Obituaries

Recent Obituaries in Waco, TX

Vincent Sosa Lopez, Sr.

Vincent Sosa Lopez, Sr.

Apr 5, 2018

Vincent Sosa Lopez Sr., 89, of Waco, Texas passed away Thursday, April 5, 2018. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 a.m., Monday, April 9, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Rev. C. Benjamin Magnaye as Celebrant. Visitation will begin at 6:00 p.m., with Rosary Service at 7:00 p.m., Sunday, April 8, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home. Vincent was born...

Patsy Pippin Mccollum

Patsy Pippin Mccollum

Apr 4, 2018

Patsy Marie Pippin McCollum, 91, passed peacefully in her sleep at her residence during the early morning hours of April 4, 2018. A memorial service will be at 11:00 a.m. Friday, April 20, at Austin Avenue United Methodist Church, with a reception at the church following the service. Senior Pastor Tim Jarrell will officiate. Burial will be at Oakwood...

Catherine Sue King

Catherine Sue King

Apr 2, 2018

Catherine Sue King passed away Monday, April 2, 2018. Visitation will be 9:00 a.m., Saturday, April 7, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home, 6101 Bosque Blvd. in Waco. A Celebration of Life service will begin promptly at 10 a.m., following visitation. Burial will be at Moore Cemetery on FM 933 in Chalk Bluff. Catherine Sue Tobias, also known as Memaw, was...

Nellie Gomez Salinas

Nellie Gomez Salinas

Mar 31, 2018

Nellie Salinas, age 61, passed away on March 31, 2018 at Baylor All Saints Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Rosary and Visitation will be 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey funeral home in Waco, Texas. Nellie was born April 1, 1956 in Hillsboro, Texas. She grew up in Hillsboro with a large extended family that...

Betty Jane Harrott

Betty Jane Harrott

Mar 31, 2018

Betty Jane Harrott, 84, passed away March 31, 2018, at Providence Hospital following a brief illness. Graveside services will be 1:00 p.m., Saturday, April 7, at Waco Memorial Park. Visitation will be 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., April 7, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home. Betty was born in Thornton, Texas, on August 23, 1933, to Walter and Opal Jane Rascoe Gill. At...

James Bryan Berryhill, Jr.

James Bryan Berryhill, Jr.

Mar 30, 2018

Retired Baylor University administrator James Berryhill, 81, had his heavenly home-going Friday, March 30, 2018 at his home in Waco. A memorial service will be held at Oakwood Cemetery in Waco on Tuesday, April 3 at 2:00 p.m. with Dr. Matt Snowden officiating. A fellowship time for everyone to be with the family will be held in the parlor...

Derral Wayne Parks

Derral Wayne Parks

Mar 29, 2018

Derral Wayne Parks, 78, beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend, went to be with the Lord on March 29, 2018, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. A celebration of his life will be held 10:00 a.m., Monday, April 2, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home, with Rev. Lester Adams and Rev. Ricky Woodall officiating. The graveside service will follow...

Mary Elizabeth "Libby" Adams

Mary Elizabeth "Libby" Adams

Mar 27, 2018

Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Adams of Waco, Texas, was promoted to her eternal home in Heaven March 27, 2018. The funeral will take place at 1:00 p.m., on Good Friday, March 30, at the Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home in Waco. Visitation is 4:30-6:00 p.m., Thursday, March 29, at WHB. Libby was born January 21, 1931, in Anadarko, Oklahoma, the daughter of...

Hornor Newton Shelton

Hornor Newton Shelton

Mar 23, 2018

Hornor Newton Shelton, 93, of Waco, Texas, passed away March 23, 2018. The memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 26th at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Waco Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Sunday, March 25th at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home. Hornor was born September 30, 1924, to Perry...

Nita Winget

Nita Winget

Mar 23, 2018

Nita Winget passed away Friday, March 23, 2018. Services will be 10:00 am, Monday, March 26, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home with Tommy Pophin and Charles Outlaw officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. Visitation will be 6:00 pm-8:00 pm, Sunday, March 25, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home. Nita was born February 19, 1952, in Waco to Isaac and Juanita Turner....

Fernando Reyna

Fernando Reyna

Mar 21, 2018

Fernando Reyna went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 31, at Parkview Baptist Church with Jerry King and Dr. John Collier officiating. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Park. The family welcomes you to join them in for a visitation 6:00–8:00 p.m., Friday, March 30,...

Baxter Adams, Jr.

Baxter Adams, Jr.

Mar 21, 2018

George Baxter Adams, Jr., passed away peacefully in his sleep Wednesday, March 21, 2018, just shy of his 90th birthday. A celebration of his life will be held graveside at Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas, 3:00 p.m., Saturday, March 24, with Pastor Mark Wible officiating. Baxter was born in Paducah, Texas, to Baxter, Sr., and Nell Boutwell Adams. He graduated...

Beatrice Alice Helm

Beatrice Alice Helm

Mar 20, 2018

Beatrice Alice Helm passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Visitation will be 10:00-11:00 a.m., Friday, March 23, at Richfield Christian Church. Services will be 11:00 a.m., Friday, March 23, at Richfield Christian Church with Rev. David Story and Rev. Alec Ylitalo officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. Beatrice was born May 2, 1926, in Waco, Texas, to Clarence...

Virginia Copeland Jantz

Virginia Copeland Jantz

Mar 19, 2018

Virginia Copeland Jantz, 95, passed away Monday, March 19, 2018. Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m., Friday, March 23, at Oakwood Cemetery with Dr. Ralph Wagner officiating. Virginia was born January 22, 1923, in Waco, Texas, to parents, Queen Zoe Pierce and William Clifford, Sr. Much of her childhood was spent on a small farm near Hog Creek in...

Mary Vitula Mason

Mary Vitula Mason

Mar 18, 2018

Mary Vitula Mason passed away Sunday, March 18, 2018. Mary was born March 24, 1920, in Georgetown, TX, to Daniel and Inez Wilcox. Mary graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, and taught school for 33 years. She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Ernest Fleming Mason and two sisters and one brother. She is survived...

Kim Seavey

Kim Seavey

Mar 18, 2018

Kim Leigh Kickliter Seavey, 59, of Tampa, Florida, peacefully entered the gates of Heaven on Sunday, March 18, 2018. Kim was born in 1958 to George Kickliter and Shirley Spivey Kickliter in Laredo, Texas. She grew up in a military household, living on multiple Air Force bases in the following locations: Ohio, Arizona, Germany, Texas, Florida, Japan, Philippines and...

Mary Peek

Mary Peek

Mar 13, 2018

Mary Eunice Hargett Peek, beloved Wife and Mother, passed away peacefully on March 13, 2018 surrounded by her family and friends in Waco, Texas. Her visitation will be held on Monday, March 19 from 5-7 pm at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey funeral home, 6101 Bosque Blvd, Waco, TX. Funeral services will be Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 1pm, First United Methodist Church,...

Victor Lopez

Victor Lopez

Mar 11, 2018

Victor “Boo” Lopez, 54, of Waco, died fighting cancer on March 11, 2018 at 11:11 a.m. in a local hospital. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 16th at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Rev. Carlo Benjamin P. Magnaye officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery, where he will be laid to rest by his mother,...

Deborah Voige

Deborah Voige

Mar 11, 2018

Deborah Voige passed away, not without a fight, late in the evening on March 11th, 2018 in Colorado, where she had gone weeks before for a ski trip. This was something she loved to do and it will forever be a mystery why her life ended this way. Faith in the Lord provided her comfort and continues to comfort...

Claretta Brown

Claretta Brown

Mar 10, 2018

Claretta C. Brown of Waco passed away Saturday, March 10, 2018. Memorial service to be held 11:00 a.m. on Friday March 16, 2018 at First Baptist Church Woodway. Claretta was born July 20, 1934 to Henry Levi Crawford and Clarena Neitch (pronounced kneech) in Quinton Oklahoma. Her father was a World War I veteran and a Methodist circuit riding...