Obituaries
Ricky Barrett Woods Sr.
Apr 7, 2016
Ricky B. Woods, 54, passed away on Thursday, April 7, 2016, at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas.Funeral Services will be held on Friday, April 15, 2016, at 2:00pm at the First Baptist Church in Crane. Burial will follow in the Sunset Cemetery in Crane. Arrangements are under the care and direction of Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home.Ricky was born on December...
Maria Hernandez
Mar 9, 2016
Maria Elena Trejo Hernandez, 77 of Crane, passed away on Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at the Crane Skilled Nursing Center.Elena was born on September 17, 1938, in Mexico. She was a homemaker and she lived in Crane for eight years moving here from Mexico. She loved to watch Spanish soap operas. She was an avid reader. Spending time with her...
Susie Cunningham
Mar 3, 2016
Susan “Susie†Arabella Cunningham, of Magnolia, Texas was welcomed into the arms her Lord and Savior on Thursday, March 3, 2016 after a long and hard battle with Leukemia. Susie was born in Kerrville, Texas to Abe and Billie Morris on June 28th, 1954. She married the love of her life, Brian on May 17th, 1987. They spent most of...
James Brunson
Feb 28, 2016
James Gordon Brunson, Jr. passed away in Abilene, TX on February 28, 2016. He was born on March 14, 1938 in Arkadelphia, Arkansas to James Gordon, Sr. and Mollie (Stevens) Brunson. He grew up in Crane, TX, attending Crane Schools and Sul Ross State University before serving several years in the U.S. Army. He married Mollie Janis Martin on April...
Howard Pool
Feb 12, 2016
PRICE HOWARD POOL, JR, 58, of Big Spring, went home to the Lord, Friday, February 12th, 2016. Howard was born July 17th, 1957 to Price and Faye Pool in Snyder Texas. He lived much of his life in McCamey, San Angelo and Big Spring, Texas. At the time of his death Howard was employed by Endeavor Energy Resources of Midland.Howard...
Lula Lanning
Feb 9, 2016
Lula May Lanning, 70, of Crane, passed away on Tuesday, February 9, 2016, at the Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas.Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, February 13, 2016, at the Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home Chapel in Crane with Reverend Jimmy Carrasco officiating. Burial will follow in the Crane County Cemetery. Lula was born on January 3,...
Plutarco "Taco" Orozco
Feb 1, 2016
Plutarco “Taco†Orozco, 79, of Big Lake, passed away on Monday, February 1, 2016, in the Reagan County Care Center in Big Lake.Rosary will be held on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, at 7pm at the Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home Chapel in Crane. Funeral services will be held at 1pm on Thursday, February 4, 2016, at the Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home Chapel in...
Bettye Ratliff
Jan 27, 2016
Our mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Bettye Sue Low Ratliff, of Big Lake, Texas, departed this life to rejoin her husband, Lester, at the gates of heaven on January 27, 2016.Bettye was born in Jones County on January 22, 1927, to Homa Low and Helen Myatt Low. She began school in Hamlin, attended second through fourth grades in Haskell, and...
Joyce Baze
Jan 20, 2016
Joyce Marie Baze, 60, of Crane, passed away on Wednesday, January 20, 2016, at her home.The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home from 6pm until 8pm on Saturday, January 23, 2016.Graveside services will be held at 2:00pm on Sunday, January 24, 2016, at the Crane County Cemetery in Crane, Texas, with Tommy Parker officiating. Arrangements are under...
Cleophus "Clee" Harmon
Jan 18, 2016
Clee Harmon, 73 of Crane, passed away on Monday, January 18, 2016, at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas.Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, January 23, 2016, at 1:00pm at the First Baptist Church in Crane. Burial will follow in the Sunset Cemetery in Crane. Arrangements are under the care and direction of Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home.Clee was born...
David Riza
Jan 16, 2016
David Riza, 66 of Crane, passed away on Saturday, January 16, 2016, at the Crane Memorial Hospital.Private services will be held at the request of the family.Arrangements were under the care and direction of Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home of Crane.David was born on December 7, 1949, in Waco, Texas. He had lived in Crane for the past 16 years. He was...
Ofelia Velasquez
Jan 16, 2016
Ofelia Bolanos Velasquez, 93 of Midland, and formerly of McCamey, passed away on Saturday, January 16, 2016, at the Desert Gardens Nursing Home in Midland, Texas.Rosary Service will be held at 7:00pm on Tuesday, January 19, 2016, at the Shaffer-Nichols Chapel in Crane. Funeral Mass will be held at 2:00pm on Wednesday, January 20, 2016, at the Good Shephard Catholic...
Iva Plummer
Jan 2, 2016
Iva Lee Sanders Plummer, 98, went to be with the Lord and loved ones on Saturday, January 2, 2016.Graveside services were held at 2 pm on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at the Crane Cemetery officiated by Tommy Parker under the direction of Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home.Iva Lee Sanders was born January 15, 1917, in Iredell, Texas to George Homer Sanders and...
John Modisett
Jan 2, 2016
John A. Modisett, Our Father, Brother and Friend, went to Meet Our Lord, Saturday, January 2, 2016. Memorial services will be held at 2pm on Thursday, January 7, 2016, at the Westover Baptist Church located at 2540 N. Torrance in Odessa. The family will be gathering with friends at noon on Thursday in the fellowship hall at the church.John Was...
Juanita Johnston Lively
Jan 1, 2016
Juanita Johnston Lively, "Nurse Lively," entered into the presence of her Savior January 1, 2016. She was born in Little Rock, AR, February 15, 1921, and married the love of her life February 14, 1942. She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank; their son, Jim; her parents, and sister, Bettie Jo Roark. She is survived by daughters Sherry...
Jacqueline Longwell
Dec 24, 2015
Jacqueline Sue (Skinner) Longwell went to be with her Lord and Savior on December 24, 2015. She was born on February 24, 1946, in New Iberia, Louisiana, to Harres "Hob" and Mary Blanche Skinner. She was the oldest of 5 children. She married her husband Melvin Longwell in Gallup, New Mexico on July 18 1970.Sue was an active member of...
Myrtle Barefoot
Dec 21, 2015
Myrtle E. Barefoot, 99, of Sheffield, passed away on Monday, December 21, 2015, at the Crane Skilled Nursing Center.Graveside services will be held at 10am on Saturday, January 9, 2016, at the Sheffield Cemetery in Sheffield, Texas. Arrangements are under the care and direction of Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home.Myrtle was born on August 5, 1916, in Ozona, Texas. She had worked...
Mildred Earp
Dec 20, 2015
On December 20, 2015, Mildred June Goble Earp went home to be with God.She was born in Strawn, Texas on August 4, 1925, to Luther and Edith Goble. They moved to Crane from New Mexico when she was in the eighth grade. There she met I C (Tiny) Earp and they were married on June 3, 1944. She was a...
Emily Peterson
Dec 19, 2015
Emily Minnette Peterson was born in Mitchell, South Dakota, November 26, 1915, as the third of four children to Roy Backus, an educator, and Ethyl Coburn Backus. Roy Backus was Superintendent of Schools in Wagner, Bonesteel, and Fairfax, South Dakota, and taught briefly in McCamey, Texas. He was an accountant for the Navy in the Pentagon during WWII. Minnette, as...
Willie Davidson
Dec 17, 2015
Willie Paul Davidson, 99, of Crane, entered Heaven on Thursday, December 17, 2015 at his home.Paul was born on July 26, 1916, in Simsboro, Louisiana. Paul worked in the CCC for three years before entering the military. He was a WWII Veteran serving in the Army as the rank of Staff Sgt. Paul served in the Panama Canal zone during...
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