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Dorothy Ray VanHouten
Pampa - Dorothy Ray VanHouten, 78, passed away Sunday, July 24, 2005, in Oberlin, La., after a long illness.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 28, at Fairview cemetery with the Rev. Bob Hudson, pastor of the Bible Baptist Church, officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa.
Dorothy was born Nov. 24, 1926, in Stanton, Texas, as Dorothy Ray Bailey. She worked as a nurse in the Big Spring area in the early 1950s to the late 1960s, then in the Odessa and Kermit areas until the early 1970s. She was instrumental in the starting of the Howard College Nursing School and was a graduate of the first class taught. She never met a stranger and never passed up anyone in need of help. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend and she will be sorely missed and happily remembered.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Guy Bailey Jr. and Bill Bailey; a sister, Lena Briles; and a grandson, Antonio Esqueda.
Her survivors include her husband, W.C. VanHouten; three children, Earlene Esqueda, Elaine White and Wayne Trantham; four stepchildren, Wynell Bohannon, Donald VanHouten, David VanHouten and Linda Whitley; two sisters, Lou Darden and Linda Currie; 26 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
Josefina Vasquez Cobarrubio
McCamey - Josefina Vasquez Cobarrubio, 95, passed away Monday, Aug. 15, 2005, at Seabury Center in Odessa.
Mrs. Cobarrubio was a homemaker and Catholic.
A Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. today at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McCamey, Texas. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the church with the Rev. Nilo Nalugon officiating. Burial will follow at Resthaven cemetery in McCamey.
The survivors include her sons, Jacinto V. Cobarrubio of Kearney, Neb., and Domingo V. Cobarrubio of Odessa; daughters, Louisa C. Garcia of McCamey, Frances C. Molina of Crystal City, and Margaret E. Cobarrubio of Hobbs, N.M.; 26 grandchildren; 52 great-grandchildren; and 14 great-great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are under the direction of Martinez Funeral Home.
Lonnie Gardner
Texas City - Lonnie Gardner, 59, of Texas City, Texas (formerly of Odessa, Texas), passed away Sunday, August 14, 2005, at his residence.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, August 16, 2005, at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City. No services will be held.
Mr. Gardner was born October 23, 1945, in Vernon, Texas. He was an operator for Sterling Chemicals in Texas City. He proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy.
Survivors include his daughters, Brandi Gardner of Angleton, Texas, and Dawn Gardner of Alvin, Texas; grandchildren, Elena Gardner and Anthony Gardner, both of Angleton; brother, Freddie Gardner of Odessa; and sister, Virginia Lamberton of Boerne, Texas.
Juria Heiser
CRANE - Juria Heiser went to her Lord on Aug. 13, 2005, at her home after a lengthy illness.
She was a retired L.V.N. for many years.
She was born on Oct. 27, 1927, in Eastland County, of Realous and Beulah Maynard. She was married
to Frank Heiser on Oct. 28, 1951. He preceded her in death Jan. 2, 1996.
She is survived by her children, Kay and Floyd Smith, Nina Heiser, Bert Heiser and Teresa Jacques; her brother, B.J. Maynard and wife Frankie, all of Crane; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and numerous friends and family.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today, Aug. 16, at the Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be at Crane County cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home.
Ronald Miller
Pecos - Ronald Miller, 90, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, in Pecos, Texas, after a long battle with cancer.
He was born July 4, 1915, in Minden, Louisiana. He was a retired farmer and had lived in Pecos for fifty years.
He is survived by his beloved wife of sixty-seven years, Finora Neeb Miller of Pecos; sons, John Miller and wife, Jane, of San Obispo, California, and Dale Miller and wife, Nancy, of Norman, Oklahoma; daughter, Marsha Miller Moorhead and husband, Larry, of Huffman, Texas; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Mr. Miller’s early years were mostly spent in Fabens, Texas, as a member of a cotton and alfalfa farming family, the J.P. Millers. After graduating from high school, he was awarded an athletic scholarship to Howard Payne College in Brownwood, where he lettered in varsity football and track. He graduated in 1936 with a B.A. degree and taught school and coached for a short time in DeLeon and Fort Hancock, Texas. In 1938 he married
Finora Elizabeth Neeb of Cross Plains, Texas, also a graduate of Howard Payne.
The launch of his farming career was interrupted almost immediately by the outbreak of World War II. Mr. Miller enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942 and eventually received his commission as an officer. He was discharged in late 1945 with the rank of Ensign.
After the war, he resumed his farming operations, which were to span forty years in both the El Paso and Hudspeth counties in 1951 and served on the ASCS committee in Reeves County for several years. He retired in 1983 to pursue his favorite pastimes, golf and flying. He was a very competitive golfer and an instrument rated pilot.
He was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church of Pecos and a member of the Masonic Lodge. Memorials may be designated to the First Baptist Church of Pecos, American Cancer Society or other favorite charities.
Services are under the direction of Pecos Funeral Home.
Charles Notley
ODESSA - Charles Notley, 53, of Odessa, passed away Saturday, August 13, 2005, at Medical Center Hospital.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Cumberland Presbyterian Church with the Dr. Jimmy Braswell and the Rev. James Channell officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Charles was born on February 28, 1952, in Durant, Oklahoma, to Robert and Lorene (Irwin) Notley. He married
Denise Anne Denney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on September 18, 1971. He was the co-owner of John Distributing and a member of Cumberland Presbyterian.
He is preceded in death by his father, Robert Mitchell Notley; and brother, Robert Mitchell Notley Jr.
He is survived by his wife, Denise Notley of Odessa; sons, C.B. Notley Jr. of Odessa, Philip Notley and wife, Jill, of Waco, and Nathan Notley of Dallas; daughter, Anna Jones and husband, Cole, of Odessa; mother, Leta Lorene Notley of Odessa; brothers, Richard B. Notley and wife, Sharon, of Odessa, and Thomas Notley and wife, Shirley, of Odessa; grandchildren, Trace, Andy and Noah, all of Odessa.
Services are entrusted to Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors.
Earl Louis Perkins
Midland - Earl Louis Perkins, of Los Angeles, Calif., was born on July 13, 1923, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He died peacefully on that same day, eighty-two years later, surrounded by those who loved him most.
He was raised in Grand Forks by a large and loving, extended family. He attended the University of North Dakota until he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, where he served as a navigator in Europe during World War II. After the war, he graduated from UND, and in 1948, moved to Midland, Texas, as a geologist for Argo Oil Company. He married
Dene Richardson in 1953 and they had two children: Corby and Marc. “Perk” moved his family to Odessa in 1963 and built a thriving service station business before returning to the oilfield as a consultant. After his retirement, Perk and Dene built a home at Canyon Lake, Texas, where their children and grandchildren enjoyed many happy summers. Perk and Dene moved to Los Angeles in 2001 to be near those children and grandchildren.
Perk was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend. He worked hard and played harder. He could build a house, rebuild an engine, grill a perfect steak and teach a toddler to swim. He loved bridge, poker with the boys at Orla, gin rummy, practical jokes involving chupacabras, old and new friends, family trips to North Dakota and feeding the fish at Lake of the Woods, searching for Mary Whitefeather, ice-cold margaritas, hunting for arrowheads, a meal anytime of the day at Eva’s Cafe, Sunday afternoons by the pool, anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs or Ayn Rand, gladiator movies, ribald stories, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble and good opera.
He spent many happy summers hiking to the “dirty beach” with his grandchildren and sharing their zest for exploration. He was a scholar and a gentleman and he knew every drinking song in the English language. His spelling was abysmal, but he was a relentless and pedagoguish grammarian, different from any other. He loved dogs, cats, feeding corn to his deer, and “The Last of the Mohicans.” He was proud of his North Dakota heritage but delighted in satirizing his home state; he taught us all that the state flower of North Dakota was mildew, and that the state tree was the telephone pole. We continue to chant “Why not, Minot?” On those rare occasions when it actually snowed in Texas, Perk would observe that it was “just like a letter from home.” He could point out an incise meander, a mammoth tusk, a meteor shower or a good Galliano with equal aplomb.
Perk always understood that our lives are not measured by the number of breaths that we take — but by the moments that take our breath away. He created a lifetime of these moments for us all.
A celebration of his life is planned for November 26, 2005, in Midland. Togas optional.
For more information, please e-mail Corby Baumgarten at cbaumgarten@speakeasy.net.
Fred L. Rabe
Odessa - Fred L. Rabe, 64, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, August 14, 2005, at Midland Memorial Hospital.
The family will receive visitors from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. today, August 16, at Frank Wilson Funeral Directors.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 17, at Eisenhower Church of Christ with Burt Groves officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Fred was born March 12, 1941, in Seymour, Texas, to Fred M. and Christine (Wood) Rabe.
He was the director of Safety and Risk Insurance for Big Dog Drilling and Endeavor Energy. He married
Lou Ann Gray on September 7, 1963, in Odessa. Fred was a 1960 graduate of Permian High School. He was an avid hunter and classic car enthusiast. Fred enjoyed restoring classic cars, Mustangs, Cushman Scooters, antique jukeboxes and antique coke machines. He was a charter member of the West Texas Street Rod Association and a member of 6th & Jackson Church of Christ.
He is preceded in death by his father, Fred M. Rabe; and grandson, Brandon Shipley.
He is survived by his wife, Lou Ann Rabe of Odessa; son, Lee M. Rabe and wife, Traci, of Odessa; daughter, Debra Shipley and husband, Terry, of Odessa; mother, Christine Rabe of Chico, Texas; sister, Pennie Smith and husband, Garry, of Chico, Texas; and grandchildren, Justin Shipley and Payton Rabe.
Services are entrusted to Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors.
William Spencer ‘Bill’ Rich
Seminole - Memorial services for William Spencer “Bill” Rich, 57, of Denver City, formerly of Seminole and Silverton, Colo., will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005, at the Community Chapel in Seminole with Joel Miller officiating. Services are under the direction of Boyer Funeral Home of Seminole.
Mr. Rich passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, at his residence in Denver City. He was born on April 22, 1948, in Poania, Colo. He had been a resident of Denver City for just a short time and a resident of Seminole before that, having moved from Silverton, Colo. He was a miner in Colorado. He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and was a highly decorated veteran receiving many citation medals.
He is survived by his wife of 30 years, Beverly Rich of Silverton, Colo.; mother, Hazel Rich Scheer of Seminole; one brother, Frank L. Rich of Malvern, Iowa; two sisters, Jeannine L. Rich of Augusta, Ga., and Jeannette V. Lambert of Seminole; many nieces and nephews; and great-nieces and great-nephews.
Robert Elwyn Scott
Odessa - Robert Elwyn Scott, 60, of Odessa, passed away Friday, August 12, 2005, at Medical Center Hospital.
He was born October 19, 1944, in McCook, Nebraska, to Wallace and Alice (Balius) Scott. He was the manager of a storage unit.
No services are scheduled at this time.
He is survived by his son Robert Scott of Odessa, daughter Robin Scott of Odessa, brothers Rodney Scott of McCook, Nebraska, Larry Scott of Forsyth, Missouri, Richard Scott of McCook, Nebraska, and sister Donna Scott of Munjor, Kansas.
Services are entrusted to Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors.
James ‘Cowboy’ Beaty
09/30/24—08/04/05
Lone Camp - Son, brother, soldier, husband and father, James Beaty, 80, born on September 30, 1924, in the farming community of Lone Camp, Palo Pinto County, Texas, passed away August 04, 2005, at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida.
He was a descendant of a pioneer family that left Georgia after the Civil War and homesteaded land in Palo Pinto County.
James was the first-born son of James Curtis Bean and Ruth Blackwell of Lone Camp, Texas. The family grew to include two younger brothers, Bedford Elu of Weatherford, Texas, and Howard Alien of Port Neches, Texas; and a younger sister, Betty Lou of Kennedale, Texas. During World War II, James served in the U.S. Army as a combat infantryman seeing action in the Asiatic Pacific from 1943 to 1946. After the war, James came home to Texas and attended North Texas State University. He met and married
Edra Maxine McGuire of Weatherford, Texas. James and family later settled in Odessa, Texas, where he worked for Cities Service Petroleum Co. for 33-years. He was a member of the Kingston Avenue Baptist Church, the local Oddfellows Lodge and the National Riflemen’s Association.
He was a well-known firearms specialist in the field of a gunsmith and ammunition reloading. His current wife, Nan of Midland, Texas; one son, Rick and his wife, Susan, of Tampa. Fla.; his brothers and their families; three stepchildren, Melissa Hester of Midland, Texas, Robert Maxwell of Dallas, and Sherry Maxwell of Jasper, Indiana, survive him.
Interment took place at the Good Hope cemetery in Lone Camp, Texas.
John Calloway Hundley
(1921-2005)
ODESSA - John Calloway Hundley was born March 23, 1921, in Meridian, Mississippi, the first child of Anna Ruth Butler Hundley and Fletcher Calloway Hundley. He had one brother, James Roderick Hundley. The family lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to West Monroe, Louisiana, when John was 14.
Following high school, John worked for Louisiana Power and Light before being hired as a 19-year-old foreman for a construction company, supervising crews building Camp Polk and Camp Claiborne, military camps in Louisiana. He enrolled at Northeast Junior College in 1940, where he took flight lessons and became a pilot.
With the onset of World War II, John enlisted in the Navy and completed aviation cadet training, then was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and sent to the Pacific theatre in 1943 as a fighter pilot. His brother, James, was killed during flight training as John was completing flight school.
Once in the Pacific, John became one of America’s 1, 442 “Flying Aces” [and one of just 122 Marine Corps pilots in that elite group of wartime pilots]. He was credited with shooting down 6 enemy planes and 1 probable [unconfirmed kill] in a three-month series of air battles, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross with 2 Gold Stars and the Air Medal with 5 Gold Stars. After 77 missions, he was sent to Cherry Point, North Carolina, to serve as an instructor and undergo training on the new F7F Tigercat aircraft in preparation for the invasion of Japan. As the war ended, he was made Captain.
With the war’s end in 1945, he returned to college at Northeast where he took 48 credits in one year and was admitted to LSU Medical School in 1946. He graduated with honors, received the highest award given by the LSU Medical School faculty, completed internship at Brook Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and started a Family Medicine and Surgery practice in Bastrop, Louisiana.
He moved to Fort Stockton, Texas, in 1955, where he operated a Family Medicine & Surgery practice for 28-years. In 1983, he moved to Odessa to accept a post as associate professor of family medicine at Texas Tech Health Science Center. He left Texas Tech in 1986, but he continued to practice medicine at Primary Medical Clinic in Odessa until his retirement. He also worked as a doctor in Creede, Colorado, where he had a summer home, and as a medical missionary in Belize.
John was active in the Texas Medical Association and the Texas Academy of Family Practice, which he served as president in 1970. He received the Texas Pharmaceutical Association’s Distinguished Service Award in 1977. He maintained his interest in medicine with continuing education courses until his death.
He was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church; a 32nd-degree Mason; a member of the Rotary Club and Paul Harris Fellow who took pride in nearly 44-years of perfect attendance; and a board member of the Samaritan Counseling Center, whose mission became a passion after he retired from medicine. In retirement, he also enjoyed indulging talents that including woodworking, carpentry, painting and poetry. A collection of poems chronicling his life, “The Magic That’s Never Gone, ” was published in 2002.
His family and countless others have been enriched by his guidance, wisdom, generosity and, most of all, by his love.
He is survived by his wife, Peggy; daughter, Margaret Ann Maring and her husband, Gary, and three children, Gregory, his wife, Sybille, and three children, Micaela, Paula and Patrick, Eric, his wife Lis and son Leo, and Laura; son James Roderick Hundley, his wife Jennifer and two children, Lauren and Justin; daughter Sandra Blaydes, her husband Brown and three children, Shelby, Nicole and Rachel; daughter Ruth Ellyn Lofland, her husband Newman and three children, Hunter, GiGi and Ellie; son John Fletcher Hundley, his wife Sheila and two children, Shay and Ethan; and daughter Joan Elizabeth Granville, her husband David and four children, Hannah, Ben, Melisa and John. He loved and is loved by all.
Funeral services will at 10:30 a.m. Friday morning at Asbury United Methodist Church, 4001 E. University Blvd., in Odessa, with the Revs. Kathryn Strempke, Kevin Strempke and Paul Bauerfeind officiating.
Pallbearers will include: Browne Blaydes, Shelby Blaydes, David Granville, Newman Lofland, Glen Larum, and Mike McCullouch.
Honorary pallbearers include: Mike Walling and Gordon Gillette.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be sent to the Samaritan Counseling Center or Hospice House, both in Odessa.
