Obituaries

Jul 31, 2014

Funeral services for Billy F. Holcomb, Sr., 89, of Lufkin will be held Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Mark Livingston and Reverend Jerry Browning officiating. Interment will follow in the Gann Cemetery. Mr. Holcomb was born September 21, 1924 in Lufkin, Texas to Earl A. and Elva (Bynum) Holcomb,...

Jul 30, 2014

Funeral services for Jack Norris Tinsley, 56, of Huntington will be held Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at the Huntington First Baptist Church with Dr. Darryl Smith and Brother Kevin Hopkins officiating. Interment will follow in the Huntington Cemetery. Mr. Tinsley was born October 12, 1957 in Lufkin, Texas to Lamar and Clauda (Roberts) Tinsley, and died...

Jul 30, 2014

Funeral services for Anthony Wayne Bentley, 73, of Lufkin will be held Saturday, August 2, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Horace Fletcher officiating. Interment will follow in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park. Mr. Bentley was born March 18, 1941 in Zavalla, Texas to Jim T. and Myrtie (Caples) Bentley, and died...

Jul 30, 2014

Visitation for Luther Otis “Luke” Blood, 65, of Huntington, Texas will be held Saturday, August 2, 2014 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Carroway Funeral Home in Huntington, TX. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at Esler Pentecostal Church in Pineville, LA with Reverend Marlow Shubert and Reverend Roger Toney officiating. Entombment will...

Jul 29, 2014

Funeral services for James W. Sanders, Sr., 83, of Lufkin will be held Friday, August 1, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Cary Modisett officiating. Interment will follow in the Whitehouse Cemetery. James Wesley Sanders was born September 15, 1930 in Angelina County, Texas, the sixth child of the late Hiram Bell Sanders,...

Jul 29, 2014

Memorial services for Frank Booth Stevenson, 86, of Lufkin will be held Monday, August 4, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church. A reception will follow in the fellowship hall. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Carroway Funeral Home. Mr. Stevenson was born October 15, 1927 in Caddo Mills, Texas to Charles A. and Elizabeth (Boothe) Stevenson,...

Jul 28, 2014

Helen Louise Stafford, 96, of Lufkin, passed away peacefully on the 28th day of July, 2014. Helen was born in Troup, Texas to Buford Wilkinson and Ida (Florence) Wilkinson on the 16th day of May, 1918. She attended Troup High School where she met the love of her life, M.V. “Monty” Stafford. They lived in Troup until they moved...

Jul 28, 2014

Memorial services for Tom “Tommy” Tatum, 61, of Douglas, Georgia will be held Monday, August 4, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at The Lodge, located at 104 W. Shepherd Avenue, Lufkin, with the Reverend Randall K. Green of Christ Congregational Church officiating. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Carroway Funeral Home. Mr. Tatum was born April 30, 1953 in...

Jul 25, 2014

Jean Rhinehalt Wareing, 92, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 25, 2014 in the home of her daughter and son-in-law, with whom she lived in Lufkin, Texas. Jean, previously of Georgetown, had resided in Lufkin for the past seven years. Graveside services will be held Friday, August 1, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. in the Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, 2800...

Jul 15, 2014

Funeral services for Wesley Oliver Glover, 92, of Lufkin, will be held Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. in the Elwyn M. Gipson Memorial Chapel in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park with Reverend Stephen Lantis officiating. Interment will follow in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park. Mr. Glover was born June 10, 1922 in Tioga, Texas to...

Jul 15, 2014

Memorial services for Ernest L. Bartlett, Jr. of Lufkin will be held Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church with Senior Pastor D. Nick Sholars officiating. Private entombment will be in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park. Mr. Bartlett was born January 7, 1926 in Lufkin, Texas the son of the late Jodie...

Jul 15, 2014

Funeral services for Deborah Loving Bufis, 58, of Lufkin, will be held Friday, July 18, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Lancewood Baptist Church with Brother Louie Lawson and Pastor Kevin Poage officiating. Interment will follow in Largent Cemetery. Ms. Bufis was born August 13, 1955 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and died Tuesday, July 15, 2014 in a Lufkin...

Jul 15, 2014

Funeral services for Veronica “Vikki” Ledford, 40, of Lufkin, will be held Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel in Huntington with Dr. Darryl Smith officiating. Interment will follow in Fielder Memorial Cemetery. Ms. Ledford was born January 22, 1974 in Corpus Christi, Texas, and died Tuesday, July 15, 2014 in a Lufkin...

Jul 15, 2014

Memorial services for Mary Jane “Janie” Lentz, 65, of Lufkin will be held Friday, July 18, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Henderson Chapel of First United Methodist Church Lufkin with Sr. Pastor D. Nick Sholars officiating. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Carroway Funeral Home.

Mrs. Lentz was born April 25, 1949 in McCook, Nebraska...

Jul 12, 2014

A memorial celebration of the remarkable life of Mary Johnston Read, 85, of Lufkin, will be held Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Bob Klund officiating. Private graveside services will be in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park with Pastor Alex Montilla officiating. Born on February 24, 1929 in Lufkin,...

Jul 11, 2014

Funeral services for Doris K. Black, 78, of Lufkin, will be held Monday, July 14, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Sonny Scarborough officiating. Graveside services will follow at 4:00 p.m. Monday in the Grandview Cemetery in Pasadena, Texas. Ms. Black was born January 18, 1936 in Pasadena, Texas, to the late Dorothy...

Jul 10, 2014

Funeral services for Shirley White, 73, of Humble, will be held Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Ralph Salinas and Brother Floyd Loven officiating. Interment will follow in Ryan Chapel Cemetery. Mrs. White was born February 2, 1941 in Diboll, Texas to the late Ruth (Fox) and Moody Smith, Sr....

Jul 7, 2014

Funeral services for Charles Grayson, 73, of Wells will be held Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at the Calvary Baptist Church of Wells with Brother Horace Fletcher officiating. Masonic graveside services will follow in the Mt. Hope Cemetery under the auspices of the Wells Masonic Lodge #915 A.F. & A.M.

Mr. Grayson was born March...

Jul 6, 2014

Funeral services for J.L. Emanis, 96, of Lufkin will be held Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Jeremy Yancey officiating. Interment will follow in the Whitehouse Cemetery.       Mr. Emanis was born January 13, 1918 in Center, Texas to Jess and Estella (Abbott) Emanis, and died Sunday, July 6, 2014 at...

Jul 6, 2014

Funeral services for Kelly K. Mahone, 46, of Huntington will be held Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel in Lufkin with Pastor Dave Sarver officiating. Interment will follow in the Shofner Cemetery.       Mrs. Mahone was born June 21, 1968 in El Paso, Texas, and died Sunday, July 6, 2014 at her residence....