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Jean Louise Warner Meece
ODESSA — Jean Louise Warner Meece, our beloved wife and mother, went to be with her savior Jesus Christ in heaven Monday, June 3, 2002, after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today, June 5, 2002, in the chapel of Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors with the Rev. Terry Wright officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Jean was a member of Westover Baptist Church in Odessa where she professed her faith to Jesus Christ on Dec. 9, 1981. Jean was born in Sayre, Pa., to the late Lester and Florence Warner. Jean’s calling professionally was to become a registered nurse, which she dutifully and diligently served for over 25 years. Jean was a member of the Nurse Cadet Corp. where she was stationed in Wickenburg, Ariz., when she met and married
the love of her life, Dale Meece, April 2, 1950. During Jean’s nursing career, she and Dale moved throughout the United States where Jean resumed duties at each stop along the journey. Jean’s skills were widely varied, allowing her to care for patients ranging from infants to the elderly. Jean’s courage even called her to perform ambulance duties for “iron-lung” patients stricken with polio during the post-World War II outbreak.
Jean was preceded in life-after-death by her parents.
She is survived by her husband, Dale Meece of Odessa; daughter, Diane Smith and husband Ronnie of Odessa; sons, Jeff Meece and wife Vickie of Covington, La., and Warner Meece and wife Stacey of Denver City; brothers, Lester Warner and wife Bernice of Alvin and Bruce Warner and wife Delores of Englewood, Colo.; sisters, Janice Martz of Eddison, N.J., and Joanne Luker of Odessa; 10 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
The family requests donations be made in lieu of flowers to the Door of Hope Mission in memory of Jean.
Services have been entrusted to Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors.
Steven Dale Waldron
CHICKASHA, Okla. — Steven Dale Waldron was called to the Lord on Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at his residence in Taos, N.M.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, June 7, 2002, in Chickasha, Okla. Arrangements are being handled by Sevier Funeral Home, 701 W. Chickasha Ave., Chickasha, Okla.
He was born July 6, 1961, in Odessa. He moved to Midland in 1963. He was a graduate of Robert E. Lee High School. He was employed by Co-Ex Pipe Co. and had served as president of Alpha Equipment Inc.
He is survived by his son, Steven Lee Waldron of Midland; his parents, Dale and Sue Brown Waldron of Midland; a sister, Marsha Waldron Matthews and husband Scott; a niece, Marcee Carol Teaff; and a nephew, Sean Waldron Matthews, all of Phoenix, Ariz. He is also survived by his grandmother, Helene Brunt Waldron of Chickasha, Okla., and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.
Memorials may be directed to Hospice of Midland, P.O. Box 2621, Midland, Texas, 79702, or any charity.
Frances Lucile Currie Hogue
STANTON — Frances Lucile Currie Hogue, 93, of Odessa died Sunday, June 2, 2002, at the Hospice House of Odessa.
Graveside funeral services will be at 2 p.m. today, June 5, 2002, at Evergreen cemetery in Stanton with Chaplain Emmett Barnard of Home Hospice officiating.
She was born Jan. 24, 1909, in Belmont, La. Frances had lived in Odessa for 20 years. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. She liked to crochet and ceramics. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Odessa.
Survivors include four daughters and two sons-in-law, Maydell Kimbrough of Olney, Lurlene and Jessie Gregg of Andrews, Elsie and Raymond Chavez of Goldsmith and Mary Nell Pruett of Arlington; one son and daughter-in-law, Wayne and Sylvia Hogue of San Antonio; one brother, Wilford W. Currie of Carlsbad; 13 grandchildren, Franklin Robinson, Eileen Croxton, Kenneth Robinson, Karen Hirst, Frances Collins, Freddie Hess, Leslie Chavez, Debra Chavez Black, Danny Wayne Hogue, Brian Hogue, John Wesley Hogue, Kevin Woodall and Sherrie Kennedy; 26 great-grandchildren; 14 great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family suggests memorials to Hospice House Foundation Inc., 903 N. Sam Houston Ave., Odessa, Texas, 79761.
Arrangements under the direction of Gilbreath Funeral Home.
Ryan Antilley
ODESSA — Ryan Keith Antilley, 21, passed away Friday, Aug. 30, 2002, at Medical Center Hospital. He was born May 14, 1981, to Robert and Laura Antilley in Odessa, Texas.
Ryan was a lifetime resident of Odessa. He enjoyed jet skiing, driving his new Harris Kyotboat at Horseshoe Bay, swimming, computers, fishing, weightlifting and most of all driving his Pontiac Trans Am.
He graduated Permian High School in 1999. He attended Odessa College, University of Texas of the Permian Basin and Texas Tech. He was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Chapel services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, 2002, at Sunset Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Melvin Warren of First Baptist Church officiating.
Survivors include his parents, Keith and Laura Antilley of Odessa; his grandparents, Weldon and Bette Campbell of Odessa and Bob and Winnie Antilley of Austin; an aunt, Kerrie Engelmann and husband Scott of Pfugerville; and an uncle, Richard Campbell and wife Sharon of Seabrook, Texas.
Services are under the direction of Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.
C.D. Gale
ODESSA — C.D. Gale, age 75, of Odessa, passed away at Memorial Hospital and Medical Center in Midland on Aug. 31, 2002.
Services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Hubbard-Kelly Chapel with the Rev. Doug Herget officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
C.D. was born Nov. 19, 1926, in Mitchell County to Robert Lee and Lula Mae Gale. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant in 1945. He attended college in Abilene for three years and then married
Elena Marie Hendrich on March 11, 1949, in Colorado City.
He and his wife came to Odessa in 1968. He had worked 31 years for Plains Machinery Company and retired as Vice President and General Manager. He was a member of Odessa Tabernacle.
His parents; a sister, Lillian May; and brothers, retired Major Louis Gale, Willie Lee Gale and Henry Gale preceded him in death.
Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Elena Gale of Odessa; a son, Dave Lewis Gale of Forney; two grandchildren, Preston Scott Gale and Ashley Elena Gale both of Forney; and two nieces and three nephews.
Services are entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
Robbie Ladyman Hess
CRANE — Robbie Ladyman Hess, 64, of Crane, died Friday, Aug. 30, 2002, at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 2, 2002, in the Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Steve Baker officiating. Burial will follow in the Crane County cemetery. Services are under the direction of Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home.
Mrs. Hess was born July 12, 1938, in Oklahoma City. She married
Robert “Bob” Hess on Aug. 13, 1955, in Borger, Texas. She had worked for First State Bank and for Permian Accounting before her retirement.
She was preceded in death by her father, Haskell Burnis Ladyman and a brother, H.D. Ladyman.
She is survived by her husband, Bob Hess of Crane; her mother, Ludie Dee Ladyman of Odessa; three children, Sherrill Hess Roberts and husband Steve of Webster, Texas, Rusty Hess and wife Freddie of Flora Vista, N.M. and Darrell Hess and wife Jo of Webster; a sister, Jewell Ladyman Brewer and husband Dale of Odessa; sister-in-law, Phyllis Ladyman of Chickasha, Okla.; and grandchildren, Danielle and Kyle Hess of Flora Vista, N.M. and Derick and Tyler Hess of Crane.
Pallbearers will be Bud Taylor, Danny Simmons, Lynn Till, Shane Taylor, Derick Hess and David Brewer.
Melba Shannon
ODESSA — Melba Jane Shannon, 62, passed away Friday, Aug. 30, 2002, at her residence. She was born Jan. 20, 1940, to Charles and Christine Reid in Brownfield, Texas.
Melba was a resident of Odessa and a member of Primitive Baptist Church in Brownfield. She had owned Water Plus since 1991. She passed after fighting a brief battle with cancer. She married
John Shannon on Oct. 4, 1956, in Seminole.
Chapel services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 2, 2002, at Sunset Memorial Funeral Chapel with Troy Wilke officiating.
Her husband, her father and one sister, Avis Shurley, all preceded her in death.
Survivors include her two sons, Richard Alan Shannon and wife Marleen of Odessa and Steven Paul Shannon and wife Lacrisa of Houston; a daughter, Lora Mansel and husband Max of Phoenix, Ariz; mother, Christine Reid of Brownfield; a brother, Glen Reid of Brownfield; and 11 grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Midland.
Services are under the direction of Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.
Warren Burnett
CLEAR LAKE — Texas lawyer Warren Burnett, 75, designated by the Texas Bar Association as a “living legend” two years ago, died of a heart attack Monday, Sept. 23, while he and his wife, Kay, were visiting in Fort Davis, Texas. The Burnetts have a home in League City and a beach house in Galveston.
He was stricken while drinking an afternoon beer with his wife and a friend in the garden patio at a Fort Davis bed-and-breakfast establishment. Jeff Davis County EMTs gave immediate emergency treatment to Burnett.
Burnett was known for his eloquent use of the English language in the courtroom, “pure poetry” according to a colleague, and superb courtroom strategy. Beginning in 1951, Burnett distinguished himself as a 23-year-old district attorney for Odessa and Midland in the 70th Judicial District. After two terms he opened his own practice as a trial lawyer. He tried jury cases all over Texas, New Mexico, California, Boston, etc. He flew his own airplane from trial to trial. His law practice out of Odessa spanned 40 years.
He became a controversial figure in the 1960s and 1970s doing a lot of pro bono work: getting Hispanics integrated into the system in the Texas Valley; participating in demonstrations and boycotts against grape growers’ alleged mistreatment of Caesar Chavez and his stoop-labor farms workers; nuclear waste dumps in Texas; as well as organizing memorial marches honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Odessa. West Texas conservatives abhorred his liberal politics.
What was not in the news and the limelight, was Burnett’s generosity. He gave millions to nonprofit organizations. He did not talk about it, but he paid for numerous young people’s education, often hiring them to clerk for him if in law school, and then helping them get established in the practice of law, as writers, teachers or whatever they wanted to be. Burnett did not charge a client if he didn’t win their case, shared all his legal fees with his entire staff, established a Chair at Texas Tech and established scholarship funds for minorities at University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He provided the seed money to establish a multi-media arts center founded by his wife, Kay. Together, they created a charitable foundation and named it after his mother, Gladys B.
Burnett was born to a lead and zinc miner, Jim and wife, Gladys Burnett, in Austinville, Va, on May 4, 1927. He was the star pitcher of the high school baseball team and was voted by classmates “most likely to succeed.” He laughed and agreed with the exclamation by an Austinville contemporary who became a barber in the House barbershop in Congress: “I never was so surprised to see somebody do as good as Warren had did. He never was nothin’ special in Austinville. About all he done was lay around and read books.”
LIFE magazine named Warren Burnett in 1962 as one of the “Red-Hot Hundred, ” a foldout gallery of the young leaders in the United States who met the criteria of “1) tough, self-imposed standards of individual excellence; 2) a zest for hard work; 3) a dedication to something larger than themselves; 4) the courage to act against old problems; 5) the boldness to try out new ideas; 6) a hard-bitten, undaunted hopefulness about man.” Burnett was ranked along with playwright Edward Albee; Boeing’s Harry Goldie; NASA’s Chris Kraft, Jr.; writer John Updike; opera singer Leontyne Price; and physicist Murray Gell-Mann. In 1969, he was featured in Harper’s magazine. Numerous articles have been written about him in Texas newspapers and magazines.
Burnett attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), now known as Virginia Tech, after graduating from high school, but dropped out to join the U.S. Marines. He served in the China-Burma Theater near the end of World War II. Former Galveston Superintendent of Schools, Frank Vollart, served with Burnett. After the war Vollart called Warren Burnett through the “company store” in Austinville and suggested he come to Texas and attend Lamar College in Beaumont with him. Burnett hitchhiked to Texas, attended Lamar on the G.I. Bill, and roomed with Vollart. Burnett was an English major with dreams of being a writer. “I was tired of being poor, and I realized a chimpanzee could be a lawyer and make money at it, ” Burnett has said through the years. He applied to Baylor Law School, “because it was the only place I could get in at mid-term.”
He thumbed rides to San Antonio for his first job in the district attorney’s office upon graduation from law school and passing the Texas State Bar exams, and soon applied and was hired as a trial lawyer in the Odessa office of John Watts.
Moving to Galveston in his late 50s, Burnett opened a small branch office. “I keep this small office and the Odessa office open only to help young lawyers, and the investigators and secretaries who work there, ” he told friends. He rarely practiced law after that, and would share a percentage with young lawyers who worked on his cases, taking over those files. He occasionally returned to West Texas for a trial, but spent more time with old buddies and various ladies. He eventually gave his law practice to his oldest son, Abner, in the mid 1990s.
Warren Burnett is survived by Kay Taylor Burnett, his wife and constant companion of the last 15 years; daughters, Melissa Burnett and husband Wayne Warren of Midland and Emily Burnett of San Antonio; stepdaughter, Stacie Pauls and husband Allan Leggé of League City; sons, Abner Burnett and wife Susan of Mexico, and Paul Burnett of Houston; stepsons Britt Pauls and wife Lou Wunch of Galveston and Taylor Pauls and wife Priscilla Rios of League City; grandchildren, Hunter and Blake Leggé and Kayte Pauls; and also Burnett’s cat, Nasdaq, and the family dog, Dow Jones.
A memorial celebration of Warren Burnett’s life is set for 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, at The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake. It is for friend and foe alike.
Memorials may be sent to the Warren Burnett Fund at The Arts Alliance Center, 2000 NASA Road 1, Nassau Bay, TX 77058.
Kenneth Horne
KERMIT — Kenneth Horne, 63, of Kermit, a drilling superintendent for Schlumberger Sedco Forex, died Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002, at the Methodist Hospital in Houston.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002, at the Eastside Church of Christ with Brian McGonagill officiating. Burial will follow at Kermit cemetery.
He was born Jan. 16, 1939, in DeQueen, Ark., and was a 58-year resident of Kermit.
He married
Emma Jean Stodghill on Sept. 28, 1961, in Kermit. He was a member of the Eastside Church of Christ in Kermit.
He was a past Cub Scout Leader and an assistant Boy Scout Leader.
He was preceded in death by one son, Dwain Horne in 1998; two brothers, Billy Horne and Robert Horne; one sister, Carolyn Horne; and his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Emma Jean Horne of Kermit; son, David Horne of Corpus Christi; daughter, Donna Horne of Kermit; two brothers, Perry Horne of Clute and Charles Horne Moore, Okla.; two grandchildren, Jonathan Horne of Lubbock and Quentin Horne of Kermit; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Skipper Martin, Charles Adams, Don Kapka, Howard McKay, Don Smith and Gary Ferguson.
Arrangements by Cooper Funeral Home.
