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Margaret Lee Arnold

Margaret Lee Arnold

May 4, 2021

Visitation for Margaret Arnold, 71 of Kilgore will be 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Friday, May 7, 2021 at Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore. Mrs. Arnold passed away on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 in Longview. Margaret was born on September 14, 1949 in Kilgore, Texas to the late Percy Biggs and Estelle Cain. She was a lifelong resident of Kilgore. Margaret...

Catherine Marie Emmel

Catherine Marie Emmel

May 2, 2021

Catherine Marie Emmel Catherine Marie Emmel of Kilgore passed away at age 92 on Sunday, May 2, 2021 in Kilgore. Services will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Christ the King Catholic Church in Kilgore with Father Daniel Dower. Family and friends are also welcomed to pay their respects during visitation before the service from 9:30...

Walter Roland Sanders

Walter Roland Sanders

Apr 27, 2021

Walter Roland Sanders Funeral services for Walter Roland Sanders, 80, of New London, will be held on Monday, May 3, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. at Forest Home Baptist Church of Kilgore with Reverend Riley Pippen officiating. Interment will follow in the Danville Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1p - 2p at Forest Home Baptist Church. Mr. Sanders completed his...

April Celeste Hearn

April Celeste Hearn

Apr 27, 2021

April Celeste Hearn A Celebration of Life for April Celeste Hearn, 42, of Kilgore, will be held on Friday, May 14, 2021, at 2pm in the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore. The family will receive friends from 1 pm until 2 pm prior to the service. April completed her earthly journey on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 in Dallas...

Lee Clayton Hightower

Lee Clayton Hightower

Apr 25, 2021

Cremation arrangements for Lee Hightower, 76 of Kilgore are under the direction of Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore. Mr. Hightower passed away on Sunday, April 25, 2021 in Gladewater.

Elaine Maxwell Smith

Elaine Maxwell Smith

Apr 24, 2021

Elaine Maxwell Smith ended her earthly journey on April 24, 2021. Services for Mrs. Elaine Maxwell Smith, of Kilgore will be held on Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church, of Kilgore. Elaine Maxwell Smith was born October 18, 1941 in Jacksonville, Texas to J.K. “Jake” and Francis “Joy” Graham Maxwell. Elaine was a cheerleader at...

Eldie Lee Horton

Eldie Lee Horton

Apr 23, 2021

Eldie Lee Deal Horton Eldie Lee Deal Horton of Kilgore, Texas was born February 2, 1936 in Calcasieu Parish, DeQuincy, Louisiana, the daughter of the late Thomas and Ida Deal. Eldie left school prior to graduating to help support her widowed mother and siblings. She later obtained her G.E.D. She then left Louisiana and traveled with her sister, Pat, and...

Lou Emma Mapps Clayton

Lou Emma Mapps Clayton

Apr 22, 2021

Lou Emma Mapps Clayton A Homegoing Celebration for Mrs. Lou Emma Mapps Clayton, 79, of Kilgore will be held at 11 a m on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at Faith Tabernacle of God In Christ in Kilgore. Interment will follow in the St. John, formerly Steber Grove Cemetery. Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore has been entrusted with her care and...

Evelyn Laverne Warlick

Evelyn Laverne Warlick

Apr 21, 2021

Private family graveside services for Evelyn Warlick of Kilgore will be Monday, April 26, 2021 at Danville Cemetery with Rev. Paul Michael Vacca officiating under the direction of Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore. Evelyn Laverne Rambo Warlick, 94, of Liberty City passed away peacefully into the loving arms of her Savior on April 21, 2021. Evelyn was born on February...

Charles  Calvin Porter

Charles Calvin Porter

Apr 19, 2021

Charles Calvin Porter Services at the graveside for Charles Calvin Porter,72, of Kilgore, will be held at 11 a.m., on Saturday, April 24, 2021 in the Gum Springs Cemetery in Longview with Minister Chris Vidacovich officiating. Mr. Porter has been entrusted to the care of Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore. The family will receive friends on Friday from 5:30 until...

Lerline Stokely

Lerline Stokely

Apr 19, 2021

Services for Lerline Thompson Stokely, 95 of Kilgore will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, April 23, 2021 at First Church of the Nazerene with Revs. Robert Williams and Mark Hendrick officiating. Family will receive friends Friday, April 23, 2021 from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the First Church of Nazarene in Kilgore. Gladys “Lerline” Thompson Stokely was born November 4,...

Mary Virginia  Quarles

Mary Virginia Quarles

Apr 15, 2021

Mary Virginia Tomberlain Quarles Mary Virginia Tomberlain Quarles was born on July 1, 1932 to Broud Waymon Tomberlain and Lola Mae Morgan Tomberlain in Hughes Springs, TX. Mary passed away at The Hospice of East Texas in Tyler, TX on April 15, 2021. Mary suffered some hardships in life, but she worked hard to raise and provide for her four...

Don Carthel Adams

Don Carthel Adams

Apr 11, 2021

Funeral services for Don Carthel Adams, Sr., age 91, of Kilgore will be held at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, April 19, 2021 with Rev. Darwood Galaway and Rev. Ben Bagley officiating. Private family burial will follow at Lakeview Memorial Gardens, 5000 W. Harrison Rd., Longview. Family will receive friends from 4:30pm – 6:00pm Sunday,...

Lowell Venice Ogle

Lowell Venice Ogle

Apr 11, 2021

Services for Lowell Venice Ogle will be held on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home at two o’clock in the afternoon. Lowell Venice Ogle also known as Grandpa, and Backporch Dancing Grandpa was born on June 19, 1932 in Goodwater, Alabama. Lowell’s parents were Robert Ogle and Mary Elizabeth Hazel Ogle, who loved him dearly....

Neva Joyce Hobbs

Neva Joyce Hobbs

Apr 11, 2021

Neva Hobbs, 78, of Kilgore, Texas passed away on Sunday, April 11th, 2021. She was born on October 6th, 1942 to the late C. E. Hudspeth and Bessie Sample Hudspeth. Neva attended Kilgore High School. Mrs. Hobbs was a loving and caring wife, mother, sister, grandmother and great grandmother and will be missed by all that knew her. She was...

Barbara Jean Sheldon

Barbara Jean Sheldon

Apr 5, 2021

Services for Barbara Jean Sheldon, 90, of Kilgore will be at 2:00 pm Thursday, April 8, 2021 at Rader (Kilgore) Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. David Hampton officiating. Burial will follow at Danville Cemetery. The family will receive friends Wednesday, April 7, between 6:00 – 7:30 pm at Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore. Barbara slipped quietly into the arms of...

Debbie Reyes

Debbie Reyes

Apr 5, 2021

Services for Debbie Marie Reyes, 58, will be held on Friday, April 9, 2021 at two o’clock in the afternoon, at Mount Hope Cemetery in Henderson with Stephen Kelling officiating. The family will be welcoming friends at the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home on Thursday, April 8, 2021 from 6:00 ~ 7:30. Mrs. Reyes passed away on Monday, April 5,...

Rhonda Kennedy

Rhonda Kennedy

Apr 2, 2021

A Celebration of Life for Rhonda Sue Kennedy, 57, of Liberty City, will be held in the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. A Time of Remembrance from 6:00 pm till 6:30 pm with Visitation following from 6:30 pm till 8:30 pm. Mrs. Kennedy completed her earthly journey in her home on Friday, April...

John “Raklus”  Owino   Ondinyo

John “Raklus” Owino Ondinyo

Mar 29, 2021

Mr. John “Raklus” Owino Ondinyo A Celebration of Life service for Mr. John “Raklus” Owino Ondinyo, 44, of Kilgore will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 in the Rader Funeral Home Chapel in Kilgore with Reverend Danny Gipson officiating. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at...

Richard Wayne Crawford

Richard Wayne Crawford

Mar 29, 2021

A Celebration of the Life of Richard Wayne Crawford,74 of Liberty City, Texas will be held on Saturday, April 3, 2021, at 2 pm at the Kilgore Missionary Baptist Church, with Bro. Daniel Conditt, and Mr. Charles Thompson officiating. Interment will follow the service at Kilgore Memorial Gardens. Following the Interment, the family will welcome friends at the Kilgore Missionary...

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