Obituaries

Joy Davis

Joy Davis

October 19, 2020

Joy Everette Davis 10/08/1944 - 10/19/2020 Everette Davis, age 76, was born to Charles Joy Davis (deceased) and Ellen Victoria Bazzell (deceased) in Montgomery, AL. He passed away at home in Red Oak, TX where he resided for the last 30 years with his wife of 50 years, Carol Jean Davis. Before retirement, Everette was in the auto parts...

John Owen

John Owen

October 18, 2020

John Laurence Owen, 71, of Waxahachie, Texas transitioned this life on October 18, 2020 at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

Born November 14, 1948 in Danville, Illinois, he was the son of Russell John and Edna Helen (Mast) Owen. He married Marlene (Woodward) on February 6, 1972 at Central Christian Church in Danville.

John...

Gaines Wolaver

Gaines Wolaver

October 17, 2020

Gaines Oliver Wolaver, (G.O. and Pappy) was born in Italy, Texas January 24, 1940, he left this earth to be with Christ on October 17, 2020.  Gaines spent 60 years in education, 54 of those years af Red Oak Independent School District, serving as head football coach, athletic director, biology teacher, director of maintenance, and mentor to thousands...

Barbara Ray

Barbara Ray

October 17, 2020

For the last 88 years, our world has been blessed with the presence of the beautiful soul that was Barbara Joan Ray. On October 17, 2020 she fell asleep at her home in Waxahachie, and flew away to the arms of her Savior, Jesus Christ. She went by many names- Barbara, Joan (pronounced Jo-Ann), Mother, Grandma, Gaga, Gigi,...

Janet Matthews

Janet Matthews

October 11, 2020

Janet L Matthews

Janet L. Matthews 75, of Waxahachie, Texas passed away Sunday October 11, 2020. She was born in Lamesa, Texas on December 18, 1944. Janet graduated from Lamesa high school and then attended South Pains College. She married her best friend James Matthews on July 24, 1963 in Lamesa, Texas. Janet worked as...

Matthew Brady

Matthew Brady

October 11, 2020

Matthew “Tyler” Brady, of Waxahachie, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020, at the age of 34 with his loving family at his bedside. Tyler was born in Dallas, Texas, on March 9, 1986. He graduated from Waxahachie High School in 2004. He played football and baseball for the Waxahachie Indians and was a member...

Dana Argumaniz

Dana Argumaniz

October 11, 2020

Dana Wooldridge Argumaniz of Red Oak, Texas former resident of El Paso, Texas passed away October 11th at her home in Red Oak, after battling Cancer for 3 years. She was born in El Paso 10-14-61 and was a graduate of Bel Air High School and continued her education at Texas A&M. She married Frank Argumaniz also of El Paso...

Judy Baergen

Judy Baergen

October 2, 2020

Judy Maurine Baergen went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday afternoon, October 2nd, 2020 due to complications from a heart attack. She was born December 21, 1942 in Victoria, TX to Mr. and Mrs. Fred and Polly Moss. On June 18th, 1965, she married Dr. John Darrel Baergen in Rockport, Texas. Judy received her...

Sallie Hamm

Sallie Hamm

October 2, 2020

Sallie Smith Hamm was born in Slocum, Tx. To parents Ollie and Ethel Smith. She retired from Flexsteel in Waxahachie, Tx.

She was a loving Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother and Aunt. Sallie loved children and babies. She baby sat for years. She could cook, just ask anyone. He chicken and dumplings would put a...

Israel Hernandez

Israel Hernandez

October 1, 2020

Israel Tellez, 65, passed away on Thursday, October 1, 2020. He was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on January 2, 1955. He was married to Rosa Tellez on June 20, 1979, in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, daughter of Juan Guerrero & Estela Rocha.

Israel was an extremely hard worker and was busy all the time. Israel...

Janet Fuller-Gilbert

Janet Fuller-Gilbert

September 29, 2020

Janet Fuller-Gilbert went home to be with the Lord September 29, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas.

She was born August 31, 1963 to Robert Cletus Fuller, Jr. and Madelon Janet Fuller at W.C. Tenery Community Hospital in Waxahachie, Texas.

Janet is preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Madelon...

Larry Pennington

Larry Pennington

September 26, 2020

Larry Wilson Pennington was born on July 12, 1946, in Grand Saline, Texas, to Lawrence Lee Pennington and Clara Lee Hazelwood.

Larry retired from the City of DeSoto and Glenn Heights Water Department.

Preceded in death by Father Lawrence Lee Pennington, Mother Clara Lee Pennington, and sister La Joya “Joy” Pennington.

Survived by...

Michael Smesny

Michael Smesny

September 25, 2020

Michael Smesny

Michael Blaine Smesny, of Midlothian, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, September 25th, 2020. He was the beloved son of Max and Georgie Smesny.

Mike was born in 1959 in Houston, Texas. He was the third of five sons.  The family moved to Midlothian in 1971 where Mike...

Karen Gillen

Karen Gillen

September 23, 2020

Karen Gillen went to be with the Lord Wednesday, September 23,2020 at the age of 68.

Karen was born in Waxahachie on April 6,1952. She graduated from Lancaster High School, Lancaster, TX, in 1970. She was a resident of Waxahachie and member of Ovilla Road Church of the Nazarene. She worked for the City of Waxahachie in...

Juanita Stoffregen

Juanita Stoffregen

September 23, 2020

Juanita was born to Ivy Lynn (Elliott) and C.C. Dunn on September 1, 1929, in the community of Nash where she was raised. She graduated from Waxahachie High School and thereafter worked as a bookkeeper before marrying Billy Joe Stoffregen on November 3, 1950. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Waxahachie where she taught Children’s Sunday...

Austin Elbert

Austin Elbert

September 22, 2020

Austin Wade Elbert passed away Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 at 12:28pm at the age of 17 with his family at bedside at Methodist Dallas Medical Center.

Austin was senior at Waxahachie High School. He was an incredible athlete who had the love for baseball at a very young age. Austin grew up playing little league in Ennis...

Dan Humphreys

Dan Humphreys

September 18, 2020

Dan C Humphreys passed away on Friday, September 18, 2020, after an 18-month battle with an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer, He was 85. Dan was preceded 6 months prior by his wife of 59 years Patricia Marlene Diggs Humphreys. Dan is survived by his daughter Donna Lee Humphreys Baer and her husband Richard Baer of Plano, Texas; his...

Bonita Alford

Bonita Alford

September 17, 2020

Bonita "Bunny" Ruth Reeves Alford was born on January 15, 1948 in Beaumont, Texas to Patsy and Royce B. Reeves.

She grew up and went to school in Hubbard, Texas, where she met the love of her life, Don Alford. They were married on July 24, 1965 in Mexico. They spent the next 55 years working and...

Victoria Wilkins

Victoria Wilkins

September 13, 2020

Victoria Jean Wilkins, age 40, of 100 Lakecrest Court, passed away Sunday, September 13, 2020.

She was born in Dallas, Texas on July 21st, 1980. Vickie attended Ferris Junior High School and was an exceptionally gifted student, being chosen first chair percussion in her school band. She had a great love for God and was very involved...

Nancy Powell

Nancy Powell

September 12, 2020

Nancy Noland Powell, age 77 of Waxahachie, TX passed away Saturday September 12, 2020.  She was born in Kansas City, Kansas on May 6, 1943.  Nancy graduated from Beaver High School in Beaver, Oklahoma in 1961, and attended Panhandle A&M in Goodwell, OK.

She was married to Gerald Frederick Powell on January 30, 1970 in Canadian, Texas. ...

Joy Davis

Joy Davis

October 19, 2020

Joy Everette Davis 10/08/1944 - 10/19/2020 Everette Davis, age 76, was born to Charles Joy Davis (deceased) and Ellen Victoria Bazzell (deceased) in Montgomery, AL. He passed away at home in Red Oak, TX where he resided for the last 30 years with his wife of 50 years, Carol Jean Davis. Before retirement, Everette was in the auto parts...

John Owen

John Owen

October 18, 2020

John Laurence Owen, 71, of Waxahachie, Texas transitioned this life on October 18, 2020 at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

Born November 14, 1948 in Danville, Illinois, he was the son of Russell John and Edna Helen (Mast) Owen. He married Marlene (Woodward) on February 6, 1972 at Central Christian Church in Danville.

John...

Gaines Wolaver

Gaines Wolaver

October 17, 2020

Gaines Oliver Wolaver, (G.O. and Pappy) was born in Italy, Texas January 24, 1940, he left this earth to be with Christ on October 17, 2020.  Gaines spent 60 years in education, 54 of those years af Red Oak Independent School District, serving as head football coach, athletic director, biology teacher, director of maintenance, and mentor to thousands...

Barbara Ray

Barbara Ray

October 17, 2020

For the last 88 years, our world has been blessed with the presence of the beautiful soul that was Barbara Joan Ray. On October 17, 2020 she fell asleep at her home in Waxahachie, and flew away to the arms of her Savior, Jesus Christ. She went by many names- Barbara, Joan (pronounced Jo-Ann), Mother, Grandma, Gaga, Gigi,...

Janet Matthews

Janet Matthews

October 11, 2020

Janet L Matthews

Janet L. Matthews 75, of Waxahachie, Texas passed away Sunday October 11, 2020. She was born in Lamesa, Texas on December 18, 1944. Janet graduated from Lamesa high school and then attended South Pains College. She married her best friend James Matthews on July 24, 1963 in Lamesa, Texas. Janet worked as...

Matthew Brady

Matthew Brady

October 11, 2020

Matthew “Tyler” Brady, of Waxahachie, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020, at the age of 34 with his loving family at his bedside. Tyler was born in Dallas, Texas, on March 9, 1986. He graduated from Waxahachie High School in 2004. He played football and baseball for the Waxahachie Indians and was a member...

Dana Argumaniz

Dana Argumaniz

October 11, 2020

Dana Wooldridge Argumaniz of Red Oak, Texas former resident of El Paso, Texas passed away October 11th at her home in Red Oak, after battling Cancer for 3 years. She was born in El Paso 10-14-61 and was a graduate of Bel Air High School and continued her education at Texas A&M. She married Frank Argumaniz also of El Paso...

Judy Baergen

Judy Baergen

October 2, 2020

Judy Maurine Baergen went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday afternoon, October 2nd, 2020 due to complications from a heart attack. She was born December 21, 1942 in Victoria, TX to Mr. and Mrs. Fred and Polly Moss. On June 18th, 1965, she married Dr. John Darrel Baergen in Rockport, Texas. Judy received her...

Sallie Hamm

Sallie Hamm

October 2, 2020

Sallie Smith Hamm was born in Slocum, Tx. To parents Ollie and Ethel Smith. She retired from Flexsteel in Waxahachie, Tx.

She was a loving Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother and Aunt. Sallie loved children and babies. She baby sat for years. She could cook, just ask anyone. He chicken and dumplings would put a...

Israel Hernandez

Israel Hernandez

October 1, 2020

Israel Tellez, 65, passed away on Thursday, October 1, 2020. He was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on January 2, 1955. He was married to Rosa Tellez on June 20, 1979, in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, daughter of Juan Guerrero & Estela Rocha.

Israel was an extremely hard worker and was busy all the time. Israel...

Janet Fuller-Gilbert

Janet Fuller-Gilbert

September 29, 2020

Janet Fuller-Gilbert went home to be with the Lord September 29, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas.

She was born August 31, 1963 to Robert Cletus Fuller, Jr. and Madelon Janet Fuller at W.C. Tenery Community Hospital in Waxahachie, Texas.

Janet is preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Madelon...

Larry Pennington

Larry Pennington

September 26, 2020

Larry Wilson Pennington was born on July 12, 1946, in Grand Saline, Texas, to Lawrence Lee Pennington and Clara Lee Hazelwood.

Larry retired from the City of DeSoto and Glenn Heights Water Department.

Preceded in death by Father Lawrence Lee Pennington, Mother Clara Lee Pennington, and sister La Joya “Joy” Pennington.

Survived by...

Michael Smesny

Michael Smesny

September 25, 2020

Michael Smesny

Michael Blaine Smesny, of Midlothian, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, September 25th, 2020. He was the beloved son of Max and Georgie Smesny.

Mike was born in 1959 in Houston, Texas. He was the third of five sons.  The family moved to Midlothian in 1971 where Mike...

Karen Gillen

Karen Gillen

September 23, 2020

Karen Gillen went to be with the Lord Wednesday, September 23,2020 at the age of 68.

Karen was born in Waxahachie on April 6,1952. She graduated from Lancaster High School, Lancaster, TX, in 1970. She was a resident of Waxahachie and member of Ovilla Road Church of the Nazarene. She worked for the City of Waxahachie in...

Juanita Stoffregen

Juanita Stoffregen

September 23, 2020

Juanita was born to Ivy Lynn (Elliott) and C.C. Dunn on September 1, 1929, in the community of Nash where she was raised. She graduated from Waxahachie High School and thereafter worked as a bookkeeper before marrying Billy Joe Stoffregen on November 3, 1950. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Waxahachie where she taught Children’s Sunday...

Austin Elbert

Austin Elbert

September 22, 2020

Austin Wade Elbert passed away Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 at 12:28pm at the age of 17 with his family at bedside at Methodist Dallas Medical Center.

Austin was senior at Waxahachie High School. He was an incredible athlete who had the love for baseball at a very young age. Austin grew up playing little league in Ennis...

Dan Humphreys

Dan Humphreys

September 18, 2020

Dan C Humphreys passed away on Friday, September 18, 2020, after an 18-month battle with an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer, He was 85. Dan was preceded 6 months prior by his wife of 59 years Patricia Marlene Diggs Humphreys. Dan is survived by his daughter Donna Lee Humphreys Baer and her husband Richard Baer of Plano, Texas; his...

Bonita Alford

Bonita Alford

September 17, 2020

Bonita "Bunny" Ruth Reeves Alford was born on January 15, 1948 in Beaumont, Texas to Patsy and Royce B. Reeves.

She grew up and went to school in Hubbard, Texas, where she met the love of her life, Don Alford. They were married on July 24, 1965 in Mexico. They spent the next 55 years working and...

Victoria Wilkins

Victoria Wilkins

September 13, 2020

Victoria Jean Wilkins, age 40, of 100 Lakecrest Court, passed away Sunday, September 13, 2020.

She was born in Dallas, Texas on July 21st, 1980. Vickie attended Ferris Junior High School and was an exceptionally gifted student, being chosen first chair percussion in her school band. She had a great love for God and was very involved...

Nancy Powell

Nancy Powell

September 12, 2020

Nancy Noland Powell, age 77 of Waxahachie, TX passed away Saturday September 12, 2020.  She was born in Kansas City, Kansas on May 6, 1943.  Nancy graduated from Beaver High School in Beaver, Oklahoma in 1961, and attended Panhandle A&M in Goodwell, OK.

She was married to Gerald Frederick Powell on January 30, 1970 in Canadian, Texas. ...