Obituaries

Johnnie Mcbride

Apr 1, 2011

Johnnie Joe McBride, 81, passed away Friday, April 01, 2011 at his home in Abilene. Funeral service will be at 10:30 AM on Monday, April 4, 2011 at Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Visitation for family and friends is Sunday, April 3, 2011 from 5:00 7:00 PM. Johnnie was born on April 1, 1930, in Oplin,...

Gaines Shults

Mar 29, 2011

Gaines Wiley Shults was born February 5, 1915 in Rising Star, Texas to Wade Whitehead Shults and Mattie Barnes Shults. He married his wife, Bonnie Jean Milstead on March 19, 1955 In Buffalo Gap and they enjoyed 56 years of marriage. In June of 1959, Gaines and Bonnie moved to the San Luis Valley in Colorado to avoid a...

Ssang Harper

Mar 28, 2011

Ssang Sun Harper, 73, passed away Monday, March 28, 2011 in Abilene. Her funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, March 30th at the International Baptist Church, 602 Palm Street. Visitation is from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on Tuesday at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 HWY 277 South. Ssang was born in Korea on December 15, 1937...

L. Robbins

Mar 26, 2011

L. Dee Deebo Robbins, 74, passed away Saturday, March 26, 2011 in Abilene. Visitation will be from 6 till 8 PM, Monday, March 28, 2011 at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Funeral service will be 2:00 PM, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, officiated by Reverend R. D. Childress. Deebo was born in...

Alneer Mcfadden

Mar 24, 2011

Alneer Mac McFadden, 88, passed away, Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Abilene. A graveside service will be held at 10:00 AM on Saturday in the Garden of Peace at Elmwood Memorial Park under the direction of Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 HWY 277 South. Mr. McFadden was born on November 22, 1922 in Amarillo the son of Alneer McFadden Sr....

Doris Briley

Mar 20, 2011

Doris Syl Briley, 80, passed away Sunday, March 20, 2011 in Abilene. Visitation for family and friends will be Tuesday, March 22, 2011 from 6 till 8 PM at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Her funeral service will be at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Doris was born March 12,...

Josiah Brigham

Mar 18, 2011

Josiah Keith Brigham, beloved son of Bryan Keith Brigham and Olivia Marta Brigham, was born and went to be with Jesus on March 18, 2011 at 2:08 PM. He is loved and missed greatly by grandparents Richard and Ellen Brigham, Gary and Diana Fambro, and Tamas and Klara Lility uncles and aunts Kevin Brigham, David Brigham, and Robert and...

William Bruner

Mar 18, 2011

William Bill Bruner, 71, the greatest Upholsterer Furniture Artist left this earth to go upholsterer furniture in his eternal home on Friday, March 18th, 2011 after a short battle with throat cancer. Bill worked for Waldrops Furniture before opening his own business which he ran for over 27 years. A memorial service will be held at 10:00 AM on...

Ruby Brandon

Mar 16, 2011

Ruby Pearl Brandon was born September 23, 1922 in Bosque County, Texas to Jim and Molly Pearl. Ruby also had an older brother, Craig. Her middle name was Phelba, which was a favorite name of her mothers. They named her Ruby because that is what her father wanted. In Rubys younger years her family moved about frequently while working...

Pauline Roberts

Mar 14, 2011

Pauline Denzil Roberts, 94, passed away in her sleep in Arlington, Texas on March 14, 2011. Pauline was born in Vinson, Oklahoma on July 29, 1916 and grew up in Oklahoma City where she met her husband, G.C. Jerry Roberts. Pauline and Jerry were long time residents of Abilene where she and her husband raised five children. Pauline attended...

Randal Beason

Mar 14, 2011

Visitation Elmwood Funeral Home 5750 HWY 277 South Abilene, TX  79606 Thursday, March 17, 2011 6 till 8 PM Service Graveside Funeral Service Hawley Cemetery Hwy 227 Hawley, TX  79525 Friday, March 18, 2011 2:00 PM Cemetery Hawley Cemetery HWY 277 Hawley, TX  79525

Gladys Freeman

Mar 11, 2011

Gladys Elzada Thornton Freeman, 96, passed away March 11, 2011, in Abilene. Visitation will be Monday, March 14, 2011, from 6 till 8 PM at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Funeral service will be 10:00 AM, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Elzada was born April 20, 1914, to Glenn E. Mage and...

Ruth Mccoy

Mar 8, 2011

Ruth Howard McCoy, 86, went to be with the Lord on March 8, 2011. She was born on April 3, 1924 in Noodle, Texas to Clarence Howard and Armenta Wheeler Howard. Orphaned at the age of eight, she and her siblings, Dorothy May, Ethel, Anne, and Clyde, were raised at Boles Home in Quinlin, Texas. Ruth married Raymond Anderson...

Cecilio Garza

Mar 8, 2011

Cecilio Aguilar Garza passed away at the age of 89, Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at home with his family in Abilene, Texas. Cecilio served his country as a rifleman in the 20th Armored Infantry of the United States Army from 1942 to 1945. He married Maria Ozuna of Boerne, TX in 1942 and they settled in Abilene to start...

Jacqueline Browning

Mar 1, 2011

Jacqueline Butler Browning, 69, passed away Wednesday, March 1, 2011 at Hendrick Hospital in Abilene. Her funeral service with Pastor Clyde Kieschnick officiating will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday, March 4th at Zion Lutheran Church, 2801 Antilley RD with burial following in Elmwood Memorial Park. Jacqueline was born in Dallas, Texas to Jack Cole Butler and Thelma...

Charles Ross

Mar 1, 2011

Charles Francis Ross, 95, was born on June 11, 1915 in Viola, Kansas and died March 1, 2011 in Abilene, Texas. He was a veteran of the Navy serving in WWII and also a member of the University Church of Christ. He married R. Vivian Farley in December, 1941 and after her death he married Marjorie Beeman in October,...

Ruth Polk

Feb 28, 2011

Ruth Polk, 87, passed away Monday, February 28, 2011 in Abilene. A graveside service will be held at 11:00 AM Saturday, March 2, 2011 in the Garden of Good Shepherd at Elmwood Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on Friday at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 HWY 277 South. Ruth was born on May 15, 1923....

Vernell Esh

Feb 24, 2011

Vernell Yancy Esh was born on July 3, 1930. She departed this world to be with her Heavenly Father on February 24, 2011. Vernell was named Vella Vernell Yancy for her mother Vella Yancy. She was known as Vernell to all her friends and family. Her mother, Vella, and her father, Emmitt Yancy, preceded her to Heaven. She was...

Marveletta Hudspeth

Feb 24, 2011

Service Graveside Service Elmwood Memorial Park 5750 HWY 277 South Abilene, TX  79606 Tuesday, March 1, 2011 1:00 PM Cemetery Elmwood Memorial Park 5750 HWY 277 South Abilene, TX  79606

James Samya

Feb 23, 2011

James Sam Samya, 81, passed away Wednesday, February 23, 2011 in Abilene. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Thursday at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 HWY 277 South. A graveside service will be held at 3:00 PM on Friday in Elmwood Memorial Park. Sam retired from the Air Force after 22 years of service and later retired...