Obituary Listing

Jun 17, 2000

HALE CENTER - Funeral services for Frances W. Laney, 78, of Hale Center, TX, were held at 2 p.m. Monday, June 19, 2000, at First United Methodist Church of Hale Center with the Rev. John Erwin, pastor of First United Methodist Church of Stamford, officiating. Burial followed in the Hale Center Cemetery under the direction of Abell Funeral Home of...

Feb 23, 1998

Services for Shane Cunningham were held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, February 26, 1998, in the Abernathy First Baptist Church with the Rev. Mike Wilcox, pastor, and the Rev. Dennis Teeters, officiating.

Burial followed in the Littlefield Memorial Park, Littlefield, TX, under the direction of Abell Funeral Home.

Shane died Monday, Feb. 23, 1998.

He was born July 3, 1962, in Littlefield to Bobby and...

Sep 24, 1996

Funeral mass for Stella Maria Vargas, 67, of Hale Center, TX, was held 2:00 pm Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at St. Theresa's Catholic Church with Rev. John Smith officiating. Burial followed in the Hale Center Cemetery under the direction of Abell Funeral Home and Flower Shop of Hale Center, TX. Rosary services were set for 7:30, Tuesday evening, September 29,...

Feb 9, 1996

Services for Lyman Abell, 73, of Ralls, TX, were held Monday, February 12, 1996, at the First United Methodist Church in Ralls with Rev. Hank Scott and Ron Colwell officiating. Burial followed in the Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Abell Funeral Home of Abernathy, TX. Mr. Abell died February 9, 1996, while vacationing in Zapata, TX. He was born...

Aug 14, 1994

Services for Bob Rogers, of Abernathy, TX, will be held Tuesday, August 16, 1994, in the Abernathy First Baptist Church with Rev. E. C. Chron, Rev. Gary Martin and Rev. Hollis Shewmake, officiating. Burial will follow in the Abernathy Cemetery under the direction of Abell Funeral Home of Abernathy, TX. Mr. Rogers was employed by Hancock Terracing Company, Lubbock, TX,...

Jun 19, 1992

Graveside services for Virginia Matthews, 81, were held at 10:00 am, Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at Parklawn Memorial Gardens in Plainview, TX with Randy Butler officiating. Services were under the direction of Freeman-Abell Funeral Home of Hale Center, TX. Mrs. Matthews died July 21, 2003 at Bender Terrace Nursing Home in Lubbock, TX. She was born on November 5, 1921...

Nov 3, 1988

Services for Eva Mae (Billie) Ferguson, 94, of Hale Center, TX, were held at 2:00 pm Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in the First Baptist Church in Hale Center, TX with Dr. Carrol Green officiating. Burial followed in the Hale Center Cemetery under the direction of Abell Funeral Home and Flower Shop of Hale Center, TX. There was a family visitation...

Mar 3, 1983

Graveside services for Burnie Hardin, 98, were held at 2:00 pm Saturday, May 30, 2009, in the Abernathy Cemetery with Rev. Brian Brownlow of Abernathy First United Methodist Church officiating. Visitation was held prior to services at Abell Funeral Home in Abernathy. Mrs. Hardin was born January 29, 1911 in Hale County, TX. She died Thursday, May 28, 2009, in...

Jan 9, 1983

Edith Dove Seiber was born on February 12, 1916 in Lewis County Tennessee. She was one of ten children, five boys and five girls. The family came to Texas in 1925 in a covered wagon and stopped in Keller, TX, then moved to Hill County and she went to school in Blum, TX. She married Austin James Keenum on July...

Nov 26, 1974

Joan Roberson Douglas,81, of Lubbock, TX, known by her family and close friends as "Jodie", died peacefully on February 17, 2007 in Lubbock, Texas following a brief illness. Joan was born on April 5, 1925 in Petersburg, Texas. She was the 1948 South Plains Maid of Cotton. She married her beloved late husband, Jack Douglas, on January 7, 1950 and...

Nadine Boyd Rogers began her life on October 25, 1928 in Tahoka, TX, being born to L. B. and Kate Grace (Mauldin) Boyd, in Texas. She was a graduate of Roby High School, Roby, TX, marrying Bob Rogers, on February 11, 1950 in Lubbock, TX. To this union was born a son and three daughters. The Rogers family moved to...

Rosary for Bertha Herrera De Gonzalez, 87, of New Deal, TX, were recited at 8:00 pm Thursday evening at St. Isidore Catholic Church. Funeral Mass was celebrated in the same church on Friday, February 2, 2007, with Rev. Michael O'Dwyer officiating. Burial followed services in the Abernathy Cemetery under the direction of Abell Funeral Home of Abernathy, TX. She was...

Memorial services for Clysta Joann Wagner, 72, of Lubbock, TX, were held at 1:00 pm Thursday, February 1, 2007, in Green Lawn Church of Christ in Lubbock, TX. Cremation was under the direction of Abell Funeral Home of Abernathy, TX. She was born July 21, 1934 in Lynn County, TX. She married Barney Beeland and Dewey Wagner, both of whom...

Rosary for Urcenia (Lucenia) Olivas Robles, of Abernathy, TX, were recited at 7:00 pm Sunday, December 12, 2004, in St. Isidore Catholic Church with Rev. Rene Perez, pastor officiating. Funeral Mass was celebrated at 10:00 am Monday, December 13, 2004, in the same church with the same officiant. Burial followed in the Abernathy Cemetery under the direction of Abell Funeral...

Orrin Wendell Tooker, age 81, of Abernathy, TX, left this life on Friday, September 16, 2011 in Lubbock, TX. He was born on May 7, 1930 in Abernathy to Gerthel Lowery Tooker and Orrin Albert (O. A.) Tooker. He grew up on the family farm near Lakeview, TX, and graduated from Abernathy High School and Texas Tech University. Orrin had...

Billie Jean Strawn Spruiell went to meet her Lord and Savior on Friday, March 6, 2009. She was born to Herbert and Irene Winter Strawn in Lamesa, TX on April 18, 1927. Billie Jean met the love of her life, W. G. Spruiell, while attending Lamesa Church of the Nazarene. They dated for 2 years and married on June 1,...

Sue Johnson Chesshir of Floydada, TX, after fighting a short but courageous battle with cancer, went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Friday, May 25, 2007. Sue was born in Luxora, Arkansas to Doc and Juanita Boleyn on March 27, 1940. In 1948 her loving parents, Dewitt Talmage and Eula Mae, (Daddy Johnson and Momma Johnson), brought her...

Frank Leon Bartlett was born January 1, 1923 at Hollis, OK, to Lela and Hiram Bartlett. He attended public school at Halsmith, La Casa, and graduated Valedictorian at Westview. Frank was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He served from 1943-1945, mainly in Europe, earning 5 battle stars. In 1948 he graduated from Oklahoma A & M in...

Funeral services for Lorene Ethel Cure Stewart Jefferies, 91, of Hale Center, TX, were held at 10:00 am, Monday, November 21, 2005, in First United Methodist Church of Hale Center, with the Rev. Jimmy Cameron officiating. Internment followed in the Plainview Memorial Park under the direction of Freeman-Abell Funeral Home of Hale Center. Mrs. Jefferies went to meet her Lord...

Rosary and Funeral Mass was held for Rene M. Gomez, 54, of Hale Center, TX, on Wednesday, September 25, 2013, at St. Theresa's Catholic Church.