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Richard Jerome Lybolt

Richard Jerome Lybolt

Jan 12, 2021

Richard Jerome Lybolt was born in Goshen, New York on October 17, 1945. In 1964 he joined the U.S. Army and served for six years. He worked in pest control. Richard passed away in Bryan, Texas on January 12, 2021. His family said that he was a wonderful man. He tried to be a friend to everyone. He loved his...

Sylvia  Swinner

Sylvia Swinner

Jan 12, 2021

Sylvia Marie Swinner, age 87, of Madisonville, Texas passed peacefully into the welcoming arms of her Lord and Savior the evening of January 12, 2021. She was born August 14, 1933 in Galveston, Texas to father, Valentino Dushman and mother, Margaret (Pinachio) Dushman. Sylvia was a devoted homemaker and housewife her entire life. She loved teaching her children and once...

Winnie "Pauline" Gilhaus

Winnie "Pauline" Gilhaus

Jan 12, 2021

Winnie Pauline Gilhaus was born December 25, 1929 in Madison County, Texas to William Paul McWhorter and Lillian Anna Peters. She died January 12, 2021 at age 91. She followed several of her sisters to Houston where she worked as a bookkeeper for Bland Willis Cadillac. After meeting and marrying the love of her life, James B. Gilhaus, the two...

Billie Hugh Culp

Billie Hugh Culp

Jan 5, 2021

Billie Culp, 89, of Madisonville, Texas, passed away January 5, 2021 at his home in Madisonville. Funeral services will be held 4 P.M., Sunday, January 10, 2021 at Madisonville Funeral Home, Madisonville, Texas with Jon Stevens officiating. Interment with military funeral honors provided by the U.S. Army will follow in High Prairie Cemetery. A public visitation will take place Saturday,...

Eloise King

Eloise King

Dec 31, 2020

Eloise King passed away on December 31, 2020 at the age of eighty-eight after a years long battle with dementia and is now reunited with her husband of forty-two years, Bobby Jack King. Born to Pierce and Lena Walker in Madisonville, Texas on May 2, 1932, Eloise later spent most of her adult life in Houston, Texas. Eloise was an...

Pearline Wheaton Johnson

Pearline Wheaton Johnson

Dec 29, 2020

On Tuesday, December 29, 2020, in Bryan, Texas, Pearline left her earthly body to go home with her heavenly Father.  She is preceded in death by her husband, Rufus Johnson, Sr.; parents, Jimmy & Nannie Wheaton; sister, Verline Wheaton and brother, Billy Wheaton, Sr.  Pearline leaves behind to cherish her memories daughters, Sharon and Jennifer Johnson; son, Rufus Johnson (Valerie);...

Terry Mark Green

Terry Mark Green

Dec 26, 2020

Terry Green fought a long, hard battle with Covid19, and received ultimate healing through the love of Jesus Christ on December 26, 2020. Terry was born September 11, 1952, in Freeport, Texas. He spent a happy, “Leave It to Beaver” childhood as he liked to call it, in Angleton, Texas. After his dad retired, the family moved back home and...

Woodrow E. Renfro

Woodrow E. Renfro

Dec 25, 2020

Funeral services for Woodrow E. Renfro, 92, of Houston, will be held 2 P.M., Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at the Madisonville Funeral Home, Madisonville, Texas A brief visitation will take place prior to the service from 1 P.M. to 2 P.M. Bro. Carl Williamson will officiate, and burial will follow in Jozye Cemetery. Woodrow Renfro was born August 26, 1928...

Mario Dean "Marty" Navarro

Mario Dean "Marty" Navarro

Dec 18, 2020

Graveside services for Marty Navarro, age 50, of Madisonville, Texas will be held 2 P.M., Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at Rock Prairie Cemetery. Lance Ferguson will officiate the service. The Navarro family will receive friends Monday, December 21st from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M. at Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville, Texas. Born Mario Dean Navarro February 9, 1970 in Houston,...

Rufus Dean Johnson, Sr.

Rufus Dean Johnson, Sr.

Dec 8, 2020

Homegoing services for Rufus Dean Johnson, Sr., age 76, will be held 11 A.M., Saturday, December 12, 2020 at Madisonville Funeral Home, Madisonville, Texas. Interment will follow in West End Cemetery. Mr. Johnson was born June 4, 1944 in Madisonville, Texas to parents, Ira Johnson and Savannah (Brown) Johnson. He worked as a corrections officer for T.D.C.J. and enjoyed fishing...

Ronald Alan Pontius

Ronald Alan Pontius

Dec 6, 2020

Ronald Pontius, 74, of Madisonville, Texas passed away December 6, 2020 in Madisonville. He was born December 20, 1945 in Algonac, Michigan to parents, Elmer & Aileen Grace (Endleman) Pontius. He grew up in Mission, Texas where he also graduated from high school. Ronald attended the University of Texas at Pan American where he received both his Bachelors and Master’s...

Hayden Quinn Martinez

Hayden Quinn Martinez

Dec 6, 2020

Hayden Quinn Martinez was born December 25, 1995 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Throughout his father’s career as a high school football coach, Hayden lived in numerous cities and attended numerous schools but the ones dear to his heart were Warren, Brenham, Somerville, and Iola. Hayden completed his high school education at Iola ISD in Iola, Texas in 2015. Throughout his...

Mattie Bell Hoehne

Mattie Bell Hoehne

Dec 2, 2020

Mattie Bell Hoehne, age 84, passed away peacefully at her home in La Vernia, Texas on Wednesday, December 2, 2020. Mattie was born September 19, 1936 in Madisonville, Texas to Thomas Rob and Lucille (Lowry) Waldrip. Mattie was a caring and compassionate woman and a wonderful loving wife, mother, sister, aunt and friend. Mattie was a lifetime member of the...

Doris Nell Tyler Moore

Doris Nell Tyler Moore

Nov 29, 2020

Doris Nell Tyler Moore was born in Madisonville, Texas on August 8,1952 to the late Ell Tyler III and Dorothy Lee Tyler. She accepted Christ at an early age, was baptized at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Madisonville, Texas. She attended Marion Anderson High School in Madisonville but graduated from Madisonville High School. She was employed by Texas Department of...

Lavonne Hicks Burk

Lavonne Hicks Burk

Nov 27, 2020

LaVonne Hicks Burk, 85, was a member of the Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church and a long-time resident of Madisonville, Texas. She was born to William Perrington “Perry” Hicks and Thelma Mae (Wilson) Hicks on August 30, 1935, in Bryan, Texas, as Pansy Lavon. She was at Life Care Hospice, in Wooster, Ohio, when her heavenly Father called her home on...

Sasha Nikole Lacombe

Sasha Nikole Lacombe

Nov 25, 2020

Sasha Nikole LaCombe, 28, of North Zulch, Texas, passed away on Wednesday, November 25, 2020. She was born on March 17, 1992 in Hillsboro, Texas. Sasha was the oldest of five siblings, although she considered them her babies and loved taking care of them. Sasha is survived by her fiancé, Tony Nielson of North Zulch; children, Logan and Raizley Nielson...

John Craig Swift

John Craig Swift

Nov 17, 2020

On Tuesday November 17, 2020, John “Craig” Swift Sr., loving husband and father, spent his last night surrounded by the family he loved before taking his final breath at the age of seventy-nine with his son, Johnny, at his side. Craig was born on Saturday December 28, 1940, in Queens, New York to Leslie J. Swift and Dorothy Francis Marie...

William Gordon Bishop

William Gordon Bishop

Nov 12, 2020

William Gordon Bishop, 89, was lifted into the Lord’s arms November 12, 2020. He was born June 15, 1931 in Montgomery, Alabama to Gordon Fortune Bishop and Margaret Elizabeth Connolly. William joined the service at age nineteen. He served in the U.S. Navy from October 1950 through December 1954 as a 2nd Class Radio Technician. He earned the distinguished decorations...

Frances Lee (Landers) Isbell

Frances Lee (Landers) Isbell

Nov 5, 2020

“...As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” —Joshua 24:15 This was the favorite bible verse of Frances’ parents, and later became hers. The central themes of Frances’ life revolved around her faith in God. She even was able to title her memoir, written in her nineties, My Wonderful Life of Faith, Family and Friends. Through the...

Marilyn Simpson Connor

Marilyn Simpson Connor

Nov 3, 2020

Marilyn Simpson Connor, 75, passed away in Bryan, Texas, on November 3, 2020. Marilyn was born to Murl and Odell Simpson on April 24, 1945, and was raised in Dickinson, Texas. She married the love of her life, Glenn, on August 28, 1965, and together they shared a happy marriage for 55 years. Marilyn was a loving wife, mother, and...

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