Obituaries

Obituaries

James Manner

James Manner

Dec 7, 2012

James Robert Manner, son of Robert James Manner & wife Marjorie was born on April 24, 1938 at Home, Pennsylvania. Jim finished High School at Punxsutawney High School. He was honorably discharged with the rank of Corporal of the Pennsylvania National Guard in May 1958. After 34 years with BOC Compressed Gases, Jim retired in October 2004 from his...

Thomas Wilson Hill

Thomas Wilson Hill

Nov 28, 2012

Thomas Wilson "Red" Hill was born June 11, 1918 in Henderson, Rusk County, Texas. He was the son of Thomas Jefferson Hill, who died before he was born, and Laura Claudine Shockley. In 1920 he and his mother moved to Dallas, where she married again in 1923 and his two sisters were born. While a teenager, he met Selma...

Wilford Delano Carrell

Wilford Delano Carrell

Nov 24, 2012

Wilford D. "Willie" Carrell, age 78 passed away Saturday November 24, 2012. At Clyde Cosper Texas State Veterans Home in Bonham, Texas after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. He was a life-long resident of Evansville, Indiana until moving to Texas in 2007. Willie is survived by his beloved wife Ruth A. (Nee Lilienkamp) Carrell of McKinney, Texas, daughter...

Eileen Anne Post

Eileen Anne Post

Nov 19, 2012

Eileen Anne Post was a friend to everyone she met; her kind heart will be missed by all who knew her. Eileen was born in Chicago in 1925 to parents John and Sally. She met her husband at her best friend Connie's going away party for her brother Bill prior to his deployment in World War II and their...

Sharon Sue Seitz

Sharon Sue Seitz

Nov 15, 2012

Sharon Seitz was born on February 1st, 1958 in Omaha, Nebraska to Dolores and Richard Holling. She grew up in Omaha with her two younger siblings, Gail Patsos and Dale Holling. Sharon enrolled at Kansas State University where she studied in the college of Home Economics, concentrating in Consumer Affairs, hoping to help others. While at Kansas State, Sharon...

Mitzi May

Mitzi May

Nov 10, 2012

Mitzi was born in Lubbock, Texas on August 12, 1949, the second daughter of Wanda and Judd Estep. She moved to Plano in 1957 and attended Mendenhall Elementary in Plano, graduating from Plano High School in 1967. She and her sister, Charlotte, were active in the First Baptist Church of Plano and the Plano Wildcats Marching Band. After high...

Philip Edward George

Philip Edward George

Nov 5, 2012

Philip lived his life to the fullest. He was selfless. He was always a shoulder for his friends to lean on or cry on, and a best buddy to laugh with and get into mischief with. Philip had big dreams and talked of them often with his family and with his friends. Sometimes his talks would take place in...

Lisa Rae Cox

Lisa Rae Cox

Nov 4, 2012

Lisa will have a visitation at Allen Family Funeral Options 2120 W. Spring Creek Pkwy Plano, Texas 75023 on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Lisa is survived by husband Adam Cox, sons Geordon Cox and Patrick Hesser, granddaughter Kaylee, brothers Ted and Charlie Smith, mother and father Luther and Barbara Smith and nephew Travis Smith....

Roy Joseph (Rj) Stevens

Roy Joseph (Rj) Stevens

Oct 20, 2012

Roy Joseph Stevens, Sr., known as R.J., Grandpa and Papa J., age 85 from Kemp, Texas passed from this life on October 20, 2012 in Dallas, Texas. He was born in Rosenberg, Texas on August 5, 1927 to M. Roy and Hallie Stevens. He married Pauline McKinney from West Columbia, Texas on August 2, 1947 and in August, they...

Leah Stonebarger

Leah Stonebarger

Oct 6, 2012

Leah Jan Hirtzel Stonebarger was born in Abilene, Texas March 29th, 1970 and died October 6th, 2012. She graduated from Abilene High in 1988, 50 years after her Grandfather George Truett Black. She married Tony Stonebarger on May 16th, 1992 after meeting on a blind date a year earlier. Together they have 2 boys, Jake born September 9, 1993...

Kevin Gerald Rockford

Kevin Gerald Rockford

Sep 21, 2012

Kevin, born in 1930, was a first generation American, and the middle son of Irish Catholic parents. His father, Thomas Rockford, was from County Clare Ireland, and his mother, Anne McKenny, was from County Leitrim, Ireland. He grew up in Detroit surrounded by an extended Irish family, and served 9 years in the United States Air Force, after which...

Deidre Gilbert

Deidre Gilbert

Sep 19, 2012

Surrounded by her loving family, it is with sorrow that we announce the passing of Deidre Holder (Lamb) Gilbert, wife of Howard Cobb Gilbert of Parker, Texas. Deidre was born in Stamford, Connecticut on May 28, 1938, the daughter of Charles Murray Lamb and Marion Porter Lamb. Deidre is survived by her loving husband of 52 years, Howard Cobb...

Frank Gaynor

Frank Gaynor

Sep 18, 2012

Paul Francis Gaynor, known to us as "Frank," was raised by parents Paul and Mary Jane in Northern Virginia, along with his big brother, Duncan. Like typical siblings will do, they played together and knew each other's irritation buttons, which they exercised with skill. In 1957, the family took a foray into Europe with home base in Frankfurt, Germany....

Mary Blaskovich

Mary Blaskovich

Sep 18, 2012

Stubborn, cantankerous, and independent, Mary Drennen Blaskovich lived a full life of over 91 years. Mary was born an only child in Osceola, Iowa to Lester and Lenora Drennen. She was raised in Des Moines, Iowa near the corner of 38th Street and Cottage Grove. She and her husband William Charles Blaskovich raised a family in a house on...

Steve Dick

Steve Dick

Sep 13, 2012

Our Stories of Steve Dick-Husband, Father and Friend My Husband - By Mary Ellen Dick Steve came into my life in the year 1981. I met this amazing man on a country and western dance floor called "Cowboys" in Wichita Falls, Texas. We had some great spins around the floor that led to our wedding November 20, 1982. A...

Sharyn Schweder

Sharyn Schweder

Sep 12, 2012

Sharyn Joann Schweder was born September 12, 1948 to Charles and Jessie Sahm and left this life on September 12, 2012. She loved her family deeply and treasured her friends greatlyinvesting much prayer time for each of themeven in her times of sickness and weakness. She loved to laugh, make others laugh, and enjoyed life along the way. She...

Juanita Mae Langenegger

Juanita Mae Langenegger

Sep 11, 2012

Nita Langenegger passed away peacefully in her sleep at the age of 85 at her home in Dallas, Texas. A memorial service will be held at Christ United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas at 2:00 PM on Monday, October 1. Nita was born in Miami, Florida to parents Tivis Wade Devenport and Willie Bell Blalock. On November 6, 1944,...

Penelopi Grendas

Penelopi Grendas

Sep 7, 2012

Loving mother and wife, Penelopi Dimoulakis Grendas, born October 20, 1945 to Dimitrios and Efstathia Dimoulakis. She died peacefully on September 7, 2012 with all her family by her side. Penelopi was born and raised in Agia Anna, Evia, Greece. She came to America in July of 1975 to be with her brother in Dallas, Texas. She married Christos...

Allison Suzanne Arnett

Allison Suzanne Arnett

Sep 7, 2012

Allison Suzanne "Allie" Arnett was born on February 13, 1974 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado to parents Francis Gary and Rebecca Suzanne Lemmons. She passed away on September 7, 2012. Allie is survived by her husband Scott Arnett, children Bailey Arnett, Kyley Arnett, Isabelle Arnett and Gavin Arnett, parents Gary and Sue Lemmons, siblings Christine Bracken and Amy Cluff and...

Craig Royse Smith

Craig Royse Smith

Sep 6, 2012

Craig R. Smith 51, of Frisco passed away at 10:00 p.m. Thursday September 6, 2012 at his home surrounded by friends and family. He was born on April 28th, 1961 in Rolla, Missouri to parents James R. and Linda M. (Roy) Smith. Craig received his computer science degree at the University of Missouri at Rolla. He later earned his...