First United Methodist Church Orange Texas

First United Methodist Church
502 Sixth Street; Orange, TX 77630

Deaths

2010

W.E. "Sandy" Sanford, age 77, and life long resident of Orange, Texas, died on Sunday, February 28, 2010, at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital. Information from the funeral home.

2009

Catherine Allen, Don Toland, Soule Cotten, Betty Jo Spence, Eleanor Hunt, Ron Mason, Claude Hamerly, John Abram Magee,

Dolly Wier, Sandy Milligan, Nancy Newman, Lucille Brown Taylor, Murrell Prentes Smith, Jerry Smith, Wayne Cooper, Lois Rogers,

Jesse B. Gunstream, Jr., Geraldine Hawsey, Leonard Davis, Jules David, Sheila Perry, Bill Hanes, Don Hillsten, Herb Bouman, Mason Phillips,

Patricia Schurtz, Rusty Watkins, Jewel Queen, Bill Raborn, Marie Raborn, John Andes, Winifred Bailey, Fred Himmelreich, Jeanette Dubose,

Marie Stamper, Michael Crouger

Claude B. Hamerly, 74, of Orange, Texas, passed away on September 17, 2009 at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Information from the funeral home.

Catherine Liddell Allen, 74, of Orange, Texas, passed away on Tuesday, February 3, 2009. Information from the funeral home

2008

Those Who Now Rest From Their Labors (The following names were read at the All Saints Sunday Services on November 2, 2008). Additional information/pictures of some of the individuals follow.

Pauline Allen, Jan L. Ivey, Jewel Merchant, Jim Campbell, Wilbur ‘Skeet’ Boehme , B.W. Parks, Charles Nail, Rita Lege, Olga Welsh, William Raborn, Mary Alice Callahan, Ivan Cain, Eunice Benckenstein, Gail Reasonover, Daniel Batchelor, Dorothy Gunstream, Mercer Eason, Charlie Wickersham, John Cunningham Jr., Edna Ruth Maxey, Doris Slankard, Helen Stouffer.

Marie Raborn, 82, of Orange passed away November 12, 2008. A cremation will be handled by Claybar Haven of Rest Crematory.

Information from the funeral home

Jesse Gunstream , 84, of Orange, died Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
Information from the funeral home.

Jane Dutton Scherer, 86, of Houston, who died Saturday, October 18, 2008 at her home in Houston.

William W. “Bill” Raborn, 87, of Beaumont, who died Friday, October 3, 2008 at Hermann Memorial Baptist Hospital in Orange.

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Karla Phelps Hogan, who passed away August 26, 2008. Information from the funeral home

Florence Byrd Heath, who passed away August 23, 2008. Information from the funeral home

Mary Alice Ingram Callahan, who passed away on July 21, 2008

Ivan O. Cain, who passed away on July 17, 2008

B. W. Parks Jr., who passed away on June 13, 2008

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