Obituaries
Leola Biddy
Jun 21, 2013
Leola Mae Biddy, 77, of Odessa, went to be with her Lord on Friday Morning, June 21, 2013. A visitation will be held on Monday night, from 6 pm to 8 pm at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Services will be Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 10 am at the Sunset Memorial Funeral Home Chapel. Mae was born on May...
Irene Hollen
Jun 20, 2013
Irene Rollman von Hollen 74, of Odessa TX passed away on June 20, 2013 in Odessa. Funeral services will be held at 10:00am, Monday June 24, 2013 at Redeemer Lutheran Church 824 East 18th Street, Odessa with Pastor Bill Hillyer officiating. She was born Irene Helen Laffery to George and Mary Scheideman Laffery on June 25, 1938 in Clay...
Hazel Crone
Jun 17, 2013
On June 17, 2013 at the age of 96, Hazel Lee Crone went to be with the Lord. Mrs. Crone was born July 14, 1916 in Hollis, Oklahoma to Goldie and Frank Lockwood. Hazel was preceded in death by her husband L.D. Crone her parents two sisters, Maudie Lockwood and Lola Palmer of Amarillo, Texas, and two brothers, Dalton...
Roy Glasscock
Jun 14, 2013
Roy Brown Brownie Glasscock, 88, of Odessa, Texas passed away on Friday, June 14, 2013. He was born on May 10, 1925 to Stacy Pinkney and Dolly Stokes Glasscock in Sonora, Texas. He was preceded in death by his parents, Stacy and Dolly brothers, Jamie, Melvin and Hayden Chinky two sisters, Ernestine and Alma Lou and son, Keith Hardin....
Dorothy Bates
Jun 14, 2013
Dorothy Dot Kelley Bates passed away peacefully in her sleep, Friday, June 14, 2013 in Boerne, Texas. She was born 11171924 in Port Neches, Texas, to Rev. Robert Lee Herring and Carrie Carr Herring. She graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School, Pt. Arthur, Texas in 1942. While working in the payroll dept. at Consolidated Shipyard in Orange, Texas,...
Benjamine Ridener
Jun 10, 2013
Benjamine Corlun B.C. Benny Ridener, age 85, of Odessa, passed away Monday, June 10, 2013 in Odessa. Benny was born July 15, 1927 in Pershing, Oklahoma to Fred Ridener and Mary Margaret Corbin Ridener. He went to school in Blackburn, Oklahoma. He served as an Apprentice Seaman in the US Navy in 1945 and was honorably discharged. Benny married...
Bob Bratton
Jun 9, 2013
Bob Allen Bratton of Odessa, Texas, age 85, passed away on Sunday, June 9, 2013 in Crane, Texas. Bob was born in Floydada, Texas to Robbie and Arthur Bratton on December 1, 1927. He graduated high school in Floydada. He married Nelda Huckabee on September 28, 1948. He moved from farming to work in the oil field where he...

Roger Smith
Jun 5, 2013
Roger Alan Smith, age 52, of Odessa, passed away Wednesday, June 5, 2013 in Odessa, as the result of a motorcycle accident. He was born July 9, 1961 in Glendale, California to Delmer Franklin Scott and Patty J. Rogers Scott. He moved to Odessa June 26, 2009 and worked as a handyman doing odd jobs. He was preceded in...
Gary Gardenhire
Jun 5, 2013
Its not the birth of a man nor the death that tells the story. Its the space in between. Gary Gardenhire chronicled a life of truth, dedication, honesty and purpose. He was not a person who made a name for himself, but was instead a person who made his character, true blue. Born to a young mother, who was...
Catherine Mudd
Jun 4, 2013
Catherine Phyllis Mudd, 84, of Odessa, passed away on Tuesday, June 4, at the Home Hospice House of Odessa. Visitation hours will be held on Friday from 68 p.m. at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Services will be held on Saturday at 9 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton with the burial to follow at Sunset Memorial Cemetery. Born in...
Jerry Curry
Jun 4, 2013
Jerry Irene Curry, age 75, of Odessa, passed away Tuesday, June 4, 2013 in Odessa. She was born April 15, 1938 in Corsicana, Texas to the late William Henry Moore and Pauline Clark Moore. She was raised in Texon and Big Lake. She married Ernest Eugene Curry on October 16, 1954 in Rankin, Texas, They moved to Odessa in...
Richard Witte
Jun 2, 2013
Richard Orr Witte, age 81, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, June 2, 2013 in Odessa. He was born January 23, 1932 in Vivian, Texas to Frank Witte, Sr. and Mary Ray Witte. He moved to Odessa in 1952 where he met and married Mary Ruth Weatherford. He was in welding supply. He worked for local businesses before becoming owneroperator...
Toby Tucker
May 31, 2013
Toby Gene Tucker, age 69 of Odessa, passed away Friday May 31, 2013 with his family at his side. He was born June 18, 1943 in Blackwell, Oklahoma to Buster Dorsey B.D. and Nevada Joyce Muse Tucker and spent his childhood days in Midland, Texas. He served in the U.S. Army and continued to live and work in Germany...
Lana Scalo
May 31, 2013
Lana Rebecca Armitage Scalo, 42, of Odessa, passed away on Friday, May 31, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. A funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 6th at Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home in the chapel with Reverend Tommy Richardson of Immanuel Baptist Church, in San Angelo, Texas officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens....
Moises Martinez
May 26, 2013
Moises Mo R. Martinez, 72, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, May 26, 2013 in Odessa, Texas surrounded by his loving family. He was a cancer survivor. A rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. Mass will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at Holy...
Juana Martinez
May 25, 2013
In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 25, 2013, our dearly loved Mother, Mo, Grandmother, Aunt, Sister, Juana H. Martinez Juanita, left her earthly home to join her Savior, Jesus Christ, her beloved husband and family members who preceded her to her Heavenly home. Juanita was born in Valentine, Texas on May 16, 1919 to Timoteo Hernandez and...
William Selby
May 22, 2013
William Bill Henry Selby, 87, of Odessa, passed away on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. A graveside service will be held at 1:00 P.M. Friday, May 31, 2013 at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Bill was born in Walters, Oklahoma to Jasper and America Selby on January 26, 1926. He married Rosa Spurrier on March 21, 1949 in Anson,...
Eleoweese Elder
May 21, 2013
Eleoweese Moss Elder, age 86, passed away Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in Odessa, TX. She was born in Dallas, TX on February 19, 1927 to John and Virgie Moss. Eleoweese graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, TX in 1946. She was a longtime local business owner for many years in Odessa, TX. Her family built, owned and...
Billy Hinkle
May 20, 2013
Billy Wayne Hinkle, 77, of Odessa, went home to be with our Lord, God Savior on Monday, May 20, 2013 in Odessa. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. A funeral service will take place at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, May 24, 2013 in the Sunset...
Geron Wright
May 20, 2013
Geron Robert Wright, 57, of Odessa Texas, went to be with the Lord on Monday, May 20, 2013. Geron Robert Wright was born in Bloomfield, Iowa to Robert and Gertrude Wright on May 2, 1956. He graduated from Fairfield High school in 1974. He married Linda Bennett on March 26 1983 in Fairfield, Iowa. He worked as an Indirect...