Obituaries
Arthur Edward Allis
Oct 13, 2020
Arthur Edward Allis, 96 years young, beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great great-grandfather, was called home to the Lord on Tuesday, October 13, 2020.Born May 4, 1924 to parents Anthony and Beatrice Naylor Allis in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. He grew up in New York with his brother Anthony and his two sisters, Dorothy and...
Lometa F. Jenkins
Oct 10, 2020
Lometa Jenkins died on October 10, 2020. She was a lifelong member of First Presbyterian Church where she served faithfully. She was a devoted friend and loved by those who knew her. When asked about her life, Lometa said, “My life was richer because I learned to listen!”She was preceded in death by her husband, B. G. Jenkins.The family would...
Leona Marie Schwartz
Oct 8, 2020
Leona Schwartz, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, loving matriarch, cherished friend, gifted educational leader and longtime Principal of St. John the Apostle School, passed away peacefully in the early hours of October 8. She was 98 years old.Leona was born in Syracuse, NY, raised and married in Buffalo, NY before moving to Texas in 1952 when her husband Jack...
Kathleen Marie Hunt Frye
Oct 7, 2020
Kathleen Marie Hunt Frye, 90, passed away on Wednesday, October 7, 2020.Kathleen Marie Hunt was born on September 13, 1930 in Baton Rouge, LA to Gladys and Louis Hunt. She was a graduate of Baton Rouge High School and attended LSU, leaving a few weeks before graduating to marry Bob and move to California. They moved to Fort Worth in...
Sister Francesca Walterscheid
Oct 4, 2020
Francesca (née Helen Marie) Walterscheid was born in Muenster, Texas. As she recalls her youth, Sister said she always expected to enter religious life and deliberately chose to enjoy her teenage years to the full. Very early, she followed her siblings into the intergenerational band of Muenster, where she was gradually promoted from playing triangle to various brass instruments, but...
Stephen Christopher Collins
Oct 4, 2020
Stephen “Steve” Christopher Collins, 49, of Fort Worth, TX died Sunday, October 4, 2020 from a valiantly fought, work-related brain cancer.Born March 2, 1971 in Fort Worth, TX, Steve graduated from Southwest High School in 1989, Tarrant County Junior College Regional Fire Academy in 1992, and Fort Worth Fire Department Fire Academy in 1999.Since he was a young boy, Steve...
Sister Mary Brian Bole
Oct 2, 2020
Sister Mary Brian Bole, SSND, passed away October 2, 2020.Born at Gulfport Air Base, Mississippi in 1945, Alma Ann Bole was the second child of Thomas J. and Alma Lagarde Bole, both natives of New Orleans.In 1963, she entered the University of Dallas and the School Sisters of Notre Dame postulancy simultaneously. She majored in political philosophy and studied other...
Virginia Ann Redder
Sep 27, 2020
Virginia Ann Redder, 87, passed away Sunday, September 27, 2020. Virginia was born November 17, 1932 in Scotland, TX, to Irene and Albert Pennartz. She was devoted to her family and was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend. She was very attentive to her family, spending years involved with her children’s school, boy scouts, and her church. She...
Donald Garnett Sanders
Sep 26, 2020
Don Sanders was born in Fort Worth, Texas to Ralph Sanders and Mary Lloyd (Garnett) Sanders on December 28, 1952.He attended public schools in Fort Worth including Southwest High School where he flourished in the band. Don furthered his music education at TCU and at the New England Conservatory in Boston where he established friendships that lasted a lifetime. Don...
William Jacob Doyle Ii
Sep 26, 2020
William Jacob Doyle II, 80, passed away Saturday, September 26, 2020.William Jacob Doyle II was born September 8, 1940 in Fort Worth to Marjorie and Lyle Doyle. He was a proud graduate of Paschal High School and TCU. William loved to meet with his friends for the Friday Board meeting at Railhead and he enjoyed gardening.Survivors include his daughter, Laurie...
Mary Cecile Williams
Sep 23, 2020
Mary Cecile Williams, 71, died on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.Mary was born December 16, 1948, in Shreveport, Louisiana to Samuel James Williams II and Evelyn Irene Smoke Williams.Survivors: Sisters, Melva Rose Wilson and Linda Taylor-West; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Francis L. Hurst
Sep 21, 2020
Francis Levi Hurst, affectionately known as “Buddy” by all his friends, was brought home peacefully to God’s eternal Kingdom on Monday, September 21, 2020, with all four of his children at his side. Selfless, is the one word that best describes the character of Buddy in his interactions with family, friends, neighbors, and community organizations. Buddy was widely known for...
Lois Sullins Pendley
Sep 18, 2020
Lois Sullins Pendley, 89, a retired Registered Nurse, died Friday, September 18, 2020.Lois was preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, Joe Pendley.She is survived by sister, Imogene Sullins Jackson; sister-in-law, Patsy Ruth Walpole-Elliott and her husband, Jim; her longtime friends and caretakers, Debbie and Roger Woerner; along with many nieces and nephews.
Marjorie Alene Childress Delatour Crawford
Sep 18, 2020
Marjorie Alene Childress Delatour Crawford, 61, died peacefully on Friday, September 18, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas, her home in adulthood.Marji was a 1977 graduate of Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio. She was a Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with degrees in International Studies and Economics. She was a member of Delta...
Sarah Lee Crowson Guthrie
Sep 18, 2020
Sarah Lee Crowson was born in Corsicana on July 15, 1937 to Clarence Chester and Mary Lee Terry Crowson. She attended Corsicana public schools for 12 years. She attended Navarro Junior College, where she was a member of the famed “High Steppers.” Sarah earned her B.S. Degree in Elementary Education at North Texas State University. Although an only child, Sarah...
Virginia C. Taggart
Sep 17, 2020
Virginia Carney Taggart passed away Thursday, September 17,2020 after a full and blessed life of 99 years.She was born in 1921 in Sioux City, Iowa and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Virginia was the daughter of Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Myrtle Carney. She graduated with honors from Rosary College (now Dominican University) in River Forest, Illinois in 1943.She met...
Sylvia Stewart
Sep 9, 2020
Sylvia Stewart was born on September 18th 1940 in Long Beach, California to Norma Maria Ferris and James Sledge Creekmore.She was raised in Fort Worth, Texas with her siblings, Beverly Sue Mills and Charles Vernon Mills. Sylvia met the love of her life, Maj. Charles E. Stewart, when she was just fifteen years old working as a carhop. Through Charles’...
Sister Mary Frances Serafino
Sep 9, 2020
Sister Mary Frances Serafino, 90, died Wednesday, September 9, 2020 Sister Mary Frances Serafino was born in Ganado, Texas. The family moved to Houston and eventually to Duncanville where she attended public schools throughout High School. In Duncanville the Serafinos were the only Catholics in town, so her going to College at Our Lady of Victory was a mystery for...
Katherine Brown Harvey
Sep 4, 2020
Katherine Brown Harvey, 58, claimed the promise of her baptism on Friday, September 4, 2020, surrounded by her family as she peacefully passed. She was born December 1, 1961 to Willis Ferrier Brown and Mary Armstrong Brown in Fort Worth, Texas. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1984 with a Bachelor’s in Political Science. While feeding newborn babies at...
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