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Recent Obituaries in Waco, TX
Lisa Jansma Barrett
Jun 21, 2020
Lisa Jansma Angel Barrett, 57, passed away peacefully on June 21, 2020, at her home in McGregor, Texas. A memorial visitation will be held at 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Friday, June 26, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home. A future Celebration of Life to be announced at a later date. Lisa was born on October 2, 1962, in Iowa City, Iowa....
Annie "Polly" Smith
Jun 18, 2020
A beloved wife, daughter, aunt, and friend passed away at the age of 93 on June 18, 2020 at St. Catherine’s Rehabilitation Center following a brief illness. Graveside services will be 4:00 pm, Monday June 22, 2020, at China Spring Cemetery with Chaplin Curtis Holland and Rev. Buddy Sipes officiating. A viewing will be from 12:00 to 5:00 pm,...
Polly Talbert
Jun 18, 2020
Polly Talbert passed away Thursday, June 18, 2020. A Family Graveside Service will be 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 23, at Oakwood Cemetery with Rev. Su Milam officiating. Polly was born September 6, 1922, in Waco, Texas, to Marion Emmett and Pearl May Billington. Polly was a 1940 graduate of Waco High School and continued her education at Four-C College....
Dennis Anthony Masone
Jun 16, 2020
Dennis Anthony Masone passed away Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Dennis was born March 11, 1944, in Dayton, Ohio, to Elmo and Louise Masone. Dennis was an avid photographer who opened a business in Greenlawn, New York, with his wife, Nita, in 1987. Leaving his New York family at Calvary Chapel Island of Grace in 2018 and relocating to Calvary...
Felix Franco
Jun 12, 2020
Felix Franco, 83, passed away Friday, June 12, 2020, at Grand Brook of McKinney, Texas. Services will be private on Thursday, June 18, with Father James Ekeocha officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. He was born in Seabrook, New Jersey, on June 8, 1937, then graduated from Bridgeton High School in Bridgeton in 1955, and joined the United...
Doris Banas
Jun 10, 2020
Doris Banas passed away Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Services will be 10:00 am, Monday, June 15, 2020, at Trinity Lutheran Church Badger Ranch with Rev. Kevin Lentz officiating. Burial will follow at Waco Memorial Park. Visitation will be 5:00 pm-7:00 pm, Sunday, June 14, 2020 at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home. Doris was born July 9, 1931, in Otto, TX, to...
Joyce Mae Mostyn
Jun 10, 2020
Joyce Mae Mostyn, 89, passed away Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at Brookdale Senior Living Solutions in Henderson, Texas. Graveside service will be at Rosemound Cemetery, Monday June 15, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. Joyce Mae Mostyn was born December 25, 1930 to Lloyd Hanchett and Lois Moyers Hanchett. She was a lifelong resident of Nederland, Texas. Joyce lived the last...
Thomas Raymond Leidich
Jun 9, 2020
Thomas (Tom) Leidich, 88, of Waco passed away on June 9, 2020. Visitation will be June 15, 2020, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Wilkirson Hatch Bailey Funeral Home. A graveside service will be on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 11:30 AM with Barbara Lucas of Bosqueville United Methodist Church officiating at Robinson Cemetery. Tom was born in Kirtland...
Jean Eleanor Weathers
Jun 9, 2020
Jean Eleanor Kay Weathers, age 96, entered eternity on June 9, 2020. A graveside service was held at Oakwood Cemetery on Friday, June 12, with the Reverend Terry Graham officiating. Jean was born on March 23, 1924, in Eldon, Missouri, the eldest child of Harry Harold Kay and Pauline Higby Kay. After graduating high school in 1941, she attended...
Brent Malcolm Froberg
Jun 8, 2020
Brent Malcolm Froberg, born April 8, 1943, in Baltimore, MD, to Lawrence O. and Ruth Froberg, passed away Monday, June 8. A memorial service will be held later, after the threat of viral illness has diminished. He attended Valparaiso, IN, public schools and received both BA and MA degrees in Classics from Indiana University, receiving a Ford Foundation scholarship....
Gary Dale Eddleman
Jun 6, 2020
Gary Dale Eddleman passed away June 6, 2020. Services will be Saturday, June 13 at 2 pm with Pastor Robert Nelson officiating. Visitation will be Friday June 12th from 6 – 8 pm, both at River City Church, 3015 North Robinson Dr., Waco, Texas Gary was born on May 6, 1947 in Waco, Texas to George W. and Mayme...
Theda Fae Rinewalt
Jun 2, 2020
Theda Fae Rinewalt, 99, went to be with her Lord on June 2, 2020, at her home. A private service will be held at Rosemound Cemetery. She was born to Arthur and Ina Lovelace Daniel on September 25, 1920, in Mullin, Texas. The family later moved to Waco where she graduated from Waco High School. She attended Baylor University...
Anna L. Niederer
May 31, 2020
Anna L. “Ann” Waters Niederer entered the life everlasting on May 31, 2020, at St. Francis Hospice House in Indianapolis, Indiana. She will be buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Waco, Texas, and her life will be celebrated both in Waco and in Franklin, Indiana. Ann was born on August 30, 1938, in Fort Worth, Texas. She was the oldest...
Jessica Marie Spice
May 31, 2020
Jessica Marie Spice, 36 years old, passed on May 31, 2020, at her home in Cypress, Texas. Services to be held 11:00 a.m., Tuesday June 9, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home. She was born in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, on October 18, 1983. Jessica lived in Ohio with her mother, Karen, her father, Ron, and sister, Cassie, until she was about...
Florine Ray Chapman
May 27, 2020
Florine Ray Chapman passed away Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at The Delaney at Lake Waco. A Graveside Service will be 11:30 a.m., Saturday, November 7, at Oakwood Cemetery. Florine was born on October 28, 1926, in Waco, Texas. She was the only child of Mantie Vester Ray and Flora Orr Everett Ray. Florine graduated from Waco High School in...
Barbara Helen Browder
May 25, 2020
Barbara Helen Browder died peacefully at a local nursing facility after a brief illness. Barbara was born in Groesbeck, Texas, to Helen Cox Browder and Joseph Hardy Browder, Jr. She moved to Waco, Texas, at an early age and attended Waco schools and later Baylor University, where she graduated with a degree in education. She was presented as a...
Sharron Pou Leggett
May 25, 2020
Sharron Leggett passed away Monday, May 25, 2020, at home in Robinson, Texas. Sharron was born December 4, 1944, in Houston, Texas. Her parents were Jimmy and Roberta Pou of Huntsville, Texas. After graduating from Huntsville High School in 1963, she enrolled in Sam Houston State College in Huntsville, where she met her future husband, Tom Leggett, in an...
Kenneth Busch
May 24, 2020
Kenneth Walter Busch, 76, of Waco, died May 24, 2020, at home. An online memorial service will be held on Facebook (@saintmatthewlutheran) on June 11 at 3:00 p.m. CST, with the Rev. Kelsey Fitting-Snyder officiating. Dr. Busch was born March 29, 1944, in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., the son of Walter Frederick and Gertrude Carolyn Weber Busch. He married Marianna...
Frances M. White
May 24, 2020
Frances M. White passed away Sunday, May 24, 2020. A private service was held and she was laid to rest at Dew Cemetery, alongside her husband and daughter. The family invites you to leave a message or memory on our "Tribute Wall" at www.WHBfamily.com.
Thomas Eldon Goodrich, Iii
May 24, 2020
Thomas Eldon Goodrich, III went home to the arms of Jesus on May 24, 2020 in Waco, Texas. Tommy was born on February 26, 1953 in Marlin, Texas, where he lived for forty-three years until he relocated to Lorena, Texas. Tommy attended the University of Texas at Austin where he was a member of Acacia and earned a Bachelor...
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