Obituaries

Mar 7, 2010

Mr. Braden died Sunday, March 7, 2010 in Quitman. He was born December 1, 1946 in Hillsboro to the late Lonnie Clint and Mable Qualls Braden. He moved to Mineola from Dallas 21 years ago. Mr. Braden served in the United States Army. He is preceded in death by his loving parents and one son, Michael Allan Braden. He...

Mar 6, 2010

Mrs. Esther Mae Shirley passed away on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at the age of 74. She was born on February 29, 1936 to the late Frank E. Orcutt and Augusta Leona Gafke Orcutt. Mrs. Shirley was a homemaker and a member of the Perryville Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband, Mr. George Shirley, Jr. of Winnsboro; son, George...

Mar 5, 2010

Mrs. Dorothy Louise Copeland passed away on Friday, March 5, 2010 at the age of 84. She was born on March 19, 1925 to the late Jasper Hugh Corbitt and Mamie Rose Duffey Corbitt. Mrs. Copeland was a homemaker and a member of the Perryville Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Mr. G.T. Copeland on...

Mar 3, 2010

Mrs. Betty Jean Yelverton, age 79 of Mesquite, passed away on Wednesday, March 03, 2010. She was born on Thursday, April 03, 1930 in Levelland, TX to the late Thomas Dee Calvert, Sr. and Gladys Jane Griffis Calvert. She was retired, and Baptist. She was preceded in death by a son; Charles D. Price; husband, Ralph Yelverton; sisters, Wanda...

Mar 3, 2010

Mrs. Homer A. Smith (Dale Dickey Smith)

Dale Dickey Smith passed away on March 3, 2010, at her residence in Austin, Texas. She was 88. She was in good health until a few months prior to her death due to complications related to cancer. Her husband, Homer Alexander Smith, preceded her in death in 2007 after 66...

Mar 3, 2010

Services for Novis N. Underwood, 85, Tyler, longtime Golden resident, are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Beaty Funeral Home chapel, Mineola, with the Rev. Edwin L. Lewis officiating.

Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Mineola.

Mrs. Underwood died March 3, 2010, in Tyler. She was born June 2,...

Mar 1, 2010

Memorial Mass will be celebrated for Charles "Weymon" Lestage, 73, Winnsboro, at noon Wednesday, March 3, 2010, at St. Ann Catholic Church. Interment will follow at later date at Creola Cemetery, Montgomery, La.

Mr. Lestage died Monday, March 1. He was born March 22,1936, in St. Maurice, La., to Joseph Gilmer Lestage and the former Mary Nora...

Feb 26, 2010

Mr. Kitchens died Friday, February 26, 2010, in Mineola, at the age of 56. He was born November 6, 1953 in Oklahoma City, OK to Lester and Iris Kitchens. He lived in Mineola for nine years, was a Baptist, and President of Unmanned Systems of Texas. He is preceded in death by his father. Survivors include his mother, Iris...

Feb 21, 2010

Mrs. Louise Cox passed away on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at the age of 83. She was born on October 3, 1926 to the late Harvey Screws and Gertrude Summerville Screws. Mrs. Cox married Mr. Andrew Cox on January 29, 1943. She was a member of the Little Hope Baptist Church and the Quitman Eastern Star. Mrs. Cox was...

Feb 18, 2010

Mr. Paul W. Sides, age 85 of Winnsboro, passed away on Thursday, February 18, 2010. Paul was born on April 6, 1924 in De Leon, Texas to the late James Finis and Esther Ruth Powell Sides. He was a retired plant engineer for Amoco Production, a veteran of the Army Air Corps having served during World War II, and...

Feb 17, 2010

Mr. Morris Lansford Turner, age 87 of Winnsboro, passed away on Wednesday, February 17, 2010. He was born on Friday, March 17, 1922 in Quitman, TX to the late Claude Bradley and Ruby Jackson Turner. Mr. Turner served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he later married Helen Doris Kirby on February 10, 1944. He was a...

Feb 16, 2010

Lila Lee McKenzie Gaumer, age 77 of Dallas passed away on Tuesday, February 16, 2010. Lee was born in Quitman on January 15, 1933 to the late James F. and Zora "Trixie" Hutchins McKenzie. She worked as a Petroleum Landman for numerous oil producers, was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Quitman. Lee is survived by...

Feb 11, 2010

Mr. Thomas Charles Wyatt passed away on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at the age of 97. He was born on October 16, 1912 to the late William Allen Wyatt and Nancy M. Couch Wyatt, in Marysville, TX. His early years were spent farming and he was drafted by the Army on February 5, 1942. After thirty-eight months in the...

Feb 5, 2010

Mr. Carl Preston Holmes passed away on Friday, February 5, 2010, at the age of 74. He was born on December 1, 1935 in Wood County, Texas to the late Clyde Woodrow Holmes and Rebecca Marie Barber Holmes. Carl worked with the Winnsboro News as a deliveryman of the papers. He also was the custodian for White's Family Hair...

Feb 1, 2010

Mr. Jerry "Hippie" Davis passed away on Monday, February 1, 2010 at the age of 61. He was born on August 26, 1948 to the late Thomas E. Davis and Ruby Hazel Romack. Mr. Davis served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam and worked at the Stroh's Brewery in Longview. He was an avid fisherman and was preceded in...

Jan 31, 2010

Graveside services for Peggy Elouise Hanna, 73, Tyler, are scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday at Cypress Memorial Gardens, with Dr. Leroy Collum officiating. Arrangements under direction of Beaty Funeral Home, Mineola.

Mrs. Hanna died Jan. 31, 2010, in a Tyler hospital. She was born April 26, 1936, in Mineola. She was a homemaker and member...

Jan 30, 2010

MINEOLA - Services for Danny Ray Goodwin Sr., 65, Mineola, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church of Mineola.

Burial is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at Old Concord Cemetery, Waskom, under direction of Beaty Funeral Home, Mineola.

Mr. Goodwin died Jan. 30, 1020. He was born Nov. 5,...

Jan 30, 2010

Mr. Bobby J. Wilson, age 80 of Leesburg, passed away on Saturday, Janaury 30, 2010. He was born in Hughes Springs on December 26, 1929 to the late Harvey B. and Verna Mae Hixson Wilson. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, later he married Dorothy Lee on March 19, 1955 in Linden, together they...

Jan 24, 2010

Mr. Joseph B. Mattox, Sr., age 87 of Winnsboro, entered into rest on Sunday, January 24, 2010. He was born in Newton, Tx. on November 21, 1922 to the late Levi D. and Dollie Swinney Mattox. He served in the Air Force during World War II, and later married Edna Canter on June 1, 1949. He was preceded in...

Jan 23, 2010

Mrs. Helen Doris Turner passes away on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at the age of 87. She was born on October 30, 1922 to the late Charles Kirby and Minnie Howard Kirby. She was a homemaker and was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters. Survivors include her husband, Morris Turner of Winnsboro; daughters and sons-in-law, Linda...