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Lois Inez Fitzhugh
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Lois Inez Fitzhugh of Oklahoma City died Sunday, March 21, 1999. Born Lois Inez Riley on May 6, 1913, she was reared in Coleman County as one of eight children.
On Nov. 8, 1930, she married
Anson Troy Fitzhugh of Hutchins. Returning to Coleman to settle, Troy and Inez built their future in farming. Following the death of her husband, in 1978, Inez moved to Oklahoma City.
Inez is survived by her son, Riley Fitzhugh and his wife, Mary; granddaughter, Mary Anne Lucas and her husband, Brad. She is also survived by sister, Zelda Pendergrass and her husband, Carl of Odessa; and numerous nieces and nephews.
With her beauty, dignity and strong values, Inez will be loved and remembered always.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 23, 1999, at First Presbyterian Church of Oklahoma City. Burial services will be held in Coleman.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial gifts be made to Hospice of Oklahoma City of First Presbyterian Church of Oklahoma City.Funeral arrangements are by Hahn-Cook/Street & Draper Funeral Directors of Oklahoma City.
Nancy Rankin Cole
ODESSA -- Nancy Rankin Cole, a longtime resident of Odessa, passed away at her home Thursday, March 18, 1999. She was 76 years old.
Nancy was born in Henrietta, Okla., the only child of Edd and Vera Rankin. The family moved to Houston where she completed high school at San Jacinto High. She met and married
Raymond Cole on March 23, 1940. She came to Odessa in 1942 when Raymond left for the Army Air Corps.
They raised a family of five children. She was a devoted wife and loving mother and will be greatly missed by her family.
She was active in several organizations, including the Casa Bela Garden Club, Junior Service League, Odessa Art Association and Old Timers Club. She belonged to the Odessa Country Club.
She was Catholic and attended St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church.
Nancy was preceded in death by her parents and her son, John Allen Cole.
Survivors include her husband, Raymond Cole of Odessa; sons, Edd Raymond Cole and wife, Gail, of Odessa, Bill M. Cole and wife, Ann, of Pearland and Charles R. Cole of Midland; daughter, Nance Jean Reynolds and husband, Mark, of San Antonio; daughter-in-law, Lee Ann Cole of Tulsa, Okla.; grandchildren, Brian Cole of Reseda, Calif., Shawn Stringer of Odessa, Jay Snocker of Huntsville, Sara Reynolds, Jessica Reynolds and Christopher Reynolds, all of San Antonio, Caroline Cole Barrett of Houston, Megan Dugan and Sean Dugan of Tulsa, Okla.; great-grand children, Kelsey Stringer of Odessa; Austen Cole and Alysha Cole of Reseda, Calif.
Services were held at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 19, 1999, at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton with the Revs. Mark Woodruff and James Bridges and Deacon Allen Neff officiating. Burial was in Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Memorials may be sent to St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton Church Building Fund, 1901 E. 37th St., Suite No. 107, Odessa 79762; or a charity of your choice.
Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
Patsy Irene Miller Fowler
SHERMAN -- Patsy Irene Miller Fowler, 88, of Sherman, formerly of Odessa, died Saturday, March 20, 1999, at the home of her granddaughter, surrounded by the people who loved her most, her daughter, Dorothy N. Fowler, son, Leon Patrick Fowler, granddaughter, Lucinda Scott and her husband Wallace Scott, and great-grandchildren, Molly, Aaron, Hannah and Abby Anne.
Mrs. Fowler was born May 27, 1910 in Cream Level, Texas, the daughter of Nancy Linda Chaney Miller and William Aaron Miller. She was orphaned by the time she was 14, and missed several years of school. She wanted so much to graduate from high school that she falsified her age so she could attend, and graduated from Colorado City High School in 1932.
She graduated from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin with a Bachelor of Arts in Literature in 1979. She and her granddaughter, Lucinda, were the oldest and the youngest members of their university graduating class.
While at the university, Mrs. Fowler earned the reputation as a brilliant literature student, expert in the art of finding symbolism in contemporary literary works. When she came home from school she said most good writers are simply trying to tell a story and they are not likely to take time to plot symbols.
Mrs. Fowler’s working life was rich and varied.
She was a nurse at Colorado City Hospital during the 1930s, painted and treated the wings on fighter planes during WWII, and served as assistant county auditor of Ector County during the 1950s. She traveled throughout West Texas and to Washington, D.C. as the organizer of the first chapters of the American Association of Retired Persons in West Texas in the 1970s. She also edited and typed term papers and master’s theses for college and university students.
She was a talented seamstress who designed and sewed much of the clothing worn by family members. After her retirement, she was a homemaker and mainstay of her family.
Mrs. Fowler was a person of practical wit and wisdom.
She rejoiced that she had lived long enough to have traveled across Texas in a covered wagon as a child and to have traveled across Texas in jet planes as an adult. She said she preferred jet planes.
She believed a hot meal and a good night’s sleep went a long way toward solving most of life’s problems. She reminded her family often that 99 percent of what people worry about never happens. She believed that everyone is entitled to be a fool five minutes every day, and that one of life’s primary goals should be to stay within the five-minute limit.
She was a superb editor who saved her clients from "mighty leaps" and "throwing their heads over the bank."
She was a person of strong will and integrity. While serving as juror in a felony case in Ector County, she was the only juror who refused to vote "guilty," because she did not believe the state proved its case. Her action created the only hung jury in the district attorney’s career.
She was a long-time Baptist who became a late-life United Methodist. As a Methodist, she baked Communion bread, arranged Advent wreaths, typed sermons, offered suggestions, and "got roped" into Vacation Church School.
Mrs. Fowler faithfully attended her granddaughter’s organ practices and performances at the churches where her granddaughter served as organist and choir director.
She loved to hear her granddaughter play and sing old-time Gospel songs.
She nursed her great-grandchildren through chicken pox, earaches, and broken hearts, always believing they were the most beautiful, most talented, and smartest youngsters in the world.
She took great pride in her son’s graduation from UTPB and in his career as a social studies teacher at Odessa High School.
She married
Leon Dockrey Fowler June 10, 1935, in Amarillo, Texas. He died in 1969. In addition to her granddaughter, she had two grandsons, James Robert Fowler and Leon Douglas Fowler and their children of Odessa.
Services will be held at a later date in Odessa.Arrangements are under the direction of Waldo Funeral Home.
Horace Triggs
ODESSA – Horace Triggs, 74, of Odessa, a landscaper, died Sunday, March 14, 1999 in Odessa.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Prayer House Church of God in Christ with elder James Porter officiating. Burial will be at Rose Hill cemetery. Arrangements by Martinez Funeral Home.
He was born in Smithville and was a 50-year resident of Odessa.
Survivors include his wife, Arko Triggs of Odessa; stepsons, Burnett Johnson, Rayfield Johnson, and Joe David Johnson of Odessa, Billy Ray Connor and James Connor of Austin; stepdaughters, Christine Johnson, Elizabeth Choyce, Lee Ann Johnson, and Angie Denise Johnson, all of Odessa; brothers, John T. Peterson of Odessa, Robert T. Peterson and Lawrence Peterson, both of Houston and Louis Triggs of Ballinger; sisters, Emma Mae Woodkins of Oakland, Calif., Ida Mae Dalbert of El Paso, and Julia Mae Jameson of San Diego; grandchildren, Tenille Johnson, Crystal Carter, Chikwndi Maduekwe, Tyrone Johnson, Stephanie Johnson, and Jauris Briggs, all of Odessa, Shuana Johnson of Kingsville; nieces, nephews and a host of their friends.
Horace McAdams
ODESSA -- Horace Ware McAdams, 77, of Odessa, passed away Saturday, March 20, 1999, at his residence. He was born September 26, 1921, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Mr. McAdams was preceded in death by his parents, William Benton McAdams and Vivian Buster McAdams, and a sister, Dorothy McAdams Long.
The McAdams family moved to Muleshoe in 1926. Horace graduated from Muleshoe High School and was Class President for all four years. He was a star football player and track quarter-miler. His football team won their District his senior year and his track team went to State. He later attended Texas University Pharmacy School at Austin.
Horace Ware McAdams married
Anna Lucy Bray on October 5, 1941, in Muleshoe, Texas. He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard August 12, 1942, and they sent him to Columbia University Pharmacy School in New York City. He served as Chief Pharmacist’s Mate on the LST 71 for 20 months. They landed Marines and soldiers from Boganville, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Guam and Leyte. He received an Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Coast Guard in November 1945.
He returned to Muleshoe and managed a dairy and worked for E.R. Hart Company. He was later a Pharmaceutical Detail Salesman for 15 years. The family moved to Odessa in 1957 and worked as Bookstore Manager for Odessa College for 20 years until he retired in 1985. He was a member of First United Methodist Church, Past President of the Wild Cat Toastmasters and Hi Noon Optimist Club. Horace and Lucy owned ABC McAdams Playschool for 39 years, and Lucy served as the Licensed Director.
Horace is survived by his wife of 57 years, Lucy and their children; Evertt and Estelle McAdams of Plains, Julie and Raymond Jones of Clint, Ben and Sande McAdams of Odessa, Ken and Ann McAdams of Plainview.
His grandchildren are Lacy McAdams, Penny and Jimmy Wiseman, Ryan Jones, Ken McAdams, Andy McAdams, Brant McAdams, James McAdams and Holly McAdams. His sister, Bettye Oliver of Muleshoe.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, 1999, in the First United Methodist Church of Odessa with Rev. Scott Seymour and Rev. Bill Heggemeier officiating. Interment will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to First United Methodist Church, Family Hospice of Odessa, or the American Cancer Society.
Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
Curtis Redwine
MONAHANS -- Curtis G. Redwine, 78, of Pyote, a retired ranching/drilling contractor, died Friday, March 19, 1999, at Memorial Hospital and Medical Center of Midland.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday at Harkey Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Charles Thornton officiating. Burial will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Howard cemetery. Arrangements by Harkey Funeral Home of Monahans.
He was born Feb. 9, 1921, in Headley, Texas, and served in the U.S. Navy. He lived in Pyote since 1980. He was Methodist.
Survivors include: Wife, Mary Redwine of Pyote; son, James Gordon Redwine of Odessa; daughters, Pansy Meeks of Odessa, Elizabeth Redwine and Heather Lett, both of Pyote; brothers, Grady Redwine of Grand Prairie and Floyd Redwine of Fort Worth; sister Rudy Saint of Ranger; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
