Graveside services for Earline McLain Jacobs, 89, of Nacogdoches, Texas will be held at 11:00AM on Tuesday March 30, 2021 at Simpson Campground Cemetery in Woden, Texas, with Pastor Daryl Crawford officiating. Earline was born August 9, 1931 in Appleby, Texas to the late James “Jim” McLain and Nancy “Nannie” Miller McLain and passed away on Monday March 29,2021 in Nacogdoches, Texas. Earline attended school in Appleby and Nacogdoches. She met her future husband,...

Funeral services for Melva Smithhart Witt Wiggins, 91, of Nacogdoches will be held at 2:00pm on Sunday, March 28, 2021 at Laird Funeral Home with Bro. Matt Murray, officiating.  Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery.  Visitation will be held from 5:00pm – 7:00pm on Saturday, March 27, 2021 at Laird Funeral Home.  Melva was born on March 6, 1930 in Cushing, the daughter of Henry and Ida V. Haney Smithhart.  She spent her childhood right here in...

Funeral services for Juana Cardenas, 72, of Nacogdoches, Texas, will be held at 3:00 PM on Saturday, March 27, 2021, at Our Lady of Guadalupe with Rev. Roselio Fuentes officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM on Friday, March 26, 2021, at Laird Funeral Home. A Rosary will follow at 7:00 PM.  Mrs. Cardenas passed away on Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Lufkin, Texas.  Mrs. Cardenas was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico...

Graveside Service for Darlene Lambert, 83, of Nacogdoches, Texas, will be at 2:00pm on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, at Rosewood Cemetery in Humble, Texas.   Mrs. Lambert passed away on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 in Nacogdoches.  She was born February 3, 1938 in Redding, California.

Margarett Jane Thornton Hollingsworth, age 76, of Nacogdoches passed away on Monday March 22, 2021. She was born on September 22, 1944 in Hermitage, Arkansas to loving parents, Kyle and Onie Inez Thornton. She will be remembered and loved by her husband of 58 years, Edward Stephen “Steve” Hollingsworth. Margarett was an avid Genealogist, loved to do crafts, sewing, and playing games with her grandchildren. She was an outgoing person who liked to travel and visit with family and...

Graveside services for A. Laura Layton Blankenship, 94, of Nacogdoches, will be held at 2:00pm on Friday, March 26, 2021 at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery with Jay Taylor officiating. Mrs. Laura Blankenship passed away on Sunday March 21, 2021 in Nacogdoches. She was born on January 10, 1927 in Chireno, Texas. Laura was born on January 10, 1927 in Chireno, Texas to Guy Layton, Sr. and Alma Palmer Layton.  She was the fifth of twelve children.  She became a Christian at the age of...

Graveside services for June Parker, 87, of Nacogdoches, Texas, will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday, March 26, 2021, at Elkhart Memorial Gardens, in Elkhart, Texas.  Mrs. Parker passed away on Friday, March 19, 2021, in Nacogdoches, Texas. She was born on July 22, 1933, in Palestine, Texas.  June was born in Palestine, Texas where she spent most of her life.  She married Charlie Lee Parker on December 9, 1948 and together, they raised their 2 daughters.  June loved to cook...

Harold Caleb Whitney, Jr., was born in Goffstown, New Hampshire, on October 24, 1936, and left pain behind on March 19, 2021. He was the eldest son of thirteen children and was raised in and near Eliot, Maine, where he graduated from Eliot High School. There he hoped to be a game warden for he and his family loved to gather at their camp on Monson Pond in Monson, ME. He married Jane Grey in 1959 and came to Texas where he was a Journeyman Carpenter in Carpenters Local #502 of Port Arthur,...

Graveside service for Hazel "Faye" Davis, 85, of Tyler, will be at 10:00 am on Friday, March 26, 2021, at Douglass Cemetery.  Mrs. Davis passed away in Tyler on Thursday, March 18, 2021.  She was born in Trawick, Texas on October 25, 1935, to Eugene Alonzo and Nolie (Matlock) Dempsey. Faye graduated from Cushing High School at the age of 16 and began working at the Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital where she became a Licensed Vocational Nurse.  While working at the...

Brenda “Carol” Donaldson passed away unexpectedly in the arms of the love of her life, Bernard “Bernie” Donaldson on March 17, 2021. Carol was born in Nacogdoches County, Texas to Lena Catherine (Forbis) and Ray Nevilles Barlow. She grew up in Nacogdoches as an only child yet surrounded by loving cousins who were as close to her as siblings. She graduated from Nacogdoches High School where she developed friends she maintained throughout her life. Carol was a good...