Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Odessa, Ector County, Texas (Obits)

Obits Submitted by Dolores I.  Bishop

Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

 

Dorothy Agnew

ODESSA — Dorothy W. Agnew, of Odessa, died under the care of the Hospice House, Thursday, January 22, 2004. She was born May 11, 1912, in Bertram, Texas.
Mrs. Agnew came to Odessa in 1942 and taught second grade. She achieved a master’s degree from Sul Ross University and was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma. She was married to two good men, Paul Hooker, who died of cancer and Paul Agnew who died Dec. 1981. She never had any children of her own, but she always considered her nieces and nephews her children.
Dorothy was a woman of immense character and compassion. She was loved and will be missed by all her children.
She is survived by two nieces Dorothy Baucum of Anson, Texas, Mary Belle Moore of Springfield, Mo.; and two nephews, Ronald W. Wood of Atlanta, Ga., and Ernest Steed Wood of Anson, Texas.
Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Monday, January 26, 2004, at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Curtis Brewer officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.