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Wanda Murray
Wanda Erline Murray, 69, a business owner, of Odessa, died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, at Home Hospice.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Sunset Memorial Chapel with the Rev. David Kirby officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Arrangements by Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home.
SURVIVORS: Husband, Ed Murray of Odessa; sons, Larry Murray, Jim Murray and Bill Murray, all of Odessa; brother, Doyle Kirby of Odessa; sisters, Ruth Murray of Louisiana, Louise Murray of Oklahoma; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Edna Ottaberry
MONAHANS — Edna Ottaberry, 84, of Monahans, a retired nurse, died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, at her residence.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bethel Baptist Church with the Revs. Gordon Cox and Owen Sharp officiating. Burial will follow in the Monahans Memorial cemetery. Arrangements by Heritage Funeral Home.
She was born in Drumright, Okla. She was Baptist.
SURVIVORS: Husband, Billy Ottaberry of Monahans; daughters, Shirley West of Shreveport, La., Glenda Littlejohn of Monahans and Jo Wray of Odessa; 17 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren.
Franklin Shull
ODESSA — Franklin Lee Shull, 65, of Oakdale, Minn., died Thursday, Feb. 6, 2003, at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa.
Graveside services will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Ector County cemetery. Arrangements by Odessa Funeral Home.
SURVIVORS: None listed.
Naomi Harris
MIDLAND — Naomi Harris, 77, of Odessa, died Saturday Feb. 8, 2003, in Midland.
Services are pending with Ellis Funeral Home.
Nancy Johnson
ODESSA — Nancy Jo Johnson, 62, of Odessa, died Friday, Feb. 7, 2003, at Hospice House.
Services are pending with Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors.
W.F. Rutledge
SEYMOUR — W.F. “Bill” Rutledge, 88, of Odessa, a retired farmer, died Friday, Feb. 7, 2003, at University Medical Center in Lubbock.
Services are pending with Archer Funeral Home in Seymour.
Gonzala Trejo
Gonzala Cabr Trejo, 88, if Odessa, died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa.
Services are pending with Martinez Funeral Home.
Sofia Prado Franco
ODESSA — Sofia Prado Franco, 73, of Odessa passed away Monday, Feb. 24, 2003, at the Hospice House. She was born March 16, 1929, in Fort Stockton. She moved to Odessa in 1952. She was a homemaker and a Catholic.
She is survived by her husband G. S. “Willie” Franco of Odessa; daughters, Gloria Madrid of Fort Stockton and Billie Franco Spurgin and husband, Steve, of Marfa; brothers, Robert and Eloy Prado, both of Odessa; sisters, Triene Terrazas of Fort Stockton and Paula Urias and Pascuala Abeyta, both of Odessa; and two grandchildren, Stephanie Spurgin of Marfa and Will Tyler Spurgin of Santa Fe, N.M.
Pallbearers will be Danny Urias, Tony Chavez, Tyler Spurgin, Ricky Abeyta, Manuel Prado Jr. and Ernesto Prado.
Funeral mass will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2003, at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church with the Rev. Frank Chavez officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
Eva ‘Lou’ Fitzgerald
Eva “Lou” Fitzgerald, of Odessa, age 65, went home to the Lord on February 22, 2003, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born January 3, 1938, in Kansas to Maurice and Evelyn Lucille Burris.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at Sunset Memorial Chapel with Rev. Jack Watkins officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Lou spent many years in the restaurant business with most of those years at Doby’s BBQ and The Barn Door. She also owned and operated The Gourmet Grub and Jerry’s Coffee Shop. Her most recent employment before her illness was Manager of Friend’s Convenience Store. At the time of her passing, she was retired. Even through her illness, Mother completed and also worked briefly for H & R Income Tax.
One of her greatest joys was spending time with her family, and her critters, B.J. and Princess (Prince). She will be missed so very much. Lou is preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Bob and “Sarge” Burris, all of Kansas; and two sons, Rodney Barton and Jamie McPherson.
She is survived by two brothers, Mike Burris of Hobbs, N.M., and “Babe” Burris of Utah; her daughters, Janie Holdridge of Hobbs, N.M., and Melody McPherson and Debbie Dutton, both of Odessa; her baby boy, Stacy Graham of Odessa; and grandchildren, Waylon, Coy, and “Mandy” Holdridge, all of Hobbs, N.M., Chasity Trevino of Eunice, N.M., Clayton Dutton of Seminole, Texas, Kyle Dutton of Midland, Texas,; Kris Dutton of Odessa, Jamie Graham of Odessa, Jeremy Graham of Abilene, Texas, Brian Barton of Seminole, Texas, and Nikki McPherson of Odessa; two great-grandchildren, Shaylea and McKenzee Trevino of Eunice, N.M., and one more on the way in Hobbs, N.M.
Special thanks to all the staff at Odyssey Hospice for their support and concern for Mother, and to her primary caretaker, her precious daughter Melody.
Arrangements are entrusted to Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home.
Alice Rosemary Parks
ODESSA — Alice Rosemary Parks, 67, passed away Sunday, Feb. 23, 2003, at Medical Center Hospital following a sudden illness. She was born May 10, 1935, to Thelma Frances and Joseph Marvin Lawson in Fort Worth. She graduated in 1952 from Big Spring High School where she earned the title as first runner up as “Miss Big Spring.” After graduation, she joined Braniff Airlines as a flight attendant.
Rosemary married
Prince Rupert Ricker in 1954 and lived throughout Europe where she was blessed with two daughters, Gina Farrell and Prinny Ham, both of Odessa. She later married
Les Ming and had a son whom she loved dearly, Les Ming Jr. of Santa Barbara, Calif. She worked for many years in the optical field before retiring. In the prime of her life, she was very beautiful and was blessed with a wonderful personality and was loved by many.
She was preceded in death by her father, Joseph Marvin Lawson.
She is survived by her mother, Thelma Francis Barham; sister, Judith Ann Grigsby and her husband, Cuin; son, Les Ming Jr.; daughters, Gina Farrell and Prinny Ham; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
Blessed the bed our mother laid on, for Angels gathered around her bed, and four Angels were around her head. One to watch, one to pray, and two to bear her soul away. Rest in peace, Mother we love you.
Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
Matria Ethel Whiteley
CROSS PLAINS — Graveside services for Matria Ethel Riddle Whiteley, 85, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Cross Plains cemetery, Cross Plains, Texas. Henry Pinkston of Abilene, Texas, will be officiating. Arrangements entrusted to Mowery Funeral Service of Owasso, Okla.
Matria died after a long and lengthy bout with Alzheimer’s at Concordia Care Center in Bella Vista, Ark., Friday evening, February 21, 2003. She was born in Rochester, Texas, Haskell County, July 20, 1917. She married
Russell LeRoy Riddle, February 2, 1935. He passed away December 22, 1998. They moved to Odessa, Texas, in 1941. She worked at the cafeteria at Odessa High School as cashier and cook until 1955 when she married
Cecil Merrill Whiteley and moved to Hurst, Texas. She continued working at the cafeteria at Bell High School where she retired. Mr. Whiteley deceased February 15, 1981. She then married
Arthur Wiley Whiteley and moved to New Castle, Texas, on June 29, 1982. Arthur passed away June 22, 1996. Matria developed Alzheimer’s about 1990.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Bill and Nealie Pinkston; a son, Michael LeRoy Riddle; a daughter, Anna Marie Riddle Bowden; and two brothers, Raymond Pinkston and Howard Pinkston.
Survivors include daughter and son-in-law, Harold and LaQuitta Webber of Bella Vista, Ark.; granddaughter and grandson-in-law, Janetta and Elmo Halverson; two grandchildren, Joshua and Mandi Halverson of Sand Springs, Okla.; grandson, Mike Webber of Bentonville, Ark.; two sisters, Opal Bratcher of Carlsbad, N.M., and Bernice Warner of Friendswood, Texas; brother and sister-in-law, Bill and Vida Pinkston of Stanton, Texas; and several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, Oklahoma Chapter, 6465 S. Yale, Suite 206, Tulsa, OK 74136-7804.
E.H. ‘Chunky’ Hendrick
ODESSA — E.H. “Chunky” Hendrick was called to be with his heavenly father Sunday February 23, 2003.
Chunky, as he had affectionately come to be known, was born in Odessa October 20, 1919. The youngest son of B.C and Elizabeth Hendrick, one of Odessa’s pioneering families, Chunky spent a lifetime working to improve the community he so dearly loved.
Chunky graduated from Odessa High School in 1936 where he was a member of the varsity football team. He worked for the family owned funeral business (currently Hubbard-Kelly funeral home) and for the family owned hardware store. Upon graduation from high school, he attended Texas Christian University for a short time before he transferred to Texas Military College. Throughout the 1930’s Chunky engaged in various occupations including a short stint in the oil industry. His patriotism led him to enlist in the United States Army to fight in World War II. Chunky was a member of the Army Air Force, a commitment that provided his first exposure to the field of communications, which would play a major role in his professional future. Chunky briefly joined the Flying Cadets, an organization that trains enlisted men to fly, but soon realized his real gifts were in leadership. In 1942 he was transferred to officer training school in Boca Raton, Florida, emerging as a second Lieutenant and receiving his commission from Yale University. On January 9,1944, Chunky married
Virginia Ruth Tucker. The couple was transferred to New York, Connecticut, Kansas and Nebraska, where he trained with the B-29 fighting group. In 1944, Chunky received his war assignment and was transferred to Sal Pan with the 498th bombing group in the 873rd squadron and was promoted to Captain. He was decommissioned in 1945 and returned to Odessa to be with his wife and their first child, Mary Elizabeth, followed by son Edwin Henry Jr. in 1948 and daughter Marcia Lee in 1951.
Chunky spent the next years of his life establishing a career, and defining his role in the community. Among some of his most proud accomplishments, he worked as one of the first paid firefighters in the city of Odessa and conducted a radio program called “The Man on the Street” in which he would interview passersby and reward them with a warm loaf of bread.
In 1956 Chunky began his long and successful career as a stockbroker. For 32 years he played an active role in the business community. In the 1960’s he served as president of the board of Trustees for E.C.I.S.D. He also spent four years on the Board of Directors for Odessa College where he served a president, and two years as Chairman of the Board for Medical Center Hospital, formerly the Ector County Hospital District. Chunky was one of the original founders and first commanding officer for the American Legion, established the local chapter of the National Guard Unit, and helped to establish the Boys Club of Odessa. He was a lifetime member of the First Christian Church.
In 1980, Chunky was elected Justice of the Peace Precinct 2. During those years, Judge Hendrick presided over civil and criminal cases, acted as the county coroner, and was commissioned to preside over marriages.
Remembered by many for his characteristic red suspenders and cigar, Chunky was an avid sports fan, rarely missing a Permian or Odessa High School football game. He will he greatly missed by his family and those who had the privilege of knowing this fine gentleman. Chunky was preceded in death by his wife, Virginia Ruth; brothers, Tinker and Son Hendrick; and sister, Elizabeth Divine. He is survived by his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Stanfield and husband, Dave, of Fort Worth, Hank Hendrick and wife, Carolyn, of Odessa, daughter, Marcy Hubbard and husband, Maurice, of Odessa; grandsons, Wayne Lester King Jr., Dennis Harrison, Bryan Harrison and Shawn Harrison; and granddaughters, Marcy King Esparza and Tatum Hubbard-Fulbrigbt. Chunky had 11 great-grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. A memorial service is planned for Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 10 a.m. at First Christian Church Odessa, with the Rev. David Mindel officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to First Christian Church Odessa, Special Olympics-Team Odessa or the Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center.
