OBITUARIES

Local Obituaries for Higginbotham Funeral Home - Cross Plains
Orville Holland
Feb 25, 2020
Orville M. Holland, 90, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 in Comanche, Texas. Funeral service will be held Saturday, February 29, at 2:00 PM at Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel in Cross Plains, Texas. Burial will follow at Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Comanche County, Texas. The family will have a time of visitation Friday, February...
Rex Maxwell
Feb 16, 2020
Rex G. Maxwell, 90, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Sunday, February 16, 2020 in Rising Star, Texas surrounded by his family. Funeral service will be held Saturday, February 22, at 2:00 PM at Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel in Cross Plains, Texas. Burial will follow at Cross Cut Cemetery in Brown County, Texas. The family will have a time...
Olena Ezzell
Feb 11, 2020
Olena Hellums Ezzell, 94, of Rising Star, Texas passed away on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 in Rising Star, Texas surrounded by her family. Funeral service will be held Saturday, February 15, at 11:00 AM at the Church of Christ in Rising Star, Texas with Terry Jackson officiating and Shannon Dudley assisting. Burial will follow at Rising Star Cemetery in Rising...
Ann Baum Cross
Feb 7, 2020
Ann Baum Cross, 87, of San Angelo, passed away February 7, 2020, at New Haven Assisted Living and Memory Care. Graveside services will be held at Cross Plains Memorial Park, Cross Plains, Callahan, Texas, on Saturday, February 22, 2020, at 11:00 AM A lifelong Texan, Ann was born January 26, 1933, in Big Spring, Texas, to Parker and Vera Baum....
Gaylia Birch
Jan 28, 2020
Gaylia Joyce (Irvin) Underwood Birch, 81 of Cross Plains, Texas passed away Tuesday, January 28, 2020 surrounded by her family in Midland, Texas. She was born on December 14, 1938 in Eastland County, Texas to the late Loron and Alice (Flowers) Irvin. She attended schools in Rising Star and Cross Plains, Texas. Gaylia married Gordon Lee Underwood in 1956 and...
W Moore
Jan 14, 2020
W. F. Moore, 93, of Corinth, Texas passed away on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 in Denton, Texas surrounded by hIs family. Graveside service will be held Sunday, January 19, 2020, at 1:30 PM at Cottonwood Cemetery in Cottonwood, Texas. The family will have a time of visitation Sunday, January 19, 2020 from 12:00-1:00 pm at Higginbotham Funeral Home in Cross...
Bob Robinson
Dec 10, 2019
Bob Henry Robinson, 73, of Cottonwood passed away at his home on December 10, 2019. Funeral service will be held Saturday, December 14, at 2:00 PM at Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel in Cross Plains, Texas with R.D. Childers officiating. Burial will follow at Cottonwood Cemetery in Cottonwood, Texas. The family will have a time of visitation Friday, December 13 from...
Lucille Payne
Nov 26, 2019
Lucille Montgomery Payne passed away November 26, 2019. She was born in Cross Plains on April 26, 1923 to Loyd and Cassie Montgomery. She married her high school sweetheart, Glenn Wiley Payne, on May 16, 1942 and they made their home west of Cross Plains as they began a life of farming and ranching. They were baptized together on July...
Martha Dillard
Nov 17, 2019
Martha Kathryn (Austin) Dillard, 85, formally of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Sunday, November 17, 2019 in Abilene, Texas surrounded by her family. Funeral service will be held Wednesday, November 20, at 10:00 AM at Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel in Cross Plains, Texas with Max Evens officiating and Connie Kirkham assisting. Burial will follow at Cross Plains Memorial Park....
Glenn Erwin
Nov 1, 2019
Glenn Wesley Erwin, 95, formerly of San Angelo, Texas passed away on Friday, November 1, 2019 in Kyle, Texas. Graveside service will be held Saturday, November 9, at 1:00 PM at Sabanno Cemetery, a cemetery donated by his grandfather, James Samuel Erwin, near Cross Plains, Texas. The family will have a time of visitation Saturday, November 9 from 11:30-12:45 pm...
Norma Moore
Oct 17, 2019
Norma Jean Moore, 82, of Cross Plains, Texas passed away on Thursday, October 17, 2019 in Ballinger, Texas surrounded by her family. Funeral service will be held Saturday, October 19, at 1:00 PM at Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel in Cross Plains, Texas with Charles Chesshir officiating. Burial will follow at Smith Springs Cemetery in Stephenville, Texas. The family will have...
Aggie Lancaster
Sep 23, 2019
Aggie Lancaster, 87, of Rising Star, Texas passed away on Monday, September 23, 2019 in Rising Star, Texas. Funeral service will be held Sunday, September 29, at 2:00 PM at Higginbotham Funeral Home in Cross Plains, Texas. Burial will follow at the Wolf Valley Cemetery in Brown County. Aggie was born February 5, 1932 in Blanco, New Mexico to the...
Theresa Lewis
Sep 12, 2019
Theresa Claudine Hughes Lewis, 96, of Rising Star, Texas left this earth on Thursday, September 12, 2019 to meet her Lord and Savior and to be reunited with the love of her life, Shorty Lewis. Funeral service will be held Saturday, September 14, at 2:30 PM at the First Baptist Church in May, Texas with David Williams officiating. Burial will...
Warren Bailey
Sep 8, 2019
Warren Dean Bailey, 88, of Rising Star, Texas passed away on Sunday, September 8, 2019. Funeral service will be held Saturday, September 14, at 11:00 AM at the Church of Christ in Rising Star, Texas with Terry Jackson officiating. Burial will follow at Rising Star Cemetery. The family will have a time of visitation Friday, September 13 from 5:30-8:00 pm...
Jimmy Ratliff
Aug 18, 2019
Jimmy Ray “Jim” Ratliff, 79, of Rising Star, Texas passed away on Sunday, August 18, 2019 in Rising Star, Texas surrounded by his family. Graveside service will be held Thursday, August 22, at 2:00 PM at the Rising Star Cemetery in Rising Star, Texas with Terry Simmons officiating. The family will have a time of visitation Wednesday, August 21 from...
Billy Bush
Aug 8, 2019
Billy Jack Bush, 63, of Rising Star, Texas passed away on Thursday, August 8, 2019 in FT. Worth, Texas. Funeral service will be held Thursday, August 15, at 10:00 AM at the First Baptist Church in Rising Star, Texas with Terry Simmons officiating. Burial will follow at Salt Tank Cemetery in Eastland County, Texas. The family will have a time...
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