All Obituaries

Betty Jean Schoepf, 88, of Belton, TX passed away peacefully at the West View Manor Nursing Home in McGregor, TS on Nov. 14, 2019. Private graveside services will be held Nov. 23rd at 11:00 AM at the Salado Cemetery with Minister Andy Davis of the First Baptist Church of Belton officiating.   After the graveside service there will be a Celebration of Life for family and close friends at 12:00 noon at Schoepf’s Old Time Pit Barbeque. Betty Jean Cannon was...

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Henry Wallace Hegar, 83, of Holland passed away peacefully at his home on November 5 2019.  Henry was born in Hubbard, Texas on January 7, 1936.  His parents were Jerry and Mary Bolf Hegar.  After graduating from Holland High School in 1954, he enlisted in the US Navy for four years and the reserve for two years.  In 1959, he went to work for Braniff Airways as an avionic technician until its bankruptcy in 1982.Then he worked as an Avionics Instructor for Mountain View...

Services for Cleota Ann Guthrie Whitt will be October 10, Thursday, 4pm at Victory Baptist Church FM 2843 Salado with Pastor Billy Borho, officiating. Burial in Cedar Valley Cemetery will be private. Cleota Whitt died on Sunday, October 6, 2019 in a Harker Heights Long Term Care Facility.  She was 82 years old.  She was born on April 23, 1937 in Georgetown, TX to Virgil “Buddy” Guthrie and Mattie Mae Gibbs Guthrie. She married Loy “Bunk” Whitt in 1953 and...

Denerys Rodriguez Aponte (June 26, 1926 – September 15, 2019) was born in Las Marias, Puerto Rico. She married Alberto Cortes Rodriguez in 1954 and lived in New York working as a talented seamstress before returning to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico to retire in 1980. She made and sold her first dress at age 8, sewed factory prototypes for labels such as Lord & Taylor, and could design and tailor any fashion. In 2000, she moved to Texas to join her only daughter, Yolanda Cortes Mares, and...

Gayla Sue Roberson, 72, and longtime resident of Andrews, Texas, passed away Tuesday, August 27 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Gayla was born August 27, 1947 in Lubbock, Texas, to Luther and Jessie Swift.  She grew up in Andrews, Texas and graduated from Andrews High in 1966.  Gayla attended Abilene Christian University and graduated in 1970 with a degree in Art.  While attending ACU, she met Jim Roberson of Abilene and they were married June 6, 1970 in...

Joe Herbert Cawthon, age 70, of Salado passed from this life on Sunday, August 25 with his wife of 50 years by his side. He was born in Temple Texas on July 25, 1949 to Frankie and John (Hub) Cawthon.  He attended Temple schools until his senior year when he transferred to Salado.  There he met his future wife, Linda, when she was only 15 and he was 17.  They married two years later just before he left for overseas in the USAF. Joe worked from an early age.  When just a...

John Sinclair Janda, age 70, passed away peacefully at Scott and White Palliative Care in Temple, TX, on Sunday, August 25, 2019, surrounded by many of his devoted family.                 Mr. Janda was born September 3, 1948 in Inglewood, California, to Marion Frances Janda (Deweese, NE) and Julia Belfontaine Janda (Portland, ME) and spent his childhood in Hawthorne, California. John attended St. Joseph’s...

William “Bill” Bennett Frazier, former Salado, TX resident, was lifted into heaven on August 17, 2019. As the last breath of his full life was drawn, Bill’s devoted wife of 58 years was there holding his hand. He was born November 15, 1920 to Lydia Ann Teague and William Iziah Frazier in Princeton, Texas and was the oldest of two boys. Bill’s brother J.C. “Gun” Frazier preceded him in death. He attended McKinney High School and graduated Magna Cum Laude...

Services for Lewis Wesley Grimsley, 65, of Salado, will be at 10:00 a.m., on Saturday, August 24, at Broecker Funeral Home in Salado with Pastor David Mosser officiating. The burial will take place Saturday afternoon in Hico, Texas at Country Oak Cemetery.  A viewing will be held on August 22, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Broecker Funeral Home in Salado.    Lewis died on Friday, August 16, 2019, at the Central Texas V.A. Hospital in Temple, Texas.  He was born on March 22,...