Obituaries

Violet Lyons

Apr 10, 2016

Violet Marjorie Loffler Lyons, 88, passed away April 10, 2016 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 pm, Friday, April 15, 2016 at Prairie Haven Memorial Park Chapel. Interment will be in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 1:00-7:00 PM. Thursday at Griffin Funeral Home with the family to greet friends from 5:00-7:00...

Derick Terrell

Apr 9, 2016

Derick Charles Terrell, 51, of Hobbs, passed away Saturday, April 9, 2016. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am, Thursday, April 14, 2016 at Lane Chapel, CME Church with Reverend Larron Fields, officiating. Interment will follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 1:00-7:00 pm, Wednesday the 13th at Griffin Funeral Home. The family will receive...

Marian York

Apr 8, 2016

Marian I. York, 90, of Hobbs, passed away Friday, April 8, 2016 in Hobbs. Funeral services will be held 10:00 AM, Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with Bishop Eric Johnson, officiating. Entombment will follow in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday from 1:00-7:00 pm with the family to receive...

Alfred Mejorado

Apr 3, 2016

Alfred R. (J.R.) Mejorado, 55, of Hobbs, passed away peacefully while surrounded by his family on Sunday, April 3, 2016. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 am, Thursday, April 7, 2016 at St. Helena Catholic Church with Reverend Ricardo Bauzá as celebrant. Interment will follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be Wednesday from 1:00-7:00 pm with...

Martha Brock

Mar 17, 2016

Martha Colley Brock, 89, formerly of Hobbs, passed away Thursday, March 17, 2016 in Dallas, TX. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at First Baptist Church with Pastor Larry Brock officiating. Interment will follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be Monday from 1:00-7:00 PM at Griffin Funeral Home. Martha was born...

Charley Kendrix

Mar 16, 2016

Charley E. Kendrix passed away March 16, 2016 in Hobbs. A memorial gathering will be held from 4:00 to 6:00 PM on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at the home of Linda Deming, 5930 N. Eugenia Lane in Hobbs. Charley was born on December 2, 1927 to Alvie and Rose Marsh Kendrix in Soper, Oklahoma. He served his country in...

Katherine Pickard

Mar 11, 2016

Mittie "Katherine" Pickard, a longtime resident of Hobbs, NM passed away in Kindred Hospital, El Paso, TX on March 11, 2016. Her husband, Jesse R. Pickard, preceded her in death, January 1997. They moved to Hobbs from Arkansas in 1946. Mrs. Pickard relocated to El Paso, TX in 2014 due to illness and in order to be near her...

Henry Trevino

Mar 5, 2016

Henry C. Trevino, 62, of Hobbs, passed away Saturday, March 5, 2016 in Lubbock, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at Griffin Funeral Home with Pastor Elio Barrios, officiating. Interment will follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be Tuesday, from 2:00-7:00 PM at the funeral home. Henry was born on...

Ramon Guerrero

Mar 1, 2016

Visitation Griffin Funeral Home 401 N. Dalmont Hobbs, NM  88240 Sunday, March 6, 2016 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Service Funeral Service Griffin Funeral Home 401 N. Dalmont Hobbs, NM  88240 Monday, March 7, 2016 12:00 PM Cemetery Memory Gardens 2909 N. Dal Paso Hobbs, NM  88240

Lucy Sanchez

Feb 26, 2016

Lucy Sanchez, 79, of Hobbs, passed away Friday, February 26, 2016. Mass of Christian Burial will be 12:00 PM, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at St. Helena Catholic Church with Reverend Ricardo Bauzá, Celebrant. Interment will follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. A rosary will be recited at 6:00 PM, Monday at Griffin Funeral Home. Visitation will be Monday from...

John Buhalts Iii

Feb 23, 2016

John Fred Buhalts, III of Jal NM peacefully passed on to the land in the sky, February 23, 2016. He was surrounded by his loving wife Glenna, his sister Joy and daughters Jennifer & Gena. Being the typical prankster John had defied all odds before running off to join the angel's choir. John was the eldest child of Thelma...

Willis Schoonover

Feb 22, 2016

Willis H. "Bill" Schoonover, Sr., 85, of Hobbs, passed away Monday, February 22, 2016 in Hobbs. Funeral services will be 2:00 PM, Friday, February 26, 2016 at Griffin Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Elio Barrios, officiating. Interment with follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park with Military Honors provided by the United States Air Force. Visitation will be from 5:00-7:00...

Thomas Gerend

Feb 11, 2016

Thomas Leo Gerend, of Hobbs, passed away on Thursday, February 11, 2016. He was 62. Tom or Tommy to his family and friends, was born on September 9, 1953, in Koblenz, Germany. He spent the years of his childhood and young adulthood in Northern Minnesota, where he enjoyed Boy Scout campouts in the frigid winters and spent summers on...

Benny Cox

Feb 8, 2016

Benny Earl Cox, 66, of Hobbs, passed away Monday, February 8, 2016 in Hobbs. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM, Friday, February 12, 2016 at Griffin Funeral Home Chapel with Minister Willis Lee Evans, officiating. Interment will follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be Thursday from 1:00-7:00 PM at Griffin Funeral Home. Benny was born...

Beatrice Trevino

Feb 8, 2016

Beatrice C. Trevino, 86, of Hobbs, passed away Monday, February 8, 2016 in Hobbs. Funeral Mass will be held at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church with Father Ruben Romero as Celebrant. Interment will follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 2:00-8:00 PM at Griffin Funeral Home. Beatrice was...

Clinton Lewis

Feb 7, 2016

Clinton Lewis, 81, of Hobbs, passed away Sunday, February 7, 2016 in Hobbs. Funeral services will be 2:00 PM, Friday, February 12, 2016 at Prairie Haven Memorial Park Chapel with Pastor Benny Greenlee, officiating. Interment will follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be Thursday from 1:00-7:00 PM at Griffin Funeral Home. Clinton was born on May 15,...

Betty Gourley

Jan 30, 2016

Service Graveside Prairie Haven Memorial Park 2201 E. Stanolind Rd. Hobbs, NM  88240 Monday, February 1, 2016 3:00 pm Cemetery Prairie Haven Memorial Park 2201 E. Stanolind Rd. Hobbs, NM  88240

Ned Jackson

Jan 28, 2016

Ned R. Jackson, 59, passed away, Thursday, January 28, 2016 in Hobbs. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday, February 4, 2016 at Griffin Funeral Home. Ned was born on December 2, 1956 in Quanah, Texas to Fred and Floyd Jackson. He was preceded in death by his parents and 3 sisters. Ned leaves to mourn,...

John Vine, Jr.

Jan 28, 2016

John "Babo" Vine, Jr., 43 of Hobbs, passed away Thursday, January 28, 2016 in Hobbs. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at Prairie Haven Memorial Park Chapel. Interment will follow in Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 4:00-8:00 PM, Monday the 1st at Griffin Funeral Home. John was born on March...

Jaycie Crenshaw

Jan 28, 2016

Graveside services will be held for Jaycie Michele Crenshaw at 3:00 PM, Thursday, February 4, 2016 in Babyland, Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Jaycie passed away Thursday, January 28, 2016 in Lubbock, Texas. Survivors include her parents, Lynda Villalobos and Lance Crenshaw; sisters, Brisia and Leyla Villalobos; grandparents, Adela and Rafael Ramirez, Bennet and Diane Macik and Chuck Stroud and...