Obituaries
Harold Fisher
Dec 10, 2015
Harold Van Fisher, 82, of Mexia, passed away December 10, 2015 in Waco, Texas. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Monday, December 14, 2015 at Northcrest Church of Christ with Mr. Robin Wright officiating. Interment will follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m., Sunday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Harold was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma...
Walton Holt
Dec 10, 2015
Walton Edward "Ed" Holt, 91, passed away December 10, 2015 at his home in Point Enterprise. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Sunday, December 13, 2015 at Northcrest Church of Christ with Mr. Shane Alexander officiating. Interment will follow in the Point Enterprise Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m., Saturday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Ed was born...
Ocie Morgan
Dec 4, 2015
Ocie Geneva Morgan, 91, of Prairie Grove, passed away December 4, 2015 in Waco, Texas. Funeral services will be 1:00 p.m., Monday, December 7, 2015 at Prairie Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Clifton Jones officiating. Interment will follow in the Prairie Grove Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be prior to the service beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Monday. Geneva...
Sharon Beene
Nov 28, 2015
Sharon Elizabeth Beene, 71, of Mexia, passed away November 28, 2015 in Waco, Texas. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Monday, November 30, 2015 at the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Danny Niedecken officiating. Interment will follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 6-8 p.m., Sunday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Sharon was born July 19,...
Roy Westmoreland
Nov 26, 2015
Roy Kent Westmoreland, 60, passed away November 26, 2015 in Houston, Texas. Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m., Sunday, November 29, 2015 at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home in Mexia, Texas. Interment will follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Kent was born July 29, 1955 in Falfurrias, Texas to Roy Pitt and Merle Davis Westmoreland. He grew up in Alice, Texas where he...
John Brown
Nov 24, 2015
John Marion Brown, 82, passed away November 24, 2015 at his home in Thornton. Masonic graveside services will be 2:00 p.m., Friday, November 27, 2015 in the Thornton Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Friday, at Blair-Stubbs Chapel in Thornton. John was born April 26, 1933 in Oletha, Texas to P. N. "Jack" and...
J Huffman
Nov 15, 2015
J C Huffman, 86, of Mexia, passed away November 15, 2015 in Waco, Texas. Graveside services will be 1:00 p.m., Thursday, November 19, 2015 at the Rosewood Cemetery in Humble, Texas with Pastor Richard Mooney officiating. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m., Wednesday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. J C was born December 24, 1928 in Humble, Texas to...
Grace Hester
Nov 15, 2015
Grace Elizabeth Beene Hester, 96, passed away November 15, 2015 in Grapevine, Texas. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at Cedar Creek Baptist Church in Teague with Bro. Johnny Veretto. Interment will follow in the Salem Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 10:00-11:00 a.m., Wednesday, at Cedar Creek Baptist Church. Grace was born October 3,...
Sarabeth Matthews
Nov 13, 2015
Sarabeth Matthews, 35, of Wortham, passed away November 13, 2015 in Waco, Texas. Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m., Sunday, November 15, 2015 at the First Baptist Church in Wortham with Rev. Marcus Sheffield officiating. Interment will follow in the Wortham Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 6-8 p.m., Saturday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Sarabeth was born July 23,...
Donna Wheeler
Nov 12, 2015
Donna Fay Wheeler, 75, passed away November 12, 2015 in Mexia. In honoring her wishes, there will be no public service. Donna was born May 5, 1940 in Taberville, Missouri to James and Dolly Groves Reece. She and her husband, Roger, owned and operated Wheeler's Hot Pit Barbeque for a number of years. Donna was a hard worker, she also...
Rev. Sewell
Nov 4, 2015
Rev. Billy Guy Sewell, 88, left his earthly home in Itasca, Texas on November 4, 2015 and entered into his eternal home in heaven. A memorial service will be 2:00 p.m., Sunday, November 15, 2015 at Woodbury Baptist Church, 1793 FM 309, Hillsboro, Texas with Rev. Stanley Lohse and Rev. Bobby Gardner officiating. Billy was born on April 7, 1927...
Shelia Sims
Nov 1, 2015
Shelia Madene Sims, 56, longtime Mexia educator, passed away Sunday, November 1, 2015 in Mesquite, TX. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at Northcrest Church of Christ with Shane Alexander officiating. Interment will follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 6-8 p.m., Tuesday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Shelia was born in Dallas,...
Sarah McCraw
Oct 31, 2015
Mrs. Sarah Beth McCraw, 93, of Cedar Park passed away Saturday, October 31, 2015 in Cedar Park. Mrs. McCraw was born July 22, 1922 in Kirvin, Texas to Lewis Marion and Mary Elizabeth Batchelor Smiley. On July 6, 1941 she married Kenneth L. McCraw in Mexia, Texas and after nearly 70 years of marriage, Kenneth passed away on May 8,...
Lillian McElroy
Oct 27, 2015
Lillian Marie Richardson McElroy, 93, of Shiloh, passed away October 27, 2015 in Mexia. Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m., Saturday, October 31, 2015 with Mr. Neil Bond and Rev. David Snow officiating. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m., Friday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Marie was born in Mexia, Texas on October 17, 1922 to Jesse William and...
Edwin Plummer
Oct 27, 2015
Lifelong Limestone County resident Edwin Everette Plummer, Sr., passed away peacefully at his home in the Kickapoo community early Tuesday morning, October 27, 2015, at the age of 88 after a brief illness...just a few steps from where he led his first congregational hymn as a young boy, hoisted atop the teacher's desk. Born on January 1, 1927, in Stamford,...
Dora Howard
Oct 23, 2015
Dora Mae Howard, 79, of Mexia, passed away October 23, 2015 in Waco, Texas. Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m., Sunday, October 25, 2015 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel with Rev. Jerry Johnson officiating. Interment will follow in the Wilson Chapel Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 1-3 p.m., Sunday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Dora was born in Frost, Texas on...
Lillian Wallace
Oct 20, 2015
Lillian Brodnax Wallace died peacefully at her home in Austin, Texas on October 20, 2015. She was born on December 9, 1915, in Mexia, Texas, to Albert W. and Ruby Hayter Brodnax. The family moved to Coolidge, Texas in 1923, where Lillian attended school before graduating from Baylor University in 1937. She married Frederick E. Wallace, who preceded her in...
Charlie Bounds
Oct 19, 2015
Charlie Frank Bounds, 60, passed away October 19, 2015 in Mexia. A memorial service will be 2:00 p.m., Saturday, October 24, 2015 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel with Bro. David Bates officiating. Charlie was born April 18, 1955 in Mexia, Texas to Charlie Walter and Frances Edra Sudduth Bounds. He grew up in Tehuacana where he completed the fifth grade, prior to...
Derwood Burleson
Oct 15, 2015
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Derwood E. "Ed" Burleson, of Waco, a World War II and Korean War veteran who embraced his family and his Texas heritage with equal passion, passed away Thursday night at Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest Medical Center after a short illness. He was 95. Ed will be laid to rest with full military honors during a...
Virginia Bounds
Oct 13, 2015
Virginia Jenkins Bounds, 101, was received into heaven from her home, in Tehuacana, on the morning of October 13, 2015. She was born in Eldorado City, Texas on June 3, 1914 to Sparks B. and Louise Coleman Jenkins. They lived in Hubbard, Marshall and Mexia. In 1935, Virginia married James Thomas "J.T." Bounds. They lived in Lockhart, Texas before returning...
