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Obituaries
Alford Duke
May 5, 2009
Alford Howard Duke, 89, of Mexia (formerly of Houston) passed away on May 5, 2009 in Mexia. Graveside services will be at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, May 7, 2009 in the Tehuacana Cemetery. Rev. Dale McDaniel will officiate. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Alford was born to Alford Vert and Hollis Hopkins Duke...
Annie Steele
May 3, 2009
Annie Bell Steele, 98, passed away, May 3, 2009 in Mexia. Services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, May 8, 2009 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel. Rev. Ronnie Dabney will officiate with interment to follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Ms. Steele was born January 27, 1911 in Oletha, Texas to...
Lois Maedgen
May 1, 2009
Lois Avis (Watts) Maedgen died May 1, 2009, in Mexia, Texas at the age of 92. She was preceded in death by her husband for 32 years, Robert Delane Maedgen, and her parents, Hulda and Leslie Watts. She is survived by her son, R. D. Maedgen, Jr., and his wife, Heather, her granddaughter, Amy Elizabeth Maedgen, her grandson, Robert D....
Benjamin Reed
Apr 28, 2009
Benjamin Clarence (Ben) Reed, 75, of Mexia passed away April 28, 2009 at his home in Mexia. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 3, 2009 at the VFW in Mexia. Visitation with the family will be 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Ben was born to Clarence Alvin and Vada Celestia Simms Reed in...
E. Lightsey
Apr 25, 2009
Prominent Farmer Dies Erie Elllice Lightsey was born on October 20, 1927 in Mexia, Tx. to Erie and Mary Lightsey. He attended elementary school in the Point Enterprise Community and received his high school education in Mexia. After graduating from high school, he attended Westminster College in Tehuacana, Tx. where he was selected by Dean George Steman to receive a...
Jo Hinchliffe
Apr 24, 2009
Mrs. Jo Ann Hinchliffe, 69, of Mexia passed away April 24, 2009 in Temple. Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel. Rev. Bruce Rudd will officiate with interment to follow in the Point Enterprise Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m. Monday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Jo Ann was born to Joe...
James Andrews, III
Apr 23, 2009
James Albert (Jay) Andrews, III, 90 passed away on Thursday morning, April 23, 2009, at the Haven Nursing Home in Mexia, Texas. Jay was a loving Christian gentleman who never met a stranger and will be greatly missed by family and friends. He was a member of Northcrest Church of Christ and a lifetime member of the Lion's Club. Also,...
Dora Harrison
Apr 18, 2009
Dora Gladys Harrison, 90, of Coolidge (formerly of Mexia) passed away April 18, 2009 in Mexia. Funeral services for Mrs. Harrison will be 11:00 a.m. Monday, April 20, 2009 at First Baptist Church in Coolidge. Rev. Chuck Sturgeon will officiate with interment to follow in the Coolidge Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m. Sunday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral...
Betty Williford
Apr 12, 2009
Betty "Jean" Williford, 80, of Mexia passed away April 12, 2009 in Mexia. Funeral services for Mrs. Williford's will be 1:00 p.m. Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the First United Methodist Church. Rev. Brad Brittain will officiate with interment to follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 4-6 PM Wednesday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Jean was...
Sidney Merchant
Apr 12, 2009
Sid Merchant Sidney "Sid" Clement Merchant was born in Happy, Texas August 13, 1933 to Max and Mary (Moulder) Merchant and passed away April 12, 2009 in Guthrie, Oklahoma. He had one sister, June Merchant Fookes. Sid graduated from Happy High School then enlisted in the United States Navy as a gunners mate aboard the USS Stickell. Sid Merchant began...
Thelma Forsythe
Apr 11, 2009
Thelma Ruby Forsythe, 90, of Mexia passed away April 11, 2009 in Mexia. Funeral services for Mrs. Forsythe will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel. Rev. Marcus Sheffield will officiate with interment to follow in the Wortham Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 6-8 PM Monday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Thelma was born to Jim...
Bonnie Woodall
Apr 10, 2009
Bonnie Dean Woodall, 90, of Mexia passed away April 10, 2009 in Mexia. Funeral services for Mrs. Woodall will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, April 13, 2009 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel in Thornton. Interment will be in the Ebenezer Cemetery in Kosse. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 PM at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home in Mexia. Bonnie was born to Delmar A....
William Steele
Apr 9, 2009
William Gene Steele, 38, passed away April 9, 2009. Funeral services for Mr. Steel will be 3:00 p.m. Monday, April 13, 2009 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel in Mexia. Father Ed of St. Mary's Catholic Church in West will officiate with interment to follow in the Mexia Cemetery. William was born to Clifton and Zora Turner Steele on September 1, 1970 in...
Mamie Monk
Apr 9, 2009
Mamie Estelle Monk, 86, of Mexia passed away April 9, 2009 in Mexia. Funeral services for Miss Monk will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, April 11, 2009 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel. Rev. Michael Redmond and Dale McDaniel will officiate with interment to follow in the Oakwood Cemetery in Corsicana. Visitation with the family will be 6-8 PM Friday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home....
Ruth Stevens
Apr 6, 2009
Mrs. Ruth Stevens, 88, of Mexia passed away April 6, 2009 in Waco. Funeral services for Mrs. Stevens will be 2:00 p.m., Thursday, April 9, 2009 at Calvary Baptist Church. Rev. James Hooper and Rev. Rick Gray will officiate with interment to follow in the Point Enterprise Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 PM Wednesday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral...
Dennie Fowler
Mar 31, 2009
Mr. Dennie DeWayne Fowler, 74, of Coolidge (formerly of Mexia) passed away March 31, 2009 in Groesbeck. Funeral services for Mr. Fowler will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, April 4, 2009 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel. Rev. Rick Gray will officiate with interment to follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 6 - 8 PM, Friday at...
Dorothy Freeman
Mar 23, 2009
Mrs. Dorothy Marie Freeman passed from this earth, Monday, March 23, 2009, at her home in Mexia with her daughters by her side. She was 81 years of age. Mrs. Freeman was a member of the Teague Church of Christ and very committed to Eastern European Missions, an organization supplying Bibles to school children in Russia. Mrs. Freeman was born...
Helen Harrison
Mar 18, 2009
Graveside services for Helen Chesteen Harrison, 87, of Mexia will be 2 p.m. Sunday, March 22, 2008 in LaSalle Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5 - 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Blair - Stubbs Funeral Home. Mrs. Harrison was born December 28, 1921 in LaSalle to Wilmer Preston and Georgia Cleo Cates Little and passed away on March 18,...
Beulah Gentry
Mar 18, 2009
Mrs. Beulah Lorene Gunning Gentry, 86, of Mexia and formerly of Hubbard, passed away March 18, 2009 in Mexia. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 24, 2009 in the Mexia Cemetery. Mrs. Gentry was born to Elbert and Lorene (Byford) Bollinger in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on October 8, 1922. She has been a resident of...
Edward Trotter
Mar 17, 2009
Tehuacana native, Edward Bounds Trotter, 92, died Tuesday, March 17. Trotter was born October 11, 1916 to Edward Clayton and Lula Jane Bounds Trotter. He spent most of his life in Tehuacana, and helped shape the community over the years. After receiving his Associates Degree in 1935 from Westminster College, Edward went on to receive a Bachelors degree from North...
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