Obituaries

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sep 9, 2018

Zach aka Z, was a precious boy in the Allen Texas community. Zach was born in Seattle Washington in 1999 and relocated to Allen when he was just 18 months old. He attended Boon Elementary, Erickson Junior High and graduated from Allen High School in May of 2017. Zach grew up playing baseball, basketball and his first love, football....

Sep 5, 2018

Jay L. Green was a wonderful man who was greatly loved, is deeply missed and will always be cherished. Our “Papaw”, as his grandchildren would call him, and “Jaybird” as he was called by his beloved wife, was an amazing husband, father and grandfather and was a teller of old stories and funny (oftentimes irreverent!) jokes like no other....

Sep 5, 2018

David left this current life on September 5, 2018 at the age of 84. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware on June 2, 1934 to Norman Leroy Sharp, Sr. and Beatrice Evelyn Missimer Sharp. He married Nancy Long in Delaware and they had two daughters, Barbara and Linda.

David was baptized as an infant in West Presbyterian...

Sep 3, 2018

John Robert Carmack, loving partner, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack on Monday, September 3rd at the age of 74. John was born April 13, 1944, in Glendale, California, to the late Robert “Bob” Marion and Dorothy Eloise Carmack. John grew up in Glendale and Eagle Rock, California. He attended...

Aug 30, 2018

Jim was born in Tulsa to E.F. “Bud” and Enola Carney and was raised in Oklahoma City. He attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta, before transferring to S.M.U. to graduate. In Dallas, he was a partner with his family in Carney Sunglass Co., and he traveled to France, Italy, Japan, and...

Aug 27, 2018

Connie (Conelia) Aston Rodgers, age 77, of Plano, Texas passed away peacefully, August 27, 2018, after a short illness. She was born in Corsicana, Texas, September 26, 1940 and lived her adult life in the Dallas area.

Always the life of the party, Connie was a fun-loving, witty and intelligent lady who loved people, tennis and gardening...

Aug 22, 2018

Stuart Earl Smith was born December 13, 1945 in England to parents Albert Earl (Major, US Army during World War II) and Iris Margaret Ashby. He was baptized March 3, 1946 in the Kettering Parish Church. He moved from England with parents and younger brother, Rodney, to New Jersey when he was 5 years old. His younger sister, Deborah,...

Aug 21, 2018

Jeanne Germaine (Caron) Albright, 94 years old, of Plano Texas, a devout Catholic, entered her next journey of life on August 21, 2018. She was born March 28, 1924 in East Taunton, Massachusetts to Rosanna and Jean Baptiste Caron. Jeanne graduated from Commercial High School in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduation she married a Navy sailor Walter Earl Albright....

Aug 18, 2018

Stephen Jeffrey Foster was born August 14, 1951, in Dennison, Ohio to Charles and Easter (Myers) Foster. Steve lived a full life and called “home” many places across the country: Upper Arlington, Ohio, Kansas City, Kansas and Canton, Connecticut to name a few. Ultimately, he settled in Plano, Texas, a city and state he loved and lived in for...

Aug 16, 2018

Thai Quan Lieu passed away on Thursday, August 16, 2018 in Allen, Texas under the care of his family. He was 40 years old. Thai was born in Saigon, Vietnam on August 25th, 1977 to his mother Sang Thai and father Sang Lieu. Thai immigrated to the United States in 1983 with his father Sang and brother Trong where...

Aug 15, 2018

Timothy Alan Church was born May 28, 1949 in Lansing, Michigan to parents Leonard and Jane (Casady) Church. Father Tmothy Alan Church passed away at his home surrounded by his family on August 15th, 2018, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. Fr. Tim, a dedicated Catholic priest, was married for fifty years and had three children and six...

Aug 15, 2018

Sidney Jack Thrash was born in Rotan, Texas, January 5, 1947 to Rufus and Kathleen Thrash. Sid, as he was known to his many friends, passed away in Fairview, Texas on August 15, 2018.

Sid and his family relocated from Rotan, Texas, to Shoals, Indiana, in the summer of 1956. Sid graduated in 1965 from the Shoals...