Local Obituaries for Cleveland, Dayton, Coldspring & Surrounding Communities

February 25, 2012

Joseph Winson Smesny, 29, of Pasadena, died Saturday, February 25, 2012, near Bolivar, Texas. Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church with burial following at St. Anne Catholic Cemetery in Eastgate. Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday, at the funeral home....

February 24, 2012

Virginia L. Platt-Murphy, 62, of Dayton, died Friday, February 24, 2012, at her residence. Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday, March 1, 2012, at the Pace-Stancil Funeral Home in Dayton. Services are under the direction of Pace-Stancil Funeral Home in Dayton. Virginia was born September 23, 1949 in El Paso, to parents; T. R. and...

February 24, 2012

Rosa Charlene Hoagland, age 61, of Cleveland, Texas, passed away Friday, February 24, 2012 at her residence. She was born October 20, 1950 in Cleveland, Texas to parents Charlie Jewel Kelley and Thelma Lou Chumley. She is preceded in death by her father. She will be remembered lovingly by her mother Thelma Lou Stout; daughter LaRhonda Tucker; sisters Charlotte Breazeale...

February 24, 2012

LOVING Loretta Louise Loving, age 62, of Shepherd, Texas, passed away Friday, February 24, 2012 at Memorial Herman Hospital, Humble, Texas. She was born January 24, 1950 in Medicine Lodge, Kansas to parents James Elwood McKanna Sr. and Faye Elizabeth Littell McKanna who preceded her in death along with her brother Ralph McKanna. She will be remembered lovingly by her...

February 24, 2012

Stacy L. Priestly-Cavalier, 40, of Liberty, died Friday, February 24, 2012, at her residence. Graveside services will be held at 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at the Cooke Memorial Cemetery in Liberty with Frank Liddell officiating. The burial will follow thereafter. Services are under the direction of Pace-Stancil Funeral Home in Dayton Stacy was born August 27, 1971 in...

February 23, 2012

February 23, 2012

Ava Jewel Majors Williams, 91, of Tarkington died peacefully Thursday, February 23, 2021 in Cleveland. She was born February 21, 2012 in Tarkington Prairie to parents Johnny Aaron Majors and Edgeworth Morris Majors and had been a lifelong resident of Liberty County. She had been a member of the Rebecca Lodge of Liberty, had worked for Sav-Way, Peoples and Franks....

February 20, 2012

Modesett   MODESETT Ellen Gardner Modesett, age 96, of Dolen, Texas, passed away Monday, February 20, 2012. She was born in Baytown, Texas on May 6, 1915 to parents, John Celestine Sjiolander and Ellen Cecil Dahlquist who preceded her in death along with her loving husbands, Ellis Gardner and Roy Modesett; son, Wilford Gardner; brother, Ernest Sjolander; sisters, Ida Stainer,...

February 19, 2012

February 19, 2012

Services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, February 23, 2012, at the Pace-Stancil Funeral Home Chapel in Dayton.

February 18, 2012

Nathaniel A. “Nate” Ladkins, 11, of Dayton, died Saturday, February 18, 2012, at his residence. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, February 25, 2012, at the Pace-Stancil Funeral Home Chapel in Dayton. Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, at the funeral home. Services are under the direction of Pace-Stancil Funeral Home in...

February 17, 2012

WAKEFIELD Eddis Ray Wakefield, age 66, of Spring, Texas, passed away, Friday, February 17, 2012 at his residence. He was born July 14, 1945 in Channelview, Texas to parents Mildred Sleigh and Ida Noreen Wakefield who preceded him in death along with his loving wife Bonnie Whiddon Wakefield. Survivors include his daughters Christine Childers, Lisa Wakefield, Heather Russell, Michelle Dishough,...

February 17, 2012

Helen V. Turner, age 92, a lifetime resident of Cleveland, Texas, passed away Friday, February 17, 2012 at Cleveland Regional Medical Center. She was born in Sugar Town, Louisiana on October 2, 1919 to parents Ernest LaSha and Bertha May Sesson LaSha who preceded her in death. Survivors include her daughter Elaine Reed; son Ronald Turner and wife Marilyn; sister...

February 16, 2012

February 14, 2012

REID Barbara Jean Reid, age 63, of Cleveland, Texas, passed away Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at Kingwood Medical Center. She was born November 15, 1948 in Houston, Texas. She is preceded in death by her father Hank Perry; sisters Mary Boultinghouse and Debbie West; brother James Perry; grandmother Helen Utley; grandfather John Utley; nephew Dennis Senter; and her niece Sherry...

February 13, 2012

HALL Shirley “Gamma” Stan Hall, age 76, of Cleveland, Texas, passed away Monday, February 13, 2012. She was born April 8, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan to parents Nick and Mary Stayden who preceded her in death along with her husband James Hall; son Matthew Hall, daughter Rebecca Hall and her niece and nephew Renee McKinnis and husband Jim. Survivors include...

February 12, 2012

February 11, 2012

William C. “Neil” Robison (September 4, 1933 – February 11, 2012) William C. “Neil” Robison passed away February 11, 2012. He was born in Camilla, Texas on September 4, 1933. He was preceded in death by his parents, Sam Robison and Lydia Jordan Hubbard, and his brother William Hubbard. Neil moved to San Antonio at the age of 10 with...

February 9, 2012

Lissie Jane Billingsley Sackett, 92, of Dayton, died Thursday, February 9, 2012, at the Liberty-Dayton Community Hospital in Liberty. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Monday, February 13, 2012, at the First Assembly of God Church in Dayton with burial following at Ryan Cemetery in Tarkington Prairie. Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday,...

February 9, 2012