OBITUARIES

James Lee Winingham

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6 months ago

04/22/2026

April 25, 1931 – April 7, 2026
BOWIE- James Lee Winingham, 94, passed away on April 7, 2026.
A visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. April 24 at the White Family Funeral Home in Bowie.
The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. April 25 at First Baptist Church of Bowie.
The burial to follow at Elmwood Cemetery, Bowie.
James was born on April 25, 1931 in the Bowie area to Lee McCain Winingham and Frances Lucille Stubbs Winingham. James grew up in a long-standing farming and ranching family that settled in Montague County in the 1860s after the Civil War.
A 1949 graduate of Stoneburg High School, he played basketball and was active in Future Farmers of America and was a lifetime member. He often recalled growing up through the Depression – living without electricity and listening to the family radio with a spinner. As a young man he helped build the Hopewell Cemetery pavilion in Stoneburg 1946.
James married Barbara Ann Garrett on Sept. 6, 1952 at the First Baptist Church of Bowie. The couple met at First Baptist when Barbara was 15. They remained lifelong members of the church. James enlisted in the National Guard in 1953 and later became a noncommissioned officer attaining the rank of Staff Seargent in the US Army. He served as a communication noncommissioned officer stationed in Fairbanks, AK. Barbara joined him and worked at the local hospital. Donna was born in Fairbanks in 1955. After his military service, they returned to Bowie and built their home on Nelson Street.
James worked tirelessly to provide for his family – delivering mail from the Bowie Post Office and then rural delivery from the Sunset Post Office. He also was the Manager of the regional Coca Cola Bottling Plant in Bowie. He remained active in the National Guard and served as a volunteer firefighter for the City of Bowie. As a proud Master Mason of the Bowie Masonic Lodge #578, he received his 65-year pin. After retiring from the Post Office, he raised and sold cattle fulltime up until last year.
His retirement years were also filled with travels to all parts of the world with Barbara, his children and grandchildren. His long life was blessed with the opportunity to welcome great-grandchildren into his world.
His greatest legacy will be all the people he shared his faith with and how Jesus saved his soul and spared his life on several occasions. He believed God had saved him for a purpose and that purpose was to share his faith in Christ with others. He shared with everyone who would listen how God had blessed him over and over.
He is preceded in death by his parents, sister, Frances Faye Myers (husband Tom); Randy Myers (wife Diane) and beloved wife, Barbara Ann Garrett Winingham, who passed away in 3/2025 after 73 years of marriage.
James is survived by his children, Donna Winingham, Templeton, CA, Marilyn Judy and husband Kenneth, Crawford, Janet Winingham Monkres, Granbury and David Winingham and wife Beth of Stoneburg; grandsons, Houston Crawfis, Christopher Judy and wife Christine, Andrew Judy and wife Catarina, Hance Winingham; step-grandsons, Josh and Tyler Monkres; granddaughters, Emma Crawfis, Lindsay Judy, Gabrielle and husband Preston Baird, Alexandra Sakel(Colby White) and Samantha Hall; great-grandchildren, Faith, Eliana, Luke, Micah, Daniel, Issac Judy and Caleb Hall; brother, Dan Winingham and wife Eliane, Olney; first cousins, Anita Spikes and Maxine Woolsey; nieces, Nancy Anthony and husband Bill, Susan Pulley and husband Jack, Michelle and husband Derrick Carson; nephews, Lewis Garrett and wife Natasha, Mark Winingham and Brad Winingham and wife Jennifer and a host of great nieces and nephews.
Family requests in lieu of flowers that memorial donations be made to the Hopewell Cemetery Association, 1666 Hopewell Road, Bellevue, TX 76228.
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OBITUARIES

Phillip Ray Fielding

Published

5 days ago

09/30/2026

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October 13, 1943 – September 18, 2026
NOCONA – Phillip Ray Fielding, 82, died on Sept. 18, 2026 at Nocona Hills.
There will be a private family service at a later date.
He was born on Oct. 13, 1943 in Dumas to Everett and Audrey Blythe Bailey.
He owned an air conditioning repair firm and was a contractor for most of his life.
He is preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his children, Laura Fielding, Nocona and Bonnie Gee, Juneau, AK; sisters, Annette “Susie” Bell, Watauga and Lela Nickell, Van Buren, AR; brother, Ben Bailey, Van Buren, AR; one step-son, and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to a charity of choice.

OBITUARIES

E.J. Woods Sr.

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5 days ago

09/30/2026

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January 2, 1954 – September 16, 2026
MONTAGUE – E.J. Wood Sr., 72, passed away on Sept. 16, 2026.
The family has chosen cremation.
He was born on Jan. 2, 1954 in Wichita Falls to Lucy and Johnie Wood Sr.
E.J. was preceded in death by his parents, Johnie and Lucy Wood; brothers, Johnie and Billy Wood; sisters, Virginia Wood and Mable Beasley; great-grandson, Corey Pennington and niece, Tiffany Wood.
E.J. is survived by his sons, Scotty Wood and E.J. Wood, Montague; grandson, Brandt and wife Leslie Pennington; great-grandchildren Kash, Raeylynn and Karson Pennington; sisters, Beulah Wood, Inez and Larry Beasley, and Doria Atteberry; brothers, Charles Wood, and Homer and Linda Wood; brother-in-law, Gordon Beasley; and several nieces and nephews.

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OBITUARIES

Glenna Jean Wade

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5 days ago

09/30/2026

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October 7, 1944 – September 22, 2026
BOWIE – Glenna Jean Wade, 81, went home to be with the Lord on Sept. 22, 2026.
A graveside service took place at 3 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Elmwood Cemetery in Bowie.
Glenna was born in Bowie Oct. 7, 1944 to Burton Eugene and Edith Lee (Howard) Wade and was reared and cared for by her aunt and uncle, Evelyn and Richard Wade of Petrolia after the death of her mother when Glenna was nine years old.
Raised as an only child, Glenna grew up loved and doted on, quite unaware of any developmental challenges she may have had. She was strong and healthy with a heart the size of Texas, loving on anyone who would let her, never asking anything in return.
After the passing of her adoptive parents, Glenna went on to spend her 20+ remaining years under the watchful care of the wonderful staff at Bellmire Nursing Home/Advanced Rehabilitation and Healthcare in Bowie where her friendly, child-like spirit will be missed, perhaps, most of all.
The family is eternally grateful to all of Glenna’s “people” at both facilities, for the loving, tireless and compassionate care provided her over the years and for their kindness towards us this past week.
Glenna will be remembered, always, for her sweet, gentle spirit, her eternal optimism, her huge heart and her unabashed pride in her family and friends. She loved nothing more than to “introduce” someone she loved to someone else she thought might not yet have met them.
Glenna has moved to Heaven to what is the hope-filled start of another football season. And those of us who are fans of the sport will be thinking of her, no doubt, every time “her” Cowboys and Longhorns take the field.
She is preceded by that of her parents; adoptive parents; aunts and uncles and various cousins.
Glenna is survived by her cousins Patty Fain, Bowie and Linda Gibbons, Kaufman; a wide array of more distant relatives; friends; nurses; caregivers at Advanced and all she considered family or friend.
In lieu of flowers sent for services, the family has asked that flowers be gifted to someone you love; that “Glenna hugs” be given to all within reach; that caregivers and nurses be given the world of thanks they are due and that donations be made to your local adoption service or agency because every child deserves to grow up in a loving, safe and happy home.
Arrangements entrusted to the White Family Funeral Home of Bowie.

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