Obituaries
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
Jerad Armstrong
Jul 7, 2008
Jerad Ryan Armstrong, 33, of Odessa, passed away Monday July 7, 2008 at University Medical Center in Lubbock, after a brief illness. Jerad was born May 8, 1975 in Odessa to Terry Armstrong and Retha Shifflet Armstrong. He graduated from Permian High School in 1993. Jerad was preceded in death by his mom Retha Armstrong, his grandfather Ivan Pa-Pa...
Donald Gibson
Jul 5, 2008
Donald Wayne Gibson, 64, died Saturday, July 5, 2008, at Hospice House in Odessa, Texas, with his children at his side. A private memorial will be held in Memphis, Tennessee, with a celebration of his life taking place in Breckenridge, Texas. Donald Don was born January 17, 1944 in Dangerfield, Texas. He attended schools in Breckenridge and then became...
Jesse Alvarez
Jul 4, 2008
ODESSA Father, the death of Jesse Joe Alvarez brings an emptiness in our lives. BRBRWe are separated from Jesse and feel broken and disturbed. Give us confidence that Jesse is safe and Jesse's life is complete with you, and bring us together at the last to the wholeness and fullness of your presence in heaven, where your saints and...
Donald Snyder
Jul 4, 2008
Donald Ross Snyder, aged 89, passed away July 4, 2008, at Hospice house in Odessa, Texas. He was born in Saugerties, NY, on November 12, 1918, to Ross E. Snyder and Jessie Pyle. He is preceded in death by his brother, Ernest Snyder, and his sister, Ruth Freer, both of New York State. His sister, Shirley Grunenwald, lives in...
Vincent Tristano, Sr.
Jun 27, 2008
Vincent Tristano Sr., 92, of Odessa, died Friday, June 27, 2008 at Odessa Regency Hospital. Services will be at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday in the Sunset Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Clydell Chapman officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Arrangements are under the direction of Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He...
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