Obituaries
Jessie Harper
Apr 20, 2012
Jesse Samuel Harper (Jess), 97, of Mexia, Texas passed away Friday, April 20, 2012 in Waco, Texas. He was born September 18, 1914 in Warren, Texas to Benjamin Franklin and Gracie Elizabeth Hinson Harper. He lived and worked in Jasper, Texas until moving to Mexia where he lived the last 20 years. Jess served in World War II as a...
Robert Forrester, Jr.
Apr 17, 2012
Robert Edmond "Bob" Forrester, Jr., 67, of Coolidge passed away April 17, 2012 in Mexia, Texas. Graveside services will be 2PM, Friday, April 20, 2012 in the Prairie Hill Cemetery with Rev. Fred Sain officiating. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m., Thursday at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Bob was born August 19, 1944 in Mexia, Texas to Robert Edmond...
Margie Bullard
Mar 31, 2012
Margie Bullard passed to her Lord at 3:16 am on March 31, 2012 at her home in Palestine, Texas at the age of 79 years. Margie was born in Tehuacana, Texas on October 11, 1932 to proud parents Jesse and Gladys (East) Bronaugh and brother Richard E. Bronaugh. She grew up as a baby of the extended Bronaugh Family and...
Richard Kestler, Sr.
Mar 30, 2012
Richard Walton Kestler, Sr., 77, of Groesbeck passed away March 30, 2012 in Groesbeck, Texas. Funeral services will be 2PM, Monday, April 2, 2012 at the Oletha Church with Bro. Bill Sutton officiating. Interment will follow in the Old Union Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m., Sunday, at Blair-Stubbs Chapel in Thornton. Richard was born April 26,...
Laura Allsup
Mar 29, 2012
Laura Elizabeth Pickett Allsup, 88, of Mexia passed away March 29, 2012 in Mexia. Graveside services will be 1PM, Monday, April 2, 2012 at Driver Cemetery, between Teague and Fairfield, with Rev. Brian Hallmark officiating. Visitation with the family will be 4-6 p.m., Sunday, at the funeral home. Elizabeth was born June 20, 1923 in Fairfield, Texas to John Ruth...
Angela Ross
Mar 24, 2012
Angela Faye Rogers Ross of Mexia, Texas, passed away on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Funeral services will be held 2PM,Thursday, March 29, at Calvary Baptist Church in Mexia with Pastor Rick Gray and Rev. Michael King officiating. She will be interred at Point Enterprise Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-8 p.m., Wednesday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home in Mexia....
Thomas McNatt, Jr.
Mar 17, 2012
Thomas Webb McNatt, Jr., passed away peacefully on the 17th of March in Waco, Texas, at the age of 86. In 1925, Tom was born in Wapanucka, Oklahoma, to Gladys and Tom McNatt, Sr. The family soon settled in Mexia, Texas, where he attended school. Tom joined the Navy and served on the U.S.S. Copahee as a radar operator in...
Javier Olvera
Mar 16, 2012
Javier Olvera, 51, of Mexia passed away March 16, 2012 in De Leon, Texas. Funeral services will be 2PM, Monday, March 19, 2012 at St. Mary's Catholic Church with Father Benji officiating. Interment will follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5:30-7:00 p.m., Sunday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Rosary will begin at 7:00 p.m. Javier was...
Lois Willett
Mar 16, 2012
Lois Hope Owens Willett, 76, of Mexia passed away March 16, 2012 in Waco, Texas. Funeral services will be 11AM, Monday, March 19, 2012 at First United Methodist Church in Mexia with Rev. Brad Brittain and Rev. Kory Koch officiating. Interment will follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m. at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Lois...
Edward Smith
Mar 15, 2012
Mr. Edward Lee Benjamin Smith, 65, of Mexia, passed away Thursday, March 15, 2012 in Waco. Edward was born April 21, 1946 in Mexia to Lee Benjamin and Lois Bell Clendenen Smith. He had lived in Mexia most of his life and had been in the Truck Driving industry. He was a member of the Glad Tidings Assembly of God...
Charles Liles
Mar 13, 2012
Charles Wayne Liles, 68 of Houston, formerly of Mexia passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2012 in Houston. Charles was born June 8, 1943 in Mexia to William Clayton and Treva Mae Hendricks Liles. He had been employed by Home Depot in sales and was Baptist by faith. Survivors include his brother and sister-in-law, Bobby Jack and Goldia Liles of Mexia,...
Jacqueline Wardlaw
Mar 12, 2012
Jacqueline Enone Wardlaw, 96, of Conroe, Texas passed away suddenly on March 12, 2012. The family will celebrate Enone's life on March 29, 2012. Burial of her cremains will be 12:30 p.m. at the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 11:00 a.m. until noon on March 29th at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Enone was born August 24, 1915...
Jimmie Liles
Mar 10, 2012
Mrs. Jimmie Ellen Davis Liles, 87, of Mexia passed away Saturday, March 10, 2012, in Mexia. She was born January 31, 1925 in Limestone County, to Albert Franklin and Joannie "Josie" Guthrie Davis. She married Everette Edward Liles on May 13, 1943 and they were the parents of one son, James Everette Liles. Mrs. Liles worked at the Mexia ISD...
Thomas Rashell
Mar 4, 2012
Thomas Glenn Rashell, 50, of Streetman passed away March 4, 2012 at his home. Thomas requested there be no service. He was born September 10, 1961 in Grand Saline, Texas to Thomas O. and Vera Williams Rashell. He retired from Wal-Mart after 16 years. He was preceded in death by his father. Thomas is survived by his wife, Linda Shafer...
Dana Danford
Mar 3, 2012
Dana J. Danford, 60, of Mexia passed away March 3, 2012 in Waco, Texas. Funeral services will be 2PM, Friday, March 9, 2012 at First Baptist Church of Mexia, with Rev. Rusty McMahon of the Community Christian Fellowship Church officiating. Interment will follow in the Keechi Cemetery near Buffalo, Texas. Visitation with the family will be 5-7 p.m., Thursday, at...
Judy Wigley
Mar 2, 2012
Judy Darlene Wigley, 64, of Mexia passed away March 2, 2012 in Waco, Texas. Graveside services will be held at 10AM, Monday, March 5, 2012 in the Forest Glade Cemetery with Rev. David Bolden and Pat Bolden officiating. Judy was born October 5, 1947 in Center, Texas. She had been a resident of Mexia since 1980. She spent her life...
Robert Fain
Feb 29, 2012
Robert Snead "Bob" Fain, 92, of Mexia passed away February 29, 2012 at his home in Mexia. Funeral services will be 11AM, Saturday, March 3, 2012 at the First United Methodist Church with Cox Robert "Bob" Crider and Rev. Kory Koch officiating. Interment will follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-6:30 p.m., Friday, at the...
Jerald McHargue
Feb 28, 2012
Retired Lt. Col. Jerald Ray McHargue, 81, of Richland, formerly of Waco and Irving, passed away February 28, 2012 in Wortham, Texas. Funeral services will be 2PM, Thursday, March 1, 2012 at Blair-Stubbs Chapel in Mexia with Father Benji Magnaye and Rev. Rick Gray officiating. Interment will follow in the Mexia Cemetery. Jerald was born November 30, 1930 in Waco,...
Jon Phillips
Feb 27, 2012
Jon Reed Phillips, or fondly known to many as "Big Jon", passed away Monday, February 27, 2012 at his residence surrounded by his loving family. Graveside services will be 2PM, Friday, March 2, 2012 at the Mexia Cemetery with Bro. Joe Hancock officiating. Visitation with the family will be 6-8 p.m., Thursday, at the funeral home. Jon was born February...
Doug Martin
Feb 24, 2012
John Douglas "Doug" Martin, 40, of Mexia passed away February 24, 2012 in Mexia. Funeral services will be 2PM, Sunday, February 26, 2012 at the First Baptist Church in Mexia with Rev. Marcus Sheffield officiating. Interment will follow in the Faulkenberry Cemetery in Groesbeck. Visitation with the family will be 5-6:30 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Doug was born...
