Obituaries and updates from Lubbock area churches and hospitals
Funeral services are announced for numerous residents including Olive Jackson, Fred Barbee, Hugh Caldwell, M Sgt Henry Bowen Jr, Stanley Roach, Charlea Johnson, Jesse Finley, F E Cramp, Charlie Brady, Buck Smith, Mary Wilcox, Branston McKinney, Elvis Griffin and others. Survivors span spouses children and siblings. Also noted are memorial gifts for Dr James Toohey and local honors for Jan Chew, plus a vehicle crash in Lubbock and theft of two collector guns. A teen remains in critical condition after a Christmas Day shooting.
Mrs Eisenberg Rites Slated In City Today
Services for Mrs. W F Eisenberg 66 of 4603 17th St will be at 2 pm today in First United Dr Paul Bumpers officiating Burial will be in Resthaven Mausoleum by Rix Funeral Directors She died Wednesday in University Hospital Survivors include husband three daughters a sister eight grandchildren and one great grandchild Memorials may be made to Evelyn Eisenberg Memorial Fund in care of Municipal Garden and Arts Center Pallbearers named
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Eisenberg
17Th St
First United Methodist Church
Paul Bumpers
Resthaven Mausoleum
Rix Funeral
Marion Sanford
Tom Duggan
W. E. Keeney
Frank Chappell Jr
Retha Martin
Joe Greenlee
Jack Flypare Jr
Frank Jones
Blair Cherry Jr
George N. Atkinson
Former Area Soldier Hogan Dies in Vietnam
Gary Lee Hogan 20 former Brownfield resident and grandson of D W Smith of 4117 E 3rd Place died Monday in Da Nang hospital Vietnam of wounds received on combat duty December 1 He joined the Marines in August and was sent to Vietnam in October Survivors include his parents James E Mogan of Phoenix three brothers Larry Dan and Jimmy Lynn stationed in Germany and his paternal grandparents Frank Hogan of Coleman and Mrs Hogan Services are pending in Phoenix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Lee Hogan
Brownfield
D. W. Smith
da Nang Hospital
Vietnam
Phoenix
Hogan
U. S. Marines
James E. Mogan
Larry
Dan
Jimmy Lynn
Germany
Frank Hogan
Coleman
Area Woman's Mother Dies in Wichita Falls
Mrs. John Hayhurst of Chillicothe, mother of Mrs. Donald Wooten of Crosbyton, died Thursday in Wichita Falls after an auto accident left her hospitalized about a week. Services are pending at a Chillicothe funeral home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crosbyton
John Hayhurst
Chillicothe
Donald Wooten
Wichita Falls
D P Carter rites set in Brownfield
D P Carter 92 Brownfield resident since 1924 died Thursday at Brownfield General Hospital after a short illness. Services 2 30 p m Saturday First Baptist Church officiated by Rev Ed Crow burial Terry County Memorial Cemetery. Survivors include three sons three daughters a sister and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Located in Brownfield Texas with ties to White Pine Tennessee Lockney and Quemada New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownfield
P. Carter
Brownfield General Hospital
White Pine
Tenn
Carter
Lockney
First Baptist Church
Ed Crow
Terry County Memorial Cemetery
Zora Henslee Anson
Mrs. Griffiths Funeral Today in Friona
Ethel Jane Griffith 92 a Friona area resident for 32 years died Wednesday in Palmer County Community Hospital after a six week stay. Services at 2 50 p m today Friona Methodist Church Rev James Price officiating Burial Friona Cemetery directed by Clabhorn Funeral. Survivors include four sons Frank Jim Paul all of Friona Tom of Bovina four daughters Olive Rector Nola Adams Loretta Brookfield and Gertrude Eliott 12 grandchildren 24 great grandchildren and 11 great great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friona
Ethel Jane Griffith
Palmer County Community Hospital
Friona Methodist Church
James Price
Clabhorn
Bovina
Olive Rector
Nola Adams
Loretta Brookfield
Gertrude Eliott
Cortez
Colo
Hugh Wright
Kansas
Flores Services Planned Today
Frank Flores 39 of Southland died in a train car collision near Southland and died at Lubbock Methodist Hospital. Rosary was set for today in Slaton with a 4 p.m. Saturday Mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe. Burial at Englewood Cemetery directed by England’s Funeral Home. survivors include wife Elisa, son Johnnie Joe, daughters Clare and Emma, mother Mrs. Guadalupe Flores, five brothers and four sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slaton
Frank Flores
Southland
Lubbock’s
Methodist Hospital
P.m
S. Sr. St
Our Lady of “Guadalupe Catholic Church
James Erickson
Westhoff Rites Set Saturday
Plainview special rosary for Lee S. Westhoff 63 will be said at 7 30 p m today in Lemons Funeral Home Memorial Chapel Mass at 2 p m Saturday at St Alice Catholic Church with Rev James Chrisman officiating Burial Monday in Old Monroe Mo directed by Hoppe Funeral Home in St Louis Westhoff an employee of Southwestern Public Service Co died after an extended illness in an Amarillo hospital He is survived by Gwen two brothers two sisters and his mother
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlea E. Johnson
First Baptist Church of
Sundown
Smith Funeral Home
Levelland
Johnson
Plainview
Lee S. Westhoff
Lemons Funeral Home Memorial Chapel
St. Alice Catholic Church
James Chrisman
Old Monroe
Hoppe Funeral Home
St. Louis
Westhoff
Southwestern Public Service Co
Amarillo
Marvin V Parrott Dies. Rites Held Today
Marvin V Parrott 56 of 112 Ave V dies at St Marys Hospital after a yearlong illness. Funeral services at 2 a m in J A Hodges Chapel First Christian Church with Rev Dudley Strain officiating. Burial in City of Lubbock Funeral Home. Parrott survived by Ruth a son Albert Ross Parrott two brothers Bert and Everett and sister Mrs Art Kipper. Pallbearers named H L Williams Bryce Ethridge Edward Spence Leonardo Lozano Blake White Oran Foote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin V. Parrott
Ave. V
J. A. Hodges
First Christian Church
Dudley Strain
City of Lubbock
Sanders Funeral Home
Parrott
St. Mary's Hospital
Tubbock
Clarinda
Iowa
Tnm&o
International Association of Machinists
Ruth
Albert Ross Parrott
Bert
Everett
Art Kipper
H. L
Pioneer rancher Frank Miller rites set at 3 p.m.
Funeral services for 67 year old Frank Miller of the Miller Community, a pioneer Borden County rancher, will be held at 3 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church Snyder with Rev. W F Ferguson officiating. Burial follows at Snyder Cemetery under Bell Seale Funeral Home. Miller died at Cogdell Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He was born on the Miller Ranch and lived along the Nunn drift fence area. He and Mrs Miller were active in Borden and surrounding counties with 13 relatives noted in the obituary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. F. Millers
Stonewall County
Banks Miller
Miller Brothers
Cedar Crest
Millers
Miller Ranch
Nunn
Rafter Cross
Borden County
Miller
New Mexico
Borden
Mexican Native Dies In Lamesa
Ignacio Gonzalez Sr. 77 a Lamesa resident since 1948 died Thursday at Medical Arts Hospital. Born in Mexico he is survived by his wife five daughters including Mrs Eugenio Barron Mrs Francisco Rodriguez and others two sons Francisco Fidencio Gonzalez and Ignacio Jr three sisters 36 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren services set for 2 p m at St Margaret Marys Catholic Church Lamesa burial in Lamesa Memorial Park Branon Phillips Funeral Home in charge
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamesa
Ignacio Gonzalez Sr
Medical Arts Hospital
Mexico
St. Margaret Marys Catholic Church
Lamesa Memorial Park
Branon-Philips Funeral Home
Eugenio Barron
Francisco Rodriguez
Basilio Barron
Eduardo Menjarez Jr
Alonzo Hernandez
Sacramento
Calif
Francisco
Fidencio Gonzalez
Ignacio Jr
Nixon
Tex
Rites Scheduled For Fred Coffey
Funeral services for Fred Coffey 54 will be at 2 p m today at Calvary Baptist Church Tulia with Rev FL W Elmore officiating Burial will be in Rose Hill Wallace Funeral Home Coffey died at 5 am Wednesday in Swisher Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness He lived at Tulia Nursing Home and previously with brother Grover Coffey in Tulia Survivors include brothers Grover Otis and Cecil in Oklahoma and sister Mrs E O Hume of Seagoville Texas
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulia
Fred Coffey
Calvary Baptist Church
FL W. Elmore
Rose Hill Cemetery
Wallace Funeral Home
Coffey
Swisher Memorial Hospital
Tulia Nursing Home
Grover Coffey
Ada
Okla
Grover
Tulsa
Otis
Rose
Cecil
Oklahoma
E. O. Hume
Seagoville
Texas
Jimmie Wright Funeral Planned
Services for Jimmie Don Wright 41 of Shallowater will be held Saturday at 9 30 a m at Shallowater First Baptist Church. The Rev Gordon Smith will officiate with Rev Wilson Wood assisting. Burial in Lubbock City Cemetery. Wright a World War II veteran and member of Shallowater First Baptist died Thursday at an Alexandria VA hospital. He was in ill health for years survived by his parents J F Wright of Shallowater. Pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie Don Wright
6Th St
Shallowater
Alexandria
Veterans Administration Hospital
Shallowater First Baptist Church
Gordon Smith
Seagraves Baptist Church
Wilson Wood
City of Lubbock
Sanders Funeral Home
Wright
First Baptist Church
J. F. Wright
Shallawater
Clair Schtertz
Abie Reed
Odell Newton
Jim Billings
Melvin Terry
Neff Preston
R E Maxey Rites Set Here Today
Services for Robert E. Maxey 56 are at 10 a m in First United Methodist Church with Dr J Chess Lovern and Dr Paul M Bumpers officiating Burial in City of Lubbock Cemetery by Rix Funeral Directors Maxey died Wednesday morning of an apparent heart attack He was a director and former chairman of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority Survivors include his wife Kathleen Conrad a son Conrad and a daughter Mrs Michael R Abbott Funeral details note a postponed wedding of his son to Susan Reynolds Memorials to Cerebral Palsy Foundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanders Funeral Home
Crump
Ave. B
Stanley J. Roach
Bethel Baptist Church
Plainview
Plain
View Cemetery
Wood-Dunning Funeral Home
Roach
Robert E. Maxey
First United Methodist Church
J. Chess Lovern
Oklahoma City
Paul M. Bumpers
City of Lubbock
Rix Funeral
Maxey
23Rd St
Methodist Hospital
Canadian River Municipal Water Authority
Lubbock
Texas Tech
University of Texas
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Kathleen Conrad
Fenner Tubbs
Frank W. Hudgins
E. N. Armstrong
John J. Christman
Jack Markham
Joe H. Bryant
Roy Farr
Jimmie Wilson
Bill Collins
Jimmie Cochran
Rafter
Cerebral Palsy Foundation
Faulkenberry Burial Today in Hobbs Baptist Church
Services for Milton Ray Faulkenberry 24 of Camp Springs occur at 4 p m today at Hobbs Baptist Church with Rev Billy Hudnall and Rev Marvin Rogers officiating. Burial follows in Hobbs Cemetery under Bell Seale Funeral Home. He was found dead in his car at 8 30 a m Thursday and died about 9 p m Friday of asphyxiation. Survivors include his mother Helen Faulkenberry and father Odell Faulkenberry, both of Camp Springs, two brothers Allen and Jerry of Camp Springs, and grandmother Pearl Guinn of Camp Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Milton Ray Faulkenberry
Camp Springs
Hobbs Baptist Church
Billy Hudnall
First Baptist Church of
Rotan
Marvin Rogers
Hobbs Cemetery
Bell-Seale ‘Funeral Home
Faulkenberry
Snyder Peace
J. P. Billingsley
Helen Faulkenberry
Odell Faulkenberry
Waco
Allen and
Jerry
Pearl Guinn
Service Planned For Industrialist
Mansfield Louisiana reports industrialist Joseph Hendrix died at 68 in a Shreveport hospital. He founded Hendrix Manufacturing Co. which makes dragline buckets for customers nationwide and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfield, la
Joseph Hendrix
Shreveport
Hendrix
Hendrix Manufacturing Co
Herbert Terrall Rites Arranged in Lamesa
Herbert Dewey Terrall 69 of Lamesa died Wednesday in a veterans hospital at Big Spring. Services at 2 p.m. in Branon-Philips Chapel with Rev. J. T. Jones officiating. Burial at Five Mile Cemetery. Born Sept. 6, 1899 in Bowie County, he lived in Dawson County since 1902 and worked as a county maintenance vehicle operator. Surviving sister Mrs. D. W. Roger and brother D. C. Terrall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Dewey Terrall
Veterans Hospital
Big Spring
J. T. Jones
Five Mile Cemetery
Terrall
Bowie County
Tex
Dawson County
D. W. Roger
Lamesa
D. C. Terrall
Causey
New Mexico
Famous Weegee Dies In Gotham
Arthur Fellig known as Weegee dies at 68 in Park West Hospital New York. The candid photographer who depicted Manhattan police headquarters and city life, famed for Naked City, began with Acme News Pictures and later worked for PM and United Press International.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Arthur Fellig
Weegee
Manhattan
Naked City
Park West Hospital
Ouija Board
Acme News Pictures
United Press
United Press International
Hollywood
Freedom Comes After 13 Years for Indigent Defendant
Johnny Crawford, 35, freed after years in prison when lack of counsel led to a longer sentence. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed its 1955 ruling granting him a new trial, citing indigent defense and retroactivity of a 1967 Supreme Court ruling. The DA plans dismissal as witnesses and complainant cannot be located for retrial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Johnny Crawford
Crawford
Bexar County
Dist. Atty
James Barlow
Barlow
Court of Criminal Appeals
U. S. Supreme Court
J L Scrivner Dies Rites Set
J Lee Scrivner Sr aged 77 dies in Plainview a 2 p m funeral at First Baptist Church with Dr Roy C McClung presiding Burial in Plainview Memorial Cemetery by Lemons Funeral Home Scrivner longtime resident native of Dumont married Hattie Morgan in 1907 and survived by wife a daughter a son a sister a half sister and grandchildren
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainview
J. Lee Scrivner Sr
First Baptist Church
Roy C. McClung
Wayland Baptist College
Plainview Memorial Cemetery
Lemons Funeral Home
Scrivner
Dumont
Hattie Morgan
Tatum
N. M
Turkey
Masonic Lodge
Gene Harris
Lee Jr
Ellen Cole
Strawn
Willie Mae Pritchard
Lillie Scrivner
Terra Bella
Calif
Funeral services pending for Mrs Ida Bell Copelin
Mrs Ida Bell Copelin 85 of 2725 64th St dies in a local hospital after a long teaching career in Childress. She was born in Indian Territory Oklahoma and moved from Colorado Springs to Childress in 1890. Survivors include her son J E Copelin Jr and two daughters Juanita Griffin and Ann Smith plus stepdaughters, siblings, 15 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Bell Copelin
Newberry Funeral
Childress
Copelin
Lubbock
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Colorado Springs
Colo
West Texas State Teachers College
West Texas State University
Canyon
J. I. Copelin Sr
Order of the Eastern Star
Della Kappa Gamma
Texas State Teachers Association
First Methodist Church
J. E. Copelin Jr
Juanita Griffin
64Th St
Ann Smith
Torrance
Calif
Freda Jones
Lola Grusendorf
Oklahoma City
Okla
German Bushon
Phoenix, Ariz
Cora Savel
Alderwood Manor
Wash
Winchells Son Fatally Shot After Christmas Dinner
Walter Winchell, 35, reportedly ate Christmas dinner with wife Eva and two children in Santa Ana then left for a walk. minutes later Eva heard a gunshot and found him dead in the garage of the family home in nearby Tustin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Ana
Calif
UPD
Walter Winchells
Walter Winchell
Eva
Youngest Heart Transplant Patient Dies After 8 Days
United Press International reports in Hempstead New York that eight day old David Whippie died in Chicago five hours after receiving a heart from a two day old donor. Andrew S Thomas of Houston died from bacterial pneumonia after a Nov. 10 transplant. Total living transplant patients drop to 37 from 100 operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Hempstead
N.Y
Houston
Chicago
Andrews. Thomas
St. Luke's Hospital
University of Chicago
David Whippie
C. Frederick Kittle
Rites Saturday For Mrs Kinser
Services for Mrs Marvin C Kinser 78 of 2505 35th St will be held at 2 p m Saturday in Sanders Memorial Chapel. The Rev Roy W Ford of Lubbock View Christian Church will officiate with burial in City of Lubbock Cemetery. She died Thursday at 9 45 a m after a sudden illness. A Lubbock resident since 1924 she was a member of the Lubbock View band. She is survived by a son M D Kinser and a sister Mrs F Q Sparks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin C. Kinser
35Th St
West Texas Hospital
Sanders Memorial Chapel
Roy W. Ford
Lubbock View Christian Church
City of Lubbock Cemetery
Sanders Funeral Home
Kinser
Lubbock
Greenville
Lubbock View
Rites Held for Mrs Presson Former Lubbock Resident
Mrs Cora Bell Presson 82 former Lubbock Terry and Gaines counties resident died at 5 05 am Thursday in a Las Vegas New Mexico con valescent home She came to Tube bock County in 1917 lived in Terry County 1924 Seagraves Gaines County 1953 later in Las Vegas Services set for 10 am Saturday in Brownfield Memorial Chapel Curtis Drake officiating burial in Terry County Memorial Cemetery Survivors include son R X M Bagley Andrews a daughter Irene Sills Tucumcari NM and 11 grandchildren
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownfield
Cora Bell Presson
Lubbock
Terry
Gaines Counties
Las Vegas
Presson
Tubebock County
Terry County
Seagraves
Gaines County
Church of God
Brownfield Memorial Chapel
Curtis Drake
Terry County Memorial Cemetery
Brownfield Funeral Home
R. XM. Bagley
Andrews
Irene Sills
Tucumcari
N.M
Onetime Victoria Mayor Benjamin T. Jordan Dies at 81
Benjamin T. Jordan, 81, who served as Victoria mayor from 1943 to 1947, died Thursday in a Victoria hospital. He spent two years with a U.S. Department of Agriculture entomology study group in Central America and Washington, D.C., and later ran a plumbing supply business until retiring in 1953.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Tex
Benjamin T. Jordan
Jordan
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Central America
Washington, D.C
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C. N
Olive) Jackson
Levelland First United Methodist Church
Resthaven Memorial Park
George Price
Fred V. Barbee
Central Methodist Church
Brownwood
Hugh. F. Caldwell
Henry Bowen Jr
Memphis, Tenn
Bowen
Reese Afb
Jesse Thomas Finley
Wall Street
Church of Christ of
F. E
Lou) Cramp
St. Luke Methodist Church
Afton
Charlie Allen Brady
4Th St
Apostolic Church of God
Resthaven Singleton - Wilson Funeral Home
Brady
H. F
Buck) Smith
Nev
Smith
Mary Wilcox
24Th St
Wilcox
Branston Carroll McKinney
Spur
McKinney
West ,Texas Hospital
Elvis Griffin
Resthaven’s Memorial Park
Griffin
Chicago College of Osteopathy
James Joy Toohey
Toohey
Texas Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons
Jan Chew
Alpine
Mae Simmons
Frank Regalado Pena
Cornell St
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
4Th Street
Avenue P
Chester A. Hanson
Avenue P. Hanson
Stanley Kenneth Brown
Ave. D
East Lubbock
Eisenberg
D. P. Carter
Ick
M. W. Parrott
Marvin Parrott
Beaver Falls
Frank Miller
Gail
Edna Clark
Borden- Garza County
W. H. Clark
Lick Skillet
J. Wright Mooar
Mooar
Bull Creek
Jimmie Wright
R. E. Maxey
Herbert Terrall
Gotham
PEN
J. L. Scrivner
Winchell
Mrs. Kinser
Beltone
J. R. Jordan
Keith Franklin
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