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Charles Sterling
Mar 5, 2020
Charles Sterling was born in Waco, Texas, on January 9, 1947, to Marvin “Pep” Sterling and Addie (Jackson) Sterling. He passed away on March 5, 2020, at the VA Medical Center in Temple, Texas, after an illness.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Marvin and Addie; his brother Alvin “Joe Boy” Sterling; and his sister,...
Hortense Campos
Mar 5, 2020
Mrs. Hortense Campos, 92, of Waco, passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 5, 2020 surrounded by her family. Graveside Service will be 1:00 PM Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at Oakwood Cemetery with Father Albert Ruiz officiating. The family will receive friends from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM with Rosary at 7:00 PM Monday, March 9, 2020 at Connally/Compton Funeral Directors....
Betty Williams
Feb 27, 2020
Beloved wife, mother, grandma, sister, daughter and friend....
Betty was born the first of three children on July 11,1946 to Bill and Loree Karas in Tulsa, OK. Betty graduated high school in Mart, TX in 1964. She met the love of her life, Charles Williams while waiting tables at a small cafe. They were soon married on...
Earl Delaney
Feb 21, 2020
Earl G. Delaney, 89, of Waco, Texas passed away at home, Friday, February 21, 2020. Comforted and cared for by his loving wife Nancy, their love story lasted more than 63 years. What a wonderful life he lived and what a beautiful example of how a Christian man should live.
Funeral services will be held in the...
Josie Niemeyer
Feb 20, 2020
Josie Kinser Niemeyer left to join her Heavenly Host, Thursday afternoon, February 20, 2020.
Born Josie Rae Pardue, April 12, 1925, to parents Ella Gawne and William Ray Pardue of Dallas, Josie was preceded in death by husbands Wilbur Dalton Kinser and Herbert Niemeyer, brothers W.D. Pardue and Walter Pardue, and grandson, Jimmy Dalton Kinser.
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Luke Anthony Rodriguez
Feb 16, 2020
Luke Rodriguez, 53,passed away on February 16, 2020 in Waco, Texas. Graveside service will be Friday, February 21, 2020 at 1:00 PM at Oakwood cemetery in Waco, Texas. Luke was born on April 2, 1966 to Nicho and Beatrice Rodriguez in Waco, Texas. He was preceded in death by his parents, Nicho Rodriguez / Beatrice Rodriguez; brothers, Dennis Rodriguez, Glenn...
Willa Thornton
Feb 16, 2020
Born to Papa Jeff and Momma Willie Jones in a place known for its majestic Missouri River, and tree-lined bluffs as Jefferson City, Missouri with seven brothers and one sister, who preceded her in death.
True to the agricultural spunkiness of any Midwesterner, even though she had been a transplant to Waco, Texas for over sixty years,...
Mary Florene Nystrom
Feb 15, 2020
Mary "Flo" Florene Nystrom, 92 of Lorena, Texas passed away on Saturday, February 15, 2020. Graveside service will be 12:00 p.m., Monday, February 17, 2020 at Waco Memorial Park Cemetery in Waco, Texas and will be officiated by Dr. Philip Riegel. Flo was born January 2, 1928 to William and Florence Jane (Keith) Chadwick. She was quite the athlete. She...
Betty Baker
Feb 15, 2020
Betty Jo Baker could tell you about her youth as a farm girl, picking cotton in the fields around Waco until her fingers bled. She could also tell you how, as a wife and mother, she would don fancy ball gowns to attend galas at the palace of an Asian president.
She died Saturday, February 15, in...
Lois (Hitchcock) Shugart
Feb 15, 2020
Lois Alleen Shugart was born on December 18, 1924 in Austin, Texas. She went home to be with the Lord Jesus on Saturday, February 15, 2020 in Waco, Texas. She was preceded in death by her father, Stonewall Hitchcock, her mother, Pearl (Cowey) Hitchcock, 3 brothers, Scott Hitchcock, Raymond Hitchcock and S.W. Hitchcock, 2 sisters, Elnora (Sis) Wingfield and...
Paul M. Dickerson
Feb 12, 2020
Mr. Paul M. Dickerson, 96, passed away Wednesday, February 12, 2020 in Waco, Texas. Graveside services will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 18, at Waco Memorial Park in Waco. Visitation will be from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Monday, February 17, at the funeral home. Paul was born on June 25, 1923 to Francis Marion and Emma Sarah (Mitchell) Dickerson...
Royce Milton Stone
Feb 10, 2020
Royce Stone, 84, passed away February 10, 2020 of natural causes in Wimberley, Texas. Funeral Service will be held on February 14th at Connally-Compton Funeral Home, Waco, Texas. The family will receive friends from 11:30am to 12:30pm, before the funeral service at 1:00pm. Graveside service will be following funeral service at Waco Memorial Cemetery. Royce Milton Stone graduated from Waco...
Dorothy Schlichting
Feb 8, 2020
Dorothy Lee Schlichting, age 90, went to be with the Lord on February 8, 2020.
A visitation will be held at 11:00 am, Thursday, February 13, 2020 in the Mausoleum Chapel at Waco Memorial Park, funeral services will follow at 12:00 o'clock; officiated by Dr. Wayne Blackshear, reflections by Pastor Buck Taylor.
She was born...
Juanita Lee Bynum
Feb 7, 2020
Juanita Lee Bynum, 92, of Waco, Texas passed from this life on February 7, 2020 in Waco, Texas. Visitation will be held at 9 a.m. and funeral service at 10 a.m. on Monday, February 10 at Connally/Compton Funeral Directors. Interment will follow in Restland Cemetery, Gatesville TX. Juanita Lee was born December 3, 1927 in Coryell City, Texas to Roy...
Mattie Kinnison
Feb 5, 2020
Mattie Dee Kinnison, 99, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on February 05, 2020.
The family is gathering at 10 a.m., Saturday, February 08, 2020, at Liberty Hill Baptist Church at 1155 Liberty Hill Rd., Moody, TX, for a private family visitation and lunch reception. The Kinnison/Lott Family will receive visitors at 11:30 a.m.,...
Carmen Salas (Almanza)
Feb 4, 2020
Carmen Almanza Salas returned to the rest and peace of her Heavenly Father on Tuesday, February 4, 2020. Her journey began in the rural outskirts of Waco, Texas in 1937. She was brought into this world by a mid-wife to Pablo and Maria de Jesus Baeza Almanza. Growing up the child of a tenant farmer during the Depression was a...
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