OBITUARIES
Ruby Mixon
1915-2004
Ruby Raye Mason Mixon, longtime Snyder resident, died
Sunday, Feb. 15, at her home after a sudden illness.
Service for Mrs. Mixon, 88, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday
in the Bell-Cypert-Seale Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Mike Henson, pastor of First
Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Hillside Memorial Gardens.
Born Aug. 27, 1915 in Edgerly, La., she married Jim H.
Mixon on Nov. 8, 1938 in Sweetwater. He died on Nov. 5, 1980.
Mrs. Mixon, a graduate of Ranger High School, moved to
Snyder in 1948 when her husband was manager for J.C. Penney. They later purchased Mixon
Tire and Supply that they operated for 24 years.
She had also worked for Gulf Oil in Odessa, J.C. Penney
in Breckenridge, the Graham Brown Shoe Co. in Sherman and for Wes-T-Go Conoco in Snyder.
Mrs. Mixon was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church.
She also was preceded in death by her parents, Ruby Ray
(Doc) and Clara Skillern Mason; a sister, Anita Mansker; and a brother, Milton Mason.
Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and
Stuart Long of Houston and Janice and Chuck Galloway of Snyder; a sister, Tera Crook of
Arlington; a brother-in-law, Toke Mansker of Fort Worth; four grandchildren, Jim Cole of
Midland, Meredith Long Angelico and husband Scott of San Antonio, Garret Long of Ann
Arbor, Mich., and Brittany Long of Austin.
Dusty Hargrove
1980-2004
CROSS PLAINS -- Dusty Ryan Hargrove, nephew of Roger and
Kathy White of Snyder, died Thursday, Feb. 19, in Brownwood Regional Medical Center.
Funeral service for Mr. Hargrove, 24, is set for 3 p.m.
Saturday in the First Baptist Church with Joe Coppinger and Bay Kirkham officiating.
Burial will follow in Hyles and Hargrove Family Cemetery in Callahan County under the
direction of Higginbotham Funeral Home.
Born Feb. 10, 1980 in Abilene to Jim and Cliffadean White
Hargrove, he was reared in Cross Plains, graduating from Cross Plains High School in 1998.
He was a member of Cottonwood Baptist Church.
Survivors include his parents, Jim and Cliffadean
Hargrove of Cross Plains; two sisters and their husbands, Kelli and Frankie Hyles of Cross
Plains, and Kami and Tad Timmons of Granbury; a son, Tristan Hargrove of Cross Plains;
four nieces, Mykea Douglass, Kelbi Hyles, Shana Hyles, Christin Hamilton; and several
cousins.
The family requests donations be made to the Cross Plains
Athletic Booster Club or the Callahan County Jr. Livestock Show.
Wes Morgan
1931-2004
LUBBOCK -- Wes Virgil Morgan, the father of Tommy Dill of
Snyder, died Friday, Feb. 13, in Emporia, Kan.
Funeral service for Mr. Moore, 72, will be held at 2 p.m.
Monday in the New Life Center with Jeff McCreight, pastor, officiating. Private burial
will be in the Union Hill Cemetery in Mineral Wells.
Born March 13, 1931 in Philip, S.D., he married Janice
Pearl Morgan who preceded him in death.
Mr. Morgan was a retired businessman and had worked as a
gold miner in South Dakota, had been an EMS technician, a crop duster, a Chevrolet dealer,
a justice of the peace and a constable in Stanton where he lived for 20 years.
Mr. Morgan had been a resident since 1983 and drove a
truck since 1990 so that he could travel.
Survivors include a daughter, Tiffany Salazar of Lubbock;
three other sons, Zachary Weston of Lubbock, Ricky Dill of Brownfield and Roy Dill of Big
Spring; a sister, Mona Marie Ellis of Phoenix; and nine grandchildren.
Sue Walker
1918-2004
Sue Ella Bentley Walker, a former resident of Snyder,
died Thursday, Feb. 19, in Dallas.
Graveside service for Mrs. Walker, 85, will be held at
1.30 p.m. Sunday in Hillside Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Walker was born in 1918 in Claude and attended
elementary school near Slaton and graduated from Union High School.
In the late 1930s she went to work in El Paso, where she
met Raymon J. “Red” Walker. They were married Nov. 30, 1941. When Pearl Harbor
was attacked, she and her husband moved to San Diego where he enlisted in the Navy. Mrs.
Walker worked in San Diego while he was stationed there, then moved to Bayonne, N.J.,
where she worked at the Military Freight Depot in Bayonne while he made 14 Atlantic
crossings, including the D-Day landing at Normandy.
Mrs. Walker’s husband was discharged in 1945 and
went to work for Texaco that required sometimes moving twice in a year throughout West
Texas. They resided in Snyder from 1954 to 2000.
Mrs. Walker operated Snyder Reproductions, a blueprint
business, in the garage behind her home. She was a Girl Scout leader, a docent of the
Scurry County Museum at Western Texas College, and leader of the senior citizens aquatic
exercise group at the college. She was a longtime member of Colonial Hill Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, Red Walker; a son and
daughter-in-law, James and Lynn Walker; two daughters and sons-in-law, Molly and Michael
Droge, and Amber and Eric Devlin; two grandsons, Matthew and Owen Walker of Virginia; two
step-grandsons, Matthew and Michael Devlin of New York; two sisters, Anne Fails of El Paso
and Neva Longenecker of Keller; and many nieces and nephews.
Roxie Ellington
1925-2004
HURST -- Roxie Kathleen Ellington, 78, of Hurst,
died away Thursday, Feb. 12, at a Fort Worth hospital.
Inurment is set for 1 p.m. Monday in the Snyder Cemetery
under the direction of Forest Ridge Funeral Home.
Mrs. Ellington, born on Nov. 5, 1925, in Aspermont, was
preceded in death by her son, Joe Fuller.
Surviving are her husband, William Ellington of Hurst; a
son, Doug Fuller of Kilgore; a daughter, Patsy Ellington of Colorado City; a brother,
James Hazel of Carlsbad, N.M.; 10 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and several
uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, and nephews.
