Obituaries
Mary Dell Lea Collins
Apr 17, 2011
Mary Dell Lea Collins, 74 of Burleson, a homemaker, died Sunday April 17, 2011, in Fort Worth. Funeral: 2 p.m. Thursday in Mountain Valley Funeral Home Chapel. Interment: Union Hill Cemetery, Joshua. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Mountain Valley Funeral Home. Mary Dell Lea Collins was born Dec. 25, 1936, in Grayson County to Allen and Ethel Brandford...
Tanner Spears
Apr 14, 2011
Tanner Ray Spears, our precious little boy, joined the other angels in Heaven on April 14, 2011. Tanner was born January 15, 2006, in Fort Worth, to Rick and Vickie Spears. He was a happy pre-kindergarten student at Norwood Elementary School in Burleson. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 19, at Calvary Baptist Church of Burleson. Visitation will...
Robert "Bob" Hostetler
Apr 10, 2011
Robert "Bob" Hostetler, 60, a retired mechanic, passed away Sunday, April 10, 2011, at his home in Joshua. Service: 2 p.m. Thursday, at the Mountain Valley Funeral Home Chapel, visitation: 6-8 Wednesday, at the funeral home. Interment: Laurel Land Memorial Park, of Fort Worth. Bob was born December 13, 1950, in Clay Center Kansas, to Franklin and Mildred Sutter Hostetler....
Faustina "Tina" Walton
Apr 9, 2011
BURLESON -- Faustina "Tina" Walton, 90, of Burleson died Saturday, April 9, 2011. Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday at Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Burleson. Visitation: The family will receive friends 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Mountain Valley Funeral Home in Joshua. Tina was born to Charles and Mary McAnally on Feb. 24, 1921, on the family farm in Norton County,...
Vernon Alfred Gardner
Apr 8, 2011
JOSHUA -- Vernon Alfred Gardner, 90, of Joshua, a retired machinist, passed away Friday, April 8, 2011, in Bedford. Funeral: 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mountain Valley Funeral Home Chapel. Interment: Rosehill Cemetery in Cleburne. Vernon was born Sept. 23, 1920, in Fort Worth to Fredrick Lee and Clara Irene Champlin Gardner. He was a loving husband, father and grandfather. He...
Barbara Belle Wagner-Rogers
Apr 8, 2011
BURLESON -- Barbara Belle Wagner-Rogers, 70, of Burleson, a retired bookkeeper for the Fort Worth I.S.D. passed away Friday April 8 2011 in Dallas. Funeral: 10 am Wednesday at Mountain Valley Funeral Home Chapel. Interment: Laurel Land Memorial Park. Visitation: 6-8 pm Tues. at Mountain Valley Funeral Home. Barbara was born Jan. 25, 1941 in Patton to George and Dora...
Tom Shelley
Apr 6, 2011
BURLESON -- Tom Shelley, a retired journeyman machinist, passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2011 in Fort Worth. Service: 11:00 A.M. Friday at the Mountain Valley Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Interment: Bono Cemetery. Thomas Edgar Shelley was born October 16, 1941, in Cleburne, to E.L. and Eleanor Arterburn Shelley. Tom was retired...
Ralph Dale Bradtmueller
Apr 4, 2011
BURLESON -- Ralph Dale Bradtmueller, 79, of Burleson, a retired substance abuse counselor, passed away Monday, April 4, 2011, in Fort Worth. Memorial service: A private service will be held at a later date. Memorials: American Lung Association, in lieu of flowers. Ralph was born Sept. 22, 1931, in Fort Wayne, Ind., to Ferdinand and Flora Oetting Bradtmueller. He was...
Allen K. Armstrong
Apr 4, 2011
Allen K. Armstrong, 75 of Joshua, a retired Air Force MSGT, and Lockheed-Martin Engineer, died Monday April 4, 2011 at his home in Joshua. Graveside Service: 1 p.m. Monday, April 11, 2011 at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Grand Prairie. Mr. Armstrong was born March 30, 1936 in Erick,Oklahoma to John Hardy and Oleta Louise Brown Armstrong. He proudly served his...
Ald (Ron) Arbogast
Mar 28, 2011
Ronald (Ron) E. Arbogast, age 68, of Wichita, Kansas passed away March 28, 2011 in Burleson, TX . Ron was born Sept. 1, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas to Ralph and Ruby Ward Arbogast. His parents moved the family to Burrton, Kansas in 1944 and returned to Wichita in 1956 where he graduated from Wichita High School Southeast. Ron started a...
Carolyn Jane Brindley
Mar 27, 2011
Cleburne - Carolyn Jane Brindley, 71 of Cleburne, a homemaker, died Sunday March 27, 2011 in Cleburne. Graveside Service: 3:00 P.M. Thursday in Rose Hill Cemetery, Cleburne. She was born April 16, 1939 in Vanoss, Oklahoma to Charles Orval and Eunice Leona Houston Byerly. She like poetry, reading her bible, and spending time with her family. She was a member...
Jimmy H. Laningham Sr.
Mar 26, 2011
JOSHUA -- Jimmy H. Laningham, Sr., a retired truck driver, passed away Saturday, March 26, 2011, in a Fort Worth Hospital. Funeral: 3 P.M. Friday, April 1, at Mountain Valley Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation 6 to 8 P.M. Thursday at the funeral home. Interment: Caddo Cemetery, Joshua. Jimmy was born October 5, 1942, in Oakwood. Jimmy enjoyed fishing, sports, watching...
Roger Dale Underwood
Mar 23, 2011
Roger Dale Underwood, 55, of Cleburne, made his final journey home on March 23, 2011. His love for flea markets eventually took him to Tennessee, where he lived for about 12 years. Private memorial services: Please contact Kathleen Knapp at 817-517-5808. Roger was born to Alva Olen and Anna Grace Smith Underwood on June 4, 1955 in Cleburne. He came...
Cleta Mae Owens Walker
Mar 22, 2011
JOSHUA -- Cleta Mae Owens Walker, 75, of Joshua, a retired data processor, passed away Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Fort Worth. Funeral: 4 p.m. Saturday at Open Door Church in Joshua. Interment: Caddo Cemetery in Joshua. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Mountain Valley Funeral Home. Memorials: American Cancer Society. Flowers are welcome but the family has requested...
Christopher Robert Morris
Mar 19, 2011
Christopher Robert Morris, 47, died Saturday, March 19, 2011, in a traffic accident in Burleson. Memorial service: Noon Thursday at Lighthouse Church of Burleson, 301 S. Dobson St., Burleson. Christopher was born Feb. 10, 1964, in Fort Worth to Robert Lee Morris and Sandra Chatellier Morris. He attended Burleson schools and worked many years in the ceramic tile and building...
Wilford B. Schneider
Mar 17, 2011
BURLESON -- Wilford B. Schneider, 91, of Burleson, died Thursday, March 17, 2011. Funeral: 3 P.M. Sunday, March 20, 2011, in the Mountain Valley Funeral Home Chapel. Private interment, at a later date, in Green Acres Memorial Park, Cleburne. No visitation scheduled. Wilford B. Schneider was born March 23, 1919, in Aleman,Texas. Wilford was preceeded in death by his wife,...
Rae Ellen Myers
Mar 15, 2011
BURLESON -- Rae Ellen Myers, 50, of Burleson, passed away Tuesday March 15, 2011 in Burelson. Memorial Service: 2:30 P.M. Tuesday. March 22, 2011 at First U.M.C. of Fort Worth, 800 W. 5th St. Rae Ellen was born Dec. 12, 1960 in Madrid to Richard Eugene and Helen B. Hammell Myers
Leland Edwin Owens
Mar 10, 2011
Leland Edwin Owens, 83, of Orlando, Calif., passed away Thursday, March 10, 2011. Memorial services: 11 a.m. Saturday, March 26, 2011, at Burleson Church of Christ. Leland Owens was born May 13, 1927, in Littlefield, to William James Mabry and Flossie B. Owens. He was preceded in death by his wife, Verna Mae Owens; parents; and two sisters. Survivors: sons,...
Donald "Glenn" Jacobs
Mar 10, 2011
CLEBURNE -- Donald "Glenn" Jacobs, 54, a machinist, died Thursday, March 10 , 2011, at his home in Cleburne. Memorial Service: 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at Mountain Valley Funeral Home chapel. Glenn was born Dec. 30, 1956, in Fort worth, to Donald Ray and Maracellia Rose Hughes Jacobs. Survivors: Wife Heidi Fenter, of Cleburne; sons, Phillip Jacobs and wife...
Msgt. Newell "Stoney" Stonebraker
Mar 9, 2011
MSGT. Newell "Stoney" Stonebraker, 76, of Burleson, a retired aviation mechanic passed away Wed. March 9, 2011 in Burleson. Service: 7pm Friday at Mountain Valley Funeral Home Chapel . Interment: 1 pm Saturday at Cottage Hill Cemetery in Celina. Visitation: 6-7 pm Friday at Mountain Valley Funeral Home. Newell was born May 7, 1934 in Neliegh, Nebraska to George and...
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