Obituaries

Don Paul Hightower, 78, of Onalaska, passed away Saturday, July 4, 2020. He was born in Tyler.

Oliver Leston Gilmore, 91, passed away Wednesday, July 1, 2020 in Wharton.

Liam Ryan Carroll, infant son of Angela Reyes and Dustin Carroll, of Silsbee, passed away Sunday, June 28, 2020. He was born on May 17, 2020 in Beaumont.

Carole Ann Reed, 73, of Katy, passed away Friday, July 3, 2020. She was born in Beaumont.

James Curtis Alford Sr., 81, of Silsbee, Texas passed away on Monday, March 2, 2020 at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston.

Travis Lee Moore Jr., known to family and friends as “Doone or Doonie”, passed away on July 4, 2020, at the age of 58 years.

O’De Jacqueline “Jackie” Guthrie, 88, of Lumberton, passed away Monday, June 29, 2020. She was born in Kilgore.

Helen Marie Cook Parks passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on Thursday, July 2, 2020. Helen was born September 16, 1922, one of two daughters, to Daniel Hausey Cook and Lucille Davis Cook in Silsbee, Texas. Her sister, Myrtle, was two years older than Helen. She was her best friend and confidant. When Myrtle started school, Helen wanted to go too. Her dad paid for her to start school at the age of four. She occasionally would run home at first to ‘see her Mother’. She finally settled into school where she and Myrtle attended together until graduation. Helen graduated at the age of sixteen years old. Myrtle always joked that Mary had a little lamb and I had Helen. Helen married the love of her life, Bobby Parks, in 1942. They were married nineteen years when he was tragically killed in 1961.