Rachelle Bennett
A Memorial service for Rachelle Bennett, age 47, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 6:00p.m. Monday, October 19, 2020 at Triumph Christian Center in Sulphur Springs. Rachelle Bennett passed away Thursday, October 15, 2020 Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Rachelle Bennett was born February 10, 1973 in Tyler, Texas to Glenn Roberts and Glenda Ingram. She was a loving mother and wife to her children and husband. She is survived by her husband, Rance Bennett; daughters, Emily Penny (Austen) and Lauren Villarreal;...
read moreFrances “Nanny” Wilks
Funeral service for Frances “Nanny” Wilks, age 86, of Sulphur Springs, TX will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with Pastor Quentin Long officiating. Interment to follow at Sulphur Springs City Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 PM onMonday, October 19, 2020 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home. Frances Evelyn was born on January 8, 1934 in Hopkins County, TX to Tommy and Florence Brown. She married Billy Wilks in Sulphur Springs in 1950. She worked at Hopkins County Memorial Hospital and...
read moreVeda Jo Underwood Sellers
Veda Jo Underwood Sellers passed away from Covid pneumonia on October 12, 2020 at Providence Hospital in Waco, Texas at the age of ninety-four. She was born August 28, 1926. Her youth was spent in Denton, her adult life centered in Sulphur Springs, and her most senior fourteen years resided in Waco. Veda was preceded in death by her parents, Pickney Thomas and Jimmie Beatrice Strong Underwood, her husband of sixty-five years, Henry Grady Sellers, and their eldest son, Grady Charles Sellers. Veda remained committed to her family and engaged in...
read moreMary Branch
A Memorial service for Mary Branch, age 78, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at a later date. Mary passed away Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Sunny Springs Nursing Home. Mary Branch was born February 19, 1942 in Sulphur Springs, TX to Harleen Russel Beatles and Alma Irene Archer. She worked as a Home Health Provider and a member of the Richland Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, Michael David Branch; sons, Jerry Wayne Clift and George and wife Lisa Newby; daughters, Marla Henderson and husband Wayne and Mary Newby; grandchildren, Zack...
read moreMary Alice Fleenor
Funeral service for Mary Alice Fleenor, age 86, of Sulphur Springs will be held at 2:30 P.M. on Sunday, October 18, 2020 at First Baptist Church- Spence Chapel, Sulphur Springs with Rev. Fred Lewis officiating. Interment to follow at Brigham Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to theservice. Mrs. Fleenor passed away on Sunday, October 11, 2020 at Broadmoor Medical Lodge, Rockwall, TX. Mary Alice was born on January 21, 1934 in Thorton, Texas to Melvin and Clara (Rasco) Cox. She married Glenn Fleenor on February 27, 1952 in...
read moreRuby Earl McKinnon
Ruby Earl McKinnon, a longtime resident of the Sulphur Bluff community passed away at Carriage House Manor in Sulphur Springs, Texas, on October 13, 2020. She was born near Winnsboro, Texas, on December 24, 1918, to Roy and Ethel McKinnon, and moved with her family to the Sulphur Bluff community in 1937. She moved to Dallas in the 1940’s where she worked for an insurance company until returning to Sulphur Bluff in the latter part of that decade to care for her elderly parents, and remained there the rest of her life. Additionally, she was...
read morePeggy Jo Ramey
Mrs. Ramey passed away on Saturday, October 10, 2020 at Carriage House A graveside service for Peggy Jo Ramey, age 92, of Sulphur Springs, will be held Friday, October 16, 2020 at 2:00 PM at the Sulphur Springs City cemetery. Bruce Welch will be officiating. A visitation will be held at Tapp Funeral Home Chapel at 1:00PM, one hour prior to the service. She was born on, October 21, 1927 to Walter E. Myre and Era Brandon Myre in Dallas, TX. She married William C. Ramey January 8, 1948 in Sulphur Springs. Mr. Ramey...
read moreCharles Gaylor Oxford
Charles Gaylor Oxford was born 27 October 1936 in the Oak Grove Community of Wood County, Texas. He graduated from this life on 09 October 2020 in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas. His parents Leston Boyd Oxford and Verna Lee LaRue Oxford of Mineola, Texas, and his son, Tommy Oxford, of Oklahoma preceded him in death. Charles is survived by his three sisters, Glenda and her husband Bill Scott, Mineola; LaVell and her husband Jay Willis, Plano; Pam and her husband Dreabon Joiner, Pickton; two grandsons T. J. Oxford and his wife Taylor,...
read moreLula Fae Martin Moore
Lula Fae Martin Moore went to be with the Lord on October 13, 2020, in Sulphur Springs, Texas at the age of 89. Lula Fae was born in Buckeye, Arizona on February 6, 1931, to Charlie May Martin and Geneva Bridges Martin. Her parents moved very shortly thereafter to McCamey, Texas where she graduated from high school in 1949. At age 12, she took a bus from McCamey to Los Angeles where she picked up her infant niece to bring her back to McCamey. This was just one example of how throughout her life she demonstrated her caring and dependable...
read moreWelton Douglas Moore
Welton Douglas Moore went to be with the Lord on October 9, 2020, in Sulphur Springs, Texas at the age of 94. Welton was born in Electra, Texas on September 20, 1926, to Arthur Maxwell Moore and Ora Cheaney Moore. He moved to Hobbs, NM in 1934, where he lived until his Senior Year of High School, when he moved to Wink, Texas. There he graduated from High School in 1945. He entered the Army upon graduation and served in the Army of Occupation in Germany 1945-1947. Upon return to the U.S., heenrolled in Texas Tech University where he earned a...
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