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Wallace Frazier Basse
HARLINGEN, TX — Wallace Frazier Basse, age 91, went home to be with our Lord on Sunday, October 5, 2003 after a lengthy illness. He was born to Katie and Eugene Basse in Wichita, Kansas on June 23, 1912.
Viewing will be held at 10 a.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church on Wednesday, October 8, 2003.
Funeral services will follow at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at St. John Lutheran Church, 1000 N. Crockett in San Benito, TX. Committal services will be held at Mont Meta Memorial Park Mausoleum, Rev. Marcus Mueller will officiate.
In 1936, after Wallace’s graduation from Texas A&M college and his marriage to Loraine, they moved to the Valley area. He worked with the Dairy Herd Improvement Association, serving dairymen throughout the Valley area. Later, he and Loraine started their own dairy and also farmed. They also had one of the first cage laying chicken operations in the area. After many years, he retired from farming and worked for Farmer’s Home Administration in San Benito and Beeville. Wallace was very creative and resourceful.
Wallace and Loraine spent the last years of their marriage living at Camelot Retirement Center in Harlingen, where he served on the Residents’ Committee. For the past year, he was a resident of A Touch of Home Assisted Living Home in Harlingen.
Wallace was preceded in death by his wife, Loraine; two grandsons, Michael Hensz, and Mark Hensz.
He is survived by his daughter, Marilyn and son-in-law, David Hensz; his son, Ed and daughter-in-law, Christine Basse all of Harlingen; and his granddaughter, Lisa Hensz of San Marcos.
Until his illness he was a faithful and active member of St. John Lutheran Church in San Benito, where he held many offices through the years.
Serving as pallbearers will be Michael Curtis, Tim Weber, Curtis Mueller, Carl Hensz, Allen Hensz, and Wayne Borchardt.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. John Lutheran Church in San Benito, TX or a charity of your choice.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Mont Meta Restlawn Cox Funeral Home.
Eduardo Martinez
SPRING/HARLINGEN, TX — Eduardo Martinez, 79, entered into rest on Monday in Houston, TX.
Mr. Martinez was formerly of Harlingen and was preceded in death by his wife, Raquel G. Martinez.
He is survived by his sons, Eduardo Martinez, Jr., of Harlingen, TX, Alberto Martinez of Nevada City, CA, Amador H. "Mayo" (Marta) Martinez of Harlingen, TX; daughters, Guadalupe (Julio) Cisneros of Spring, TX, Sylvia (Alonzo) Sosa of Campbell, TX, Raquel (Rick) Bryson of Denton, TX, Ruth (Reyes) Alcorta of Muscatine, IA, Yolanda Schoffett of Harlingen, TX; 21 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild. He is also survived by his brothers, Jose Martinez and Juan Alberto Martinez; and by numerous other family members and friends.
Visitation will be held today, October 9, 2003 from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. at the Rudy Garza Chapel of Peace with the Holy rosary to be prayed at 7 p.m.
The funeral procession will depart the Rudy Garza Funeral Home on Friday, October 10, 2003, at 9:30 a.m. for a 10 a.m. Mass of Christian burial at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church with Fr. Edouward Atangana as the celebrant. Interment will follow at Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in La Feria, TX.
Pallbearers will be Joshua R. Cisneros, Mike Martinez, Steven Martinez, Eddie Martinez, III, Javier Alonzo Sosa and Thomas Milton Schoffett.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Rudy Garza Funeral Home of Harlingen, TX.
Marietta Yvonne Logan
MCALLEN, TX — Marietta Yvonne Logan, 89, passed away at her residence on October 9, 2003. She was born in Mercedes, Texas on March 21, 1914 to Ben, Jr. and Aracela (Fernandez) Brooks. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Mercedes.
She is survived by her brother, Morris Brooks of Spring, TX; her nephew, Larry Brooks, of Spring, TX; a niece, Marietta Gaden, of Connecticut; and her godchildren, Sharilyn Carroll of Houston, TX and D’Netta Moore of Progreso Lakes, TX.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Dan Logan in 1986.
Graveside services and entombment will be held today, Saturday, October 11, 2003 at 11 a.m. at Roselawn Cemetery and Mausoleum in McAllen. Officiating the service will be Bill Ryan, Retired Minister of the Church of Christ.
Serving as pallbearers will be be Woodie Cellum, Thad R. Moore, Enrique Guerra, Robert Hartness, Eloy Trevino and Steve Dershem.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of McCaleb Funeral Home in Weslaco.
Odelle Hogan
Brenham, TX — Odelle Leonard Mebane Hogan, 100 passed away on Saturday, October 4, 2003 at her residence in Kruse Village.
She was born August 25, 1903, in Arlie, Texas. She attended elementary school in San Marcos, Texas and high school in Alvin, Texas. She later received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Houston University, Houston, Texas and a Master of Education from the University of Texas at Austin.
She will be best remembered as an enthusiastic and loving elementary teacher having taught in Texas schools in Alivn, Austin, and Harlingen. She was well loved by her students, many of whom kept in touch with her through the years. The delight of her life were her nieces, nephews, and many great nieces and nephews. She considered them all to be her own children and always remembered their birthdays. She will be sorely missed.
She is survived by one sister, Naomi Culpepper of Orange, Texas. She is also survived by her nieces and nephews, John Smith and wife, Anita of Houston, TX, Wanda Hayre and husband, Howard of Granbury, TX, Jo Ann Cleckler and husband, Glen of Harlingen, TX, Jeanne Claire Miller and husband, Bob of Pharr, TX, John Martin Leonard and wife, Lou of Montgomery, TX, B.R. Leonard and wife, Dolores of Kennewick, WA, Jim Leonard of Lakewood, OR, Claire Johnson and husband, Jack of Georgetown, TX, Ben Culpepper and wife, Gloria of Orange, TX; other survivors include many beloved great nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Pat Hogan; her parents, Mary Elizabeth and James Stanton Leonard; a sister, Genevieve Smith; and a brother, Bowen Raydo Leonard.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, October 8, 2003 in Brenham Memorial Chapel. Burial will be held at the Confederate Cemetery, Alvin, Texas. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the charity of your choice.
Janice Call
RAYMONDVILLE, TX — Janice Marie Brashear Call has thirty plus years as educator, teacher of Pre-K, Headstart, Learning Tree Child Care Center, and owner of the Yellow Brick Road and the Yellow Balloon Shop. Jan was the educator and assistant at the Headstart office NINOS. Jan also held a Florist Certification, CDA in education, and graduated from TSTI attended and taught at Pan Am and Southmost College.
Twenty-five plus years in community services. Involved in Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Junior Service League, Health Fairs, etc. Held office of President of Junior Service League of 3 years, Vice-president of Texas Florist Commission, Secretary of the Rio Grande Valley Florist Assoc., Alternate and President of TAEYC for 15 years.
Jan Call was born May 30, 1941 in Ozark, AR to Louis Edward and Lena Marie (McCormick) Brashear. She was married to James Richard Call on June 6, 1959 in Raymondville, TX.
Jan has two daughters, Jewel Lynn (Randy) Call Ross of Amarillo and Janice Kay (Reynaldo) Call Tamez of Ingleside; three sons, Richard Ray (Lily) Call of Corpus Christi, James Randolph (Dora) Call of Sinton, and Roy Lucas (Linda) Call of Corpus Christi. She also has seven grandchildren, Jacob, Michelle, Jessica, Reynaldo, Jr., Julie, Shaun, and Nathaniel; and three great-grandchildren, Kirsten, Michael, and Caleb.
Jan has one sister, Gale (Harry) Brashear Erbelding of Sulfur, LA; and two brothers, James Edward Brashear and Robert Gene (Pat) Brashear of Raymondville. She has many cousins, nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday 10 a.m., October 22nd, 2003 at the First Baptist Church in Raymondville with Bro. Maurice McLeroy officiating.
Burial will follow at Raymondville Memorial Park Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Duddlesten Funeral Home.
Angelita Garza
LOZANO, TX — Angelita Garza, 87, passed away at her residence in Lozano, TX Monday, October 20, 2003. She was born in Burgos, Tamps., Mexico. Mrs. Garza was a housewife.
Survivors include her daughters, Eliza Soto, Lozano, TX, and Paula Ramirez, Lozano, TX; step-daughters, Elizabeth Alcala and Matilde Moncevis; 8 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.
Mrs. Garza was preceded in death by her husband, Juan Garza; her brothers, Manuel, Gerardo, Emilio, Macedonio, Eugenio, Alejandro, and Monse De Leon; and by her sisters, Juanita, Guadalupe, Remigia, Amalia, and Ignacia De Leon.
A prayer service was held at San Benito Funeral Home Chapel at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 20, 2003 with Rev. Pedro Cruz officiating.
Funeral services will be held at the San Benito Funeral Home Chapel 3 p.m., Tuesday, October 21, 2003 with Rev. Pedro Cruz officiating. Interment will follow at the Rio Hondo Community Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of San Benito Funeral Home, San Benito, Texas.
Salvador Y. Perez
SANTA ROSA, TX — Salvador Ybarra Perez, 74, Habrio el camino para que la familia Perez tubiera un gran futuro.
El fue, por la mayoria de su vida, residente de Santa Rosa. Este dia 19 de Octubre del año 2003 se le concedio el sueño de estar a lado de su esposa Rita B. Perez. Aunque es triste para nosotros, ellos al fin estan juntos sirviendo a nuestro señor en el cielo.
Sobrevivientes incluyen: Ramon Perez de Santa Rosa, Yolanda (Francisco) Rios de Santa Rosa, Jaime (Lori) Perez de Sioux City, Iowa, Blanca (Jose) Salomon de Santa Rosa, TX, Juan Carlos Perez (Diana) de Baytown, TX, Jorge Perez (Linda) de McAllen, TX, Salvador Perez, Jr. (Cynthia) de Edinburg, TX; 20 Nietos, 16 Bisnietos; Hermanos, Manuel Perez de Brownsville, Jesus Perez de Olmito, Ramon Perez de San Benito, Matias Perez de Austin, TX Eulogio Perez de Brownsville, TX; Hermanas, Juana Guevara de Brownsville, Leonor Alcala de Brownsville, Paulina Capistran de Matamoros, Mexico, Maria Alaniz de Valle Hermoso, Mexico; padrinos, Frank Rios Jr., Hugo Rios, Stephen Salomon, Jacob Perez, Adrian Perez, Marco Perez, Juan Carlos Perez, Alberto Salomon.
Visitaciones comiensan este dia 21 de Octubre a las 8 de la mañana con el santo rosario a las 7 de la noche.
Servicio Funebre en el dia 22 de Octubre a las 2 de la tarde en la iglesia St. Mary’s Catholic Church siguiendo la iglesia el sepelio en el cemeterio Santo Nombre. Servicios patrocinados por Trinity Funeral Chapels, 1217 S. F Street, Harlingen, Texas.
Bobby R. Blocker, Jr.
HARLINGEN, TX — Bobby Ray Blocker, Jr., 55, entered into rest on October 19, 2003 in Harlingen, Texas.
He is preceded in death by one son, Tobias James Blocker.
He is survived by his wife, Darlene Blocker; two children, Sandra Penick, Bridgette Blocker; mother and step-father, Virginia (Calvin) Kinder; father, Bobby Blocker, Sr.; 5 grandchildren, Brittany, Briana, Andy, Kyle, Cassie; and one brother, Billy Blocker.
A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 10 a.m. at the Rudy Garza Palms Chapel of Peace in La Feria.
Arrangements are under the direction of Rudy Garza Funeral Home.
George E. Sanford
AUSTIN, TX — George Everett Sanford, 98, passed away at St. David’s Hospital, Austin, Texas, on October 14, 2003.
He was born in Independence, Kansas and had lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
He was an engineering draftsman for Carter Oil Company, Tulsa, OK and for the Texas Highway Department, San Benito. He played the organ at Sea Island on Padre Island. He was a member of St. Albans Episcopal Church and was a frequent usher there. He had been living with his daughter Judy, in Dale TX for the past several years. Music and his family were his loves.
Mr. Sanford is survived by two daughters, Judith H. Boren of Dale, TX, and Kaylynn (Finn) Wilster of Piney Flats, TN; a son, George E. (Kim) Sanford, II of Lubbock, TX; eight grandchildren, five and 8/9 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 58 years.
A memorial service to be held at St. Albans, is pending.
Hazel Barstow
HARLINGEN, TX — Hazel Barstow, who lived to the marvelous age of eighty-nine and who spent her last recreational years enjoying bingo, will grace those halls no more.
On Saturday, October 18, 2003, she took her last breath as her daughter, Beverly, and her son, Robert, said final farewells to their treasured mother. Robert, Director of Music at New York State University, Oneonta, NY, softly sang sweet songs to her as her life forces slipped slowly away.
Hazel was born in Kentucky, met her husband (deceased 9 years ago) in Kansas, lived thirty years in Colorado, and retired to the Rio Grande Valley where she learned to love hot salsa. Harlingen’s Las Vegas Café was her culinary paradise.
She was a caring mother to her children, her grandchildren and step-grandchildren, and step-great grandchildren are her great memorial. There will, therefore, be no ritual memorial except, maybe for the celebratory festive gatherings at her favorite café. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home.
Bonny Belle Pearson
SAN BENITO, TX — Bonny Belle Pearson, 65, passed away Sunday, November 9, 2003 at Valley Baptist Medical Center. The most important part of Bonny’s life was her love for her family. Bonny was a gentle lady, yet a tower of strength to those who knew her.
Bonny’s life is the stuff of which Hollywood movies are made. Born in Clayton, New Mexico, in December 1937, she was raised in a three-room sandstone house. To reach the house, people had to travel a narrow dirt road and ford a rather formidable creek. Her family worked the hostile land to grow its own food. Bonny wore dresses her mother had fashioned from flour sacks, as did the other young girls in her community. Survival in this beautiful but rugged land depended on personal determination, long hours, and neighbor helping neighbor. Along the way, Bonny developed a strong work ethic, a love of independence, and the attitude that people can accomplish anything they desire.
After high school, Bonny married and moved with her new husband to Pueblo, Colorado, where they both enrolled in junior college and began their quest for a better life. Bonny’s formal education was delayed when she gave birth to the couple’s first child one year later.
Over the next few years, many things changed in Bonny’s life. She welcomed a second child, moved with her family to Texas, and began working at the candy counter in a variety store to help keep the family afloat. Throughout it all, however, she maintained her faith that anything can happen if a person is willing to work hard enough for it.
Bonny returned to night school. She took an entry-level position with a company specializing in insuring crops against hail. With the strong work ethic of her youth to guide her, Bonny set out to prove that she could master the daily operations of the company. Over the next few years, she accomplished this, gained experience, and expanded her knowledge of insurance when the company merged with another.
By 1969, Bonny was a single parent. She made what turned out to be the move of her lifetime, accepting a position as a "girl Friday" in the south Texas office of the Pilot Life Insurance Company. Later, she wrote, "There were two salespeople in the office. There was something about these two young men-something special-and I wanted to be a part of it." She proceeded to learn all she could about the life insurance business.
Within a year after Bonny took the job, the company moved into a larger office and doubled its sales force. She assumed a leadership position and became office manager. By 1973, the south Texas office had prospered to such an extent that Bonny could no longer handle the mounting workload alone, so additional staff members were hired for her to supervise.
Bonny married one of the men who had been a part of the title of general agent and began managing her own successful agency. In 1987, Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company and Pilot Life Insurance Company merged to form Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance Company. Bonny found herself once again in the position of needing to prove her leadership abilities. She succeeded in winning the trust of the new management. Today, Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance Company is recognized as one of the best-managed insurance companies in the United States.
Life along the Texas-Mexico border, where Bonny Pearson’s agency is located, has much more in common with her roots in New Mexico than with the world of Jefferson-Pilot’s corporate offices on the East Coast. Bonny is now seeing the payoff for her hard work and her faith in her own abilities.
Bonny forged a partnership with four other principals from the RD Marketing Group division of Jefferson-Pilot and collectively they broke every year’s previous sales records and continue to do so. Bonny had many business relationships throughout the country and she was respected for her excellent leadership skills.
The lessons of her childhood produced big dividends for Bonny. She traded flour-sack dresses for designer fashions. Bonny Pearson has met the challenge, and she is enjoying the rewards.
Bonny is preceded in death by her mother and father, Margaret and Sam Bobbitt.
Bonny is survived by her loving husband and best friend, Joel M. Pearson; daughters, Loretta Farr-Reighard and husband John of Mission, TX, and June Chapman and husband Todd of Pasadena, TX; sons, Randy Pearson and wife Jill of Katy, TX, and Joel Pearson Jr. and wife Julia of Austin, TX; seven grandchildren, Justin, Jessie, Bonny Jo, Victoria, Joel III, James, and Joy; brothers, Bud Bobbitt and wife Virginia of Irving, TX, and Bill Bobbitt and wife Susan of Irving, TX; sisters, Betty Russell and husband Larry of Amarillo, TX, and Bobby Myers of Amarillo, TX; and numerous loving nieces and nephews.
Visitation hours will be held Wednesday, November 12, 2003 from 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM with the family present to receive friends from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 2:00 PM at Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Dr. Fred Morgan officiating.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Bonny’s favorite charity, West Texas Boy’s Ranch, 10223 Boys Ranch Road, San Angelo, TX. 76904-9989.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home.
