Obituaries
Stephen Callahan
Nov 3, 2022
Stephen James Callahan, age 52, passed away in Ellis County, Texas, on Thursday, November 3, 2022.
Stephen developed his construction skills at an early age and became a Master Carpenter working for Equipment Management Services of Ferris, Texas, for the past five years. He was a member of ReChurch in Kaufman, Texas. Family was most important to Stephen.
Those...
James Lloyd Gaddis, Sr.
Oct 31, 2022
James Lloyd Gaddis, Sr., 75, of Trinidad, TX went to be with the Lord on October 31, 2022. James was born on September 3, 1947, to Lonnie and Oleta Gaddis in Dallas, TX. He moved to Crowell while in high school and graduated from Crowell High School. James moved back home in 1967 and for most of his time was...
Peggy Joyce Chrestman
Oct 31, 2022
Peggy Joyce Chrestman 87, of Combine, TX went to be with our Lord and Savior on October 31, 2022, peacefully in her home. Peggy was born on April 6, 1935 to Frank “Doc” Ford McQuinn and Era Dee Voss McQuinn of Decatur, TX. Peggy married Lloyd Chrestman on January 22, 1958, and they later settled in Combine, TX where they lived...
Marianne Anuario
Oct 18, 2022
Marianne Anuario, age 65, of Kaufman, Texas passed away on October 18, 2022. Marianne was born on September 5, 1957 in Dallas, Texas to parents David Anuario and Annocaneia Noriega Anuario.
Marianne was first and foremost a loving mother and grandmother. She loved holidays and all the traditions that went with them but spending time with her family, especially...
Charla Gaye Randall
Oct 12, 2022
Charla Randall, 56, of Kaufman, TX went to be with the Lord on October 12, 2022. Charla was born on February 10, 1966, to Charles and Lynda Floyd in Arlington, TX. Charla grew up in the Dallas area graduating from R.L. Turner High School in Carrollton TX in 1984. She worked for Wells Fargo for 17 years before moving to...
Matthew Edward Cline
Oct 12, 2022
Matthew Edward Cline, age 60, of Kaufman, Texas, left this world for his home in Heaven on Wednesday, the 12th day of October 2022. Matt, as he was best known, was born in Dallas on the 23rd day of July 1962 to parents Glen Donald and Mary Rene Cline.
Matt graduated from Kaufman High School in 1980. He was a...
Billy Pat Koleszar
Oct 10, 2022
Billy Pat Koleszar, 88, of Seagoville, TX went to be with the Lord on October 10, 2022. Pat was born on April 14, 1934, to John and Stella Koleszar in Craig, OK. He was raised in Oklahoma going to high school in Haileyville and graduating in 1952.
After graduating high school, Pat joined his brothers in California where he worked...
Gaytha Jane Thomas
Oct 9, 2022
Gaytha Jane Thomas, 83, went to be with the Lord on October 9, 2022. Gaytha was born on February 12,1939, to Mack and Evelyn Welborn in Durant, OK. Raised in Durant, she graduated from high school there, and worked at Durant Bank and Trust. Gaytha moved to Kaufman in 1983. She worked at Traveler’s Insurance Company then American National Bank...
Thomas Gail Combs
Oct 6, 2022
Thomas Gail Combs, son of James and Isabell Combs and brother of Ledainne Henley, died peacefully on October 6. Daughter, Mimmie Coleman, son, Blinn Combs, and grandson, Brandon Coleman survive him. Relocating frequently for his father’s work as a stonemason, Tom attended eleven different schools in twelve years, and delivered papers all around Dallas through his teens. After graduating from...
Lorne Wayne Johnson
Oct 3, 2022
Lorne Wayne Johnson, 57, of Dallas, TX passed away on October 3, 2022, in Mesquite, TX. Lorne was born on November 16, 1964, to Billy and Lucy Johnson in Cleburne, TX. He graduated from Cleburne High School in 1983 and went to Abilene Christian University for a little while. Lorne worked several different jobs till he married the love of...
Joni McKinney
Oct 1, 2022
Joni McKinney was a loving wife, mother, daughter, sister to four sisters, aunt to 17 nieces and nephews, a faithful friend, and a proud Kaufman Lion. On October 1st, 2022, Joni went home to be with Jesus, safe in the knowledge that when she closed her eyes in this life, she would open them to eternal life with him.
Joni...
Hollis Gene LaRoe
Sep 30, 2022
Hollis Gene LaRoe, 89, of Spring, TX passed away on September 30, 2022. Hollis was born to Sam and Gladys Hall LaRoe on August 25, 1933, in Kaufman, TX. He graduated from Kaufman High School in 1952 and went to Tarleton State University and earned an Associates degree in 1954. On April 6, 1957, Hollis married Margaret Griffin in...
Sarah Faye Smith
Sep 22, 2022
On September 22, 2022, Sarah Faye Smith of Scurry, TX, loving wife, and mother of three passed away at age 80. She was born on December 23, 1941, to Earnest and Georgia Dickerson of Seagoville, TX. She worked for 30 years as a Center Director for both the Kaufman County and Dallas County Senior Citizen Services before retiring in...
Sandra Ellen Martzen
Sep 11, 2022
Sandra Ellen Martzen
1948 – 2022
Sandra was born on December 19, 1948, in Visalia, California to Antonio & Alexandria (Perry) Mancebo. She was the last of eight children and grew up surrounded by her large Portuguese family on her father’s dairy farm in the heart of California’s San Joaquin Valley.
She attended Elbow Creek Elementary School, then a small...
Concepcion Duran Chaparro
Sep 11, 2022
Concepcion Duran Chaparro, 66, of Kaufman, TX went to be with the Lord on September 11, 2022. Concepcion was born in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico to Jesus Chaparro Reyes and Maria Concepcion Duran Martinez on March 14, 1956. She was raised in Mexico and moved to Kaufman on June 17, 1985. Shortly after moving here, she started working at Madix in...
Steve Robert Kovar
Sep 4, 2022
Steve Robert Kovar, 77, passed away on September 4, 2022, in Ennis, TX. He was born to Kermit and Louise Kovar in Kaufman, TX on July 18, 1945. He worked for Ben E. Keith Co. in Dallas, TX for many years and sheet metal workers in Terrell, TX until he retired. He married Mary Cates with children, Deniese Cates and...
Toivo Mike Vilbas
Aug 28, 2022
Toivo Mike Vilbas, 65, of Kaufman, TX went to be with the Lord on August 28, 2022. Mike was born on August 24, 1957, to Vladimir and Saimi Vilbas in Miami, FL. Growing up in Miami he played football and went on to be given a football scholarship to Henderson County Community College in Athens, TX, where he met his first...
Phyllis Jeanne Mason
Aug 26, 2022
Phyllis Jeanne Mason, 80 years of age from Mabank, Texas went to be with our Lord on the morning of August 26, 2022. Phyllis was born to Clifton and Ruth Bookout in Seymore, Texas on June 8, 1942. She married the love of her life, Richard Grady Mason, on July 18, 1959. Phyllis and Richard were happily married for 61...
Curtis Ray Donawho
Aug 25, 2022
Curtis Ray Donawho was born in Kaufman Texas on February 16, 1947 and died on August 25, 2022. His parents were William Otto and Maude Dockery Donawho. He grew up in Rosser, Texas and graduated from Scurry-Rosser High School in 1965. He joined the United States Navy where he served aboard the USS Matthews and USS Valley Forge during the...
Tamara Sue Lovern
Aug 24, 2022
Tamara Sue Hill Lovern, 53, of Kaufman, TX went to be with the Lord on August 24, 2022. Tamara was born in Kaufman, Tx on January 20, 1969, to Jesse and Martha Hill, Jr. Tamara graduated from Scurry Rosser High School in 1987. She went to DeVry University and then later got her Masters Degree while working as a teacher...
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