Obituaries
Jimmy Alfonse Vecera
Nov 1, 2020
Jimmy “Jim” Alfonse Vecera, 87, died Sunday, November 1, 2020, holding the hands of his beloved Julia and hearing the voices of his seven devoted children.Jim was born on July 17, 1933, to Nellie and Alfonse Vecera. Jim worked with his father and sisters picking cotton and on the family farm in Megargel, Texas, until he joined the army in...
Edith Mullins Wolverton Henderson
Oct 31, 2020
Edith Mullins Wolverton Henderson died peacefully on October 31, 2020 in Fort Worth. She was ninety-six years old. Born in Temple, Texas, she grew up in Olney with her parents Edith and Charles Wolverton and her sister, Jean.As a new graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she moved to Fort Worth, where she met and married Luther Andrews...
Linda Ann Eastman Taylor
Oct 29, 2020
Linda Taylor was born in Fort Worth to Frank Gordon Eastman and Patsy Farmer Eastman. She graduated from Arlington Heights High School and attended Ranger Junior College. Linda was an executive secretary at Colonial Savings and the City of Fort Worth in the Real Property Division where she retired after 20 years.Linda loved her daughter, Sara, more than anything. She...
Annette Ste. Marie
Oct 27, 2020
Annette Ste. Marie, age 77, passed into eternal life with her loving God on October 27, 2020.Annette was the daughter of Joseph Phillippe and Esther Cecilia (Hartnett) Ste. Marie, born on September 27, 1943 in Fort Worth, Texas. Growing up in Fort Worth, she was a member of St. Alice Catholic Church and attended St. Alice Elementary School (now Holy...
Vincent John Studer
Oct 19, 2020
Vince Studer died October 19, 2020. He is survived by his loving wife of seventy years, Phyllis Marie Studer (née Schnebelt), his six children, twenty grandchildren, and thirteen great-grandchildren. Vince was a mechanical genius and a talented aeronautical engineer with a lifelong love of flight and aircraft. He had a well-earned reputation for being able to fix anything and was...
Arthur Edward Allis
Oct 13, 2020
Arthur Edward Allis, 96 years young, beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great great-grandfather, was called home to the Lord on Tuesday, October 13, 2020.Born May 4, 1924 to parents Anthony and Beatrice Naylor Allis in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. He grew up in New York with his brother Anthony and his two sisters, Dorothy and...
Lometa F. Jenkins
Oct 10, 2020
Lometa Jenkins died on October 10, 2020. She was a lifelong member of First Presbyterian Church where she served faithfully. She was a devoted friend and loved by those who knew her. When asked about her life, Lometa said, “My life was richer because I learned to listen!”She was preceded in death by her husband, B. G. Jenkins.The family would...
Leona Marie Schwartz
Oct 8, 2020
Leona Schwartz, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, loving matriarch, cherished friend, gifted educational leader and longtime Principal of St. John the Apostle School, passed away peacefully in the early hours of October 8. She was 98 years old.Leona was born in Syracuse, NY, raised and married in Buffalo, NY before moving to Texas in 1952 when her husband Jack...
Kathleen Marie Hunt Frye
Oct 7, 2020
Kathleen Marie Hunt Frye, 90, passed away on Wednesday, October 7, 2020.Kathleen Marie Hunt was born on September 13, 1930 in Baton Rouge, LA to Gladys and Louis Hunt. She was a graduate of Baton Rouge High School and attended LSU, leaving a few weeks before graduating to marry Bob and move to California. They moved to Fort Worth in...
Sister Francesca Walterscheid
Oct 4, 2020
Francesca (née Helen Marie) Walterscheid was born in Muenster, Texas. As she recalls her youth, Sister said she always expected to enter religious life and deliberately chose to enjoy her teenage years to the full. Very early, she followed her siblings into the intergenerational band of Muenster, where she was gradually promoted from playing triangle to various brass instruments, but...
Stephen Christopher Collins
Oct 4, 2020
Stephen “Steve” Christopher Collins, 49, of Fort Worth, TX died Sunday, October 4, 2020 from a valiantly fought, work-related brain cancer.Born March 2, 1971 in Fort Worth, TX, Steve graduated from Southwest High School in 1989, Tarrant County Junior College Regional Fire Academy in 1992, and Fort Worth Fire Department Fire Academy in 1999.Since he was a young boy, Steve...
Sister Mary Brian Bole
Oct 2, 2020
Sister Mary Brian Bole, SSND, passed away October 2, 2020.Born at Gulfport Air Base, Mississippi in 1945, Alma Ann Bole was the second child of Thomas J. and Alma Lagarde Bole, both natives of New Orleans.In 1963, she entered the University of Dallas and the School Sisters of Notre Dame postulancy simultaneously. She majored in political philosophy and studied other...
Virginia Ann Redder
Sep 27, 2020
Virginia Ann Redder, 87, passed away Sunday, September 27, 2020. Virginia was born November 17, 1932 in Scotland, TX, to Irene and Albert Pennartz. She was devoted to her family and was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend. She was very attentive to her family, spending years involved with her children’s school, boy scouts, and her church. She...
Donald Garnett Sanders
Sep 26, 2020
Don Sanders was born in Fort Worth, Texas to Ralph Sanders and Mary Lloyd (Garnett) Sanders on December 28, 1952.He attended public schools in Fort Worth including Southwest High School where he flourished in the band. Don furthered his music education at TCU and at the New England Conservatory in Boston where he established friendships that lasted a lifetime. Don...
William Jacob Doyle Ii
Sep 26, 2020
William Jacob Doyle II, 80, passed away Saturday, September 26, 2020.William Jacob Doyle II was born September 8, 1940 in Fort Worth to Marjorie and Lyle Doyle. He was a proud graduate of Paschal High School and TCU. William loved to meet with his friends for the Friday Board meeting at Railhead and he enjoyed gardening.Survivors include his daughter, Laurie...
Mary Cecile Williams
Sep 23, 2020
Mary Cecile Williams, 71, died on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.Mary was born December 16, 1948, in Shreveport, Louisiana to Samuel James Williams II and Evelyn Irene Smoke Williams.Survivors: Sisters, Melva Rose Wilson and Linda Taylor-West; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Francis L. Hurst
Sep 21, 2020
Francis Levi Hurst, affectionately known as “Buddy” by all his friends, was brought home peacefully to God’s eternal Kingdom on Monday, September 21, 2020, with all four of his children at his side. Selfless, is the one word that best describes the character of Buddy in his interactions with family, friends, neighbors, and community organizations. Buddy was widely known for...
Lois Sullins Pendley
Sep 18, 2020
Lois Sullins Pendley, 89, a retired Registered Nurse, died Friday, September 18, 2020.Lois was preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, Joe Pendley.She is survived by sister, Imogene Sullins Jackson; sister-in-law, Patsy Ruth Walpole-Elliott and her husband, Jim; her longtime friends and caretakers, Debbie and Roger Woerner; along with many nieces and nephews.
Marjorie Alene Childress Delatour Crawford
Sep 18, 2020
Marjorie Alene Childress Delatour Crawford, 61, died peacefully on Friday, September 18, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas, her home in adulthood.Marji was a 1977 graduate of Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio. She was a Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with degrees in International Studies and Economics. She was a member of Delta...
Sarah Lee Crowson Guthrie
Sep 18, 2020
Sarah Lee Crowson was born in Corsicana on July 15, 1937 to Clarence Chester and Mary Lee Terry Crowson. She attended Corsicana public schools for 12 years. She attended Navarro Junior College, where she was a member of the famed “High Steppers.” Sarah earned her B.S. Degree in Elementary Education at North Texas State University. Although an only child, Sarah...
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