Obituaries

Mina Huff

Oct 12, 2017

Mina L. Fields Huff, 81, of Abilene, TX, has gone home to be with the Lord on Thursday October 12th, 2017 at Abilene Regional Medical Center. A home going celebration will be held Friday, October 20, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at Macedonia Baptist Church, 608 Nth 7th St., Abilene, TX. Burial will follow in the Abilene City Cemetery. Visitation...

Violet Frazier

Oct 10, 2017

Violet Hart Frazier, 95, passed away on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at her home on Tanglewood Drive, Abilene, Texas. Funeral services will be 1:00 Pm, October 17, 2017 at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy. 277 South, Abilene, Texas. Graveside will take place 3:00PM, October 17, 2017 at Corinth Cemetery located between Cisco and Eastland, Texas, on County Road 154....

Sharon St.Clair

Oct 9, 2017

Sharon Bush St.Clair, 72, of Abilene, Texas, passed away on October 9, 2017. Sharon was born in Fort Worth, Texas to Jesse and Jean Bush on August 5, 1945. Graduating from Pecos High School in 1963, she attended Angelo State University, receiving her R.N. Degree from Shannon School of Nursing. She continued her studies at The University of Texas...

Richard Wilkinson

Oct 6, 2017

Richard Michael Wilkinson, 22, passed away Friday, October 6, 2017. Visitation will be 6:00- 8:00 PM , Monday, October 9, 2017 at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. A funeral service will be held 2:00 PM Tuesday, October 10, 2017 in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Richard was born May 19, 1995 in Abilene, Tx. He attended Wylie...

Rebecca Young

Oct 5, 2017

Rebecca Ann Liddell Young, 78, passed away Thursday. A graveside service will be 1:00 PM Saturday, October 14, 2017 at Elmwood Memorial Park, 5750 Hwy 277 South.

Service Graveside Service Elmwood Memorial Park 5750 HWY 277 South Abilene, TX  79606 Saturday, October 14, 2017 1:00 PM

Refugio Patiño

Oct 1, 2017

Refugio (Kooko, Kooke) Patiño, 81, of Abilene, Tx passed away after a long illness, surrounded by his wife and family Sunday, October 1, 2017. Visitation will begin at 6:00 PM followed by a prayer service/rosary beginning at 7:00 PM, Thursday, October 5, 2017 at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 S. A funeral mass will be 10:00 AM Friday...

Peggy Watkins

Sep 29, 2017

Peggy D Watkins, 78, passed away Friday, September 29, 2017 in Abilene. Visitation will be Monday, October 2, 2017 from 6:00 till 8:00 PM at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Funeral service will be 2:00 PM, Tuesday in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow the service in Elmwood Memorial Park. Peggy was born to parents,...

Earnest Hopper

Sep 28, 2017

Earnest O "Boots" Hopper, 87 passed away Friday September 28, 2017. His funeral service will be 2:00 PM Saturday, October 7, 2017 in the Elmwood Funeral Chapel, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Interment will follow the service in Elmwood Memorial Park. He attended Kirkland High School before entering into the United States Army. He meet the love of his life...

Billie Orbison

Sep 28, 2017

Sue Orbison departed this earth to meet her Lord at 5:05 a.m. Thursday, the 28th of September, 2017, in Mineola, Texas. She was 90 years of age and was a faithful Christian for all of her adult life. A funeral service will be 11:00 AM Saturday September 30, 2017 at Albany Church of Christ, 500 North Main. Interment will...

Willis Hart

Sep 26, 2017

Willis "Wid" D Hart, 92, of Abilene passed away Tuesday, September 26, 2017. Visitation will be 6:00 - 8:00 PM Friday, September 29, 2017, at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. A Funeral Service will be 2:00 PM, Saturday, September 30, 2017, at Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow the service in Elmwood Memorial Park. Born in...

Faye Clinton

Sep 25, 2017

Faye Clinton, 98, of Abilene passed away Monday, September 25, 2017. Visitation will be 6:00 - 8:00 PM Tuesday, September 26, 2017, at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. A Funeral Service will be 2:00 PM, Wednesday, September 27, 2017, at Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Rodney Watson officiating. Interment will follow the service in Elmwood Memorial...

Carol Saia

Sep 18, 2017

Carol Saia, 74, of Abilene passed away Monday, September 18, 2017. Visitation will be 9:00 - 10:30 AM Monday, September 25, 2017 at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. A Funeral Mass will be 11:00 AM, Monday, September 25, 2017 at Holy Family Catholic Church, 5410 Buffalo Gap Rd. Interment will be 2:00PM at Texas State Veterans Cemetery...

Roberta Newsome

Sep 16, 2017

Roberta Teston Newsome, 93, formerly of Abilene, died Saturday, September 16th, at Fountain View Assisted Living in Dallas, Texas. She was born March 11, 1924, in Hamby, Texas, one of eleven children of George and Virgie Howell Teston. She attended Captola High School and married John H. Newsome on December 4, 1942. They moved to Abilene in 1947, and...

Robert Saldana

Sep 13, 2017

Robert J. Saldana, 84, of Tye, Tx, passed away September 13, 2017. Visitation will begin at 6:00 PM followed by a rosary beginning at 7:00 PM, Thursday, September 14, 2017 at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. A funeral mass will be at 10:00 AM, Friday September 15, 2017 at Holy Family Catholic Church, 5410 Buffalo Gap Rd....

Michelle Smith

Aug 25, 2017

Michelle Smith, 55, of Abilene, TX, passed away August 25, 2017. Visitation will be 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. A funeral service will be 2:00 PM on Wednesday, August 30, 2017 in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow the service in Elmwood Memorial Park. Michelle...

John Newsome

Aug 23, 2017

John Hart Newsome, 94, formerly of Abilene, died Wednesday, August 23rd at Fountain View Assisted Living in Dallas, Texas. He was born September 16, 1922, in Pine Mills, Texas (Wood County), the youngest of six children of Hiram and Laura Pearl Weems Newsome. The family moved to west Texas in 1924. He attended Sweetwater High School and served in...

Bess Rubner

Aug 20, 2017

Bess Rubner, 88, of Abilene passed away Sunday, August 20, 2017. A Graveside service will be 2:00 PM, Wednesday, August 23, 2017 in Elmwood Memorial Park. Bess was born on March 28, 1929 in Enterprise, Alabama. She married the love of her life Chester Henry Rubner Jr. on November 26, 1953 in Greenville Mississippi. Bess spent her time volunteering...

Johanna Sturgill

Aug 17, 2017

Johanna M. Sturgill, 80, passed away August 17, 2017 at Wisteria Retirement Home, Legacy Lane. A memorial service will be 10:00 A.M on Monday, August 21, 2017 in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Johanna was born on July 23, 1937 in Ireland to Tommy Ivory and Jenny Carley of Ireland. She also had six sisters...

Mary Hughes

Aug 17, 2017

Mary Elizibeth Franklin Hughes, age 74, of Abilene, TX went home to be with the Lord at Hendrick Hospice Care on the 17th of August. Mary was born in Hamilton, Ohio on October 4, 1942 to Jessie May Coleman and Ferdinand Flood Butler. Mary will forever be remembered for the loving mother and wife who filled family and friends...

Ellie Kirk

Aug 16, 2017

Ellie Jo Grissom Kirk passed away on Wednesday August 16, 2017 at Hendrick Hospice Facility in Abilene, Texas. Graveside services will be held August 21, 2017 at 10:00 AM in Truby, Tx in the Kirk private cemetery. Elmwood Funeral Home will be providing burial services and Brother Jeff Fenwick will be conducting the graveside Eulogy. Ellie was born March...