Obituaries

Kevin Castleberry

Jul 11, 2018

Kevin Dale Castleberry, 57, passed away July 11th, 2018 after a brief battle with liver disease. Services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, July 14th at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 S. Abilene, TX. with Jody Forbus officiating. Visitation will be held Friday, July 13th 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Kevin was born in Abilene on...

Maurice Daniel

Jul 7, 2018

Maurice "Bill" Daniel, 88, of Abilene passed away Saturday, July 7, 2018 in Abilene A funeral service will be held Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 10 AM at the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Texas State Veterans Cemetery, 7457 W. Lake Road, Abilene, TX 79601. Visitation with the family will be Tuesday, July 10, 2018 from...

Adelaido Leal

Jul 4, 2018

Adelaido M. Leal of Abilene passed away Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at Mesa Springs nursing home. Funeral Mass will be held at 10:00 AM on Saturday July 7, 2018 at Holy Family Catholic Church, 5410 Buffalo Gap Rd. Burial will be at Elmwood Cemetery 5750 Hwy 277 South following the mass. Visitation is on Friday July 6, 2018 between...

Michael Jones

Jun 28, 2018

Michael Hilton Jones, age 83, died peacefully on Thursday, June 28, 2018 in Abilene, Texas. He was a Professor of Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for 42 years. Prior to that position, he worked for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex, the EPA, and one year as visiting faculty at North Carolina State University, where he earned...

Marvella Craig

Jun 27, 2018

Marvella Craig, 91, of Coleman passed away Wednesday, June 27, 2018 in Abilene. A funeral service will be held Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 10:00 A.M. at the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Elmwood Memorial Park. Carla and her immediate family will be holding a celebration of life memorial on a later date. On September 27,...

Marvin Taylor

Jun 26, 2018

Marvin Taylor, 82, of Abilene passed away June 26th in Mansfield, TX. His interment will be private. Born in Nolan, Texas on April 29, 1936, Marvin was the son of Myles Eugene Taylor and Mavis Lister Taylor. He was married to the love of his life, Kay Taylor, for 53 years until her death in 2014. A graduate of...

Bennie Hendrix

Jun 24, 2018

Bennie May Aldridge Hendrix, age 82, known to family members as "Bink," peacefully left this earth to join her large and loving heavenly family on June 24, 2018. She was a truly special lady who was deeply loved, is dearly missed, and whose memory will always be cherished. The family will receive friends at the Elmwood Funeral Home between...

Rila Orr

Jun 18, 2018

Rila Orr passed away Monday. A graveside service will be Friday, June 22, 2018 at Elmwood Memorial Park, 5750 Hwy 277 South Abilene, Texas. Rila was born June 29, 1934 to Thomas and Margie Hogan. Rila was a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother. She was a member of Beltway Park Church. She is preceded in death by her husband,...

Margaret Key

Jun 18, 2018

June was born February 24, 1948 in Abilene, Texas, the first daughter of the late Leonard and Geneva Askins. After graduating from Abilene High School in1966, she married Stanley Key on January 20, 1968 and began a thirty-year career as a bank teller supervisor. June and Stanley celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year. June's immediate family wishes to...

Mitchell Ingram

Jun 15, 2018

Mitchell J. Ingram, 89, of Abilene, Texas passed away Friday, June 15, 2018 in Abilene. A funeral service will be held on Monday, June 18, 2018 at 10 AM at the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be held prior to the service from 9:30 to 10 AM. Burial will follow at Elmwood Memorial Park. Mitchell was born on...

Dr. Taylor

Jun 15, 2018

Dr. Luella Faye Taylor, 93, passed away peacefully on Friday, June 15, 2018 in Coleman County surrounded by her family. A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 10:00 AM at the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Inurnment will be held on a later date at Elmwood Memorial Park. Visitation with the family will be Monday,...

Doris Tedford

Jun 14, 2018

Doris jean Tedford, 82, of Abilene passed away Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Abilene. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 2:00 P.M.at the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Doris was born on April 10, 1936 to the late Bill Gerhart and Era Smith Gerhart in Winters, TX. She married L.B. Tedford on October 8,...

George Tippett

Jun 9, 2018

George Ross Tippett, PE, age 93, died June 9, 2018, in Prescott, AZ. Ross was born in Clanton, Alabama on December 29, 1924, to George and Clara (Thompson). His family moved to Gladewater, TX where he grew up and graduated from Gladewater High School. He attended Texas A&M College, Princeton and Rice University; was a proud member of the...

William Peterson

Jun 8, 2018

Bill "W.T." Peterson Jr., 81, passed away peacefully on June 8, 2018 in Abilene. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 11 AM at the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Bill was born on September 22, 1936 to the late W.T. Peterson Sr. and Sylvia L. Peterson in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He joined the Air Force...

David Verner

May 31, 2018

David E. Verner, 82, went to be with the LORD on Thursday, May 31, 2018. A private family funeral service will be held on Monday, June 4, 2018 at Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. David E. Verner was born on January 22, 1936 in Knox City, Texas to Tomye Carr Verner and Audie Thomas Verner. He graduated from Rule High...

Consuelo Castillo

May 26, 2018

Consuelo Castillo passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on May 26, 2018. She was born on April 4, 1928 in Cuencame Durango, Mexico. to Ezequiel & Dolores Mireles. She graduated with a college degree in Torreon, Coahuila, as a school teacher. She later married her college sweetheart Rodrigo Castillo in August 1951. They moved to the United States...

Frank Gonzalez

May 25, 2018

Frank Gonzalez passed away Friday. A visitation will be Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Funeral services will be Wednesday, May 30, 2018 in the Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow the service in Elmwood Memorial Park.

Visitation Elmwood Funeral Home 5750 US Highway 277 S Abilene, TX  79606 Tuesday,...

Herbert Heath

May 22, 2018

Herbert Heath, 83, passed away May 22, 2018 in Abilene. Visitation will be 6:00 - 8:00 PM, Thursday, May 24, 2018 at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Hwy 277 South. Graveside funeral service will be 10:00 AM, Friday, May 25, 2018 in Elmwood Memorial Park. Herb was born October 7, 1934 in Abilene, TX to parents, Harvey and Pauline Heath....

Jocelynn Serrato

May 20, 2018

Visitation Elmwood Funeral Home 5750 US Highway 277 S Abilene, TX  79606 Friday, May 25, 2018 6:00 - 8:00 PM Service Funeral Service Elmwood Funeral Home Chapel 5750 US Highway 277 S Abilene, TX  79606 Saturday, May 26, 2018 10:00 AM Cemetery Elmwood Memorial Park 5750 US Highway 277 S Abilene, TX  79606

Louise Williams

May 17, 2018

Louise Johanna Willwater Williams went to be with the Lord on May 17, 2018. Louise was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 8, 1948 to Carl Friedrich & Laura Louise Willwater. Her father passed away when she was 5 years old, and soon after she and her mother moved back to Texas where she grew up in Lubbock...