OBITUARIES

Freddie James Williams

Published

4 years ago

01/21/2022

January 30, 1951 – January 17, 2022
DALLAS – Freddie James Williams, 70, beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend, died on Jan. 17, 2022, in Dallas, TX.
A visitation will be at 1 p.m. on Jan. 22 with the funeral following at 2 p.m. at the Nocona United Methodist Church, 200 Grayson Street, Nocona. A reception will be that evening from 5 to 8 p.m. at Daddy Sam’s, 314 Clay Street, Nocona.
Freddie was born on Jan. 30, 1951, in Bowie to Fred and Lucille Foster Williams. He grew up near Forestburg with his brother, Danny. His family raised cattle and pigs and Freddie was active in Future Farmers of America and played basketball.
Freddie graduated with a degree in range management from Texas Tech University in 1973. At tech, he was a member of the Student Senate, the Aggie Counsel and Phi Delta Theta. He met and married his wife Marcia while in college, and upon graduation, they moved to Brownwood for Freddie’s job with the Natural Resource Conservation Service.
For the next 30 years, Freddie and Marcia moved around for his various assignments with the NRCS. They lived in Sterling City, Eldorado, Big Spring, Temple and Athens, GA. Freddie was assistant state conservationist in both Texas and Georgia and he served on the NRCS National Staff.
Freddie and Marcia had two sons, Adam and Marcus. As soon as the boys were old enough to join 4-H, they began what would be a long and successful career of showing lambs with 4-H and FFA. Freddie and his family made friends showing lambs across the country and became renowned showmen. Freddie’s oldest grandchild, Kate, started showing lambs in 2020. Freddie thoroughly enjoyed resuming this family pastime, reconnecting with old friends and watching his grandchildren continue the family tradition.
Freddie had a wide range of interests over the years, from competitive skeet shooting to piloting small planes, to training and competing with bird dogs and border collies. He was a past member of the Bowie Rotary Club and Young Farmers. He was involved in the 1986 Centennial Wagon Train visit to Nocona, where his committee provided a meal for 5,000 people in the community. He was also a member of the Nocona United Methodist Church.
Freddie and Marcia retired to his family home in Montague in 2003. Freddie’s definition of retirement was to establish new businesses in real estate and oil and gas. He was a lifelong cattleman and enjoyed few things more than parking in the pasture and watching his cattle. He became a proficient pond master of his two fishing lakes, and he and Marcia recently enjoyed going on a few alligator hunts. He was an expert griller and kept meticulous notes on his briskets and prime ribs.
Freddie is best known for his ability to have fun. He worked hard and liked to enjoy the fruits of his labor with friends and family. He and Marcia loved attending Texas Country Music festivals with friends and traveling in their motorcoach. They were some of the first members of Nocona Nights, which brings music entertainers from across Texas to Nocona for monthly concerts.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Fred and Lucille Foster Williams; brother, Danny Williams; aunt, Hazel Williams Johnson; parents-in-law, John and Betty Clark and his brother-in-law, Brent.
Freddie is survived by his wife, Marcia; sons, Adam and wife, Brandi, Denton, Marcus and wife, Lindsay, Fort Worth; grandchildren, Kate and Owen; sisters-in-law, Barb Williams, Amarillo and Diane Callahan and husband, Kim, San Diego, CA and brother-in-law, the Rev. Blair Clark and wife, Kimberly, Summerfield, FL.
Freddie and his family are eternally appreciative of the 33 years he thrived after his kidney transplant. Donations in Freddie’s name can be made to the National Kidney Foundation.
Arrangements entrusted to the White Family Funeral Home of Bowie.
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OBITUARIES

Imogene Dalton Evans

Published

5 days ago

06/19/2026

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November 28,1928 – June 9, 2026
DENTON – Imogene Dalton Evans, 97, passed away on June 9, 2026.
A visitation will begin at 1 p.m. on June 20 at DeBerry Funeral Home and at 2 p.m. the funeral service will follow. A grave side service will immediately follow at Roselawn Memorial Park 3801 Roselawn Dr., Denton.
Imogene Dalton Evans was born on Nov. 28, 1928 in Coleman County Texas to Samuel and Effie Clara Dalton. She was raised on the family farm and ranch near Gouldbusk attending local schools and graduating high school from Mozelle High School.
Growing up she worked in the fields and with the cattle and sheep alongside her brothers. She gained a great work ethic that stayed with her throughout her life. She felt blessed to have three careers. She worked with her husband Joe Evans in their plumbing, heating and air conditioning business. After it was sold because of Joe’s health, she returned to college to finish her education, receiving a BS degree from North Texas State University (now UNT) and a master’s degree from Texas Woman’s University. She began work as a county extension agent in Montague County, retiring in 1991. She moved back to Denton and began a career in real estate in 1993.
Family was extremely important to her. After working all day she would work at night canning and freezing food from the family’s garden. One of her sayings she will be remembered for is a quote “waste not, want not.”
She was proceeded in death by her husband, Joe B. Evans in 1991; daughter, Regina Pitt in 2011; son, Joe B. Evans Jr. in 2015; daughter, Sharon Griffith in 2023; parents and three brothers.
She is survived by her grandsons, Scott Griffith, Fort Worth, Chad (Milly) Griffith, Dallas and “Trey” (Julie) Joe B. Evans III, Bowie; granddaughters, Lindsay (Kyle) Coker, Dallas, Shannon (James) Mares, Krum, and Lydia Evans, Bowie; great-grandchildren, Case Janopoulos, Krum, Emarie Evans, Bowie, Harper and Ellis Griffith, Dallas, Jack Griffith, Fort Worth, Berkleigh and Reagan Mares, Krum, and Collins and Myer Coker, Dallas; sister, Anna Walker, Saginaw; and nieces and nephews.
Arrangements entrust to DeBerry Funeral Home, Denton.
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OBITUARIES

Mark Dean Hancock

Published

6 days ago

06/18/2026

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June 21, 1958 – June 10, 2026
NOCONA – Mark Dean Hancock, 67, died on June 10, 2026.
A memorial service will be from 2-4 p.m. on June 28 at the Turquoise Owl in Nocona.
He and his twin, Mike, were born on June 21, 1958, in Gainesville to Harvey F. Hancock and Jean (Hancock) Shears. He graduated from Nocona High School in 1976. He also attended North Texas University. He had several careers in his lifetime—the Boys’ State School in Gainesville, Tucker Rocky Distributing and numerous oilfield companies.
He is preceded in death by his parents; a half-sister and grandparents.
He is survived by two sons, Ben Hancock and Sam Hancock; brothers, Harvey Hancock and Mike Hancock; sisters, Kathy Tomlinson and Patty Crabtree; two grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews; and great-nieces and nephews.
Arrangements entrusted to Jerry Woods Funeral Home, Nocona.

OBITUARIES

Minnie Allen Walker

Published

6 days ago

06/18/2026

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January 20, 1938 – June 12, 2026
BOWIE – Minnie Allen Walker, 88 years, 4 months, and 23 days old died June 12, 2026.
There was a visitation from 5-6 p.m. on June 14 at Jerry Woods Funeral Home Chapel.
A funeral service took place at 2 p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church on June 15. Interment followed in Ringgold Cemetery.
She was born Jan. 20, 1938, to Clarence and Eunice Allen in Ardmore, OK on what had once been reservation land. She was the only one of nine children to be born in a hospital. She graduated from Prairie Valley High School, where she played basketball and volleyball.
In 1959, she married her soulmate, Jerry Walker, and they built their extended family over the next 56 years. She worked for Dude’s Duds briefly, and at the Ford dealership in Nocona for many years. She served as Nocona City secretary and then as Nocona City manager, retiring in 2005 after a total of 23 years. The Walkers lost Jerry in 2018, and she moved to Independence Hall in Bowie a few years ago.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Walker; parents; and siblings, Alice Harper, Sam, Doie and David Allen.
She is survived by her three daughters, Karen Walker, Linda Wickersham and Kathy Sayers; three step-daughters; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; sisters, Joan Tettleton and Barbara Ice; and many nieces and nephews.
She had a lifelong love of flowers, so flowers to remember her are welcome or donate to the Carpenter Shop, 400 Boston St., Nocona, TX 76255.
Arrangements entrusted to Jerry Woods Funeral Home, Nocona.