Obituaries for Melancon Levingston
In Memory of Our Dear Loved Ones in Nederland, Port Neches, and Groves, TX.
Stephen Jay Broaddus
December 27, 2012
Stephen Jay Broaddus, 62, of Port Arthur, Texas died Thursday, December 27, 2012 at his residence. Stephen was born May 25, 1950 in Beaumont, Texas to J.L. Broaddus and Elsie Guidry Broaddus. He was a lifelong resident of this area and a Carpenter at Valero. He was a member of the Catholic faith and the OCAW. Visitation for family and...
James A. Williams
December 26, 2012
James A. Williams, 84, of Port Acres, Texas passed away Wednesday, December 26, 2012. James was born June 7, 1928 in Port Arthur, Texas to Homer H. Willliams, Sr. and Bertha Dorsey Williams. He was a lifelong area resident and retired after 42 years of service as Superintendant of the tool room at Texaco. He was also a U.S. Navy...
Elsie Mae Sullivent
December 26, 2012
Elsie Mae Sullivent, 81, of Groves, Texas passed away December 26, 2012 at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur, Texas. She was born in Belzoni, Mississippi on December 5, 1931 to the late Leroy and Della Mae Truitt Rodgers.A graveside service will be held at Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Port Neches on Friday, December 28, 2012...
George Peter Huber, Jr.
December 25, 2012
George P. Huber, Jr., beloved husband to Fran Ferrell Huber and father to Pete Huber, III and daughter, Jennifer Huber, departed earth into the arms of his Lord on Tuesday, December 25. He was 90 years old. He was an avid outdoorsman, fisherman, hunter and horticulturist, maintaining his pecan trees and a vegetable garden well into his 80's. He was...
Homer P. Haber
December 23, 2012
Homer P. Haber, 101, of Port Arthur, passed away Sunday, December 23, 2012 at Christus St. Mary Hospital in Port Arthur. He was born on September 26, 1911 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Jacob P. and Mary Davis Haber. Homer had lived in Port Arthur since 1933 and was a member of Providence Church (formerly Presbyterian Church of the Covenant) where...
Minnie Schoppe
December 22, 2012
Minnie Schoppe went to be with her Heavenly Father on December 22, 2012. She died peacefully at home after a brief illness. She was born in Giddings, TX on February 27, 1920 to John Gerhard Kappler and Clara Mathilde (Berger) Kappler. She had been a resident of the Port Arthur-Groves area since 1937. Before her marriage, she worked with her...
Frances Jones Campbell
December 21, 2012
Frances Jones Campbell, of Port Arthur, passed away on December 21, 2012 at the age of 91. She was born on January 29, 1921 in Celeste, Texas to Bertha and R.L. Jones. Frances graduated from Paschal High School in Fort Worth and attended the University of Texas at Arlington before moving to Port Arthur in 1940. In 1943 she married...
Tony Hollier
December 20, 2012
Tony Hollier, 53, of Port Neches, went home to be with the Lord surrounded by family and friends on Thursday, December 20, 2012. Funeral arrangements are under the care of Levingston Funeral Home in Port Neches. All services will take place at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church. A Vigil/Rosary will be Sunday, December 23rd at 6 p.m. Funeral Services will be...
Alfred Ernest Smith
December 19, 2012
Alfred Ernest Smith, 73, of Port Neches, Texas died Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont, Texas. Alfred was born November 9, 1939 in Port Arthur, Texas to Ernest Edward Smith and Eula Allen Smith. He was a lifelong resident of this area and a member of Southside Baptist Church in Port Neches. He was a retired Civil...
Jessie E. Spikes
December 19, 2012
Jessie E. "Mom" Spikes, 77, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at Christus Dubuis Hospital. Jessie was born June 27, 1935 to Otto Powell and Gladys Hester Powell. She was a lifelong Port Arthur resident and member of Groves First Baptist Church. She was a homemaker and loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was preceded in...
Mary E. Fischer
December 18, 2012
Mary E. McConnico Fischer, 83, of Beaumont, Texas passed away Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital. Mary was born December 30, 1928 in Port Arthur, Texas to Vance McConnico and Eva Marie Dalrymple McConnico. She moved to Beaumont in 1957 and was a longtime member of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. She was also a member of the...
Sammy Jack Matthews, Jr.
December 18, 2012
Jack Matthews, Jr., 82, of Port Neches, passed away on December 18, 2012, at his residence. Jack was born on October 14, 1930, in Houston, Texas, to Jack Matthews, Sr. and Julia Matthews. He grew up in Marshall, Texas. Jack retired from Chevron U.S.A. (formerly Gulf Oil Corporation) with 33 years of service as a cost analyst. He enjoyed golf...
Charles "Bones" Anthony Melancon
December 17, 2012
Charles Anthony Bones Melancon of Nederland, Texas died on December 17, 2012. He was born in Port Arthur, Texas on March 12, 1936. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1955 where he was a Three Year Letterman in his favorite sport, football. He served in the Air Force and retired from the Operating Engineers Local 450 as a...
Rodney Landry
December 17, 2012
Rodney Landry, 70, of Nederland, Texas passed away December 17, 2012 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, Texas. He was born on November 1, 1942 in Port Arthur, Texas to the late Dewey and Sidonie Landry. Rodney was a native and lifelong area resident. He started working in the grocery business at the age of 14 and worked for Roys...
Brian Mark Poirier
December 17, 2012
Brian Poirier, 52, of Kirbyville, TX, went to be with the Lord December 17, 2012, at his home. Brian was born June 16, 1960 in Holyoke, MA, to Beverly Poirier-Maciejko and Marcel A. Poirier. Brian was a resident of Kirbyville, TX and was a graduate of Syracuse University with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Brian was a loving husband, son,...
Winifred Drawhorn Van Devender
December 16, 2012
Winifred Drawhorn Van Devender passed away peacefully on December 16, 2012, at Life Care Center of Banner Elk NC, at the age of 87.Winnie was born in Port Neches, Texas, to Thomas Ellis and Edith Allen Drawhorn. She lived there until she married Fred R. Van Devender in 1944, and shared and inspired his life for 42 years. She spent...
Mary Wyble
December 16, 2012
Mary Louise Wyble, 76, of Nederland, Texas passed away December 16, 2012 at Mid Jefferson Hospital in Nederland. She was born March 29, 1936 in Beaumont, Texas to the late Herbert and Zula Blackburn Patterson. She was a homemaker and previously worked for Nacol Jewelry in Port Arthur.Funeral services will be held at Melancons Funeral Home in Nederland on Thursday,...
Bill "Billie" W. Bailey
December 15, 2012
Bill W. Bailey, 60, of Nederland passed away at his home on Saturday, December 15, 2012. Billie was born on July 22, 1952 in Wichita Falls to the late Addie Gee Bailey and Herman Bailey. He was an area resident for 27 years and had been employed as an equipment operator in the refining industry.Billie is preceded in death by...
Theodore Oscar Wukasch
December 14, 2012
Theodore "Ted" Wukasch, 88, of Groves, Texas passed away Friday, December 14, 2012. Ted was born July 6, 1924 in Loebau, Texas in Lee County to Ernest Wukasch and Erma Malke Wukasch. He was a resident of Groves for 68 years and member of St. Paul Lutheran Church. He retired as a welder from Texaco refinery and was also a...
Lovey D. Barron
December 14, 2012
Lovey D. Barron, 75, of Nederland passed away on December 14, 2012, at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. She was born on August 1, 1937, in Eunice, LA, to the late Tony Fontenot and Inez Manuel Fontenot. Lovey has been an area resident since 1945, and a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church and she was a homemaker.Lovey is preceded...
Stephen Jay Broaddus
December 27, 2012
Stephen Jay Broaddus, 62, of Port Arthur, Texas died Thursday, December 27, 2012 at his residence. Stephen was born May 25, 1950 in Beaumont, Texas to J.L. Broaddus and Elsie Guidry Broaddus. He was a lifelong resident of this area and a Carpenter at Valero. He was a member of the Catholic faith and the OCAW. Visitation for family and...
James A. Williams
December 26, 2012
James A. Williams, 84, of Port Acres, Texas passed away Wednesday, December 26, 2012. James was born June 7, 1928 in Port Arthur, Texas to Homer H. Willliams, Sr. and Bertha Dorsey Williams. He was a lifelong area resident and retired after 42 years of service as Superintendant of the tool room at Texaco. He was also a U.S. Navy...
Elsie Mae Sullivent
December 26, 2012
Elsie Mae Sullivent, 81, of Groves, Texas passed away December 26, 2012 at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur, Texas. She was born in Belzoni, Mississippi on December 5, 1931 to the late Leroy and Della Mae Truitt Rodgers.A graveside service will be held at Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Port Neches on Friday, December 28, 2012...
George Peter Huber, Jr.
December 25, 2012
George P. Huber, Jr., beloved husband to Fran Ferrell Huber and father to Pete Huber, III and daughter, Jennifer Huber, departed earth into the arms of his Lord on Tuesday, December 25. He was 90 years old. He was an avid outdoorsman, fisherman, hunter and horticulturist, maintaining his pecan trees and a vegetable garden well into his 80's. He was...
Homer P. Haber
December 23, 2012
Homer P. Haber, 101, of Port Arthur, passed away Sunday, December 23, 2012 at Christus St. Mary Hospital in Port Arthur. He was born on September 26, 1911 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Jacob P. and Mary Davis Haber. Homer had lived in Port Arthur since 1933 and was a member of Providence Church (formerly Presbyterian Church of the Covenant) where...
Minnie Schoppe
December 22, 2012
Minnie Schoppe went to be with her Heavenly Father on December 22, 2012. She died peacefully at home after a brief illness. She was born in Giddings, TX on February 27, 1920 to John Gerhard Kappler and Clara Mathilde (Berger) Kappler. She had been a resident of the Port Arthur-Groves area since 1937. Before her marriage, she worked with her...
Frances Jones Campbell
December 21, 2012
Frances Jones Campbell, of Port Arthur, passed away on December 21, 2012 at the age of 91. She was born on January 29, 1921 in Celeste, Texas to Bertha and R.L. Jones. Frances graduated from Paschal High School in Fort Worth and attended the University of Texas at Arlington before moving to Port Arthur in 1940. In 1943 she married...
Tony Hollier
December 20, 2012
Tony Hollier, 53, of Port Neches, went home to be with the Lord surrounded by family and friends on Thursday, December 20, 2012. Funeral arrangements are under the care of Levingston Funeral Home in Port Neches. All services will take place at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church. A Vigil/Rosary will be Sunday, December 23rd at 6 p.m. Funeral Services will be...
Alfred Ernest Smith
December 19, 2012
Alfred Ernest Smith, 73, of Port Neches, Texas died Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont, Texas. Alfred was born November 9, 1939 in Port Arthur, Texas to Ernest Edward Smith and Eula Allen Smith. He was a lifelong resident of this area and a member of Southside Baptist Church in Port Neches. He was a retired Civil...
Jessie E. Spikes
December 19, 2012
Jessie E. "Mom" Spikes, 77, of Port Arthur, Texas passed away Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at Christus Dubuis Hospital. Jessie was born June 27, 1935 to Otto Powell and Gladys Hester Powell. She was a lifelong Port Arthur resident and member of Groves First Baptist Church. She was a homemaker and loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was preceded in...
Mary E. Fischer
December 18, 2012
Mary E. McConnico Fischer, 83, of Beaumont, Texas passed away Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital. Mary was born December 30, 1928 in Port Arthur, Texas to Vance McConnico and Eva Marie Dalrymple McConnico. She moved to Beaumont in 1957 and was a longtime member of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. She was also a member of the...
Sammy Jack Matthews, Jr.
December 18, 2012
Jack Matthews, Jr., 82, of Port Neches, passed away on December 18, 2012, at his residence. Jack was born on October 14, 1930, in Houston, Texas, to Jack Matthews, Sr. and Julia Matthews. He grew up in Marshall, Texas. Jack retired from Chevron U.S.A. (formerly Gulf Oil Corporation) with 33 years of service as a cost analyst. He enjoyed golf...
Charles "Bones" Anthony Melancon
December 17, 2012
Charles Anthony Bones Melancon of Nederland, Texas died on December 17, 2012. He was born in Port Arthur, Texas on March 12, 1936. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1955 where he was a Three Year Letterman in his favorite sport, football. He served in the Air Force and retired from the Operating Engineers Local 450 as a...
Rodney Landry
December 17, 2012
Rodney Landry, 70, of Nederland, Texas passed away December 17, 2012 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, Texas. He was born on November 1, 1942 in Port Arthur, Texas to the late Dewey and Sidonie Landry. Rodney was a native and lifelong area resident. He started working in the grocery business at the age of 14 and worked for Roys...
Brian Mark Poirier
December 17, 2012
Brian Poirier, 52, of Kirbyville, TX, went to be with the Lord December 17, 2012, at his home. Brian was born June 16, 1960 in Holyoke, MA, to Beverly Poirier-Maciejko and Marcel A. Poirier. Brian was a resident of Kirbyville, TX and was a graduate of Syracuse University with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Brian was a loving husband, son,...
Winifred Drawhorn Van Devender
December 16, 2012
Winifred Drawhorn Van Devender passed away peacefully on December 16, 2012, at Life Care Center of Banner Elk NC, at the age of 87.Winnie was born in Port Neches, Texas, to Thomas Ellis and Edith Allen Drawhorn. She lived there until she married Fred R. Van Devender in 1944, and shared and inspired his life for 42 years. She spent...
Mary Wyble
December 16, 2012
Mary Louise Wyble, 76, of Nederland, Texas passed away December 16, 2012 at Mid Jefferson Hospital in Nederland. She was born March 29, 1936 in Beaumont, Texas to the late Herbert and Zula Blackburn Patterson. She was a homemaker and previously worked for Nacol Jewelry in Port Arthur.Funeral services will be held at Melancons Funeral Home in Nederland on Thursday,...
Bill "Billie" W. Bailey
December 15, 2012
Bill W. Bailey, 60, of Nederland passed away at his home on Saturday, December 15, 2012. Billie was born on July 22, 1952 in Wichita Falls to the late Addie Gee Bailey and Herman Bailey. He was an area resident for 27 years and had been employed as an equipment operator in the refining industry.Billie is preceded in death by...
Theodore Oscar Wukasch
December 14, 2012
Theodore "Ted" Wukasch, 88, of Groves, Texas passed away Friday, December 14, 2012. Ted was born July 6, 1924 in Loebau, Texas in Lee County to Ernest Wukasch and Erma Malke Wukasch. He was a resident of Groves for 68 years and member of St. Paul Lutheran Church. He retired as a welder from Texaco refinery and was also a...
Lovey D. Barron
December 14, 2012
Lovey D. Barron, 75, of Nederland passed away on December 14, 2012, at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. She was born on August 1, 1937, in Eunice, LA, to the late Tony Fontenot and Inez Manuel Fontenot. Lovey has been an area resident since 1945, and a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church and she was a homemaker.Lovey is preceded...