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Wes Morgan
1931-2004
LUBBOCK -- Wes Virgil Morgan, the father of Tommy Dill of Snyder, died Friday, Feb. 13, in Emporia, Kan.
Funeral service for Mr. Moore, 72, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the New Life Center with Jeff McCreight, pastor, officiating. Private burial will be in the Union Hill Cemetery in Mineral Wells.
Born March 13, 1931 in Philip, S.D., he married Janice Pearl Morgan who preceded him in death.
Mr. Morgan was a retired businessman and had worked as a gold miner in South Dakota, had been an EMS technician, a crop duster, a Chevrolet dealer, a justice of the peace and a constable in Stanton where he lived for 20 years.
Mr. Morgan had been a Lubbock resident since 1983 and drove a truck since 1990 so that he could travel.
Survivors include a daughter, Tiffany Salazar of Lubbock; three other sons, Zachary Weston of Lubbock, Ricky Dill of Brownfield and Roy Dill of Big Spring; a sister, Mona Marie Ellis of Phoenix; and nine grandchildren.
Roxie Ellington
1925-2004
HURST -- Roxie Kathleen Ellington, 78, of Hurst, died Thursday, Feb. 12, at a Fort Worth hospital.
Burial is set for 1 p.m. Monday in the Snyder Cemetery under the direction of Forest Ridge Funeral Home.
Mrs. Ellington, born on Nov. 5, 1925, in Aspermont, was preceded in death by her son, Joe Fuller.
Surviving are her husband, William Ellington of Hurst; a son, Doug Fuller of Kilgore; a daughter, Patsy Ellington of Colorado City; a brother, James Hazel of Carlsbad, N.M.; 10 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and several uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Louis Guzman
Tomasa Guzman
1948-2004
MULESHOE -- Louis Guzman, a Snyder native, and his wife, Tomasa Guzman, died Thursday, Feb. 19, in a multi-vehicle accident north of Post.
Services for the Guzmans, both age 55, are set for 2 p.m. Monday in the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Javier Carriaga officiating. Burial will follow in the Bailey County Cemetery.
Mr. Guzman was born Nov. 3, 1948 in Snyder and she was born Sept. 13, 1948 in La Cruz, Chihuahua, Mexico. They were married on Jan. 12, 1969 in Muleshoe.
Mr. Guzman was employed by Reynolds Trucking of Clovis and she was a homemaker. They were members of the Spanish Methodist Church. Mr. Guzman was a member of the VFW and was a U.S. Army Vietnam veteran.
Preceding them in death was a son, Louis Guzman; two of his brothers, Porfirio Felix Guzman and Tony Guzman; his father, Porfirio Felix Guzman Sr.; and his mother, Lux Guzman.
Survivors include two sons, Alfredo and Sergio Guzman of Muleshoe; two daughters, Socorro Guzman of Muleshoe and Erica Guzman of Lovington, N.M.; and 13 grandchildren.
Mr. Guzman also is survived by two sisters, Mary Hodges of Muleshoe and Elizabeth Guzman of Albuquerque; three brothers, David Guzman of Snyder, Daniel Guzman of South Texas and Frank Guzman of Muleshoe.
Mrs. Guzman is survived by her parents, Aurelio and Socorro Gallegos of Muleshoe; two sisters, Martha Chapa and Rebecca Lonzano of Muleshoe; and a brother, Leonardo Gallegos of Muleshoe.
Dorothy Gardner
1922-2004
AUSTIN --Dorothy Jane Wagner Gardner, the niece of Dona Womble of Snyder, died Thursday, Feb. 19.
Funeral service for Mrs. Gardner, 81, is set for 1 p.m. Monday in the Cook-Walden Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Eden Cemetery in Eden.
Born June 10, 1922 in Millersview, she grew up there and then moved to Austin where she married Paul D. Gardner on March 9, 1946. He died in 1991.
While Mr. Gardner served in the U.S. Army, they lived in Europe. After his retirement, they settled in Fairbanks, Alaska, and later returned to Austin where Mrs. Gardner began a career with criminal investigations unit of the Internal Revenue Service. She retired in 1984.
Survivors include a daughter, Gari Gardner of Austin; a sister-in-law, Alma Gardner of Cheyenne, Wyo.; another aunt, Oma Lee Nauert of Jonestown; and a niece, Margaret Mueller of Cheyenne.
Ruby Mixon
1915-2004
Ruby Raye Mason Mixon, longtime Snyder resident, died Sunday, Feb. 15, at her home after a sudden illness.
Service for Mrs. Mixon, 88, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Bell-Cypert-Seale Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Mike Henson, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Hillside Memorial Gardens.
Born Aug. 27, 1915 in Edgerly, La., she married Jim H. Mixon on Nov. 8, 1938 in Sweetwater. He died on Nov. 5, 1980.
Mrs. Mixon, a graduate of Ranger High School, moved to Snyder in 1948 when her husband was manager for J.C. Penney. They later purchased Mixon Tire and Supply that they operated for 24 years.
She had also worked for Gulf Oil in Odessa, J.C. Penney in Breckenridge, the Graham Brown Shoe Co. in Sherman and for Wes-T-Go Conoco in Snyder. Mrs. Mixon was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church.
She also was preceded in death by her parents, Ruby Ray (Doc) and Clara Skillern Mason; a sister, Anita Mansker; and a brother, Milton Mason.
Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Stuart Long of Houston and Janice and Chuck Galloway of Snyder; a sister, Tera Crook of Arlington; a brother-in-law, Toke Mansker of Fort Worth; four grandchildren, Jim Cole of Midland, Meredith Long Angelico and husband Scott of San Antonio, Garret Long of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Brittany Long of Austin.
Dusty Hargrove
1980-2004
CROSS PLAINS -- Dusty Ryan Hargrove, nephew of Roger and Kathy White of Snyder, died Thursday, Feb. 19, in Brownwood Regional Medical Center.
Funeral service for Mr. Hargrove, 24, is set for 3 p.m. Saturday in the First Baptist Church with Joe Coppinger and Bay Kirkham officiating. Burial will follow in Hyles and Hargrove Family Cemetery in Callahan County under the direction of Higginbotham Funeral Home.
Born Feb. 10, 1980 in Abilene to Jim and Cliffadean White Hargrove, he was reared in Cross Plains, graduating from Cross Plains High School in 1998. He was a member of Cottonwood Baptist Church.
Survivors include his parents, Jim and Cliffadean Hargrove of Cross Plains; two sisters and their husbands, Kelli and Frankie Hyles of Cross Plains, and Kami and Tad Timmons of Granbury; a son, Tristan Hargrove of Cross Plains; four nieces, Mykea Douglass, Kelbi Hyles, Shana Hyles, Christin Hamilton; and several cousins.
The family requests donations be made to the Cross Plains Athletic Booster Club or the Callahan County Jr. Livestock Show.
Wes Morgan
1931-2004
LUBBOCK -- Wes Virgil Morgan, the father of Tommy Dill of Snyder, died Friday, Feb. 13, in Emporia, Kan.
Funeral service for Mr. Moore, 72, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the New Life Center with Jeff McCreight, pastor, officiating. Private burial will be in the Union Hill Cemetery in Mineral Wells.
Born March 13, 1931 in Philip, S.D., he married Janice Pearl Morgan who preceded him in death.
Mr. Morgan was a retired businessman and had worked as a gold miner in South Dakota, had been an EMS technician, a crop duster, a Chevrolet dealer, a justice of the peace and a constable in Stanton where he lived for 20 years.
Mr. Morgan had been a resident since 1983 and drove a truck since 1990 so that he could travel.
Survivors include a daughter, Tiffany Salazar of Lubbock; three other sons, Zachary Weston of Lubbock, Ricky Dill of Brownfield and Roy Dill of Big Spring; a sister, Mona Marie Ellis of Phoenix; and nine grandchildren.
Sue Walker
1918-2004
Sue Ella Bentley Walker, a former resident of Snyder, died Thursday, Feb. 19, in Dallas.
Graveside service for Mrs. Walker, 85, will be held at 1.30 p.m. Sunday in Hillside Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Walker was born in 1918 in Claude and attended elementary school near Slaton and graduated from Union High School.
In the late 1930s she went to work in El Paso, where she met Raymon J. “Red” Walker. They were married Nov. 30, 1941. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, she and her husband moved to San Diego where he enlisted in the Navy. Mrs. Walker worked in San Diego while he was stationed there, then moved to Bayonne, N.J., where she worked at the Military Freight Depot in Bayonne while he made 14 Atlantic crossings, including the D-Day landing at Normandy.
Mrs. Walker’s husband was discharged in 1945 and went to work for Texaco that required sometimes moving twice in a year throughout West Texas. They resided in Snyder from 1954 to 2000.
Mrs. Walker operated Snyder Reproductions, a blueprint business, in the garage behind her home. She was a Girl Scout leader, a docent of the Scurry County Museum at Western Texas College, and leader of the senior citizens aquatic exercise group at the college. She was a longtime member of Colonial Hill Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, Red Walker; a son and daughter-in-law, James and Lynn Walker; two daughters and sons-in-law, Molly and Michael Droge, and Amber and Eric Devlin; two grandsons, Matthew and Owen Walker of Virginia; two step-grandsons, Matthew and Michael Devlin of New York; two sisters, Anne Fails of El Paso and Neva Longenecker of Keller; and many nieces and nephews.
Roxie Ellington
1925-2004
HURST -- Roxie Kathleen Ellington, 78, of Hurst, died away Thursday, Feb. 12, at a Fort Worth hospital.
Inurment is set for 1 p.m. Monday in the Snyder Cemetery under the direction of Forest Ridge Funeral Home.
Mrs. Ellington, born on Nov. 5, 1925, in Aspermont, was preceded in death by her son, Joe Fuller.
Surviving are her husband, William Ellington of Hurst; a son, Doug Fuller of Kilgore; a daughter, Patsy Ellington of Colorado City; a brother, James Hazel of Carlsbad, N.M.; 10 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and several uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, and nephews.
