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Maria G. Rodriguez
FORT WORTH -- Maria Guadalupe Rodriguez, 50, a homemaker, died Monday, June 9, 1997, at a Fort Worth hospital.
Funeral: 3 p.m. Friday at St. George Catholic Church. Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Rosary: 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Maria Guadalupe Rodriguez was born June 6, 1947, in San Benito. She had been a resident of Fort Worth for more than 27 years.
Survivors: Husband, Moises Rodriguez of Fort Worth; sons, Moises Rodriguez Jr. of Fort Worth and Ramon Rodriguez of Fort Worth; daughters, Maria Guadalupe Rodriguez and Epifania Rodriguez; brothers, Feliciano Tapia, Francisco Tapia and Humberto Tapia, all of Brownsville; sisters, Felicitas Rosalez of San Benito and Fidela Mojeda of Fort Worth; and four grandchildren.
Mount Olivet Funeral Home
2301 N. Sylvania Ave., 831-0511
Harold K. Schmidt
NEWARK -- Harold K. Schmidt, 65, a retired Formica Corp. employee, died Tuesday, June 10, 1997, at a Decatur hospital.
Funeral: 3 p.m. Thursday at Biggers Funeral Home. Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Harold K. Schmidt was born Dec. 3, 1931, in Hamilton, Ohio, and had lived in Newark since 1987. He retired in 1985 as a superintendent for Formica Corp.
Mr. Schmidt served in the Air Force in the Korean War. He was an avid fisherman and gardener.
Survivors: Wife, Sylvia Seibold Schmidt of Newark; sons, Randall Schmidt and Michael Schmidt, both of Hamilton, Ohio; daughter, Eileen Gabbard of Hamilton, Ohio; and two grandchildren.
Biggers Funeral Home
7139 Jacksboro Highway, 237-3341
Alma Nell Shaw
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS -- Alma Nell Shaw, 78, a retired pharmaceutical bookkeeper, died Monday, June 9, 1997, at a Fort Worth hospital.
Funeral: 1 p.m. Thursday at Greenwood Funeral Home. Burial: Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Alma Nell Shaw was born Sept. 18, 1918, in Montague County, Texas. She moved to Fort Worth in 1954, attended business school and raised her two daughters. She was employed as a bookkeeper with Texas Drug Company for more than 30 years and retired in 1989. She was a member of First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth.
Survivors: Daughters, Rosemary Green and husband, Ron, of Grand Prairie and Bobbie Gayle Cope of North Richland Hills; grandchildren, Dusty Shawn Hayes and husband, Steve, of Coppell, William Christopher Floyd of Bedford and Robert Nicholas Floyd of Bedford; niece, Mary Blaha of Fort Worth; nephew, Gilbreath Adams of McKinney; and many other nieces and nephews.
Greenwood Funeral Home
3100 White Settlement Road, 336-0584
Donald B. Shepard
FOREST HILL -- Donald B. "Shep" Shepard, 65, retired from the Air Force, died Monday, June 9, 1997, at home.
Graveside service: 2 p.m. Thursday in Emerald Hills Memorial Park. Visitation: The family will receive friends and relatives from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Brown, Owens & Brumley Funeral Home.
Donald B. "Shep" Shepard was born April 28, 1932, in Buffalo, N.Y. He was a member of Arlington Heights Masonic Lodge 1184 AF&AM.
Survivors: Wife of 37 years, Billie Helton Shepard of Forest Hill; daughter and son-in-law, Joy and Michael Smith of Everman; brother, Phillip Sheperd of Renton, Wash.; sisters, Joan Zehler of Mathias, N.Y., and Norma Michael of Tacoma, Wash.; granddaughter, Autumn Smith of Everman; sister-in-law, Betty Dobbs of Fort Worth; sisters-in- law and their husbands, Nancy and Sam Ford of Rusk and Judy and Larry Hoover of Hurst; and several nieces and nephews.
Brown, Owens & Brumley
425 S. Henderson St., 335-4557
Neil Morris Stanley
FORT WORTH -- Neil Morris Stanley, 34, a truck driver, died Monday, June 9, 1997, in an auto accident in Haltom City.
Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel. Burial: Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park.
Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to a charity of choice.
Neil Morris Stanley was born Feb. 20, 1963, in Fort Worth. He was a paratrooper in the Army.
Survivors: Daughter, Alexandria Clair Stanley of Okinawa, Japan; mother, Vashtine Stanley of Fort Worth; father, Charles Stanley of Fort Worth; sister, Gay Lynne Singleton of Fort Worth; one nephew; and two nieces.
Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel
7301 E. Lancaster Ave., 451-3333
William H. Stevenson
EDINBURG -- William Howard Stevenson, 72, formerly of Azle and a retired Montgomery Ward manager, died Sunday, June 8, 1997, at home after a six-month battle with cancer.
Memorial service: 3 p.m. Wednesday at the clubhouse of the Lazy Palms Ranch in Edinburg.
Memorials: Lazy Palms Clubhouse Recreation Room, Rural Route 3, Box 112B I-1, Edinburg, Texas 78539.
William Howard Stevenson was born Feb. 4, 1925, in Bowie and was the only child of Fred and Leon Eva Stevenson.
Mr. Stevenson served in the Army in Europe during World War II. He married Rosita M. Barber of Big Spring on April 2, 1949. He retired in 1971 from Montgomery Ward and Co. after 281/2 years of employment, 19 years of them in management. He taught a men's Sunday school class at First Baptist Church in Nevada, Mo., for several years.
Survivors: Wife, Rosita Marie Stevenson of Edinburg; sons, William G. Stevenson of Fort Worth, David E. Stevenson of Perryville, Md., and Larry H. Stevenson of Nevada, Mo.; daughter, Vickie Kyker of Tyler; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Virgil Wilson Mortuary
McAllen, (210) 686-1717
Joe Stokes
FORT WORTH -- Joe Stokes, 83, an aircraft sheet metal hand former, died Sunday, June 8, 1997, at a Fort Worth hospital.
Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday at Mount Olivet Funeral Home. Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Joe Stokes was born Jan. 8, 1914, in Boyd. He grew up there and graduated high school in 1934. He served in the Army during World War II, from 1940 to 1945. Shortly after his service, he came to Fort Worth and had been a resident since.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Virgie Stokes, in 1987.
Survivors: Son and daughter-in-law, Jed and Susan Stokes of Boyd; brother, Charles Stokes of Fort Worth; granddaughter, Allison Stokes; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Mount Olivet Funeral Home
2301 N. Sylvania Ave., 831-0511
Nan Sweet
FORT WORTH -- Nan Sweet, 86, a retired owner of three beauty shops, died Monday, June 9, 1997, in Fort Worth.
Graveside service: 11 a.m. Wednesday in Heath Cemetery near Whitney.
Nan Sweet was born Oct. 1, 1910, in Indian Creek in Brown County.
Marshall & Marshall Funeral Directors
Whitney, (254) 694-2206
Ida E. Switzer
STEPHENVILLE -- Ida E. Switzer, 82, a homemaker, died Monday, June 9, 1997, at a Fort Worth hospital.
Funeral: 1 p.m. Wednesday at Lacy Funeral Home. Rev. Kyle Davis will officiate.
Ida E. Switzer was born Dec. 1, 1914, in Bosque County. She was married to O.H. Murray in Bosque County. She was a member of Harvey Baptist Church.
Survivors: Sons, James Murray of Cisco and Eugene Murray of Hico; daughter, Johnnie Moore of Jewett; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Lacy Funeral Home
Stephenville, (254) 968-2102
Wealthia Jones Tucker
FORT WORTH -- Wealthia Jones Tucker, 85, a homemaker, died Monday, June 9, 1997, at a nursing home.
Memorial service: 11 a.m. Thursday at Williams Funeral Chapel. Burial: Skyvue Memorial Gardens.
Wealthia Jones Tucker was born July 11, 1911, in Fort Worth and attended I.M. Terrell High School. She was a former member and musician of Cowan McMillian United Methodist Church.
Mrs. Tucker was a devoted, sweet, loving homemaker who unselfishly gave her love, time and attention to assist in rearing her nieces and nephews after the untimely death of her sister.
She was also preceded in death by her husband, Albert Tucker; her parents; and all seven of her siblings.
Survivors: Nephews, Charles W. Laster, Warren Jones of Las Vegas, Nev., and J.W. Hysaw; nieces, Alva J. Jones of Midland, Manetha Faye Carr of Richmond, Calif., and Davis J. Thomas of Fort Worth; several great-nieces, great-nephews and cousins; and a host of other relatives and close friends. She will be missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing her.
Williams Funeral Chapel
5224 Ramey Ave., 534-5781
Stewart Wang
IRVING -- Stewart Yung-Liang Wang, 75, a retired geophysicist, passed away Saturday, June 7, 1997, of complications from a bile duct tumor.
Memorial service: 3 p.m. Wednesday at Brown's Memorial Funeral Home. Visitation: 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Dr. Stewart Yung-Liang Wang was born in Shanghai, China, in 1921. During China's eight-year war with Japan, he graduated during from the National Tsing-Hua University in Kunming, China, with a double degree in mechanical engineering and physics. He worked as a petroleum engineer for Chinese Petroleum Corp., first in Shanghai and then in Taiwan, until 1960.
He came to the United States to pursue graduate studies and graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a Ph.D. in geophysics in 1965. Since then he worked as a senior research geophysical scientist solving special problems for Mobil Oil Corp. in Dallas until his retirement in 1986.
During his tenure with Mobil, the areas Dr. Wang worked in were synthetic seismograms, seismic 2D and 3D ray-path migration, Kirchoff wave front migration, long seismic-source deconvolution process, diffraction x-t model curves, seismic static correction process and generalized Hale's refraction data computation.
He developed numerous seismic- related computation algorithms and wrote 20 internal reports and documentation. Dr. Wang held three patents in new seismic computation methodologies.
Dr. Wang was a highly respected geophysicist among his peers, known for his unwavering inquisitiveness, novel approach and thoroughness in problem- solving.
Survivors: Dr. Wang is lovingly remembered by his wife, Tsai-Tse Wang; sons, James Wang of McLean, Va., and Si Wang of San Diego, Calif.; daughters, Tse-Wei Wang of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Tsesan Wang Shaw of Boston, Mass.; grandchildren, Stephanie and Charles Wang, Alex and Nicole Birdwell, James and Calvin Shaw, and April, Jeffery, Michael and Christopher Wang; and a sister and several nieces and nephews in China.
Brown's Memorial Funeral Home
Irving, (972) 254-4242
Charles White Jr.
COVINGTON -- Charles White Jr., 87, a supervisory transportation operations officer with the General Services Administration, died Sunday, June 8, 1997, at a Cleburne hospital.
Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church of Covington. Burial: Covington Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Lee Wood, Paul Austin, James Lozano, Ralph Adkins, Larry Ketchum and Cissy Reyna.
Memorials: First United Methodist Church of Covington.
Charles White Jr. was born June 27, 1909, in Jonesboro, Ark., the son of Charles and Jennie Rotton White. He was married to Esther White, who preceded him in death April 10, 1973.
Charles retired in 1972 after 14 years of service with the GSA. He was a 27- year member of First United Methodist Church of Covington. In addition, he was a 52-year member of the Masonic Crescent Lodge 403, AF&AM of North Little Rock, Ark.
Charles served in the Army for almost 17 years. As a major during World War II, he received a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, commendation ribbon with medal pendant for meritorious service and numerous other commendations.
Survivors: Daughter, Kim White of Azle; and dear friends, Lee Wood, Paul Austin and Barb Sedan.
Clayton Kay Funeral Home
Grandview, (817) 866-3311
