Obituaries

Theodore Moore

Feb 7, 2009

alignleftTheodore E. Ted Moore, Odessa, loving father, husband, brother, son, entered the Holy Kingdom of God on February 7th, 2009. alignleftTed was born June 23, 1960 in Tawas City, Michigan to Nellie June and Robert E. Moore. Robert was in the U.S. Air Force. In 1961, the family moved to Japan where they spent four years, they then transferred...

Saiya Killion-Aranda

Feb 4, 2009

Saiya Marie Killion-Aranda, infant daughter of Julian Aranda and Maria Killion passed away February 4, 2009 at Medical Center Hospital. Graveside Services will be held at Sunset Memorial Gardens On Monday, February 9, 2008 at 1:00 with Marcos Zuniga officiating. Survivors include her parents; maternal grandparents James and Lyn Killion; paternal grandparents Lisa and Anthony Redfern, and Xavier and...

Daniel Diaz

Feb 3, 2009

Daniel Diaz, one month old infant son of Emmanuel Diaz and Pearl Jasmin Diaz, passed away Tuesday February 3, 2009 in Midland. He was born December 24, 2008 in Midland, Texas. Graveside services are scheduled for 1:00 PM Friday, February 6, 2009 in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Service Graveside Services Sunset Memorial Gardens 6801 East...

Lucy Baeza

Feb 3, 2009

Lucy M. Baeza Lucy Martinez Baeza, 62, passed away February 3, 2009 at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Humble, TX after her battle with cancer. Lucy was born November 29, 1946 to Rufus and Alfonsa Martinez. She was born in Hutto, TX, grew up in Waco and then made her home in Odessa in 1982. She spent many years in...

Edwin Hallmark

Feb 1, 2009

Edwin Paul Hallmark was born to Hugh and Susie Byrd Hallmark on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918 in Windom, Texas. He died February 1, 2009 at the age of 90, at the Hospice House in Odessa, Texas. Edwin lived with his family on a farm in the Loraine, Texas community and attended school there. After graduating from Loraine High...

Jean Forrester

Feb 1, 2009

Jean Maxine Forrester, 75, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, February 1, 2009, at Hospice House in Odessa. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Odessa. Maxine was born to Frank Burns and Jessie Marie Waddles Odom on December 19, 1933, in Featherstone, Oklahoma. She married Kenneth Don Forrester on October 24,...

James Williams

Feb 1, 2009

James Dale Jimmy Williams is preceded in death by his father, Frank Allen Williams, his mother, Ida Gray Williams, an older brother, Frank Allen Williams, Jr., and an older sister Pearl Irene Williams Humphries. He is survived by one older sister, Patricia Williams Humphries, a companion of ten years, Wanda Terry, a daughter, Christy, a step-daughter, Suzanne, and several...

Bobbie Junek

Jan 31, 2009

Bobbie Lee Junek, 69, passed away Saturday, January 31, 2009 at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. She was born in Snyder, Texas on November 3, 1939 to Robert and Estelle Lee. She married James Junek on February 25, 1956 in Snyder. They were married for 52 years. Bobbie is preceded by the death of her son, James Junek, Jr....

Robert Wickson

Jan 31, 2009

Robert Harold Wickson, 69, a long time account executive at KOSA TV, passed away Saturday morning, January 31, 2009 at Hospice House after a brief illness. Robert was born on September 13, 1939 in Pecos, TX. He was preceded in death by his parents Robert V. Wickson and Vera A. Wickson. He is survived by Pat Wickson of Odessa,...

Dolores Smith

Jan 29, 2009

Dolores Dianne Loftis smith, 66 of Midland, died Thursday, January 29, 2009 in Midland Memorial Hospital. She was born august 22, 1942 in Lorenzo, Texas to A.J. and Marie Loftis. The family moved to Modesto, California where she was reared and educated. She met C.D. Smith in Modesto, California and they married in Odesssa on August 8, 1988, where...

Mayra Valverde

Jan 27, 2009

Mayra Valverde, 22 of Odessa died January 27, 2009 she was born October 20, 1986 in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico to Arnulfo and Maria Navarrete. The family moved to Portales, New Mexico in 1996 then to Odessa in 2000. At the age of 16 she graduated from the Odessa Career Center. Mayra earned her Bachelors Degree in Education from the...

Eva Hagan

Jan 27, 2009

Eva M. Peggy Hagan was born December 18, 1933 in England. She met and married Harvey R. Red Hagan while he was serving in the U.S. Army and stationed in England. They had two children, daughter Lindsey and son Kelvin. Peggy worked for many years for Nittany Enterprises, Inc. as Operations Manager. In those years, she impacted the lives...

Mercedes Baeza

Jan 27, 2009

Mercedes Chavez Baeza, 60 of Odessa, passed away Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at Hospice House in Odessa, Texas. Mercedes stood 4 foot 10 inches in stature, but her loving heart made her a giant amongst friends and family. Born June 21, 1948 in a border town by the name of Candelaria, Texas, to Juan Chavez and Luisa Jurado Chavez,...

Lydia Wallace

Jan 25, 2009

JUANITA WALLACE Lydia Juanita Vaughan was born on Thursday, September 25, 1924, to Herman and Vala Faye McDaniel Vaughan in Mexia, Texas. She was the middle child born into this family. Her older brother, Warren Vaughan was killed in World War II, and her younger brother, Thomas Earl Vaughan lives in Houston with his wife, Jackie. Juanita was raised...

Norma Nichols

Jan 25, 2009

Norma Lee Nichols, 71, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, January 25, 2009. She was born September 2, 1937 in Jean, Texas to Newman Ephfrom Lasley and Mary Louise McGinn Lasley. She was raised in Allney, Texas and moved to Alamogordo, New Mexico around 1948, after the loss of her father. In 1980, she married Terry Dale Nichols in Odessa....

Ruben Evaro

Jan 21, 2009

Ruben Aguilar Evaro, 54 passed away Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at Medical Center Hospital. Ruben was born in Odessa on October 16, 1954 and was a life-long resident of Odessa. He graduated from Ector High School, earned his Bachelors degree from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and later earned his Masters degree from Sul Ross University....

Carol Brandenburg

Jan 21, 2009

Funeral services for Carol Brandenburg, 62 of Odessa will be 2:00 PM Monday, January 26, 2009 at Sherwood Church of Christ with Lonnie Hamil officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 3:00 5:00 PM Sunday, January 25, 2009 at Sunset Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be, Joe Burton, Clayton Dennis, John Swift, Hank Weldy, Danny Willey,...

Gay Joyner

Jan 18, 2009

Gay Dawn Joyner, 69 of Odessa passed from this life on Sunday, January 18, 2009 at Medical Center Hospital. She was born in Vaughn, New Mexico on June 25, 1939 to Thomas and Dorothy Edsall Celey. She was a resident of Odessa for most of her life. She retired from Texas Instruments and later retired from the eastside Odessa...

Michael Anderson

Jan 17, 2009

Michael Lee Anderson, 58 passed away from this life on January 17, 2009. He was born in Odessa, TX on April 23, 1950 to Billly and Tuffy Ardon Anderson. Michael was retired. Michael is preceded in death by his wife Patricia Mobley Anderson, his father and mother Tuffy and Billly Anderson and his brothers, Ardon Anderson and Bobby Anderson....

Minerva Jones

Jan 16, 2009

Minerva Garcia Jones, 63, passed on January16, 2009 in Odessa, TX. She was born on November 18, 1945, in Ozona, TX to Silvester R. Garcia and Maria L. Alba. Minerva was raised in Odessa. She attended school in Odessa and taught kindergarten at the Baptist Mission and she worked at Ladys Boutique. She sang in the church choir, was...