

Chapel services for Mrs. Eva Joyce Owens, 85 of Jacinto City, Texas were held at 2 p.m. Monday, August 22, 2005 at Blair - Stubbs Funeral Home in Mexia. The Dr. Max Burkhead officiated. Mrs. Owens, born on June 27, 1920 in Limestone County, died August 20, 2005 at the Forum, a hospice care facility in Houston. Before retirement she...

Aug 20, 2005

Funeral services for Finis Lee (Tubby) Morton, 73 of Mexia were held at 10 a.m. on Monday, August 22, 2005 in Blair - Stubbs Chapel. Rev. Steve Henderson officiated With interment following in Mexia Cemetery. Mr. Morton was born September 1, 1931 in Limestone County where he lived most of His life. He was a salesman for M & W...

Aug 17, 2005

Graveside services for Mrs. Patricia Ann Price, 62 of Mexia will be held on Saturday, August 20, 2005 at 10 a.m. in Cobb Cemetery with Rev. Bill Wright, Sr. officiating. Mrs. Price was born November 27, 1942 in Winfield, Texas and passed away on August 17 at her residence. She had been a resident of Mexia for the past 15...

Aug 14, 2005

John David Stevens was born in Wilburton, Oklahoma on July 30, 1918. His parents, Roy and Williams Stevens moved to Limestone County, Texas in 1921 and settled in the Datura community, near Coolidge, Texas where David grew up. He met Ruth Bayless when a teenager and they were married on April 5, 1941, behind the meat market in the old...

Jul 9, 2005

EDNA M. HASKINS Funeral services for Mrs. Edna M. Haskins, 96 of Tehuacana were held on Monday, at 2 p.m. July 11, 2005 in Tehuacana United Methodist Church. Rev. Brad Brittain, pastor, officiated with interment following in Wortham Cemetery. Mrs. Haskins was born on October 3, 1908 in Ben Hur to Dock Harrison Read and Ola Christie Read. She was...

Jul 8, 2005

Laverne White Obituary Mrs. Laverne Miles White, 74 of Old Union passed away Friday July 8, 2005 in Groesbeck. Funeral services will be 10 am Monday July 11, 2005 in the Blair-Stubbs funeral home chapel in Mexia. The Reverend Billy Anderson will officiate and the burial will follow in the Bremond cemetery. Visitation with the family will be Sunday evening...

Jul 4, 2005

Mary Baker Rice, born October 23, 1916, in Freestone County, died quietly in her sleep on Monday morning, July 4, 2005, at 10 o'clock in Haven Nursing Home. She was surrounded by her family. She was married for more than 50 years to the late James Raymond Rice and lived most of her adult life in the Wortham/Mexia area. Most...

Jun 9, 1967

Funeral Announcement For U.S. Air Force Reserve Capt. Killed During Vietnam (Podell, R.) Air Force Mortuary Affairs Public Affairs | Oct. 12, 2018 DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - U.S. Air Force Reserve Capt. Richard W. Podell, missing from the Vietnam War, has now been identified. On June 9, 1967, Capt. Richard W. Podell, a navigator, along with two pilots,...

Apr 4, 1918

Aug 6, 1906

Funeral services for Mrs. Ernestine Burke, 83 of Mexia will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, August 9, 2006 in Blair - Stubbs Chapel, Mexia with interment following in Prairie Hill Cemetery. Rev. Fred Sain, pastor of Prairie Hill Baptist Church will officiate. Visitation with the family will be 6 - 8 p.m. Tuesday night at the funeral home. Mrs. Burke was...

Youngstown - Jean Rennolds was born on June 27, 1928 in Mexia, Texas. Jean was the only child of Leland M. Rennolds and Jeannie May St. Louis Rennolds.

A graduate of the University of California and Hofstra University. Jean taught remedial reading for 17 years, mainly in Long Island, New York.

After retirement she obtained...