Obituaries

Mildred Black

Mildred Black

Dec 19, 2012

Bedford - Mildred Warren Black, age 89, passed away on Wednesday December 19, 2012 in Bedford. Funeral Service will be Saturday December 22, 2012 at 2 pm at First Baptist Church in Ranger. Burial will follow at Evergreen Cemetery in Ranger under the direction of Edwards Funeral Home in Ranger. Visitation will be on Saturday from 10 am to 12...

Linda Childs

Linda Childs

Dec 19, 2012

EASTLAND - Linda Childs, age 65, passed away on December 19, 2012 in Abilene. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday December 22nd at Tolar Cemetery in Tolar, TX under the direction of the Bakker Funeral Home. Linda was born on November 13, 1947, to Preston and Bernice (Robison) Goolsby in Morris County, TX. She married Don...

John Johnson

John Johnson

Dec 17, 2012

EASTLAND - John C. "JC" Johnson passed away on December 17th 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, at age 91, after a brief illness. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday December 20th at Long Branch Cemetery in Eastland County. Visitation is Wednesday from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. at the Bakker Funeral Home. Born on March 29, 1921, in...

Neeta Thames

Neeta Thames

Dec 14, 2012

Neeta Faye Thames, 78, of Burkburnett, passed away Friday, December 14, 2012. Services were held at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Edwards Funeral Home Chapel. Mrs. Thames was born February 21, 1934 in Abilene to Alonzo and Juanita M. (Guthrie) Lindsey. She married Alvin Thames who preceded her in death in 2010. She was a waitress, homemaker, and Baptist. Survivors...

Melba Gordon

Melba Gordon

Dec 8, 2012

Cathy Gordon left this life Saturday evening December 8, 2012. Services will be Wednesday 11:00 am at first Baptist Church in Gordon, Texas. Visitation will be Tuesday evening 6 to 8 pm at Edwards Funeral Home Strawn, Texas. Burial will be in New Gordon Cemetery in Gordon, Texas. Cathy was born November 22, 1938 to Red Pierce and Drusie Barret...

Nanette Maxwell

Nanette Maxwell

Dec 6, 2012

Nanette West Maxwell Cisco Nanette W. Maxwell, 78, of Cisco passed away peacefully, December 6, 2012, at her home with her family. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 pm Monday, December 10, 2012, at Chambers Funeral Home, 203 West 7th, Cisco, and the family will receive friends from 5-7 pm at the funeral home. Nanette, also known loving...

Kathleen Smithson

Kathleen Smithson

Dec 3, 2012

Kathleen 'Kathy' Marie Smithson, 55, of Eastland, passed away Monday, December 3, 2012. Memorial services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Saturday at the River of Life Church in Eastland. The family will receive friends on Friday, 5~7:00 p.m. at the Edwards Funeral Home in Eastland. Kathy was preceded in death by her parents, Louis P. Paquin and Deloris June...

Montie Trimble

Montie Trimble

Dec 1, 2012

Montie Fay Trimble, 102, passed away December 1, 2012. Montie was born on October 4, 1910 in Hawley, Texas to Moses Franklin and Mary Francis (Gray) Neas. She married John Trimble on September 5, 1927 in Abilene, Texas. Together they raised a son and three daughters. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by...

Patricia Edwards

Patricia Edwards

Nov 28, 2012

Patricia (Pat) Edwards passed from this life Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Services will be 2:00 P.M., Saturday, December 8, 2012 at the First Baptist Church, Ranger, Texas. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, Friday, December 7, 2012 at Edwards Funeral Home, Strawn, Texas. Burial will be in Mt. Marion Cemetery, Strawn, Texas. There will be a reception following...

Nelson Geist

Nelson Geist

Nov 28, 2012

Nelson Harland Geist Born December 17, 1919 Deceased November 28, 2012 Nelson Harland Geist was born in Wapanucka, Oklahoma on December 17th, 1919, to Nelson Elsworth and Levita (Drake) Geist. He is survived by his wife Mildred E. (Boland) Geist, two children; Patricia Ray Dodini and John Nelson Geist, two grandchildren; David Dodini and Christine Hudson; five great-grandchildren and four...

Barbara Mckinley

Barbara Mckinley

Nov 26, 2012

Barbara Louise McKinley, 69, of Ranger, Texas died November 26, 2012. She was born in Sherman, Texas. She was the daughter of Ozell Vandergriff and the late Roy Vandergriff. She was educated in the Ranger public schools, graduated Ranger High School in 1961, and later attended a business college in Dallas, Texas. In 1983 she married Les McKinley in Dallas,...

Jerrel Mckelvain

Jerrel Mckelvain

Nov 19, 2012

EASTLAND - Jerrel Elwin (Mac) McKelvain passed from this life on November 19, 2012 at 95 years of age. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday November 21st at the Bakker Funeral Home Chapel in Eastland. Visitation is Tuesday from 5:00 - 7:00 at the funeral home. Elwin was born on June 9, 1917 a few miles East...

Camilla Adams

Camilla Adams

Nov 17, 2012

Camilla Adams, 81, of Ranger, Texas passed away Saturday November 17, 2012 at Eastland Memorial Hospital. Camilla was born August 20, 1931 in Bluff Dale, Texas to Levi Ben and Zella Vivian (Mauldin) Gordon. Camilla came to Ranger from Trent, Texas when she was twelve. She graduated from Ranger High School in 1949 and went to college for two years....

Evelyn Wylie

Evelyn Wylie

Nov 15, 2012

Evelyn Kaye Wylie departed this life Thursday, November 15, 2012 after a long battle with cancer. Services were at 10 a.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church in Gordon. Interment followed in the Doty Cemetery. A visitation was held Sunday at Edwards Funeral Home in Strawn. Kaye was born on September 13, 1944 to Leroy and Evelyn (Carter) Reasoner....

Patrick Ready

Patrick Ready

Nov 11, 2012

Patrick Eugene Ready passed away at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas on Sunday, November 11, 2012. Pat Ready was born in Fort Worth, Texas August 24th, 1951 to Jennye Ruth and Michael Patrick Ready and he lived his first couple of years there. The Readys moved to Midland, Texas in 1956. Patrick attended elementary school grades 1-4 at St. Ann's...

Thomas Ingram

Thomas Ingram

Nov 4, 2012

Thomas Wayne Ingram, born May 29, 1963 passed away November 4, 2012. He is survived by Grandmothers: Claudia Cloudman and Margie Hackney. Parents: Richard and Mary Ingram, Marilyn and Patrick Cotton. One daughter: Jessica Woldeit and husband Rilee, one grandson: Malachi. Brothers and sisters: Tina Howe and husband Philip, Machelle Downey, Terry Baker and wife Kristi, Melanie Schott and husband...

Jimmy Cobb

Jimmy Cobb

Oct 21, 2012

RANGER- Jimmy Lloy Cobb, 81, of Ranger, Texas passed away Sunday, October 21, 2012 at Fort Worth, Texas. Jimmy was born June 19, 1931 in Grand Prairie, Texas to Earl S. Cobb and Nannie Faye (Hubbard) Cobb. He married Jimmie Fox in 1950 in Madill, Oklahoma. Jimmy was a retired truck driver for Merchants Freight Lines. He was preceded in...

Mary Hicks

Mary Hicks

Oct 21, 2012

EASTLAND - June Tucker Hicks went to be with her Lord and Jesus Christ on October 21, 2012. Funeral Services will be at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Bakker Funeral Home in Eastland with Pastor Pepper Puryear, pastor of First Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon Texas, officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery beside her parents, maternal...

Max Mahaney

Max Mahaney

Oct 16, 2012

Max Ray Mahaney passed from this life Tuesday, October 16, 2012, in Abilene, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday at the Edwards Funeral Home Chapel in Eastland. Burial will follow in the Eastland City Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Edwards Funeral Home on Thursday from 6 until 8:00 p.m. Born April 18, 1930 in...

Dwaine Petty,

Dwaine Petty,

Oct 13, 2012

Dwaine Milford Petty, Sr. passed from this life Saturday, October 13, 2012 at his home in Gordon, TX. Visitation will be from 6~8:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Edwards Funeral Home in Strawn, TX. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 17th at the First United Methodist Church in Gordon, TX with Star Bowen officiating. Interment will follow in...