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Bishop Othoe Stegall
February 17, 2009
Bishop Othoe Stegall, 85, of Lubbock, previously of Paris, passed away Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at his residence.
Funeral services have been set for 2 p.m. Saturday, February 21, at the Paris Church of God, 1400 Bonham Street with Bishop Les Higgins of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Bishop Doug Holt officiating. Interment follows with military honors in Evergreen cemetery.
Visitation will be at 7 p.m. Friday at Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home.
He was born October 25, 1923, in Afton, TX, to Lee Franklin and Alice (Ash) Stegall. He married
Pearl Beauchamp on November 8, 1941, in Brownfield, TX.
He was preceded in death by his parents; step-father, Henry Rollins, Sr.; brothers, Roy and Ross Stegall and John Rollins; and sisters, Bell Day and Ruth and Myrtle Bell.
He is survived by his wife, Pearl Stegall of Lubbock; children, David and Anita Stegall of Levelland, Sue and Foy Boyd of Midland, and Gerald and Pat Byas of Paris; grandchildren, Sharee and Jacky Howard of Lubbock, Alice Byas of San Antonio, and Shanna and Chris Whitney of Waco; great-grandchildren, Baylee, Wade, and Harlee Whitney and Lexi Howard; brother, Henry Rollins, Jr. of Carrollton; and sister, Mary Curby of Fairview, OK; special friend since their teen years, Ed Crawford of Wills Point; numerous nephews and nieces; adopted Spencer, Poole, and Cantrell families; and a host of friends. Words such as “in-law, step, or ex” have never been considered in the Stegall family.
Mr. Stegall joined the U. S. Air Force in November, 1942, and served in the 8th Fighter Squadron as airplane armorer during World War II. Following his honorable discharge in October, 1945, he was self-employed with an automotive upholstery business. God then called him to the ministry, and he was licensed to preach by the Church of God (headquartered in Cleveland, TN) at age 25. He became an ordained minister in 1950 and an ordained bishop in 1954. He pastored churches in Stephenville, Brownfield, Sweetwater, Dallas, and Ft. Worth. He was pastor at the Paris Church of God from 1960 until 1974. Upon retirement and return to Paris, he later served as interim pastor for Pathway Church of God. Bishop and Mrs. Stegall moved to Lubbock to be near their children in May, 2008.
Pallbearers are Ray Spencer, Lonnie Spencer, Billy Kee, Fred Kee, Mack Ray, Kenny Poole, Benny Lovell, and Ronnie Grooms. Honorary pallbearers are Ed Crawford, Russell Michener, Wesley Cantrell, Troy Bright, and Vernon Thompson.
If desired, memorials may be made to Paris Church of God Children’s Ministry or the American Heart Association.
Our dad stored up stars, crowns and weights of glory where it really counts. Without fail every night, and often at mealtime, he called the names of each member of his family and the many friends who had asked for prayer. Each prayer closed with the line, “May each of us be ready to meet the Lord if he comes or calls for us.” We are grateful for those quiet, relentless prayers. He’ll be waiting there, and his heart will be strong, his vision clear, his hearing renewed, and his feet steady. We’ll go because he paved the way…because he set the standard…and because we know he won’t quit praying until we get there. His life spawned pastors, evangelists, and lay workers. He left behind a rare, proud heritage and vivid memories of his fiery but friendly sermons.
Online condolences may be sent to the Stegall family at www.fry-gibbs.com.
June B. Jenson
February 15, 2009
Mrs. June B. Jenson, 81, of Paris passed away February 15, 2009 in Parkview Convalescent Center. She was born on April 11, 1927 in Orlando, Florida a daughter of Clinton H & Evelyn Clements Bouton. She was a homemaker and member of Peace Lutheran Church.
Mrs. Jenson is survived by her husband Glenn Jenson; children William Parsons, Richard Parsons, Carolyn Oliver, Linda Hill, Debbie Goodson, Mary P. Jenson, and Margaret M. Smallwood; 14 grandchildren and several great grandchildren; brothers Clinton Bouton and Dayton Bouton; sister Sylvia Gay.
Memorial services will be conducted at 8:30 A.M. Sunday at Peace Lutheran Church. Her ashes will be interred at Municipal cemetery in St. Cloud, Florida.
Rev. James M. Elsom
February 15, 2009
REV. JAMES M. ELSOM 85, of Paris, passed away at 10:15 PM, Sunday, February 15, 2009 at Legend Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services are set for 2:00 PM, Friday, February 20, 2009 at Ramseur Baptist Church with Rev. Don Morton officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:30 -8:00 PM Thursday evening at the funeral home. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.
Rev. Elsom was born August 5, 1923 in Alvord, Texas to George M. and Goldie May Ledbetter Elsom. He graduated from Pampa High School and attended Texas A&M; University. He received his bachelors and masters of divinity degrees from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. He served in the US Marine Corps during World War II in the Pacific theatre. James married
Maurice Conner on May 7, 1942 in Sayre, Oklahoma. He was the pastor emeritus of Ramseur Baptist Church and partner of Combined Insurance Associates.
Rev. Elsom is survived by his wife, Maurice Elsom of Paris; 3 children, Linda Kay Wolfgang and husband, Fred of Phoenix, Arizona, Gregg M. Elsom and wife, Kim of Rockport, Texas, and Barry L. Elsom and wife, Pat of Galveston, Texas; 5 grandchildren, Beth Keener of Phoenix, Jim Ledbetter of Phoenix, Brad Rountree and wife, Karin of Lake Dallas, Texas, Gail Blaylock and husband, John of Norman, Oklahoma, and Cassie Elsom of Wisconsin; 5 great-grandchildren, Adam Keener, Austin and Jack Blaylock, and Kyle and Rachael Rountree; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a son, James Randall Elsom; his parents; and his brother, Daniel Porter Elsom.
Pallbearers will be Rick Jordan, Roy Gwinn, Rusty Brewer, Tony Gouge, Willard Hill, Brad Rountree, and John Blaylock.
If desired, memorials may be made for cancer research at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, PO Box 4486, Houston, Texas 77210-4486 or call 1-800-525-5841 for more information.
Lawrence M. Whitley
February 15, 2009
Lawrence M. Whitley, 78 of Blossom, passed away Sunday, February 15, 2009 at Dubuis Hospital.
Funeral services have been set for Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 2:00 P.M. at Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home with Rev. Larry Bridges and Rev. Doug Higdor officiating. Interment will follow at Knights of Honor cemetery in Blossom. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.
He was born in the Hoovertown Community on March 30, 1930 to Pressie and Ola Welch Whitley. He married
Margaret Lutrell on March 12, 1951 in DeQueen, Arkansas. He was a truck driver and attended Blossom Church of God.
He is survived by his wife; Margaret Whitley, children; Jackie Lawrence Whitley and wife Judy, Michael S. Whitley and wife Terri, grandchildren; Beverly Eudy, Shane Whitley, Jason Whitley, Ambrye Grayson, Ashley Watson, 3 great-grandchildren, sisters; Sue Wilson, Barbara Ann Brooks, brothers; Charlie Whitley, Russell Whitley, Corky Whitley, numerous nieces, nephews and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents; Press and Ola Whitley, children; James Patrick Whitley and Danny Mark Whitley, brother; Jerry Whitley.
Pallbearers will be Jason Whitley, John Watson, Randy Allen, Ronnie Allen, Richard Drake, Paul Drake. Honorary Pallbearer will be Shane Whitley and Richard Drake Construction.
Alice Opal Vaughn
February 13, 2009
Alice O. Vaughn, 91 of Paris, has gone on to a bigger and better fishing hole. She will be missed deeply by those she left behind; daughters Norma Hamilton and her husband J.R. of Evergreen.Co., Judy Mobley of Paris, and son Leon Vaughn of Farmington, N.M.; grandchildren Rod, Tom, Ken & Shawn Hamilton, Bonnie Smart, JoAnn Pacheco, Jana and Mike Vaughn, Lea, Lonnie, Dean and Cody Vaughn, Scott Mobley, Kelly Blyton and Jackie Folkman; 29 Great Grandchildren, 10 great great grandchildren. She also leaves the best of friends and neighbors in New Mexico and Texas and other family members from all over the country.
A memorial service has been scheduled for Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 2:00 P.M. at Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home with Rev. Diana Russell officiating. No formal visitation has been scheduled.
Those that left before her to set up a camping spot were here parents Hattie and Alan Brashear, husband Gene Vaughn, son Jim Vaughn, 2 grandchildren, a great grandchild and all her sisters and brothers and son-in-law Dick Mobley.
Mary Jo Hughes
February 11, 2009
Mary Jo Floyd Hughes, age 83, passed away at 10:45A.M., Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at the family ranch in Belk, Texas after a brief illness.
Funeral services are set for 11:00A.M., Saturday, February 14, 2009, at Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home with Dr. Terry Parsons officiating and Reverend Glynn Vickers assisting. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery. The family will receive friends before the service at 10:00AM, Saturday, at Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home, Paris, Texas.
She was born April 3, 1925, in the Shady Grove Community of Lamar County, Texas to Earl Kelley and Lillian Opal Whitten Floyd. She grew up in a happy family of 10 children on a farm near Pattonville. She graduated from Deport High School in 1942.
Business Administration was her favorite subject and passion. Due to the plentiful supply of jobs offered to high school graduates during World War II, she entered the workforce as a bookkeeper and typist at the First National Bank in Paris. She attended night classes at the Intensive Secretarial School in Paris, where she received training in typing and shorthand and other subjects related to business administration.
After her training she accepted a position as secretary to the manager of Lamar Cotton Oil Company from 1943 to 1946. In June of 1946, she became employed by Texas Power and Light Company in Paris as receptionist and secretary to the district manager. She kept this position until the year 1953.
During the next eleven years she devoted herself to her family and home and the family ranch. She assumed this position as she did with every part of life with passion, gusto, and determination. She was the beginning of the Super-Mom Era: family, faith and business.
After this time period, Mrs. Hughes enjoyed a long career of 40 years as office manager at Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home. She loved working with Mr. Marvin Gibbs in the funeral home business and in civic endeavors. She always enjoyed people and her mission was helping families through the administrative process during their time of grief.
Mary Jo was passionate about women and their place in the business world. She and her associates were very active in the early 1970’s in the legislative process of Equal Rights for Women in the Workplace. She believed that women deserved to have an active and equal role in business. Through this effort she contributed to helping, mentoring, and encouraging young women to take their place as leaders in the business world.
She married
Joel B. Hughes in Paris, Texas on December 8, 1946 and lived in Belk where they owned and operated the Hughes Ranch. They were married
for 63 years.
Over her life and career she was a leader in numerous community and civic organizations. She was a member for 63 years and the past president of the Paris Business and Professional Women’s Club and a member of the Calvary United Methodist Church. She was Business Women of the Year in 1981.
She especially enjoyed entertaining in her home. Also, she loved the social parties, teas, and showers and especially their Supper Club friends.
Mary Jo is survived by her husband, Joel B.; one son, Bradley W. Hughes of Belk; one daughter, Joella Hughes Lucas and husband, Carl Lucas of Rogers, AR; one grandson, Rhett Hughes Hutchens, of Austin, TX; one brother, Kelley W. Floyd of Dallas, TX; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by five brothers: Howard, Jack, Robert, Dempsey, and M.L. Floyd and three sisters: Paulina Secrest, Clyde Cunningham, and Mildred Pettit Kincaid. She loved her special friends Michael Singer, Joyce Kenney, and friend and caregiver, Elsie Parson.
Serving as pallbearers will be her nephews: Mike Secrest, Ronnie Floyd, Bobbie Floyd, Gary Floyd, Richard Floyd, Kenneth Floyd, Derrel Pettit, and Curtis Floyd. Honorary pallbearers will be special friends: S.C. Stubblefield, Clyde Darnell, Steven Kelley, Larry Cass, John Nance, Jerry Waggoner, and Lawrence Parsons.
Memorials may be made in her honor to the Business and Professional Women’s Scholarship at Paris Junior College or the Paris Public Library
Werner Edward Brown
December 26, 2008
WERNER EDWARD BROWN 88, of Paris, died Friday, December 26, 2008 at Paris Regional Medical Center. A Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted at 5:30 PM, Saturday, January 3, 2008 at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church with Father Morgan White officiating. A rosary will follow the mass. The family will receive friends from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM at the funeral home prior to the mass on Saturday. Burial will be at a later date in Calvary cemetery in Mankato, Minnesota. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.
Mr. Brown was born December 18, 1920 in Saint George, Minnesota to Ben A. and Ludmilla Forst Brown. He graduated from Holy Trinity High School in New Ulm, Minnesota in 1939 and served in the US Army Air Corps from October 1942 to February 1946 attaining the rank of Technical Sergeant as an aircraft and engine technician. He married
Lorraine Martinka on December 26, 1942 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She preceded him in death in 1976. He later married
Dorothy Sprenger Houston June 25, 1983 at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church.
Mr. Brown was a self-employed aircraft mechanic and commercial pilot with the New Ulm airport until 1951; then employed at the Mankato Aero Service until 1962 when he became the manager of the Mankato Municipal Airport. In 1970, he became employed with the Minneapolis School District teaching aviation mechanics courses at the Aviation Center retiring in 1982.
Mr. Brown was a member of the New Ulm Pioneer Band before World War II; an active member of the New Ulm Municipal Band for many years; a member of the Minnesota Catholic Association (St. Joseph’s Society) and Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Paris. He was also a member of the American Legion Post #0030 in Paris; and was a very active member of the Paris Tennis Association.
Mr. Brown is survived by his wife, Dorothy of Paris; one son, Perry Brown and wife, Jolene of Mankato, Minnesota; two daughters, Mary Brown Beckman and husband, Ron of Hartland, Wisconsin and Anna “Annie” Brown Koch and husband, Curt of Farmington, Minnesota; one step-son, John Houston and wife, Glyndell of Houston, Texas; a step-daughter, Brenda Houston of Haltom City, Texas; 7 grandchildren; 3 step-grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; one step-great-grandchild; and one sister, Lorraine Brown Peterson of Chisago City, Minnesota. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Clarence Brown.
Werner and his family are eternally thankful to all the wonderful doctors, nurses, various therapists, home health services, fellow church members, personal aides, special friends, the staff of Spring Lake Assisted Living and Memory Care, Paris Oaks as well as Stepping Stones and the skilled nursing units in Paris who worked tirelessly with him and his family the last three years to help make his quality of life the best it could possibly be. God bless you all! Now, he is in the place of greatest delight.
If desired, memorials may be made to Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, Spring Lake Assisted Living and Memory Care Facility, or Stepping Stones, a foster home for the elderly where Werner spent his last days.
