Obituaries

Obituaries

Mary M Smith

Mary M Smith

Nov 1, 2018

Mary M Smith was born November 6, 1961 in Bellevue, Ohio to parents Isidore and Mary (Feld) Shank. She passed away November 1, 2018 in Carrollton, Texas. Mary was born in northern Ohio as the eldest of 6 siblings. She graduated in May 1980 from Tiffin Calvert Catholic High School. In May 1985, she married her husband, Norm, and...

Roy T Lenning

Roy T Lenning

Oct 28, 2018

Roy Terry Lenning was born April 18, 1956 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to parents Sherman Roy and Lela Mae (Embree) Lenning. Roy passed away October 28, 2018 In Richardson, Texas. Roy was a very quiet, humble man who loved the Lord first in all things. He was a hardworking, very professional individual that always held a business-related career. More...

Marilyn Thomas Rickard

Marilyn Thomas Rickard

Oct 26, 2018

Marilyn Thomas Rickard was born in Clinton, Iowa on December 14, 1927 to Bert L. Thomas and Lillian (Boden) Thomas. She passed away in Carrollton, Texas on October 26, 2018. Marilyn grew up in Clinton, Iowa along with her sister Phyllis and younger siblings Robert, Russell, and Susan. After graduating from Clinton High School in 1945, Marilyn and Phyllis...

Timothy (Tim) Wayne Dalzell

Timothy (Tim) Wayne Dalzell

Oct 25, 2018

Timothy Wayne Dalzell, of Richardson, Texas, went to be with the Lord, Thursday October 25, 2018, at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Plano, Texas. The son of Floyd W. and Pearl G. Trontvet, he was born on November 28, 1949 in Warren, Minnesota.

At the young age of 4, he accepted Jesus Christ...

Jeanne Elizabeth Grissom

Jeanne Elizabeth Grissom

Oct 19, 2018

Jeanne Elizabeth (Jennings) Grissom, 71, reached the end of her long battle with Parkinson’s disease on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. She was born in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, on March 17, 1947, to James A. Jennings Jr. and Betty Jean Tripp. Since 1981, Jeanne lived in Plano, Texas, where she met Burke Asher, to whom she was married for the last...

Sandra (Sandi) Lee Church

Sandra (Sandi) Lee Church

Oct 16, 2018

Sandra Lee Roth (Church) was born on June 09, 1941 to Lieutenant Colonel Michael Roth and Mabel Roth. She passed away October 16, 2018. Sandra grew up on military bases throughout the United States.  Because she was the Lt. Colonel’s daughter she was often referred to as Master Sergeant of the kids.   Incidentally, this military base living is...

Suzette Odom

Suzette Odom

Oct 14, 2018

Suzette (Ivan) Odom was born May 26, 1948 in Luling, Texas to parents Harold and Roy Jean (Denton) Ivan. She passed away October 14, 2018 in Plano, Texas. She is survived by her husband Scott Odom, sons; Tim Kershaw and Michael Vaughan, grandchildren; Landen, Lauren, Logen and Landry Kershaw, Logan, Peyton and Lyla Vaughan, sisters; Sherry Slate and her...

Howard (Lew) Lewis Schaeffer

Howard (Lew) Lewis Schaeffer

Oct 11, 2018

Howard Lewis “Lew” Schaeffer was born on September 2, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to William Schaeffer and Mary Elizabeth Lewis. He died on October 11, 2018 in McKinney, Texas.

After graduating from high school, Lew entered the Army Air Corps at age 18. During WWII he served in the Pacific theater as a B-29 tail gunner. Lew...

Bernard (Bernie) L. Odell

Bernard (Bernie) L. Odell

Oct 6, 2018

Bernard (Bernie) L Odell, 77, passed away peacefully on October 6, 2018, in Plano TX. Bernie was born on October 27, 1940, in Thunder Hawk, South Dakota to William and Flossie (Summers) Odell. He was raised in Kansas City, Missouri and moved to Texas in 1980. Bernie was very proud that he started working at an early age to...

Lois Ann Steed

Lois Ann Steed

Oct 5, 2018

Lois Ann Steed, age 74, finished her journey peacefully on Thursday, October 4, 2018. From her birth in Clay Center, Kansas, on August 6, 1944 to her passing, Lois always nourished her friends and family with her kindness and selfless actions. She was committed to a greater good other than herself and embraced her faith in the Lord.

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John Henry Mooney

John Henry Mooney

Oct 5, 2018

John Henry Mooney was born January 19, 1937 in Dryden, Texas to Monte Claire (McCain) and Henry Abram Mooney. He died peacefully at home on October 5, 2018 surrounded by his family. He was 81 years old. Being an Air Force ‘brat’, his family traveled all over the world. He started high school in Japan and his second year...

William Lonnie (Lon) Graham

William Lonnie (Lon) Graham

Oct 4, 2018

William Lonnie “Lon” Graham was born on December 28th1926 in Tyler, Texas to his mother Carrie Anice and father William Alexander Graham. Lon grew up on M road North of San Juan, Texas on the family farm. In his high school years Lon drove the school bus since their house was the last stop on the route. He left...

Brian Graham Luyt

Brian Graham Luyt

Sep 25, 2018

After a 7-month battle with pancreatic cancer, Brian Graham Luyt passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on September 25, 2018.

Brian was born June 30, 1945, in South Africa to Margaret Masson Luyt and Cicero Michael Luyt. The family immigrated to the United States when Brian was two years old and resided in Southern...

Carrie Lynne Thomas

Carrie Lynne Thomas

Sep 23, 2018

After a two year battle with breast cancer, Carrie left this earth peacefully on September 23, 2018. Carrie Lynne Thomas was born May 1, 1962 in Germany to Margaret Smith and Garren Hagemeier and spent most of her childhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She married Stan Thomas on January 9, 1981 and they started their life together outside of...

Neal Curtis Harsh

Neal Curtis Harsh

Sep 23, 2018

Neal Curtis Harsh was born December 12, 1943 in Connersville, Indiana to parents Gail and Murriel (Ailes) Harsh. Neal Harsh grew up on the family farm in Connersville, Indiana. He was milking cows at 5 years old and working the paper route by 10 years of age. He graduated from Connersville High School in 1962 and continued his education...

Andre A Begin

Andre A Begin

Sep 22, 2018

Andre A Begin was born April 15, 1948 in Mont-Joli, Quebec Canada to parents Adrien and Germaine (Berube) Begin. He grew up in many parts of Canada because his father was in the Air Force. Andre’s chosen career was in the I.T. field in data modeling. He worked in this industry for 40 years and traveled around the world...

Anthony "Bud" O'Neil Croak. Jr.

Anthony "Bud" O'Neil Croak. Jr.

Sep 20, 2018

On October 27, 1932, Dad was born to Anthony O’Neil Croak and Virginia Bergs Croak in St. Louis, MO.

Known as Buddy or Bud, he attended high school at St. Louis University HS, graduating in 1950. His first year in college took him to Denver to attend Regis College. Already 6’3”, he played center for the basketball...

Olivia Derczi

Olivia Derczi

Sep 19, 2018

Olivia Derczi was born on March 6, 1915 in Rosia Montana, Romania, to Iosif Miheles a miner and Otilia stay-home-mom raising 9 children. Olivia passed away on Wednesday September 19, 2018 at her family home in Plano, Texas. Olivia was 103 years old and 6 months. When Olivia was 12 years old, she started her first job working as...

Mildred (Millie) Finley

Mildred (Millie) Finley

Sep 19, 2018

Mildred “Millie” Mlinarsky Finley was born in Old Forge, Pennsylvania on September 28, 1933. She was the only child of William O. and Violet Mlinarski. Millie graduated from Taylor High School in Taylor, Pennsylvania, where she was captain of the cheerleaders. In 1956, she graduated from Allentown Hospital nursing school, in Pennsylvania.

Millie married James “Jim” Otis...

James (Jim) Otis Finley

James (Jim) Otis Finley

Sep 15, 2018

James Otis Finley was born September 5, 1935 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was the fourth of six sons of David Earle Finley and Gladys (Sutherland) Finley. He graduated in 1955 from the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades as a brick mason and worked as a mason and masonry foreman for John F Bubel Inc. for the next 18...