Obituaries

Harold Busby Iii

Mar 8, 2014

Harold Everett Busby III, 42 passed away on March 8, 2014 in Odessa, Texas. Harold was born in Odessa, Texas to the late Harold Busby, Jr. and Jean Ann Thetford on June 10, 1971. He graduated from Permian High School and MHMR. Harold was very active in the Special Olympics and he loved to bowl. Harold is preceded in...

Louis Kincanon

Mar 7, 2014

Louis Kincanon of Odessa, 85, passed away on March 7, 2014 in Odessa. Graveside service will be Monday, March 10, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Arrangements are by Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. Louis was born in Eastland, Texas to Robert and Jessie Kincanon on October 14, 1928. He married Joy McKinney on July 10, 1946....

Allen Garrett

Mar 3, 2014

Allen Skelton Garrett, 71 a resident of both Horseshoe Bay, TX and Odessa, TX, passed away March 3, 2014 in Odessa. Born December 23, 1942, in Carlsbad, NM, Allen graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a degree in Education. Allen, however, had an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit, owning several restaurants in New Mexico before finding his true passion in...

Danny Sellars

Mar 1, 2014

Danny Dwain Sellars, 60, of Odessa, Texas, passed away on March 1, 2014 in Odessa. Visitation will be from 6:008:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, 2014Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 5,2014at First Methodist Church with Terry Tamplin officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Arrangements are by Sunset Memorial...

Thomas Thomas

Mar 1, 2014

Thomas Tommy Glenn Thomas of Odessa went to be with our Lord and Savior on March 1, 2014. Tommy was born on December 7, 1982 in Odessa, TX. He was a 2001 graduate of Permian High School, and a graduate of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Visitation will be from 6:008:00 P.M. on Tuesday, March 4,...

Dellisa Calderon

Feb 28, 2014

Dellisa Calderon, 62, of Odessa, Texas passed away on February 28, 2014 in Midland. Visitation will be from 5:00 7:00 p.m., Monday, March 3, 2014 at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 4, 2014 Sunset Memorial with Bill Hall officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Dellisa was born in...

Marquis Taliaferro

Feb 22, 2014

Marquis Eldred Taliaferro, Sr., 92, of Brownwood, Texas, formerly Odessa, TX, passed away on February 22, 2014, in Brownwood, Texas. Marquis was born in Ozona, Texas to Nellie and Marquis Taliaferro on January 5, 1922. He went to high school in Fort Stockton, Texas. He married Dorothy Nell Scott on November 27, 1941 in Fort Stockton, TX. Marquis served...

Lynne Norwood

Feb 20, 2014

Patsy Lynne Norwood was born in Odessa, Texas on August 27,1951. She was the daughter of Wilburn and Jeannie Miles. She grew up in Odessa and attended Ector High School where she was a cheerleader and served on the journalism staff. After high school, she attended Odessa College and was a member of the Las Senoritas De Las Rosas....

Ronnie Bryan

Feb 14, 2014

Ronnie Lee Bryan, 66, of Odessa, passed away on February 14, 2014 in Odessa. Graveside service will be held at 2:00 pm at Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 with Gerrid Bowen, officiating. Arrangements are by Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home. Ronnie was born in Atchinson, KS to Homer Bryan and Georgia Mac...

Wayne Matney

Feb 11, 2014

Wayne Matney, 86, of Odessa, passed away at his home on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 after a lengthy illness. Wayne was born on June 29, 1927 in Charlie, Texas, a twin and one of five sons born to T.B. and Ollie Matney. Although he was from a farming family, you could not keep him down on the farm and...

Denzil Dean

Feb 10, 2014

D. D. Dean, 88, loving husband and father, went to be with his lord on Monday, February 10, 2014. D. D. Dean was brought into this world on August 10, 1925 in Palestine, Texas. He attended school in Palestine and after graduation from high school he enlisted in the Merchant Marines during world war II and traveled all over...

Derek Ford

Feb 7, 2014

Derek Wayne Ford, 24, passed from this Earth way too soon on February 7, 2014 in Abilene, TX and is now running through the streets of heaven into his Pas arms. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 pm on Thursday, February 13, 2014 at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home with Clydel Chapman of Northside Baptist Church officiating. Burial will...

Rafaela Lopez

Feb 3, 2014

If you knew her, you loved her. She cared, she nourished, she provided, she taught by example. She loved. She was strong, she was hilarious. She was kind to everyone. She was a beautiful light. Her legacy is a strong, loving Christian Family that will forever cherish her memory. Rafaela C. Lopez went to be with her Savior on...

Dorene Becht

Feb 2, 2014

Dorene Lois Tams Becht passed away on February 2, 2014. Dorene was born in Huron, S. Dakota on June 7, 1921, to Fred and Faye Tams. She had one sister, Lucille Tams Chancey. She met and married J. Edwin Becht in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Becht followed her husband to many different universities until they arrived in Odessa, Texas in...

Frances Black

Jan 31, 2014

Frances Pearlene Black, 92, of Odessa, Texas passed away on January 31, 2014. Visitation will be on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 from 1:003:00 p.m. at Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home, Odessa, Texas. Graveside services will follow at 3:00 p.m. at Sunset Memorial Gardens. The Reverend Randy Duckett of Second Baptist Church, Odessa, will officiate. Frances was born in...

Beverly Montgomery

Jan 31, 2014

Beverly Jean Montgomery was born February 10, 1928 in Grove City, Pennsylvania to Edith Rebecca and Raymond Dewitt Hosack. She joined her Heavenly Father January 31, 2014. She graduated from Grove City High School and went on to earn her LVN degree in nursing. On July 20, 1951 she married James Jim Renwick Montgomery. She and Jim moved from...

Wayne Williams

Jan 30, 2014

Wayne C. Williams of Odessa, Texas passed away at his home on January 30, 2014. Visitation will be Sunday, February 2, 2014 from 6:00 8:00 PM at Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home. Memorial service will be held at 1:00 PM on February 3, 2014 at Sunset Memorial Chapel. Officiating at the service will be Byron McWilliams and Curtis...

Barbara Allen

Jan 29, 2014

Barbara Jean Allen, 84, of Midland passed away on the 29th of January 2014. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 1, 2014. It will be a graveside service. Barbara was raised in Dewey, Oklahoma. She graduated from Dewey High school in 1947. She then married Lawrence Eugene Allen on June 4th, 1948, in Dewey, Oklahoma....

Ruth Arguad

Jan 29, 2014

Service Graveside Services Sunset Memorial Gardens 6801 East Business 20 Odessa, TX  79762 Wednesday, February 5, 2014 3:00 PM Cemetery Sunset Memorial Gardens 6801 E. Business 20 Odessa, TX  79762

Glenda Barkley

Jan 23, 2014

Glenda Louise Barkley of Odessa went home to be with the Lord on January 23, 2014. Glenda was born in Roscoe, Texas in 1943. Glenda is preceded in death by her husband of 40 years, James Barkley of Odessa father, W.V. Pete Dillard and her mother, Yvonne Jude Pierce. Her survivors are two sons Billy Barkley of Tempe, Arizona,...