Obituaries

Russell Day

Dec 23, 2013

Russell F Day, Tsgt, USAF Ret. Russell F Day, 82, passed away Monday, December 23, 2013. Visitation will be Thursday, December 26, 2013 from 5 till 7 PM at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Funeral will be Friday, December 27, 2013 at 2 PM in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow the service in Elmwood...

Kenneth Oliver

Dec 20, 2013

Kenneth Ray Oliver, 57, passed away Friday, December 20, 2013 at an Abilene hospital. Services will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 28, 2013 at Pioneer Drive Baptist Church, 701 South Pioneer in Abilene Texas, with burial to follow at the city cemetery under the direction of Elmwood Funeral Home. Visitation will be Friday, December 27, 2013 from 5:00...

Matthew Encinas

Dec 18, 2013

Matthew John Encinas, 40, our beloved son, born on January 12, 1973, left us on December 18, 2013. His funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM, Monday, December 23, 2013 in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, 5750 Hwy 277 South. He is survived by a son, Joseph Encinas of San Diego, CA his parents, Michael and Margaret Encinas...

Cecil Gillum

Dec 13, 2013

Service Memorial Service Zion Lutheran Church 2801 Antilley RD Abilene, TX  79606 Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:00 AM

John Oberschmid

Dec 13, 2013

John Robert Oberschmid, 92, passed away on Friday, December 13, 2013 in Abilene. Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on Tuesday, December 17th at Elmwood Funeral Home. The funeral service will be held at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, 5750 HWY 277 South with entombment immediately following in Elmwood...

Richard Reagan

Dec 10, 2013

Richard A. Ricky Reagan, 52, passed away Tuesday, December 10, 2013 in Abilene. His funeral service will be held at 1:00 PM on Friday in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, 5750 HWY 277 South with interment following in Elmwood Memorial Park. Visitation is from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on Thursday at Elmwood Funeral Home. Ricky was born on September...

Justin May

Dec 10, 2013

Justin May, 27, passed away Tuesday, December 10, 2013 in Abilene. His memorial service will be held at 10:30 AM on Saturday, December 14th at South Pointe Church, 3050 Buffalo Gap Rd in Abilene. Arrangements are with Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 HWY 277 South. Justin was born in Abilene on January 13, 1986 and attended Cooper High School and...

Donald Logston

Dec 9, 2013

Donald Ray Logston, age 75, died in the Hendrick Medical Center Hospice Care unit in Abilene, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Born September 27, 1938, in Mineral Wells, Texas, he graduated from Hawley High School in 1958. He worked as a machine operator for Lone Star Gas Company for 40 years before his retirement in 1997. Upon his...

Alton Jordan

Dec 6, 2013

Alton L. Shorty Jordan, 76 of Abilene, passed away Friday, December 6, 2013 at his home after a battle with cancer. Funeral service will be at 2:00 pm, Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, 5750 Hwy 277 South with Paul Matta Officiating. Burial will follow at Elmwood Memorial Park. Visitation will be Tuesday, December 10, 2013...

Rose Gutkowski

Dec 5, 2013

Rose C. Gutkowski, 99, went to the Lord on December 5, 2013 in Abilene, TX. She was born in Posen, MI on July 23, 1914. She lived most of her life in Alpena, MI, with the last four years in Abilene, TX with her son. Rose was one of twelve children, all deceased. She was married to Bernard T....

Wauree Saverance

Dec 5, 2013

Wauree Saverance was born April 5, 1919 to Ivy and Willie Bates in Ballinger, Texas. She passed away on December 5, 2013 in Childress, Texas. She was raised in Coleman County. Waurree was a lifetime member of the Methodist Church. Wauree married Randolph Saverance on February 29, 1936, they had 5 children. After Wauree retired from being a hair...

James Stoker

Nov 25, 2013

James Jim Stoker, 71, passed away Monday, November 25, 2013 in Merkel. Funeral service will be 11:00 AM, Friday, November 29, 2013 at Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Interment will follow the service in Elmwood Memorial Park. James was born June 29, 1942 in Mertins, TX to parents, Allen and Ella Mae Stoker. He graduated high...

Mary Motley

Nov 23, 2013

Mary Shaw Peyton Motley, 90, was born in Breckenridge, Texas on May 12, 1923 to Frank and Effie Kate Peyton. She grew up in Waco, and after attending Baylor, her family moved to Abilene where she met and then married her beloved husband, Zolus Motley in 1947. She passed away on November 23, 2013, in Friendswood, Texas eighteen years...

Leigh Nostrum

Nov 22, 2013

Leigh Robert Norstrum, 75, passed away Friday in Abilene. Graveside funeral service will be 2 PM, Monday, November 25, 2013 at Elmwood Memorial Park with Brother Wes Terry officiating. Visitation will be from 12 to 2 PM, Monday, prior to the service, at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Leigh was born on March 6, 1938 in Grand...

Maxine Pikes

Nov 20, 2013

Maxine Pikes, 81, died Wednesday, November 20, 2013 in Abilene. A graveside service will be held at 2:00 PM on Monday, December 2, 2013 in the Garden of Gethsemene at Elmwood Memorial Park. Visitation is from noon until 1:45 PM prior to the service at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 HWY 277 South. Ms. Pikes is survived by two sons,...

Barbara Sparks

Nov 19, 2013

Barbara Alice Sparks, 80, passed away November 19, 2013 in Kansas, City. A memorial service will be held 11:00 AM, Monday, November 25, 2013 at Broadview Baptist Church, 2500 South 27th Street. Barbara was born February 23, 1933 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. She loved traveling returning home to Massachusetts and Kansas City to visit daughter Debbie were her favorite destinations....

Zeta Arnold

Nov 15, 2013

Zeta May Arnold, 71, passed away Friday, November 15, 2013 in Abilene. Her funeral service with Ross Blasingame and Craig Churchill officiating will be held at 2:30 PM on Monday, November 18th in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, 5750 HWY 277 South with interment following in Elmwood Memorial Park. Visitation is from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Sunday at...

Mary Handy

Nov 14, 2013

Mary Ann Handy, 65, passed away Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at her home in Clyde surrounded by family and friends. Her funeral service will be held at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, November 19th in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel, 5750 HWY 277 South with interment following in Elmwood Memorial Park. Visitation is from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on Monday...

Kenneth Musgrave

Nov 11, 2013

Kenneth L. Musgrave passed away peacefully on November 11, 2013. Kenneth was born on November 26, 1930 in Wichita Falls, Texas. He was the son of a devout Church of Christ preacher, J.L. Musgrave, and mother, Edna Musgrave, equally strong in her religious beliefs. Kenneth and his wife, Rusty, of fiftytwo years are members of the Oldham Lane Church...

Carter Dodd

Oct 31, 2013

Carter Caleb Dodd, infant son of Caleb Dodd and Kelsey Hegwood, passed away, Thursday, October 31st at Cook Childrens Hospital in Ft. Worth. A graveside service will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday, November 8th in the Babyland section of Elmwood Memorial Park, 5750 HWY 277 South. Carter was born on October 5, 2013 in Abilene. He was...