Temple, Texas Obituaries
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Velma Schmidt
April 29, 2011
Velma Louise Evans Schmidt of Temple, Texas peacefully passed away on April 29,2011. Funeral Services will be held at Harper Talasek funeral home May 4th at 3:00 PM Burial to follow at Hillcrest Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 68 p.m. May 3rd. Mrs. Schmidt was born in Falls County near Reagan, Texas to Jake and Rosie Evans. She...
Juanita Richards
April 28, 2011
Juanita Richards, 83, of Temple passed away Thursday, April 28, 2011 at her home. Visitation will be 68 p.m., Sunday, May 1, 2011 at HarperTalasek Funeral Home in Temple. Mrs. Richards was born May 26, 1927 to William F. and Florence Brown Garner in Heidenheimer. She graduated Academy High School in the class of 1944. She was married 66...
Bobby Southerland
April 21, 2011
Bobby G. Bob Southerland, 78, of Temple died Thursday, April 21, 2011 in a local hospital. He was born December 24, 1932 near Pendleton to Reuben Hugh and Annie Laura Bradshaw Southerland. He was a descendant of pioneer Bell County families. He attended Pendleton Elementary School, Troy High School and Temple Junior College. Bob married Margaret Louise Baird, December...
Harriett Smedley
April 21, 2011
Harriett Mickey Smedley, 86, of Belton passed away, Thursday, April 21, 2011 at a local hospital. No services are planned at this time. The family will conduct a private family service at a later date. Mrs. Smedley was born October 15, 1924 to Harry and Dorothy Maben Hummell in Washington, D.C. She served in the U S Air Force...
Ruby Fabro
April 20, 2011
Ruby Fay Early Fabro, 81, of Temple passed away Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at a local hospital. She was born February 20, 1930 to James Clarence and Ola Mae Odell Early in Eddy. She grew up in the Eddy, Troy, Rogers, Oscar and Temple area. Fay married Leonard Fabro on May 12, 1947 in Ashland, Wisconsin where they lived...
Betty Talasek
April 18, 2011
Betty Frances Talasek, 81, of Temple died Monday, April 18, 2011 at her residence. Visitation will be 68 p.m. Thursday at HarperTalasek Funeral Home in Temple. Graveside service will be 10:00 a.m., Friday at Bellwood Memorial Park in Temple. Betty was born October 29, 1929 to James Andrew and Bludvie Lee Phillips Johnson in LaGrange, Georgia. She married Dan...
Jean Garner
April 17, 2011
Jean Garner, 86 of Temple, devoted wife, mother, motherin law, grandmother, greatgrandmother and a friend to all she met, peacefully passed away Sunday evening, April 17, 2011 in a Temple hospital. Jean was born on October 28, 1924 to Dennis and Eunice Ramsey in Valdasta, Texas. On May 24, 1945, she married Lloyd Garner in Neosho, Missouri. They moved...
Joe Billingsley
April 17, 2011
Joe L. Billingsley, 82, formerly of Fort Worth, passed away on April 17, 2011. At the time of his death, Joe was a resident of Salado where he had resided for seventeen years. Joe was born in Fort Worth on April 9, 1929. His parents were William Walter and Edna Billingsley. He had 10 siblings, all of whom predeceased...
Imogene Dragoo
April 13, 2011
Mrs. Dragoo passed away on Wednesday evening while getting the best healthcare possible through Scott White Hospitals Hospice Program in conjunction with the quality services of Westside Pharmacy. Mrs. Dragoo was a native Texas country girl who was originally married to a hometown Temple Hero Fireman for 31 years Jasper E. Dragoo, who passed away before her. Fifteen years...
Gina Towery
April 9, 2011
Gina Towery Tina Stokes Temple, born November 14th 1971 in Tulsa, Ok, to the late Jaquelyn Howe Towery and Jim Towery, passed away April 9th, 2011 at a local Temple hospital. Mrs. Towery is survived by her father, Jim Towery of Tulsa , husband, Richie Stokes of Temple, her children all of Temple, Mikaela, Jordan, Piper and Jacquelyn and...
Garland Shell
April 5, 2011
G. Newman Shell was born January 8, 1921 to Rev. Garland Shell and Bessie Newman Shell, in Childress, Texas. He attended Trinity University where he graduated in 1942. That same year he married Ruth Estelle Manton of Dallas with whom he shared 61 years of loving companionship until her death in 2003. In 2004 he married Beverly Kihneman Graves...
Paulina Kopecky
March 28, 2011
Paulina PollyRosie Kopecky, 96, of Holland, Texas died Monday evening, March 28th at her home. Paulina was born on June 4, 1914 in Weimar, Texas, the oldest of five children born to Louisa Janecka and Emil Kubenka. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Michaels Catholic Church in Weimar, Texas. As a young woman she was a nanny for...
Mary Arms
March 26, 2011
Mary Eddie Arms, 90, of Proctor, passed away Saturday, March 26, 2011 in a Stephenville hospital. A memorial service will be held 2:00 p.m., Saturday, April 2, 2011 at First Baptist Church in Proctor. Mary Eddie was born May 14, 1920 to Thomas Edward and Sally Laverney Golden Thornton in Gorman, Texas. On February 20, 1937 she married Robert...
Jewell Jones
March 26, 2011
Jewell Mae Jones, Born October 12,1916 Died March 26, 2011, in a Houston hospital. She was preceded in death by her parents Art Ellen Jones and brothers Bryant, and Carl Jones. She has survived by her dog Brady and Nieces, Linda Morgan and Deborah Combs. She will be truly missed by all that knew her. Graveside Services will be...
Frank Sodek Sr.
March 26, 2011
Frank L. Sodek Sr., 76 of Rogers, was born November 06, 1934 in Ratibor, TX to the late Anton J Sodek and Matilda Naiver Sodek. He graduated Belton High School in 1953. On August 14, 1954 Frank married Margie Jarolik Sodek.He was the owner of Quality Tile in Temple for 25 years. Frank was a member of St .Matthews...
Mary Miller
March 22, 2011
Mary Lou Miller of Troy died Monday, March 21 surrounded by family and friends at Park Place Manor Nursing Home in Belton. She was born January 4, 1927 in Waco, Texas. Miss Miller was preceded in death by her parents Rayburn and Bess Miller of Troy and her brother Pat Miller and his wife Annelle. She is survived by...
Charles Valdez, Jr.
March 22, 2011
Retired 1SG Charles T. Chuck Valdez, Jr., 53, of Killeen died Tuesday, March 22, 2011 in a local hospital. Visitation will be 8 am 12 noon , Friday, March 25, 2011 with service following 12:00 pm noon at HarperTalasek Funeral Home in Temple. Burial with full military honors will be 3 pm in Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in...
Ethel Scogsburg
March 20, 2011
Ethel Mae Scogsburg, 89 of Lexington, passed away Sunday, March 20, 2011 in a Sugarland hospital. Graveside services will be 11:00am Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at Hillcrest Cemetery with Rev. Roy Parker officiating. Ethel Scogsburg was born July 13, 1921 in Temple, Texas. During World War II, she worked for Hughes Aircraft. She also worked as a homemaker. Mrs....
Raymond Wigley
March 20, 2011
Raymond Ray Earl Wigley, 61 of Temple, passed away Sunday, March 20, 2011 in a local nursing facility. Funeral service will be 10:00am, Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ in Belton with Rev. Arthur Washburn officiating. Burial will follow in Cedar Valley Cemetery in Salado. Raymond Wigley was born September 17, 1949 to Earnest...
Beatrice Fuller
March 16, 2011
Beatrice Fuller, 91, of Temple died Wednesday, March 16, 2011 in a local hospital. No visitation is planned. A graveside service will be 11:00 a.m., Monday, March 21, 2011 in Bellwood Memorial Park in Temple. Beatrice was born May 7, 1919 to John Joseph and Beatrice Bradley Boyne in Chicago, Illinois. She married Douglas Fuller in Arizona in 1941....
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