Patsy Ruth Orr, age 89, crossed into heaven on Jan. 6,2024, after an abbreviated stay at Brazos Valley Nursing Facility. Graveside services were held Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, at the Knox City Cemetery with Reverend Marq Brockett officiating under the direction of the Smith Family Funeral Home.

Debra Graf, 58 of Vernon, passed away on Monday, Jan. 8,2024, in Vernon.

Jerry Lynn Walker died peacefully in his home in Weinert, on Dec. 18, 2023.

NANCY DUNCAN Nancy C. Duncan, 76, a longtime resident of Knox City, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. A graveside service was held Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at the Knox City Cemetery with Rev. Marq Brockett officiating, under the direction of Smith Family Funeral Homes.

OBITUARIES Born in Wichita Falls Oct. 15, 1941 Entered God’s loving embrace Nov.

LLOYD DON WELCH Lloyd Don Welch, 83 of Vernon, died Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 in Wichita Falls.

David Randall (Randy) Reeves peacefully left the bounds of Earth and entered the presence of his Lord Jesus Christ on Friday, Oct. 6. He was 73. Randy was born on Nov. 8, 1949, in Knox City. He was the second of three sons of Hubert Arnold Reeves, a U.S. Army veteran who served our nation in WWII, participated in the Normandy Invasion, and subsequently worked as a farmer and rancher, and LaRue Burgess, his vivacious and loving mother who was an elementary teacher and county school counselor. They made their home on a small farm inGilliland, among expansive cotton and wheat fields, and opportunities for a young Randy to learn the family farm business by driving a tractor at the tender age of 12 – for an initial wage of 25 cents an hour. He made a public declaration of his faith in the Lord when he was baptized in the late 1950’s at Gilliland Baptist Church by Brother Dick Williams.

Barbara Ann Kilgore was born in Knox City, Sept, 7, 1944, to parents Willard and Ozelle Kilgore and she left this world on June 11, 2023. She grew up and attended High School in Benjamin, where her father owned a gas station, and her mother was a homemaker.

Jessie Pauline “Polly” (Fulbright) Cox, 97, a lifetime resident of Rule, passed away Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29, 2023 at the Rule Cemetery under the direction of Smith Family Funeral Homes. A visitation was planned for 6-7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, at the funeral home, 600 Robins Avenue in Rule.

RAYE MORRIS Raye (Holcomb) Morris left this world on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023.