Local Obituaries for Higginbotham Funeral Home - Cross Plains

Mar 29, 2021

Maxine W. Dimitri, 86, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Monday, March 29, 2021 at Hendricks Hospice Care in Abilene, Texas. Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 3 at 2:00 PM at Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel with Matt McGowen officiating. The family will have a private burial after the service. Maxine was born August 15, 1934 in Cross...

Feb 17, 2021

Riley Leon “Rusty” Reed, 68, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at Hendricks Medical Center Brownwood in Brownwood, Texas. Funeral service will be held Sunday, February 21 at 2:00 PM at the First Baptist Church in Cross Plains with Kenneth Rieter officiating and Ronnie White assisting. The family will have a time of visitation from...

Jan 31, 2021

“Tell me what it looks like in Heaven, I hope your dancing in the sky, and I hope your singing in the angel’s choir, and I hope the angels know what they have, I’ll bet it’s so nice up in Heaven since you arrived.” Dancing in the Sky By: Dani and Lizz. After 71 years of memories and life a...

Jan 31, 2021

Charles H. Payne, 77, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Sunday, January 31, 2021 at Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene, Texas. Graveside service will be held Thursday, February 4, at 2:00 PM at Cross Plains Memorial Park in Cross Plains, Texas with Ronnie White officiating. Charles was born November 29, 1943 in Coleman, Texas to the late Hadden Payne...

Jan 13, 2021

A Memorial Services for Donna will be held at a later date.

Jan 12, 2021

Wilma Yvonne Key, 67, of Cisco, Texas passed away on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at Hendricks Medical Center in Abilene, Texas. Graveside service will be held Friday, January 15, at 2:00 PM at Burkett Cemetery in Burkett, Texas with Jody Dodson officiating. Due to restrictions in place because of the COVID-19 virus, we ask that you follow social distancing. The...

Jan 8, 2021

Ruby Jean (Killough) Parker, 92, joined her Heavenly Choir of Angels on January 8, 2021. She was, at the time, a resident of Rising Star Nursing Home in Rising Star, Texas and visitors were limited. Graveside service will be held Saturday, January 16, at 2:00 PM at Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Brown County, Texas. Due to restrictions in place because...

Jan 5, 2021

Allison Renee Lupinacci-Armstrong, 33, of Katy, Texas passed away on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Graveside service will be held Sunday, January 10, at 2:00 PM at Rising Star Cemetery in Rising Star, Texas with Matt McGowen officiating. Online condolences for the family are welcome at https://www.higginbothamfuneralhomecrossplains.com Due to restrictions in place because of the COVID-19 virus, we...

Jan 4, 2021

Karen Jane (Walker) Adams, 75, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Monday, January 4, 2021. Graveside service will be held Thursday, January 7, at 1:00 PM at Burkett Cemetery in Burkett, Texas with Kevin Morton officiating. Karen was born May 10, 1945 in Mitchell County, Texas to the late Socrates Allen Walker and Helen Jane (Ferguson) Walker. Karen married...

Dec 30, 2020

William Thomas “Tom” Clark, 83, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at Hendrick Hospice Care in Abilene, Texas. Graveside service will be held Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 2:00 PM at Victor Cemetery in De Leon, Texas with Eugene Dillard officiating. Tom was born on November 11, 1937 in Frankston, Texas to the late Robert...

Dec 28, 2020

Richard Lawson, 68, of Rising Star, Texas passed away on Monday, December 28, 2020 at Hendrick Medical Center-South in Abilene, Texas. Graveside service will be held Wednesday, December 30, at 10:00 AM at Pioneer Cemetery in Pioneer, Texas. Richard was born October 11, 1952 in Wink, Texas to the late Dwyt Sterling Lawson and Barbara Jean (Aaron) Lawson. Richard married...

Dec 25, 2020

John Melvin Pearson 95, from Cross Plains, TX went to his heavenly home on December 25, 2020. He was born in Tokeen, TX on September 18, 1925 to Key and Lucille Pearson. John enlisted in the Army and served our country during WWII. While in Austria he met and married Frieda Pearson in Vienna. After completing his time in the...

Dec 19, 2020

Charlie Scott, 81, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Saturday, December 19, 2020 at Baird Nursing Home in Baird, Texas. Graveside service will be held Wednesday, December 23, at 3:00 PM at Cross Plains Memorial Park in Cross Plains, Texas with Hoppy Hopkins officiating and Ronnie White assisting. Charlie was born November 21, 1939 in Dearborn, Michigan to the...

Dec 18, 2020

John Wayne Parum, 81, of Abilene, Texas passed away on Friday, December 18, 2020 at Hendrick Hospice Care in Abilene, Texas. Graveside service will be held Wednesday, December 23, at 11:00 AM at Eastlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Early, Texas with Kenneth Reiter officiating. Wayne was born August 13, 1939 in Wolfe City, Texas to the late Simon Parum and...

Dec 17, 2020

Sandra Erwin Elliott, 79, of Rising Star, Texas passed away on Thursday, December 17, 2020 in Eastland, Texas. Graveside service will be held Saturday, December 19, at 11:00 AM at Rising Star Cemetery in Rising Star, Texas with Robby Stuteville officiating. Sandra was born December 9, 1941 in Rising Star, Texas to the late R. H. Erwin and Daisy (Larkin)...

Dec 15, 2020

Dec 13, 2020

Tommie Beryl Conlee, 92, formally of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Sunday, December 13, 2020 in Abilene, Texas. Graveside service will be held Wednesday, December 16, at 10:00 AM at Cross Plains Memorial Park in Cross Plains, Texas with Ronnie White officiating. Online condolences for the family are welcome at https://www.higginbothamfuneralhomecrossplains.com Tommie was born April 23, 1928 in Cross...

Dec 11, 2020

Sidney Pharr, 78, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Friday, December 11, 2020 in Cross Plains, Texas. Graveside service will be held Tuesday, December 15 at 1:00 PM at Gail Cemetery in Gail, Texas with Tommy Merryman officiating. She will be laid to rest next to her parents and her brother. The family will have a time of visitation...

Dec 10, 2020

Dec 7, 2020

Katherine (Kitty) Propest, 84, of Cross Plains, TX. passed away Dec. 7, 2020 after a battle with Covid at Comanche Hospital. She was born on Nov. 14, 1936 to Edward and Beulah Miller and will be greatly missed by so many. She married the love of her life, Steve Propest on Nov. 24th, 1972. They had devoted their lives to...