Archive - Apr 2012
April 16th
Christina Louise Stallings Garrard, 39, of Big Spring died Friday, April 13, 2012, at her residence. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday at Myers & Smith Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Myers & Smith Chapel.
She was born June 19, 1972, in Hollis, Oklahoma. She had been a resident of Big Spring for 21 years, coming from Tye, Texas. In addition to a homemaker, she was a bookkeeper and office manager for Four Seasons.
Tommy Liedtke, 86, of Amarillo, died Friday, April 13, 2012, in Big Spring. Private family memorial services will be held at a later date. Internment will be at Llano Cemetery, Amarillo, Texas.
Tommy was born July 11, 1925, in Paducah, Texas. He married Naomi Boykin Feb. 28, 1944 in Paducah, Texas. She preceded him in death Jan. 31, 1983.
The couple moved from Paducah to Amarillo in 1952 and lived there for 60 years. Mr. Liedtke served in the United States Army during World War II in the European theater.
William M. "Bill" Skiles, 95, of Big Spring, died Sunday, April 15, 2012 in a local hospital. His services are pending with Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring.
April 14th
Jeffery Curtis Dunlap, 32, of Coahoma died Friday, April 13, 2012, at University Medical Center in Lubbock. Services are pending at Myers & Smith Funeral Home.
Christina Garrard, 39, of Big Spring, died Friday, April 13, 2012, at her residence. Services are pending at Myers & Smith Funeral Home.
Kenneth Wayne Hartmann, 47, of Big Spring died Friday, April 13, 2012, in a Grapevine hospital. His services are pending with Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring.
B.W. "Billy" Cunningham, 78, of Big Spring died Friday, April 13, 2012, in a Midland hospital.Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, April 16, 2012, at the Birdwell Lane Church of Christ with Ralph Anderson, officiating. Interment will follow at Trinity Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 15, 2012, at the funeral home.
He was born on May 4, 1933, in Howard County, Texas, and married Media Gwendolin Meek on Aug. 5, 1948, in Tahoka, Texas.
He was a member of the Birdwell Lane Church of Christ.
If love could have saved you,
You would have lived forever.
Susan I. Bristol-Holley, 50, passed from this tangible earth on April 1, 2012, following a car accident. She was born in Albuquerque, N.M., in 1961 to a proud pioneer family of eight generations.
She graduated from Big Spring High School in 1979. She attended Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, as well as Brookhaven Community College in Richardson, Texas, and The University of North Texas in Denton.
Sexual assault and drug cases dominated Thursday's session of the Howard County Grand Jury.
The grand jury returned a total of 28 felony indictments against 19 individuals during the session.
Among those true-billed were Albert Trevino Carrillo, 34, of 1500 Mesa in Big Spring, who was named in three indictments — one for first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a child and two for indecency with a child, both second degree felonies.
If convicted, Carrillo could face up to 99 years or life in prison for the aggravated sexual assault charge and up to 20 years on the indecency charges.
