Obituaries

Marie Scott

Marie Scott

Aug 26, 2008

Marie Jones Scott, 68, passed away Tuesday, August 26, 2008 in Odessa. She was born May 29, 1940 in Mineral Wells, Texas. She was preceded in death by her mother, Johnnie Russell. She is survived by her husband, Gerald D. Scott, Sr. of Odessa; three daughters, Carolyn Watts and husband Tommy of Midland, Sarah Algiere of Houston and Donna...

Willie Brackens

Willie Brackens

Aug 16, 2008

Willie lee Brackens passed away saturday, august 16, 2008 in Odessa. He was born May 19, 1950 in Midland, Texas to Elmer Brackens and Littie Lee Sorrells. He worked in the lawn care business in Odessa. Mr. Brackens is survived by a sister, Annie T. Washington of Inglewood, Californial. Arrangements are with Sunset Memorial Funeral Home, no services are...

Donald Coleman

Donald Coleman

Aug 15, 2008

Donald Don E. Coleman passed away Friday, August 15, 2008, in Midland. He was born May 1, 1959, in Odessa, Texas, to Harold Dean Coleman and Nelda Faun Sims Coleman. He grew up in West Texas and graduated from Odessa High School in 1978. He served in the U.S. Navy and had over 30 years of service in the...

Charles Payne

Charles Payne

Aug 6, 2008

Charles Robert Payne, 74, went to be with the Lord on August 6, 2008, at the Hospice House in Odessa. He was born on November 26, 1933, in Rondo, Arkansas to Charles Samuel Payne and Grace Cambell Payne. He was a retired professor from Odessa College and was also retired from the U.S. Army. He is survived by his...

Victor Crumrine Sr.

Victor Crumrine Sr.

Aug 5, 2008

Victor Lee Crumrine, Sr. joined his mother, father, brother and sister in heaven on August 5, 2008. He passed from this life due to complications of diabetes and heart problems at Medical Center hospital in Odessa, Texas. Vic was born March 4, 1934 to Elmer and Ruth Goodale Crumrine in rural Woodson County, Kansas, where he was raised and...

Ada Grissom

Ada Grissom

Aug 5, 2008

Ada Lee Wilbanks Grissom was born Oct. 10, 1920 in Butler, OK to Ada and Leslie Bryan Wilbanks. She lived there helping her parents in their store and barbar shop until completing high school in 1937 at the age of 16. Ada Lee had her own radio show her senior year where she sang the top hits of the...

Wayne Jackson

Wayne Jackson

Aug 5, 2008

Wayne Jackson went peacefully to be with his Lord on August 5, 2008 at Medical Center Hospital with family at his side. Services are scheduled for 2:00 pm Friday, August 8, 2008, at Sunset Memorial Chapel with Charles Jones, Elder of Greenwood Church of Christ, officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be Thursday evening, August...

Maria Carrasco

Maria Carrasco

Jul 31, 2008

ODESSA Maria Carrasco, passed away on July 31, 2008, after an eleven year battle with breast cancer. BRBR She was born on November 6, 1948 in Chihuahua, Mexico. She was the eldest of four children. She married Amado Carrasco and moved to Odessa, TX in 1969. They had two children, Amado and Karime. She will be remembered for her...

Kyle Watts

Kyle Watts

Jul 30, 2008

Kyle Dee Watts, 59, joined his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on July 30, 2008. Kyle was born on November 4, 1948 in Pecos, TX to Kyle and Tommie Ruth Watts. He married Karen McLain in1967 in Pecos, TX. Kyle and his family moved from Pecos to Odessa in 1979. He is retired from Phillips Petroleum. He was a...

Norma Hanson

Norma Hanson

Jul 28, 2008

Norma Alene Hanson, 82 of Odessa passed away on July 28, 2008 at Hospice House in Odessa. She was born on May 28, 1926 in Cotton Valley, LA to Walter and Maggie Neugent. She came to Penwell in 1951 from Snyder to Odessa in 1961. She loved playing cards, dominos, and arts and crafts. She is survived by her...

Belle Atkinson

Belle Atkinson

Jul 26, 2008

Belle Pauline Smith Barton Atkinson, 94, passed away Saturday morning, July 26, 2008 at a local care facility. Belle was born to David Thomas Smith and Sarah Elizabeth Laymance on July 19, 1914, in Henderson County, Texas. She was raised in Brownsboro, Texas. She had three brothers and four sisters. Belle married Richard Alvin Barton July 22, 1935. They...

Billy Fitzhugh

Billy Fitzhugh

Jul 25, 2008

Billy Charles Fitzhugh passed away on July 25, 2008, at the Hospice House in Odessa, Texas at the age of 53. BRBRHe was born January 27, 1955, in Fort Worth, Texas to Charles Henry and Jewel Fitzhugh. BRBRHe married Pamela Moore on November 23, 2001 in Odessa, Texas. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He worked as...

Roy Brown

Roy Brown

Jul 19, 2008

Roy R. Brown, 77 a longtime resident, passed away Saturday, July 19, 2008 at Hospice House. He had struggled with Alzheimers disease for the past two years. Roy was born December 8, 1930 in Bakersfield, CA. He married Hazel Lee Reid on December 1, 1951 in Kilgore, TX. They were happily married for 56 years. This marriage was blessed...

Carl Peek, Sr.

Carl Peek, Sr.

Jul 18, 2008

Carl David Peek, Sr. 81 of Midland, TX died Friday afternoon, July 18, 2008 at Midland Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be 11:00 AM Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bob Porterfield officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Sunset Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. Visitation will be 6:00...

Alicia Lara

Alicia Lara

Jul 16, 2008

Alicia L. Lara, 68, went to be with the Lord on July 16, 2008 at her residence in Odessa, TX. She was born on May 30, 1940 in Barstow, TX to Pedro Larez Lopez and Rosa Dominguez Pineda Lopez. She is survived by two daughters; Sonya Lara of Casper, Wyoming and Selena Alvarado and husband Frank of Odessa, TX;...

Betty Fields

Betty Fields

Jul 16, 2008

Betty Lois Fields passed away Wednesday, July 16, 2008 in Andrews, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Buster. She was born February 17, 1931 in Stamford, Texas to Hugh Thomas Massey and Ella May Grigsby. On November 2, 1951, she married Buster Fields in Stamford, Texas. They moved to Odessa in 1958 and...

Charles Johnston

Charles Johnston

Jul 14, 2008

Charles Richard Dick Johnston passed away after a brief illness at his home in Odessa on Monday, July 14, 2008. He was born September 21, 1942 in Duncan, Oklahoma to Charles D. Johnston and Kathryn Doyle Johnston. Dick grew up in Odessa and was a 1960 graduate of Permian High School where he was part of the first cheerleading...

Pearl Hoggard

Pearl Hoggard

Jul 13, 2008

aligncenterJOSEPHINE JO BAIRD HOGGARD If theres a piano in heaven, Jo is playing all those good ole gospel songs that she loved so much. Josephine Baird Hoggard, 89, succumbed to a brief illness on Sunday, July 13, 2008 at Hospice House with family by her side. Those she left behind will miss her immensely, but those who were waiting...

Rebecca Godwin

Rebecca Godwin

Jul 9, 2008

Rebecca Ann Overley Godwin, 64, of Odessa went to be with the Lord on July 9, 2008, at her residence. She was born on October 4, 1943 in Hobbs, NM, to E.B. Overley and June Jones Overley. Mrs Godwin was a retired secretary. She is preceded in death by her husband Lewis Godwin Jr. She is survived by her...

Veda Adams

Veda Adams

Jul 8, 2008

Veda Adams, 87, loving mother, passed away July 8, 2008 at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas. Veda was born February 2, 1921 in Hermleigh, Texas to Fletcher and Bulah Watson. She joined the Women's Army Corps in 1942. Veda married Wade Hampton Adams in Taft, California January 29, 1945 while he was stationed at Taft Air Force Base....

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