All Obituaries

Funeral services for Nona Faye Crowe will be Monday April 22nd, 2024 at 2pm at the O.T. Allen & Son Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Old Palestine Cemetery. A visitation will be held Sunday April 21st, 2024 from 6-8pm also at the funeral home. Nona Faye Crowe, 80, of Jacksonville, died Sunday April 14th, 2024 in Jacksonville, Texas. She was born November 19th, 1943 in Alto, Texas to Sydney Faye and Dorothy Carr Leonard. She is preceded in death by her parents, as well as a brother...

Billie Joe Fiedler, 81, of Wells, Tx, passed away on April 14, 2024. He was born in Wells, Tx to George and Maggie Fiedler on August 21, 1942. Complete obituary will be posted soon.

Vincent Lowell Wood, 78, of Nacogdoches Tx, passed away on April 12,2024 in Nacogdoches TX.  Visitation will be 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday April 19,2024 at O.T. Allen Funeral Home at 649 San Antonio Rd Alto Tx.  Graveside services will be held at 2:00 pm Saturday April 20,2024 at Arnold Cemetery 3.5 miles northwest of Forest Tx on FM 1911 with Father George of Sacred Heart Catholic Church officiating. A reception will follow at 1815 S. Fredonia St in Nacogdoches for all who wish to...

James Harold Mason AKA Birddog, age 92, of Alto, Texas passed away at his home on April 12, 2024. Graveside service will be on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. at the Alto City Cemetery under the direction of O.T. Allen & Son Funeral Home. James Harold Mason was born on January 10, 1932, to Joel Howard Mason and Otha Lee Norton Mason in Alto, Texas. In 1951 James Harold Mason graduated from Alto High School. In 1953 James Harold joined the Army and served in the Korean War as a...

 Mark Baugh “Bones” was born July 11, 1957 in Rusk, Texas to Orville Moore “Sammy” Baugh jr. and Rita Mae Snitker Baugh. He lived in Alto all his life and had graduated from Alto High School in 1975. Mark was a good athlete and played Football, Baseball and Tennis. Mark worked in the offshore oilfield, auto body work and as a ranch hand among other jobs. Mark was a jack of all trades and good at most anything he did. He loved playing the guitar and could draw and...

     Graveside services for Don Roger Starr, 88, of Forest will be Wednesday, April 3rd, at 2 PM in the Thompson Cemetery in Forest with Bro. Steve Cowart officiating. There will be a visitation, also at the cemetery beginning at 1 PM. Don passed away Saturday, March 30, in Lufkin. He was born April 21, 1935 in San Antonio Texas. Don had lived in Houston for many years before retiring from International Long Shoreman where he was a Steam Ship Clerk. He moved to Forest...

Joe was born June 7, 1942, in Nacogdoches, TX to Grady and Signa Jean Gunter. He attended a few different elementary schools before settling into junior high and beginning high school in Texas City, TX. While there Joe’s athletic abilities were recognized and rewarded when he received the Men’s Basketball Most Valuable Player award, as a freshman. In 1959 his family moved to East Texas where he attended Cushing High School until graduation in 1960. Joe’s talent led him...

Robert Lee “Tom” Polk, 101, of Cushing, Texas, passed away on Sunday, March 24, 2024, at his residence in Cushing, Texas.  A visitation for Robert will be held on Friday, March 29, 2024, from 5:00-7:00 PM, at the Dickie Allen Funeral Home Chapel, in Cushing, Texas.  Services will be held on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 1:00 PM, at the Dickie Allen Funeral Home Chapel in Cushing, Texas, with Pastor Kelvin Dansby officiating. Burial will follow the service at Shiloh...

  Virginia Ruth Schochler Compton passed away peacefully from this life into eternity with Jesus on March 20, 2024 in Tyler, TX. Virginia was born to Virgil and Flo Schochler on January 11, 1935 in Alto, TX. Some of you may have known her as “Ginger”.  Virginia is survived by her daughter: Tammy Carraway. Brother: Danny & wife Glenda Schochler, grandchildren: Derek Carraway and wife Angela and Whitney Lecon and husband Tim, greatgrandchildren: Micheala, Dylon,...

Pauline “Polly” Smith Welch Hayes passed away peacefully from this life into eternity with Jesus on March 10, 2024 in Arlington, TX. after a long battle with Dementia. Polly was born to Walter and Ollie Smith on August 19, 1926 in Forest, TX. She and her family eventually moved to Barsola, TX then to Alto, TX. After high school, Polly moved with her father and mother to Highlands, TX. It was there she met the first love of her life, Winfred Thomas Welch. They married on February...