Obituaries
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...
Doyle Lawrence
Jun 27, 2008
Glenn Doyle Lawrence, age 77, was born May 15, 1931, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to Glenn H. Lawrence and Helen C. Baxter. He passed away June 27, 2008, surrounded by family and friends.BRDoyle married Mary Wynona Nonie Bradley on December 3, 1950, in Brownfield, Texas. Doyle worked as operations manager for Shell Oil, residing in several locations including...
Lyndsi Morales
Jun 26, 2008
Lyndsi Renee Morales went home to be with her Lord and Savior on June 25, 2008, in Dallas, Texas, at the Childrens Medical Center of Dallas. Services will be held Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 1:00 at the Odessa Christian Faith Center on Andrews Highway with Pastor Don Caywood officiating and Pastor Craig DeArmond assisting. Burial will follow at...
Donald Stevens
Jun 23, 2008
Donald Wayne Stevens, 53, of Kailua-Kona, HI and formerly of Odessa died June 23, 2008, at Kona Community Hospital in Kealakekua, Hawaii. He was born in Hobbs, NM on January 6, 1955, to James Ira and Anna Vee Johnson Stevens. The family moved to Odessa in 1962 and Donald attended Permian High School. Married Teresa Horne in Odessa on...
William Beauvais
Jun 21, 2008
William Michael Bill Beauvais, 59, of Lubbock, formerly of Midland, returned home to the Lord Saturday, June 21, 2008 after a brief illness with his immediate family attending his side. BRMemorial services will be 11:00 AM Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Ellis Funeral Home Chapel with Chaplin Larry Hood officiating. Visitation with family and friends will be at 10:15...

Joseph Fischer
Jun 21, 2008
Joseph Alfred Fischer passed away June 21, 2008 in Midland, Texas. He was born January 11, 1931 in Throckmorton, Texas to George Fischer and Dimple Kilman Fischer. He married Zola Mae in Clovis, New Mexico on July 16, 1956. She preceded him in death in 2003. He is survived by a son, Sterling Joseph Fischer of Odessa.
Service...Jackie Jones
Jun 21, 2008
Jackie Carter Jones passed away on Saturday June 21, 2008. She was born to John Capps and Shirley Kennedy on January 30, 1966 in Phoenix, Arizona. She married David Carter in January 1986 and had two beautiful daughters, Alice and Tori. She later married Elbert Lynn Jones who she co-owned the company L.J. Trucking with. Her hobbies included collecting...
Lorene Snyder
Jun 19, 2008
Lorene Snyder , age 85, passed away Thursday, June 19, 2008, at Hospice House in Odessa, Texas. She was born in 1922 in Somerville, Texas, to Burt and Mary Strickland who moved then to Odessa. She met Donald Ross Snyder in El Paso, Texas, during World War II. They were married March 5, 1943, at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and...
James Jackson
Jun 11, 2008
James M. Jackson 82 of Odessa, passed away to be with Our Lord and Cherished Loved Ones on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at Seabury Center. Born in Baskin LA on December 5, 1925 to James and Mable Jackson he attended school to the 7th grade and worked as a farmer growing up. He joined the United States Navy where...