Obituaries

Jerry Jesse "J.J." Hudson

Jerry Jesse "J.J." Hudson

March 23, 2018

Jerry Jesse Hudson was born March 22, 1946, in Houston, Texas and entered Heaven’s gates Thursday, March 23, 2018, in Normangee, Texas. Visitation is scheduled for Sunday, March 25th from 5pm to 7pm at the Madisonville Funeral home. Funeral services will be held at 12:30pm, Monday, March 26th at the First Baptist Church of Madisonville, and the interment will follow...

Vera Spillars Standley

Vera Spillars Standley

March 23, 2018

Funeral services for Vera Standley, age 93, will be held at 3 P.M., Sunday, March 25, 2018, at the First Baptist Church in Madisonville, Texas. Rev. Kenneth Worley will officiate the service, and interment will follow in the Madisonville Cemetery. Visitation will take place from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M., Saturday, March 24th at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville....

Bobby G Hall

Bobby G Hall

March 21, 2018

Funeral services for Bobby Hall, age 75 of Madisonville, will be held at 2 P.M., Saturday, March 24, 2018, at the Cross Baptist Church in the Cross Community of Grimes County. Rev. Monroe Rice will officiate the service, and interment will be in the Cross Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M., Friday, March 23rd at the...

James Elvin Cook

James Elvin Cook

March 18, 2018

James Elvin Cook was born December 20, 1944, in Crockett, Texas and passed away March 18, 2018, in Bryan, Texas at the age of seventy-three years. Funeral services will be held 2 P.M., Thursday, March 22, 2018, at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville, Texas. Rev. Otis Byers and Rev. Dennis Ivey will officiate the service, and interment will follow...

Timothy Ray Whitmore

Timothy Ray Whitmore

March 16, 2018

A celebration of life service for Timothy Ray Whitmore, age 67, will be held at 1 P.M., Saturday, March 31, 2018 at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville, Texas. Interment will be in the Culton Cemetery in Leona, Texas. Timothy Ray Whitmore was the son of Timothy Whitmore and the late Evelena Mayes Jones. He was better known as “Bozo”...

Cecil "Douglas" Musgrove

Cecil "Douglas" Musgrove

March 14, 2018

Douglas Musgrove, age 82 of Madisonville, Texas, passed away March 14, 2018 in College Station, Texas. A memorial service is scheduled for 11 A.M., Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville, Texas. A gathering of family and friends will take place from 10 A.M. until service time at the funeral home. Cecil “Douglas” Musgrove was born...

James Clifford Brown

James Clifford Brown

March 11, 2018

James Brown, age 46 of Porter, Texas passed away suddenly at his home on March 11, 2018. Graveside services are scheduled for 11 A.M., Saturday, March 17, 2018 at the Park Cemetery in Madisonville, Texas. Arrangements are under the direction of Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville. Pallbearers: Alvin Steelman, David Steelman, Glenn Neal, Glen Brown, Jason Gibson, Israel Becke. James...

Lynda Lynette Blackledge

Lynda Lynette Blackledge

March 11, 2018

Funeral services for Lynda Blackledge, age 68 of North Zulch, will be held Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at 2 P.M. at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville, Texas. Gary Roe will officiate the service, and interment will follow in the Manning Family Cemetery near the Macey Community in Robertson County. A visitation will take place from 6 P.M. to 8...

Erma Louise Spradling

Erma Louise Spradling

March 9, 2018

Erma Louise Spradling was born October 21, 1922, in Girard, Texas. Her parents were Tom & Lucille (Sherer) Wilson. She had lived in Madisonville since 1964, coming from Waco. Erma enjoyed sewing and gardening and was a homemaker her whole life. Her innate sense of caregiving extended to all of her family members. In a loved one’s time of need,...

Sue F Shuck

Sue F Shuck

March 8, 2018

Funeral services for Sue Shuck, age 70 of Midway, Texas, will be held at 2 P.M., Saturday, March 10, 2018 at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville, Texas. Interment will follow in the Madisonville City Cemetery. A public visitation will take place from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M., Friday, March 9th at the funeral home. Latricia “Sue” Shuck was born...

Aquilla Betts

Aquilla Betts

February 23, 2018

A homegoing celebration service for Aquilla Betts, age 53 of Midway, will be held at 11 A.M., Saturday, March 3, 2018 at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville, Texas. Interment will follow in the Southside Cemetery outside of Midway, Texas. There will be no public visitation. Aquilla I. Betts was born June 22, 1964 in Centerville, Texas to Floyd Lee...

Joe Allen Blackwell

Joe Allen Blackwell

February 18, 2018

Joe Blackwell, age 70 of Nacogdoches, passed away in the early morning hours of February 18, 2018 in a Longview, Texas Hospital. Funeral services have been scheduled for 3 P.M., Friday, February 23, 2018 at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville, Texas. Rev. Randy Fowler will officiate the service, and interment will follow in the Park Cemetery. Visitation will take...

Charles Vick Hughes

Charles Vick Hughes

February 15, 2018

Charles Hughes, 87, passed away Thursday, February 15, 2018 in The Woodlands, Texas. A memorial service has been scheduled for 2 P.M., Saturday, February 17, 2018, at the First United Methodist Church in Madisonville, Texas. Rev. Patricia Wehn-Glowski, pastor of the church, will officiate the service. Charles Vick Hughes was born August 4, 1930, in Ft. Worth, Texas to Vick...

Nina  Elizabeth Parker

Nina Elizabeth Parker

February 12, 2018

Funeral services for Nina Parker, 90, will be held at 11 A.M., Friday, February 23, 2018, at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville, Texas. Burial will follow in the Greer Cemetery. A brief visitation will take place from 10 A.M. until service time, Friday, at the funeral home. Nina Elizabeth Parker was born October 2, 1927, in Madison County, Texas...

August Eugene Murphy

August Eugene Murphy

February 8, 2018

August Eugene “Buddy” Murphy was born in Dallas, Texas on August 18, 1933 to Alfred and Mary (Green) Murphy. He was raised in the Keechi Community and attended Buffalo schools in Leon County. He passed away at his home in Midway, Texas on Thursday, February 08, 2018. Buddy enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in April of 1951 and served...

Iris  Ballard

Iris Ballard

February 7, 2018

Iris Ballard, 96, died Wednesday, February 7, 2018. Iris was born October 16, 1921 and grew up in Bedias, Texas. She married G.W. Ballard and the couple lived in Freeport, Texas for forty years. Iris was a homemaker and a seamstress during this time. In 1962, she worked for several years as a secretary to the music minister at the...

Stephen Thomas Fitzhenry

Stephen Thomas Fitzhenry

February 6, 2018

Stephen Thomas Fitzhenry was born June 26, 1964 in Baytown, Texas, to Bill and Darlene Fitzhenry. He went to elementary and junior high schools in Texas, Missouri and West Virginia. He attended high school at Ben Lippen School in North Carolina and graduated from Barbers Hill High School in Texas. He attended Lee College and Belhaven College. He lived in...

Jay Timothy Morgan

Jay Timothy Morgan

February 5, 2018

Jay Timothy Morgan, 62, born on December 17, 1955, in Houston, Texas, went to be with his Lord and Savior on February 5, 2018. Tim moved to Midway, Texas in grade school and graduated from Madisonville High School in 1975. He attended Sam Houston State University on a football scholarship and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Special Education and...

Joe Hulen Denman

Joe Hulen Denman

February 4, 2018

Joe Denman, age 89 of North Zulch, passed away Sunday, February 4, 2018, in Bryan, Texas. Graveside services have been scheduled for 10 A.M., Saturday, February 10, 2018, at the Cross Cemetery in rural Grimes County. Rev. Mitchell Beene will officiate the service. A public visitation will take place from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M., Friday, February 9th at the...

Eraclio Hinojosa

Eraclio Hinojosa

January 26, 2018

A funeral mass for Eraclio Hinojosa, age 69 of Madisonville, Texas, will be held at 10 A.M., Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Madisonville. Father Mark C. Kusmirek will officiate the service, and interment will follow in the Madisonville Cemetery. A visitation and rosary will begin at 5 P.M., Monday, January 29th at the...