Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Cleveland, Dayton, Coldspring & Surrounding Communities


Elster  Charles Matthews

Elster Charles Matthews

Dec 1, 2022

The family will receive friends from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday, December 5, 2022 at Pace Stancil Funeral Home in Cleveland, TX. A chapel service will be held at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 6, 2022. The interment will follow at Pace Stancil Memorial Rest Gardens. 

Lily  Anne Armstrong

Lily Anne Armstrong

Nov 30, 2022

Lily Anne Armstrong was born April 7, 2022 in Kingwood, Texas to parents, Coby Wayne Armstrong and Megan Anne Lynch. She passed away in Kingwood, Texas on November 30, 2022. She is survived by her parents, Coby Armstrong and Megan Lynch; grandparents, Shanon and Lisa Armstrong, and Jane Lynch; great grandparents, Elizabeth and Wayne Harden; aunt, Carrie Tucker; uncle, Cody...

Cindy  Sue Seybold

Cindy Sue Seybold

Nov 29, 2022

Cindy Sue Hermley Seybold, 81, of Dayton, passed away Tuesday, November 29,

2022 in The Woodlands, Texas. She was born on July 5, 1941 in Iowa City, Iowa to her adopted late

parents, Clarence Earl Hermley and Lola May Chelif Hermley.

Cindy had lived in Dayton, Texas for the last 12 years and had previously lived in Spring, Texas.

She graduated in 1959 from...

Joe Edward Short

Joe Edward Short

Nov 29, 2022

Joe Edward Short was born March 24, 1947 to parents, Joe R. Short and Christine Holiday Short. He passed away November 29, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 75. Joe graduated with a associates degree in business from South West College in Houston, Texas. He was a Master Mason since he was twenty years old, and his...

Norman Kirby

Norman Kirby

Nov 29, 2022

Norman Benson Kirby, 75, of Dayton, passed away at home with his family by his side on November 29, 2022. He was born September 16, 1947 in Michigan City, Indiana to his late parents, Harry Benson Kirby and Blanche Esther Neese Kirby.

Norman graduated from Emerson High in 1966. He was enlisted in the Navy from September 1967 to December of...

Sherry Ellen Murphy

Sherry Ellen Murphy

Nov 29, 2022

Sherry Ellen Murphy was born August 6, 1946, in Cleveland, Texas to parents, Luke Matthew Kyle and Ladys Bewel Hood Kyle. She passed away November 29, 2022, in Shepherd, Texas at the age of 76. Sherry worked in her younger years as a Nurses Aid at the hospital in Cleveland. She was a lifelong resident of Shepherd, and she loved...

Bennie  Bernice Dagle

Bennie Bernice Dagle

Nov 27, 2022

Bennie Bernice Dagle, 87, went to her heavenly home on November 27, 2022 in Hardin, Texas. Bennie was born February 22, 1935 to Herbert Cecil Meadows and Johnye May Brandon Meadows in Sandune, Texas.

Bennie had spent her entire life in Hardin, Texas where she worked, and later retired from the Kersting Hospital working as a nurses aide. Bennie was a...

Winnie Louise Peace

Winnie Louise Peace

Nov 27, 2022

Winnie Louise “Momma Peace” Peace was born July 26, 1929, in Tatum, Texas to parents, Thomas Henry Vincent and Lillian Marceline Williams. She went to her Heavenly Home on November 27, 2022, in Cleveland, Texas at the age of 93. In her younger years she worked for Flower’s Bakery in Beaumont, Texas. The greatest love she had in her life...

Henry Law Harbour

Henry Law Harbour

Nov 26, 2022

Henry Law Harbour, 84 of Cleveland, Texas has found his day to be with the Lord on November 26, 2022. Henry was born October 17, 1938 to Elmer Harbour and Lois Brummett. He married Patricia Ann on September 13, 1958. Henry served his country in the US Army and the US Air Force. He was a jack of all trades...

Norma Jean West

Norma Jean West

Nov 25, 2022

Norma Jean West was born on March 19, 1932 in Houston, Texas to Harry Charles Hoffpowier and Gladys Moses Hoffpowier. She passed away in Tarkington on November 25, 2022 at the age of 90, where she had lived for 48 years. Norma met her future husband Marvin on a blind date after which later they eloped on November 17, 1950....

Linda  Cummings Walden

Linda Cummings Walden

Nov 25, 2022

Linda Cummings Walden, 73, of Dayton, passed away Friday, November 25, 2022 in Baytown. She was born October 21, 1949 in Houston to her late parents, Bill Cummings and Peggy Brown Cummings.

Linda had lived in Dayton since 1997 and before that was a longtime resident of Baytown. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Dayton, a founding member...

Bill Tanner

Bill Tanner

Nov 22, 2022

Clarence William ”Bill” Tanner was born March 5, 1953 in Dayton, Texas to parents, Frank P. Tanner Sr and Clairice Collins Tanner. He passed away surrounded by his loving family on November 22, 2022 in Tarkington, Texas at the age of 69. Bill enjoyed hunting and fishing, and loved CB Radios, motorcycles, and Ford Mustangs. He was a Maintenance Supervisor...

Penny Jo Bollinger Valkner

Penny Jo Bollinger Valkner

Nov 21, 2022

Penny Jo Bollinger Valkner, 60, of Dayton, Texas, passed away peacefully in the comfort of her home on November 21, 2022 after a courageous battle with cancer.

Penny was born on May 25, 1962 to Jack and Judy Bollinger in Kingsville, Texas. After graduating from Dayton High School in 1980, she went on to graduate from Stephen F. Austin State University...

Kenneth Alfred Rutter

Kenneth Alfred Rutter

Nov 18, 2022

Kenneth Alfred Rutter of Tarkington Prairie, Texas, passed away on November 18, 2022 at the age of 77. Ken was born on September 10, 1945 in Ames, Iowa to parents Emmett Rutter and Erma Michelson Rutter. Ken served our country in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Marketing and...

Carl Arnold

Carl Arnold

Nov 18, 2022

Walter Carl Arnold of Tarkington Prairie, Texas passed away on Friday, November 18, 2022 at the age of 80. Carl was born January 25, 1942 in Crockett, Texas to parents, Walter Arnold and Mary Willis Arnold. Around the age of 10, Carl and his family moved to Tarkington Prairie. This is where he would eventually fall in love, raise and...

Mary Jane Groce

Mary Jane Groce

Nov 18, 2022

Mary Jane Smith Groce was born April 22, 1960 in Cleveland, Texas to parents, Bruce Smith and Yoshiko Matsumoto Smith. She passed away November 18, 2022 in Cleveland, Texas at the age of 62. Mary Jane worked in administrative side of the oil and gas industry, and was a lifelong resident of Cleveland. She was preceded in death by her...

Sandra Dee Stephens

Sandra Dee Stephens

Nov 18, 2022

 Sandra Dee Stephens was born in Pasadena, Texas on September 12, 1979 to parents, Dennis Harris and Jody Chamberlin. She passed away November 18, 2022 in Coldspring, Texas at the age of 43. Sandy loved her family and enjoyed all the memories of her family and friends. She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. Sandy...

Charles Clinton Mclin

Charles Clinton Mclin

Nov 14, 2022

Charles Clinton McLin of Tarkington Prairie passed away on Monday, November 14, 2022, at the age of 81. Charles was born on November 18, 1940, in Cleveland, Texas to parents Oree and Annie Purswell McLin both of which preceded him in death along with his brother, Dickie McLin; sister Debbie McLin Poling; brother-in-law, Johnny Gene Head. He is survived by...

Ramon Duran Gutierrez

Ramon Duran Gutierrez

Nov 13, 2022

Ramon Duran Gutierrez, 79, of Dayton passed away on November 13, 2022. Ramon was born November 21, 1942 in Nochistlan, Zacatecas, Mexico to parents Juan Duran and Maria Guadalupe Gutierrez.

Ramon played in a Mariachi Band all of his adult life. He performed in Houston restaurants and at private events. Most of all he loved being with his family and especially...

George Herbert "Chick" Kratzer

George Herbert "Chick" Kratzer

Nov 13, 2022

George Herbert “Chick” Kratzer came into this world on August 14, 1939 in Roanoke, Louisiana as the first child of his mother Johnnie Mae Bergeron Kratzer and father George Kratzer. After 83 years and three months, he went home to be with the Lord on November 13, 2022. His retirement years were spent living in the relaxed setting on Lake...

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