Obituaries

Jack Larue Horn

Jack Larue Horn

Nov 23, 2020

Jack Larue Horn, 96, died Monday, November 23, 2020. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marvis, on September 13, 2020.

Beverlee Ruth Barnes Herd

Beverlee Ruth Barnes Herd

Nov 22, 2020

Beverlee was born in Elizabethton TN, and grew up there with her boyfriend, Jimmy Herd. She attended college at East Tennessee State University where she received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She married James Francis Herd MD and had 4 children and 10 grandchildren. Beverlee taught OBGYN nursing at Methodist Hospital school of Nursing in Memphis, TN During this...

Joe Cantu Barrientes

Joe Cantu Barrientes

Nov 19, 2020

Joe C. Barrientes Jr., 73, died November 19, 2020 due to complications of Covid-19.Joe Cantu Barrientes was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Joe and Esther Cantu Barrientes.Joe began boxing as a child in the Panther Boys Club and competed in the Golden Gloves Boxing where he was coached by his father. His professional career started soon after...

Frederick Hart Cleveland

Frederick Hart Cleveland

Nov 14, 2020

Frederick Hart Cleveland Sr., 86, retired engineer, navigator, professor and missionary, passed away peacefully at home, on Saturday, November 14, 2020.Dr. Cleveland was born October 8, 1934 in Derry, NH, and moved to Portsmouth, VA in 1944. He was an Eagle Scout and a Woodbadge leader in the Boy Scouts of America. In 1954, he joined the USAF and attained...

Sister Frances Joan Vuillemin

Sister Frances Joan Vuillemin

Nov 13, 2020

Sister Frances Joan Vuillemin was born in Waco, Texas, one of five daughters and three brothers. Her father August, a noted contractor, built at least six churches including St. Francis on the Brazos in Waco. This is a replica of the famous San José mission in San Antonio. Sister described how he and the family would always inspect the on-going...

Mary Caroline Bernard Pace

Mary Caroline Bernard Pace

Nov 7, 2020

Rooted in her faith and surrounded by family, Mary Caroline Bernard Pace passed away November 7, 2020 from natural causes. The daughter of Donald Montfort Bernard and Mary Woodson Sleeper Bernard, Mary was born in 1933 in Nashville, TN. Her family moved to Chevy Chase, Maryland where her father was the advertising director and later vice president of public relations...

Michael Dwayne Myers

Michael Dwayne Myers

Nov 3, 2020

Michael Dwayne Myers passed away on November 3, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 64.Mike was born in Fort Worth, TX on January 20, 1956. He graduated from Western Hills High School and Texas Christian University. He retired after working at Lockheed Martin for 35 years.Mike was loved by many for his goofy sense of humor and...

Anthony Don Waters

Anthony Don Waters

Nov 1, 2020

Anthony Don Waters, 62, a Texas native and long-time resident of Fort Worth passed away on November 1, 2020.Anthony was born to Wayne and Glenna Waters on March 3rd, 1958 in Nocona , Texas. After graduating from S.H. Rider High School in Wichita Falls, he served five years in the US Navy. After separating from the service as an Aviation...

Jimmy Alfonse Vecera

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...