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MYRTLE MAE PLUMMER, age 77, of Novice, died Wednesday (January 1, 2003) at Coleman Healthcare Center. Graveside funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday (January 4, 2003) at Rough Creek cemetery with Rev. Larry Adams officiating. Services are under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.
Myrtle was born May 10, 1925 in Whon, Texas and was a daughter of Vasco and Effie Mae Peak Paul. She grew up and attended school in Brownwood. In 1947 she married
Emory Plummer and he preceded her in death in 1977. She lived in Brownwood and Winters for several years until moving to Novice in 1963. She was a housewife and a Baptist.
Survivors include five children, Fred Waine Pilkington of Mexia, Texas, Theresa Gregory of Austin, Texas, John Plummer of Coleman, Texas, Eula Mae Culwell and Coy Joe Plummer both of Novice; two step-children: Dyke Plummer of Kirbyville, Texas and Nona Jean Rose of Mound, Texas; 11 grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren; numerous step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a grandson, Kevin Culwell, in 1981.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Big Country, 4601 Hartford, Abilene, Texas 79605.
Family visitation will be held on Friday from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Graveside service for ANN MEDCALF of Arlington will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday (January 4, 2003) at the Coleman City cemetery Pavilion. Burial will be on the family lot.
Local survivors include an uncle and aunt, Odie and Jackie Griffith and an aunt, Etta Mae Medcalf.
Bonnie Lee Connelly Kline of Coleman died Thursday, January 9, 2003 at Holiday Hill Nursing Home. Graveside services will be held 10:00 a.m. Monday, January 13, 2003 at the Kermit cemetery. Services are under the direction of Cooper Funeral Chapels in Kermit.
Mrs. Kline was born September 2, 1923 in Yukon, Oklahoma, a daughter of Oscar "Ken" and Ruth McIlvoy Connelly. She married
Charles L. "Roy" Kline on May 3, 1942 in Edmond, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on June 10, 1979. Mrs. Kline had lived in Coleman County since 2001.
Survivors include one daughter, Sue Graves of Santa Anna; one brother, Owen Connelly of Albuquerque, NM; six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one son, Jackie Roy Kline, Sr. in November, 2000, one brother and three sisters.
LEE ROY DUNCAN, age 77 of San Saba and formerly of Coleman County, died Friday, January 10, 2003 at Brownwood Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m. Monday, January 13, 2003 at Stevens Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Raymond Jones officiating. Burial will follow in the Voss cemetery, under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.
Mr. Duncan was born January 9, 1925 in Scurry County, Texas, a son of Ules and Ethel J. Bailey Duncan. He attended schools in Coleman County. He married
Mozelle Elliott in December, 1944 in Alabama. He worked as a machinist and mechanic while living in Valera, San Antonio, Ohio and Alabama. For the past six years, he had been living in San Saba with a niece, Rhonda Harrell. He was a member of Blooming Grove Baptist Church in Alabama.
Survivors include two sons, Dal Roy Duncan, and wife Loretta, of Nauvoo, Alabama, Ules Jerry Duncan of Jasper, Alabama; one daughter, Linda Marie Duke of Jasper, Alabama; one brother H. M. Duncan, and wife Maureen, of Talpa; one sister, Juanita Smith of Alva, Oklahoma; three grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Irene Duncan.
Family visitation will be held Sunday from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the funeral home
LALA ARNOLD COPELAND, age 90, of Robert Lee and former Coleman and San Angelo resident, died Sunday (January 12, 2003) at Robert Lee Care Center. Funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday (January 14, 2003) at Stevens Funeral Home Chapel with her nephew, Mickey Wireman, officiating. Burial will follow in the Coleman City cemetery.
Lala was born November 14, 1912 in Coleman and was a daughter of Ralph and Ann Jones Arnold. She moved to San Angelo in March 1978 where she lived until the late 1990’s when she moved to Coleman. She had lived in Robert Lee for the past four months. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and Lydia Sunday School Class in San Angelo. She was a retired nurse. Her husband, Paul Copeland, preceded her in death on July 20, 1973.
She is survived by two sisters, Mary Wireman of Kerrville and Modene Dodds of San Angelo; one brother, Preston Arnold of Abilene; numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Family visitation will be held on Monday from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Her family says, "She was our special sister and second mother."
W. S. COLE, age 82, of Coleman, died Monday (January 13, 2003) at Abilene Regional Medical Center. Graveside funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday (January 16, 2003) at the Coleman City cemetery Pavilion with his grandson, Bryan Stokes, officiating. Services are under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.
W. S. was born April 6, 1920 in Jauquin, Texas and was a son of the late Clyde and Blanche Blevins Cole. He grew up in Jauquin and graduated from high school there. He moved to Coleman at the age of 18 and had lived here since that time. He served in both the U. S. Navy and U. S. Army and was a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division. He worked for many years for H. B. Zachary Company as a pipeliner. He was Baptist and was a member of Coleman Masonic Lodge #496.
Survivors include his wife, Lorain Cole of Coleman; one son, Gary Cole of Frankfort, Germany; one daughter, Pat Balch of Baird; one sister, Billie Jean Gregg of Santa Anna; one brother, Wayford Cole of Nederland, Texas; three grandchildren, Majetta Stokes of Hawley, Tiffany Rutherford of Stephenville and William Cole of Germany; four great-grandchildren, Olyvia Jackson and Trevor Jackson both of Abilene, Hank Stokes and Sally Stokes both of Hawley; several nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to Hendrick Home for Children, P. O. Box 5195, Abilene, Texas 79608.
Family visitation will be held on Wednesday from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
MRS. R. V. (MARGIE) BAKER, age 76, of Bangs, died Sunday (January 19, 2003) at Brownwood Regional Medical Center. Funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday (January 21, 2003) at Stevens Funeral Home Chapel with L. A. Caldwell officiating. Burial will follow at the Talpa cemetery under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.
Mrs. Baker was born July 5, 1926 in Coleman, Texas and was a daughter of Robert Lee and Alice McQueen Duggins. She grew up near Valera and attended school at Centennial. On June 23, 1943 she married
R. V. Baker in Coleman. She lived in Midland for several years, Grapevine for 25 years and moved to Bangs in 1986. She was a homemaker and a Baptist.
Survivors include her husband, R. V. Baker of Bangs; two daughters, Kathy Baker and Karen Baker Morris both of Santa Anna, Texas; one sister, Martha Eason of Bangs; one brother, L. G. Duggins of Riesel, Texas; four grandchildren, Deanne Boss of Jacksonville, Arkansas, Shamey Glasscock of Santa Anna, Devin Brand of Tucson, Arizona and Kasey Hoffman of Dublin, Texas; six great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to ALS Research (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) or Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
Family visitation will be held on Monday from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
RALPH ALLEN, age 94, of Leaday, Texas passed away Sunday, January 19, 2003 at his home in southern Coleman County. Funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday in Stevens Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Paul Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the Leaday cemetery under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.
Ralph was born on the Padgitt Ranch in 1908 near Leaday where he spent all of his life ranching sheep and cattle on leased Day Ranch Lands of the Miller Estate. Beginning in the late 1920’s, he and his sheep shearing crew sheared sheep for ranchers in Coleman and the surrounding counties of Texas and on several sheep ranches in New Mexico. In the 1940’s and 50’s he extended his ranching operation to purchased properties near Gouldbusk, Texas. He gathered his livestock horseback until he was 89 years old and thereafter actively managed his ranch while riding "shot-gun" in the pick-up. In 1993 he moved out of the Day Ranch tenant house that was his family’s home for over 50 years and into the historic Day Ranch Headquarters that was built in 1905 by pioneer Mable Doss Day Lea. This landmark would have been inundated by Lake Ivie had Ralph not took on the task of moving it to his own property beyond the lake’s shore. It was here where he went on to meet his Lord. He is survived by his wife Mae who has been by his side from the sheep shearing camps to their "new" home on the lake.
Other survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Diane Allen of Mozelle, Texas; one daughter and son-in-law, Joan and William Earl Jones of Voss, Texas; six grandchildren, Kevin (and wife Rhonda) Allen, James Allen, Danny (and wife Kim) Allen, Donny (and wife Gloria) Allen, Juliann (and husband John) Page and Jeanene (and husband Johnny) Pricer; eight great-grandchildren, Keva Allen, Kenna Allen, Matthew Allen, Lauren Allen, Jett Allen, Boone Allen, Vanessa Page and Allen Pricer.
He was preceded in death by a son, Kenneth Warren Allen, in 1968.
Memorials may be made to Leaday Baptist Church, 1904 CR 332, Gouldbusk, Texas 76845 or Leaday cemetery, c/o Shirley Rankin, 907 Jefferson Avenue, Santa Anna, Texas 76878.
Family visitation will be from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
LAURA RYAN, age 95 of Coleman, died Saturday, Janaury 25, 2003 at Holiday Hill Nursing Home. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at Stevens Funeral Home Chapel wil Dr. G. Dean Coultas officating. Burial will follow in the Coleman City cemetery, under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.
Mrs. Ryan was born March 21, 1907 in Novice, Texas, a daughter of Richard Edwin and Mattie Ella Dodd Casey. She grew up in Clyde and graduated from Clyde High School. She married
Robert C. Ryan on December 30, 1950 in Clovis, New Mexico. He preceded her in death on March 30, 1995. She was a bookkeeper for a utility company and moved to Coleman in 1992. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Coleman.
Survivors include one sister, Rubye Putnam of Frankston, Texas; one sister-in-law, Mrs. R.A. Casey of Coleman; six nieces and nephews, Lee Casey of Seminole, Marie Hudson of Coleman, Gene Putnam of Houston, Jim Putnam of Nashville, Tennessee, Ronnie Casey of Fort Worth, Bill Casey of Huntington Beach, California and numerous great and great-great nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be to the First United Methodist Church, 500 West Liveoak, Coleman, Texas 76834.
WILLIAM CHARLIE SMITH, age 83 of Bangs and formerly of Coleman County, died Sunday, January 26, 2003 at St. David’s Hospital in Austin. Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at Stevens Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Reuben Packer officiating. Burial will follow in the Santa Anna cemetery, under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.
Mr. Smith was born January 19, 1920 in Shields, a son of William Perry and Edna Bulah Lane Smith. He attended school in Santa Anna. He married
Jo Ella Smith on November 10, 1939 in Santa and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. He lived in San Antonio for many years before moving to Bangs in 1990. He repaired water well pumps and was a member of Victory Baptist Church in Brownwood.
Survivors include his wife, Jo Ella Smith of Bangs; two daughters, Barbara Naron of Moody, Texas, Shirley White and husband, Aubrey of Temple; one son, William Clyde Smith and wife, Louise of San Antonio; one sister, Ethel Region of Arkansas; seven grandchildren; eight great grandchildren and one great-great grandson.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
