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Obituaries for
Claybar Funeral Home
In Memory of Our Dear Loved Ones in Orange, Beaumont, Bridge City, TX.
Virginia Nell Vick
Feb 19, 2013
Virginia Vick, 82, was born November 28, 1930 to William Lee and Annie Jane Sheffield Suggs in Tatum, TX and passed away February 19, 2013 in Beaumont. She was a long-time resident of Beaumont and retired as an operator with Helena Laboratories. Virginia was lovingly known as "MawMaw". She loved studying the Bible, she loved the Lord Jesus Christ, her...
Thomas Vernon Smelker
Feb 18, 2013
Thomas Vernon Smelker, Sr., 94, of San Antonio was born January 11, 1919 in Beaumont, Texas and passed away February 18, 2013 at Wellspring Gardens in San Antonio. He was a realtor and owner of T.V. Smelker Realty in Beaumont. In later years, he was a loan officer at First Federal Savings and Loan. Mr. Smelker was a graduate of...
Theodore Black Hebert
Feb 18, 2013
Theodore Black Hebert was born to Edvar and Alice Hebert in Kaplan, Louisiana on August 5, 1925, and went home to be with the Lord on February 18, 2013. He was a World War II Veteran and a retiree of Gulf Oil Corporation. Mr. Hebert was preceded in death by his first wife, Una Mae Hebert; grandson, Travis Hebert; daughter,...
Alice Jane Carlson
Feb 17, 2013
Funeral services for Alice Jane Carlson, 83, of Beaumont, will be held Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in the Claybar Kelley-Watkins Chapel with Rev. David Goolsby, officiating. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. A gathering of friends and family will be Monday evening from 4-7:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Carlson was born June 30,...
Mary Lillian Veazey Chatlosh
Feb 17, 2013
Mary Lillian Veazey was born August 4, 1922 to Joseph Benoit Ben Veazey and Margaret Noelie Broussard Veazey. She started life and grew up on a houseboat on the Sabine River in Orange in the 1920s and 30s with her parents, brother and sister, attending Curtis Elementary, St. Mary School, and Orange High School and dreaming of becoming a writer....
Jack Thompson
Feb 17, 2013
Jack Thompson was born in Beaumont, Texas on May 16, 1928, to Rayburn and Winnie Thompson. At the age of 8 his family moved to Nederland, Texas, and it was at about this time Jack began to go with his cousin to assemblies at the local Church of Christ. At Jack's urging, his parents who were unchurched began to attend...
Raymon Ethridge Thompson
Feb 14, 2013
Raymon Ethridge Thompson went to be with the Lord on February 14, 2013. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at Bethel Baptist Church in West Orange. Officiating will be Reverend Olan Thompson and assisting will be Reverend Chad Sangster and Reverend Jack Comer. Entombment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City. Visitation will be...
Barbara June Broer
Feb 13, 2013
Memorial services for Barbara June Broer, 59, of Beaumont will be held Friday, February 15, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in the Claybar Kelley-Watkins Chapel in Beaumont. Barbara was born June 12, 1953 in Columbia, Mississippi and passed away on February 13, 2013 in Beaumont following a lengthy illness. She was a homemaker and former resident of Orange. She is survived...
Bobby Franklin Goza, Sr
Feb 12, 2013
Graveside services for Bobby Franklin Goza, Sr., 78, of Beaumont will be held Friday, February 15, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Haven of Rest Cemetery. A gathering of family and friends will be Thursday, February 14, 2013 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at Claybar Kelley-Watkins Funeral Home in Beaumont. Friends who wish may direct memorial contributions the Humane Society...
Mark Kyle Smith
Feb 11, 2013
Mark Kyle Smith, 39, of Orange, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, February 11, 2013, at Pinehurst Nursing and Rehabilitation in Orange. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, February 15, 2013, at United Pentecostal Church of Bridge City with Reverend John W. Harroll officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City....
Michelle Denise Anderson
Feb 11, 2013
Michelle Denise Anderson, 57, of Bridge City, passed away on Monday, February 11, 2013, at Christus St. Mary Hospital in Port Arthur. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, February 16, 2013, at Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Orange. Officiating will be Reverend Brad Morgan, pastor of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Bridge City. Cremation will follow under the...
Bessie Andress
Feb 11, 2013
Bessie Andress, 90, of Orange, died Monday, February 11, 2013 at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Funeral services will be 2pm, Friday, February 15, 2013, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Burial will follow at Evergreen Cemetery in Orange. Visitation will be from 6:30pm to 9pm, Thursday at the funeral home. Born in Crowley, Louisiana, on June 7, 1922, Bessie was...
Doris M. Godfrey
Feb 10, 2013
Doris M. Godfrey, 82, of Orange, died Sunday, February 10, 2013, at her home. Funeral services will be 1:30pm, Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be Reverend Joseph P. Daleo of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Orange. Burial will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery in Orange. Visitation will be from 5pm to 8pm, Tuesday,...
Paula Jean Thompson
Feb 10, 2013
Paula Jean Thompson, 73, of Orange, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, February 10, 2013, at her home. Funeral services will be 7:00 p.m. Thursday, February 14, 2013, at United Pentecostal Church of Bridge City with Reverend John W. Harrell of United Pentecostal Church of Bridge City and Reverend Donald Bearce officiating. Visitation will be...
Kenneth P. Nick Nichols
Feb 8, 2013
Kenneth P. "Nick" Nichols, 88, a longtime resident of Orange, passed away Friday, February 8, 2013. Born in Superior, Wisconsin the youngest of 13, he served in the US Navy from 1942 to 1948 in both theaters and as a Navy reservist, served during the Korean conflict from 1952 to 1953. He was employed by DuPont S.R.W. from 1948 until...
Charles Finley Smith
Feb 8, 2013
Charles Finley Smith, 89, of Orange, died Friday, February 8, 2013, at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont. Graveside services will be held 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City. Officiating will be Reverend Barry Bradley of First Baptist Church in Orange. Visitation will be from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Monday at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born...
Jimmie Wayne Kyle
Feb 7, 2013
The spirit of Jimmie Wayne Kyle, 88, passed beyond our sight on February 7, 2013. He was the fifth child born on July 15, 1924 to Lee Roy Kyle and Dovie Hoffman Kyle. They lived on the Vida M. Way oil lease near the small town of Oilton, OK where his Dad was employed with Magnolia Petroleum Company. He was...
Shannon Anne Chadwick
Feb 7, 2013
A memorial service for Shannon Anne Finney Chadwick, 41, of Beaumont will be held Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Claybar Kelley-Watkins Chapel. Shannon was born September 21, 1971 in Illinois to Dennis James Finney and Barbara Ehlers Von Steffens and passed away February 7, 2013 in Beaumont. Shannon is survived by her husband, Scott Chadwick of...
George Curtis Wilder
Feb 7, 2013
George Wilder, 83, was born October 1, 1929 in Crowley, Louisiana to Jesse and Ruth Blakeman Wilder and passed away on February 7, 2013 at Harbor Hospital in Beaumont, TX. Mr. Wilder served with the US Army during the Korean War. He was a long time resident of Vidor, employed as an instrument technician with Colonial Pipeline Company from where...
Elizabeth "Betty" Miller
Feb 5, 2013
Elizabeth Plaas Miller died Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 in Beaumont, Texas. Betty was born November 13th, 1917, in Larimore, North Dakota. She was the daughter of Dr. George A. and Augusta R. Plaas. Betty attended high school in Larimore, excelling in music. She was a member of her high school girls' basketball team which won the North Dakota state championship...
Virginia Nell Vick
Feb 19, 2013
Virginia Vick, 82, was born November 28, 1930 to William Lee and Annie Jane Sheffield Suggs in Tatum, TX and passed away February 19, 2013 in Beaumont. She was a long-time resident of Beaumont and retired as an operator with Helena Laboratories. Virginia was lovingly known as "MawMaw". She loved studying the Bible, she loved the Lord Jesus Christ, her...
Thomas Vernon Smelker
Feb 18, 2013
Thomas Vernon Smelker, Sr., 94, of San Antonio was born January 11, 1919 in Beaumont, Texas and passed away February 18, 2013 at Wellspring Gardens in San Antonio. He was a realtor and owner of T.V. Smelker Realty in Beaumont. In later years, he was a loan officer at First Federal Savings and Loan. Mr. Smelker was a graduate of...
Theodore Black Hebert
Feb 18, 2013
Theodore Black Hebert was born to Edvar and Alice Hebert in Kaplan, Louisiana on August 5, 1925, and went home to be with the Lord on February 18, 2013. He was a World War II Veteran and a retiree of Gulf Oil Corporation. Mr. Hebert was preceded in death by his first wife, Una Mae Hebert; grandson, Travis Hebert; daughter,...
Alice Jane Carlson
Feb 17, 2013
Funeral services for Alice Jane Carlson, 83, of Beaumont, will be held Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in the Claybar Kelley-Watkins Chapel with Rev. David Goolsby, officiating. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. A gathering of friends and family will be Monday evening from 4-7:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Carlson was born June 30,...
Mary Lillian Veazey Chatlosh
Feb 17, 2013
Mary Lillian Veazey was born August 4, 1922 to Joseph Benoit Ben Veazey and Margaret Noelie Broussard Veazey. She started life and grew up on a houseboat on the Sabine River in Orange in the 1920s and 30s with her parents, brother and sister, attending Curtis Elementary, St. Mary School, and Orange High School and dreaming of becoming a writer....
Jack Thompson
Feb 17, 2013
Jack Thompson was born in Beaumont, Texas on May 16, 1928, to Rayburn and Winnie Thompson. At the age of 8 his family moved to Nederland, Texas, and it was at about this time Jack began to go with his cousin to assemblies at the local Church of Christ. At Jack's urging, his parents who were unchurched began to attend...
Raymon Ethridge Thompson
Feb 14, 2013
Raymon Ethridge Thompson went to be with the Lord on February 14, 2013. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at Bethel Baptist Church in West Orange. Officiating will be Reverend Olan Thompson and assisting will be Reverend Chad Sangster and Reverend Jack Comer. Entombment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City. Visitation will be...
Barbara June Broer
Feb 13, 2013
Memorial services for Barbara June Broer, 59, of Beaumont will be held Friday, February 15, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in the Claybar Kelley-Watkins Chapel in Beaumont. Barbara was born June 12, 1953 in Columbia, Mississippi and passed away on February 13, 2013 in Beaumont following a lengthy illness. She was a homemaker and former resident of Orange. She is survived...
Bobby Franklin Goza, Sr
Feb 12, 2013
Graveside services for Bobby Franklin Goza, Sr., 78, of Beaumont will be held Friday, February 15, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Haven of Rest Cemetery. A gathering of family and friends will be Thursday, February 14, 2013 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at Claybar Kelley-Watkins Funeral Home in Beaumont. Friends who wish may direct memorial contributions the Humane Society...
Mark Kyle Smith
Feb 11, 2013
Mark Kyle Smith, 39, of Orange, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, February 11, 2013, at Pinehurst Nursing and Rehabilitation in Orange. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, February 15, 2013, at United Pentecostal Church of Bridge City with Reverend John W. Harroll officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City....
Michelle Denise Anderson
Feb 11, 2013
Michelle Denise Anderson, 57, of Bridge City, passed away on Monday, February 11, 2013, at Christus St. Mary Hospital in Port Arthur. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, February 16, 2013, at Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Orange. Officiating will be Reverend Brad Morgan, pastor of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Bridge City. Cremation will follow under the...
Bessie Andress
Feb 11, 2013
Bessie Andress, 90, of Orange, died Monday, February 11, 2013 at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Funeral services will be 2pm, Friday, February 15, 2013, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Burial will follow at Evergreen Cemetery in Orange. Visitation will be from 6:30pm to 9pm, Thursday at the funeral home. Born in Crowley, Louisiana, on June 7, 1922, Bessie was...
Doris M. Godfrey
Feb 10, 2013
Doris M. Godfrey, 82, of Orange, died Sunday, February 10, 2013, at her home. Funeral services will be 1:30pm, Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be Reverend Joseph P. Daleo of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Orange. Burial will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery in Orange. Visitation will be from 5pm to 8pm, Tuesday,...
Paula Jean Thompson
Feb 10, 2013
Paula Jean Thompson, 73, of Orange, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, February 10, 2013, at her home. Funeral services will be 7:00 p.m. Thursday, February 14, 2013, at United Pentecostal Church of Bridge City with Reverend John W. Harrell of United Pentecostal Church of Bridge City and Reverend Donald Bearce officiating. Visitation will be...
Kenneth P. Nick Nichols
Feb 8, 2013
Kenneth P. "Nick" Nichols, 88, a longtime resident of Orange, passed away Friday, February 8, 2013. Born in Superior, Wisconsin the youngest of 13, he served in the US Navy from 1942 to 1948 in both theaters and as a Navy reservist, served during the Korean conflict from 1952 to 1953. He was employed by DuPont S.R.W. from 1948 until...
Charles Finley Smith
Feb 8, 2013
Charles Finley Smith, 89, of Orange, died Friday, February 8, 2013, at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont. Graveside services will be held 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City. Officiating will be Reverend Barry Bradley of First Baptist Church in Orange. Visitation will be from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Monday at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born...
Jimmie Wayne Kyle
Feb 7, 2013
The spirit of Jimmie Wayne Kyle, 88, passed beyond our sight on February 7, 2013. He was the fifth child born on July 15, 1924 to Lee Roy Kyle and Dovie Hoffman Kyle. They lived on the Vida M. Way oil lease near the small town of Oilton, OK where his Dad was employed with Magnolia Petroleum Company. He was...
Shannon Anne Chadwick
Feb 7, 2013
A memorial service for Shannon Anne Finney Chadwick, 41, of Beaumont will be held Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Claybar Kelley-Watkins Chapel. Shannon was born September 21, 1971 in Illinois to Dennis James Finney and Barbara Ehlers Von Steffens and passed away February 7, 2013 in Beaumont. Shannon is survived by her husband, Scott Chadwick of...
George Curtis Wilder
Feb 7, 2013
George Wilder, 83, was born October 1, 1929 in Crowley, Louisiana to Jesse and Ruth Blakeman Wilder and passed away on February 7, 2013 at Harbor Hospital in Beaumont, TX. Mr. Wilder served with the US Army during the Korean War. He was a long time resident of Vidor, employed as an instrument technician with Colonial Pipeline Company from where...
Elizabeth "Betty" Miller
Feb 5, 2013
Elizabeth Plaas Miller died Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 in Beaumont, Texas. Betty was born November 13th, 1917, in Larimore, North Dakota. She was the daughter of Dr. George A. and Augusta R. Plaas. Betty attended high school in Larimore, excelling in music. She was a member of her high school girls' basketball team which won the North Dakota state championship...
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