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Eula E. Francis
Eula E. Francis 95, of Salado passed away July 20, 2009 at her home.
Graveside serves were held July 22 at the North Belton cemetery with Loyd Hall officiating.
Eula E. Francis was born May 28, 1914 in Enid, Oklahoma to William and Ellen Shroyer. She married
Marion D. Frances in 1935.
She was a member of the Baptist Church. She is preceded in death by her parents and husband and one son Clifford in 1964.
Survivors include daughter Lura Fraser of Salado. Sister Opal Thomas of Belton; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Private Lucas Montana Bregg
Fort Hood officials announced the death of a Soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Private Lucas Montana Bregg, 19, of Wright City, Mo. died on July 8, 2009 from a non-combat related incident in Baghdad, Iraq.
Bregg entered the military July 2008 as an Infantryman and was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division since November 2008.
Private Bregg’s decorations and awards include the National Defense
Service Medal and the Army Service Ribbon.
The incident is under investigation.
Master Sgt. Bradley Scott Bryan
Fort Hood officials have released the name of a Warrior Transition Brigade Soldier who died July 7, 2009 at his residence in Kempner from an existing illness.
Master Sgt. Bradley Scott Bryan, 48, of Mohogany, Tennessee, joined the military in August 1985 as an Armor Senior Sergeant and was assigned to the Warrior Transition Brigade since May 2008.
Master Sergeant Bryan’s military awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal, Global War On Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Noncommissioned Officers Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, and Overseas Service Ribbon.
Doris Leola Weatherford
Funeral services for Doris Leola Weatherford, 62, of Temple and formerly of Salado, were held July 13, 2009 at Heartfield Funeral Home in Belton with Rev. Maggie McKinnley and Nelson Guthrie officiating. Interment followed at North Belton Cemetery.
Weatherford passed away Thursday, July 9, 2009 at her home.
Doris Weatherford was born September 30, 1946 in Slaten to Raymond F. and Ivy Jewell (Snow) Guthrie. She married
Tony Weatherford on January 23, 1985 in Belton. She attended Troy High School. She worked for many years as a CNA.
Survivors include her husband, Tony Weatherford of Temple; five sons, Nicky R. Walker of Belton, Roy D. Walker of Belton, Eugene E. Shafer of Temple, Tony Weatherford, Jr. of Lakeland, FL, Aaron Lee Weatherford of Flint, MI; one daughter, Kathy J. Moore of Temple; nine brothers, Wayne Guthrie of Belton, Alvin Guthrie of Belton, Glenn Guthrie of Temple, Kenneth Guthrie of Belton, Roy Guthrie of Pendleton, Dan Guthrie of Snyder, Richard Guthrie of Belton, Ronald Guthrie of Temple, Rodney Guthrie of Moffat; two sisters, Barbara Brooks of Temple, Debbie Teeter of Temple; twenty grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren
She is preceded in death by one daughter, Yolanda Shafer; one sister, Vicky Guthrie; one brother, David Guthrie.
Heartfield Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Gail Attal
Gail Attal, wife, mother, grandmother and sister passed away on Jan. 31, 2008.
Born in Saskatchewan, Canada on January 10, 1939, Gail attended nursing school, and then moved to Hawaii where she met her beloved husband, Basil.
They moved with their children to Austin, Basil’s home town, in 1974 and then to Salado.
Gail worked at the Austin State School as a nurse for twelve years.
She touched many lives through her volunteer work, at Seton and Caritas with Basil.
She was a member of the St. Stephen Catholic Church, Salado, Texas and St. Stephen Women’s Society.
Gail is survived by husband, Basil, Sr.; children, Kathy Boyd and husband Jim, Brian Attal, Diana Oller and husband Frank, Basil Attal, Jr., Lisa Paschall and husband Thad of Salado, and James Attal; grandchildren, Jay Attal, Jenna Oller, Christa Oller, Caleb Paschall, Mason Paschall, Aubrey Paschall and Grace Paschall; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Elaine and Ron Ciani, George and Ann Attal and Charles “Lucky” and Cathy Attal.
A Catholic Memorial Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 24 at St. Stephen Catholic Church, Salado, Texas with Rev. Charles Davis officiating.
Service arrangements are being handled by Broecker Funeral Home, Salado, Texas.
Dr. Betty Jane (Golter) McConnell
Dr. Betty Jane (Golter) McConnell, of Dallas after recently moving from Salado her home of more than 25 years, died on January 25, 2008 a dearly loved wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. B.J., as she was called by so many, was born on September 28, 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Feb. 2, at Christ Episcopal Church, 300 N. Main St. in Temple, Texas.. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation to the Salado Public Library, P.O. Box 1178, Salado, Texas 76571.
A wife, a mother of six, a physician, an artist, a gentle friend - her family and her many friends associate all these with BJ.
There were fun dinners with friends of the supper club, duplicate bridge gatherings. BJ loved to travel, visiting England several times, Japan, Germany, Italy, and China. BJ was a sports enthusiast - loved to play golf and tennis. She was an avid artist, an active member of the Salado Village Artists. Two of her oils of Native American scenes, from a stay in Sante Fe with friends, were shown at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. She thoroughly enjoyed a month in Italy painting the countryside and studying art. BJ was a co-founder of the Salado Public Library, President of its board, and held several committee chairs. She belonged to several social organizations in Salado and Temple, among which were the PEO Sisterhood, Arno Art League and the Salado Historical Society.
BJ and her twin brother, Lowell (“Jim”), graduated from medical school at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine. In the middle of her sophomore year, on July 1, 1944, she married
a classmate, Robert McConnell (Bob). They all graduated with M.D. degrees on February 17, 1946. At the beginning of their junior year, she and Bob were recruited to the staff of the Cincinnati General Hospital, to the role of ‘extern’, involved with the direct care of patients, as most of the usual interns and residents were in military service.
BJ took her internship at Cincinnati General following graduation, from February 1946 until March 1947. On April 14, 1947 she gave birth to Barbara Ann McConnell. Over the next 13 years she delivered five more children: Patricia Ellen, Robert Glen, Marilyn Reed, Marcia Jean and Thomas Andrew.
Her husband Bob was asked to join the practice of a group of radiologists in Davenport, Iowa and the family moved there in January 1952. When their youngest, Tom, was three years old, BJ decided to learn about a new specialty in radiology, Nuclear Radiology (Nuclear Medicine). She and Bob were recruited to start a Nuclear Radiology department at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas, moving to Dallas in 1967. BJ undertook a year’s training in Internal Medicine and a year of further training in Nuclear Medicine at Southwestern Medical School. She became certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine in 1971.
Dr. McConnell was lauded by author Elizabeth Silverthorne in her book ‘Woman Pioneers in Texas Medicine’. She was on staff at Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and was director of Nuclear Medicine at the Veterans Hospital in Dallas. In 1976 she became the Associate Director of the Nuclear Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and joined the staff at the Hermann Hospital in Houston. In 1982 she was asked to join the staff at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas, to enhance their program in Nuclear Medicine. In this regard she became an Associate Professor of Radiology of the Texas A&M University College of Medicine and was a member of its Admission Committee. She retired from the Scott & White Clinic in 1994.
As a member of the Texas Medical Association she was a delegate to the Interspecialty Society Council, Chairman of the ad hoc Committee on Volume Reduction of Radiation Waste and Chairman of the Nuclear Medicine Section. She was President of the Texas Association of Physicians in Nuclear Medicine and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Southwestern Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. She authored or co-authored 21 articles on Nuclear Medicine, particularly related to kidney transplants and trauma to the chest and heart. She had several special exhibits at scientific meetings both nationally and internationally.
BJ is survived by her husband Dr. Robert McConnell, six children, nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Helen Ford Poppell
Helen Ford Poppell, 84, of Belton, died Monday, January 21, 2008 in a Belton nursing center.
Mrs. Poppell was born to Wendell B. and Phyllis Symonds Ford in Columbus, Ohio on June 25, 1923. She married
James William Poppell in New York City in 1950. She had been a resident of Bell County since 1971, moving here from Denver, Colorado. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as secretary for the Temple Cultural Activities Center for several years. She also owned and operated Helen’s Catering Service for several years. Poppell was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bell County.
Survivors include one son, James Ford Poppell of Calvert; two daughters, Carol Fleck and Anne P. Gibson, both of Belton; one sister, Marjorie Sethna of Minneapolis, Minnesota; and three grandchildren. She was preceded in death by here husband in 1996 and one sister, Phyllis Symonds Ford.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to Vistacare Hospice Foundation, 2626B South 37th Street, Temple, Texas 76504.
Zelma Wright Taylor
Zelma Wright Taylor, age 95, passed away peacefully at home January 11, 2008. Born near Elgin in Bastrop County, Texas on February 24, 1912, she was the daughter of Barney E. and Mae McClintock Wright. Upon moving south of Robstown in 1917, they became one of Nueces County’s pioneer farm families. She graduated from Robstown High School and attended Texas A&I College until the Depression sent her home. She met her future husband of 52 years, Johnny Taylor, at his job at Boucher’s Drugstore in Robstown, and they married
on October 31, 1932. She and Johnny raised three children and moved to Salado, Texas upon retirement in 1979, where she lived for the next twenty-four years. She lived in Lewisville near her sons during the last few years of her life. Zelma was an accomplished artist and author, but she dreamed of acting. In her later years, she realized those dreams when she performed in the annual Table Rock Festival production “Salado Legends”, and was an extra in the 1995 film starring Robert Duvall, “Stars Fell on Henrietta”. She was an active member of the Robstown Art Colony, and at the time of her death, the bible study she had written during the past twenty years was being published. She had been a member of the First Christian Church in Corpus Christi, and later in Temple. Zelma was a friend to all, she was loved by all who knew her, and she was an inspiration and mentor to her children. We will greatly miss her and doing things “her way”. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brother Horace E. Wright, and her daughter Zanda M. Boone. She is survived by her son Mike Taylor and his wife Cheri of Highland Village, Texas, her son Lance Taylor and his wife Mary Jane of The Colony, Texas, her son-in-law Elmer E. Boone, her grandchildren Tommy Boone, Sabrina Stuckey and her husband Parker, John Taylor, Lauren Callahan and her husband Kevin, Michelle Taylor, and Creed Taylor. Visitation will be Sunday evening from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., January 13th, with services at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 14th at Sawyer-George Funeral Home. Graveside services will follow with burial at Robstown Memorial Park.
Katherine Wende
Katherine Jane Wende passed away on Jan. 8, 2008.
Memorial services for Katherine Wende will be held at Salado United Methodist Church 10:30 Jan. 19. Pastor Travis Franklin will officiate the service.
She was born July 31, 1925 to Leonard and Nana Cain, in Dallas, Texas. Growing up in different locations around the state, she graduated from Austin High School. She then went on to the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a degree in music education.
Following completion of her studies, she taught music at the University Junior High School and led its choir to numerous top music awards in music competition.
On December 27, 1947, she married
William I. Wende, They were husband and wife for 60 years. They reared two sons.
Over the years, they lived all over the nation and eventually all over the world, as Bill was transferred with Mobil Oil Corporation. Wherever they went, Katherine continued her musical vocation. She sang as a professional soloist in choirs and an operatic company, served as director for a number of church and community choral programs, and conservatories such as Julliard and Hart, and performed in a variety of professional venues, including Broadway.
In addition, Katherine had a gift for writing and, while living in Indonesia, compiled the notes that became the foundation for her novel, The Kris Murders.
In 1993, Katherine and Bill Wende retired to Salado. During this time, Katherine along with Marge Kirkman a concert Pianist, organized the Salado Women’s Chorale. The chorale has now been expanded to include men and is renamed the Salado Community Chorus.
In her honor, her husband donated the bells for the new Katherine J. Wende handbell choir at Salado United Methodist Church.
She is survived by her husband William I. Wende and two sons Stephen Wende of Houston and David Wende of Ft. Worth.
William Bratton
William Edward Bratton, 88, of Monarch Beach, California, passed away on January 6, 2008, surrounded by his loving family.
Bill was born on October 25, 1919, in Dallas, Texas, to William and Edna Bratton. Bill moved to Glendale, California, in 1932, where he graduated from Glendale High School and Glendale Junior College. Bill received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1940, and went on to attend Harvard School of Business in 1945 and 1946. Bill served as a Liutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Bill began his professional career in 1947, at General Precision's Librascope Division. He was named President in 1959. He is considered a pioneer in the electronics field. Bill joined Ampex Corporation in 1963, as Vice President. He became President of Guidance Technology, Inc., in 1967. In 1970, he was named Vice President of General Dynamics Electrodynamics Division. In 1975, he was named President of Theta Cable, where he remained until his retirement in 1981. From 1977 until 1990, Bill served as a director of Glendale Federal Savings.
Bill and his family resided in La Canada, California, from 1955 until 1972, where he was active at Oakmont Country Club and many community organizations. He moved to Monarch Beach, California in 1972. Bill is a Founder and Past President of El Niguel Country Club in El Niguel, California. He has always been an avid golfer. Bill also served as President of the Monarch Bay Association in Monarch Beach.
Bill purchased the historic Staqecoach Inn in Salado, Texas, in 1959. The Inn and its development became his passion for the next 40 years. Stagecoach Inn remains one of Texas' finest historic resorts. Upon his retirement in 1999, Bill and his wife Betty were named "Honorary Mayors" of Salado.
Bill was loved and respected by all who knew him. He molded and influenced countless lives. Bill was the undisputed head and heart of his family. His love and generosity were beyond measure. He will be deeply missed.
Bill married
Betty Thume on May 30, 1942, at the Church of the Angels in Pasadena, California. They enjoyed 65 beautiful years of marriage. Bill is survived by Betty, his beloved wife, and his three daughters: Dale Schumacher, Janet Gravette, and Donna Bratton-Kearns. He is also survived by seven grand children and six great grand children.
A Private family service will be held and the Church of the Angels in Pasadena, California, on Saturday, January 12, followed by interment at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills.
Donations may be made to the Alzheimers Association
