Obituaries

Shirley Barrett

Shirley Barrett

Feb 2, 2011

Shirley June Barrett Shirley June Barrett, 73 was born on April 23, 1937 in Big Spring Texas. She departed this life on Wednesday, February 2, 2011. She was retired at her time of departure. She was raised in Big Spring, Texas. She was previously employed by the Ector County Independent School District and Nurses Unlimited. She was married to...

Connie Smith

Connie Smith

Feb 1, 2011

Connie Smith, 82, of Odessa Texas passed away Monday, February 1, 2011 in Monahans, Texas. Services will be at 11:00AM Saturday, February 5, 2011 at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Odessa with Owen Sharp officiating. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be at 10:00 AM prior to her service. Connie was the loving wife...

Bettie Clark

Bettie Clark

Feb 1, 2011

Elizabeth Josephine Bettie Clark was born in Waco, Texas. An only child of Florence and E.G. LaGow, she was named for both her maternal and paternal grandmothers. She had a significant and fond memory that on her first birthday, her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, wrote a poem for her. Your first milestone is reached today your baby life filled with...

Naoma Bryant

Naoma Bryant

Jan 31, 2011

Naoma Charlene Bryant age 56, passed away Monday, January 31, 2011 in Odessa. She was born January 5, 1955 in Ballinger, Texas to Thurman Noel Crossan and Billie Frankie Webb. She grew up in Hobbs and graduated High School in 1973. Afterwards, she moved to Odessa where she worked as a bookkeeper for Dr. Garza and later, worked in...

Nelda Loveless

Nelda Loveless

Jan 29, 2011

Nelda June Loveless, age 74, passed away Saturday, January 29, 2011 in Odessa. She was born June 3, 1936 in Stephenville, Texas to Lee McInroe and Jewel Hickey McInroe. On December 18, 1961 she married Jesse Earl Loveless. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Lisa Smith her sister, Maxine Hendricks and her brother, Leroy McInroe. Survivors include...

Loretta Kelm

Loretta Kelm

Jan 29, 2011

Loretta Brown Kelm, 72, was called home by her Heavenly Father Saturday, January 29, 2011 at Medical Center Hospital, following a short illness. She was born February 7, 1938 in Lubbock, TX to Herman and Agnes Brown. She married A. Dean Kelm on June 20, 1959 in Midland, TX. She was homemaker and was very involved in ministry with...

Tommie Williams

Tommie Williams

Jan 29, 2011

Today we mourn the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother, sister and friend Mrs. Tommie Stene Williams. On September 10, 1933, Tommie was born to Steve and Tommie Francis Nicholson in Vernon, Texas. In 1952, she and her husband Robert Eugene Williams Sr. moved their family to Odessa, Texas. Along side her dearly departed husband, they worked hard to...

Patsy Suggs

Patsy Suggs

Jan 29, 2011

Patsy Suggs, 77 passed away Saturday, January 29, 2011 in Odessa, TX. She was born March 29, 1933 to Charlie Smart and Ivy Townsend Smart in Farwell, TX. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother who loved to cook and spend time with her family and was an avid gardener. She was preceded in death by her father...

Douglas Myers

Douglas Myers

Jan 28, 2011

Douglas Harvey Myers, 89, of Odessa, Texas, passed away Friday, January 28, 2011, at home. He was born April 6, 1921, in Osage County, Oklahoma, to O.H. and Julia Myers. He graduated in 1940 from Burbank High School in Oklahoma. Later he moved to Odessa where he worked in the oil fields of the Permian Basin and Alaska. After...

Joan Nichols

Joan Nichols

Jan 27, 2011

JOAN ARNETT NICHOLS September 9, 1917 January 27, 2011 Joan Nichols, beloved Mother, adored Grandmother, and cherished GreatGrandmother, passed away at home in Denton, Texas at the age of 93 surrounded by loved ones on January 27. Joan was born in Big Spring, Texas, as the seventh of eleven children born to Jesse Arnett and Effie Arnett. She graduated...

Amador Perez

Amador Perez

Jan 26, 2011

Amador A. Perez, 65 a longtime resident of Odessa passed away on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at his residence in Odessa, TX. He was born April 30, 1945 to Geronimo and Cesaria Perez in Devine, TX. Amador married Rita Martinez on July 8, 1967 in Odessa, TX. He proudly served in the United States Army from 1967 to 1969...

Henry Schiller

Henry Schiller

Jan 23, 2011

Henry John Schiller, age 86, passed away Sunday, January 23, 2011 in Odessa. He was born February 2, 1924 in Rogas, Texas to Frank and Rosie Lee Schiller. He was a veteran of World War 11, serving in the South Pacific as a member of the 41st infantry division. He retired from the city of Odessa on December 31,...

Tonya Christesson

Tonya Christesson

Jan 21, 2011

On January 29, 1980 an angel was sent to this earth. Tonya was the youngest of three children born to Roger Allen and Peggy Dianne Giba. She graduated high school in 1998 and attended Odessa College. In 2002 she became the program director for the womens program of Ruths Home Teen Challenge. In 2004 she resigned from her position...

Linda Butler

Linda Butler

Jan 19, 2011

Linda Kay Butler, age 66, passed away Wednesday, January 19, 2011 in Odessa. She was born May 7, 1944 in Sperry, Oklahoma to Herbert Ray Cullison and Opal Sauders Cullison. On April 13, 1966, she married Cecil Butler in Odessa. She worked in the Law Enforcement Industry as a Juvenile Detention Officer. She was a member of Northside Baptist...

A.C. Large

A.C. Large

Jan 19, 2011

A. C. Eddie Large, age 87, left his earthly home Wednesday, January 19, 2011 to live forever in his heavenly home with Jesus. Eddie was born September 16, 1923 in Leakey, Texas. He was one of twelve children born to Paul Bentley and Alice Shackleford Large. During World War II Eddie proudly served in the United States Army. After...

Debra Condry

Debra Condry

Jan 16, 2011

Debra Louise Debbie Condry, 53, passed away at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, TX Sunday, January 16, 2011 with her loving husband of 35 years by her side. Debbie entered this world March 29, 1957, the third of four children born to James K Hollowell and Dewana AtnipHollowell. She was a lifelong resident of Odessa and attended Odessa High...

Houston Copeland

Houston Copeland

Jan 16, 2011

Houston D. Copeland ODESSA Houston D. Copeland, 81, passed away Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. He was born May 31, 1929 in Overton County, Tennessee to Hubert Copeland and Trannie Cooper. He spent his first 15 years in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, one of the most impoverished regions of the country. He wound...

Hazel Jackson-Boling

Hazel Jackson-Boling

Jan 15, 2011

Hazel Marie JacksonBoling 77, passed away Saturday, January 15, 2011 in Odessa, TX. She was born on February 24, 1933 in Walnut Springs, TX to Elery Thomas Jackson and Willie Lea Crow. She married J.C. Boling on November 9, 1951 in Lovington New Mexico. She was the manager of the Stardust for 23 years, everyone knew her as Mama...

Bobbye Chenault

Bobbye Chenault

Jan 15, 2011

Bobbye Trice Chenault passed away Saturday, January 15, 2011. She was born in Lamesa, Texas, graduated High School in Crane, Texas, worked as a nurse at McCamey Hospital during World War II and lived in Odessa from 1942 until the time of her death of 86 years of age. She was very proud of her West Texas heritage. When...

Jean Ervin

Jean Ervin

Jan 13, 2011

Jean Carroll Ervin, age 78, passed away Thursday, January 13, 2011 at her home in Odessa. She was born June 18, 1932 in San Angelo, Texas to Lawerence R. Burkleo and Violet Lucille Jolly Burkleo. She graduated from Odessa High School at the age of 15. She worked for the Ector County Sherriffs office, retiring in the early 1990s....