Elizabeth Thomas Little passed away July 9

Elizabeth Thomas (Mrs. J.B.) Little, 87, of Lago Vista, formerly of Belton, died July 9 in an Austin hospital. Memorial services were held July 14 at Travis Oaks Baptist Church in Lago Vista with the Rev. Vince Smith offi­ciating.

Little was born in Rogers on Oct. 1, 1917 to J.W. and Elizabeth Gower Thomas. She moved to Belton with her parents as an elementary school student and graduated from Belton High School in 1934. She graduated from Mary Hardin-Baylor College and also gradu­ated from the University of Texas.

Her 50-year teaching career included class­room teaching and as a librarian. She taught in Salado, Corpus Christi, Brownwood and Lago Vista school districts. She was president of the Texas State Teachers Associa­tion and of the Classroom Teachers of Texas.

She married J.B. Little Dec. 24, 1939. He pre­ceded her in death May 2, 1982. She was also preceded in death by her parents.

Her recent Salado memberships included Associate Member, Vil­lage of Salado Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and membership in Cen­tral Texas Area Museum.

She is survived by a brother, William Thomas, of Harker Heights, for­merly of Belton, a nephew and niece.

Catherine V. Gibbs graveside services held July 26

Graveside service for Catherine V. Gibbs, 81, of Jarrell, were held July 26, at Live Oak Cemetery near Youngsport with the Rev. Jim McClurg officiating.

Gibbs died July 23, 2005, in a Temple hospital.

She was born in Paint Rock, to Marion A. And Lillian Avent McGuffin on Dec. 13, 1923. She married Floyd Gibbs on Jan. 17, 1953, in Jarrell. Gibbs was a member of First Methodist Church of Jarrell.

Survivors include her husband, Floyd Gibbs, of Jarrell; one daughter, Juana K. Preston, of Salado; one brother, A.E. McGuffin, of Tow; one sister, Johnnie White, of Hagerman, NM; and one granddaughter, Amber Lea Preston, of Salado.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to First Methodist Church, P.O. Box 406, Jarrell, TX 76537.

Susie Cowan passes away July 11 in Belton

Susie N. Cowan, 79, of Belton, died Monday, July 11, 2005 in a Belton nurs­ing center.
Private family ser­vices will be held at North Belton Cemetery with Rev. Darren Walker officiating.

Cowan was born to Harry Elijah “Lige” and Una Horton Bradford in the Three Forks commu­nity on November 3 1925. She was a lifelong resident of Bell County. She mar­ried Roy O. Cowan in Belton on August 6, 1943. Prior to her retirement, she was office manager for her husband’s Texaco consignee business in Belton. She was also em­ployed with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in Belton for several years. Mrs. Cowan was a mem­ber of First United Meth­odist Church in Belton.

Survivors include one son, Steve Cowan of Belton; one brother, Harry Bradford of Temple; four grandchildren; and one great grandchild. She was preceded in death by her husband on March 11, 2005 and a daughter, Pam Lee in 1988.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to First United Methodist Church, 205 E. 3rd Avenue, Belton, Texas 76513 of VistaCare Hospice, 2626 South 37th, Temple, Texas 76504.

Heartfield Funeral Home in Belton is in charge of arrangements.

Services held for Quiroz

Funeral services for Ju­lio (Joe) Quiroz, Sr., 88, of Salado were held July 9 at the Salado United Meth­odist Church on Thomas Arnold Road in Salado, with Rev. Grady Brittian officiating. Quiroz was buried in Salado Cem­etery.

Quiroz died July 7 in a Temple Hospital.

Quiroz was born in Gatesville, May 22, 1917, the son of Felipe and Maria Rosales Quiroz. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.

Quiroz was a resident of Temple before moving to Salado in 1970.
He was an Auto Me­chanic, working for Steak­ley Chevorlet before open­ing his own shop, Salado Auto Repair.

He was a tireless volunteer in the Salado schools and in the Salado community. Quiroz was a member of the American Legion Post 133. He was a member of the Salado United Methodist Church.

He was preceded in death by a son Joel Bur­nett Quiroz in 1983.

Survivors include his wife Estelle (Pat) Quiroz of Salado; two sons J. Quiroz, Jr. of Salado and Andrew Quiroz of Tyler; one daughter Mary Thom­son of Kankakee, IL; two step sons John Dwayne Robinson of Basalt, CO and Don King Robinson of Salado; one sister Betty Leos of McGregor; 10 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the Salado United Methodist Church Build­ing Fund.

Dossman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Shirley Cornett memorial service held June 30 at Methodist Church

Shirley Forbes Cornett, 67, of Salado, passed away on June 27, 2005. She was born August 30, 1937. in Weirton, West Virginia to Maude and Eric Forbes. After attending secretarial school, Shirley took a job at the Pentagon with the Naval Department where she met her beloved hus­band Mike Cornett at a USO party. It was evident to Shirley after their first three dates that she would spend the rest of her life with him.

Throughout her life with Mike, Shirley was an example of strength, hon­esty and hard work. She was an equal panner in all aspects of the family busi­ness, Geme Car Washes. In addition, Shirley helped design the Tenroc Event Center on the family ranch in Salado, and in her spare time, managed to purchase a clothing store, DOW known as Alice’s.

Shirley Cornett was a woman who never doubted her ability to do anything she set her mind to. She was able to bend a life on the ranch with an active social life in the community. It was not surprising to find her nursing an abandoned baby goat in the middle of the night and hours later see her in a fur coat and heels at a fund raising event. She was involved with the Salado Education Foundation, 4-H and numerous other organizations.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Mary Lois Ar­trip. She is survived by: her husband Mike W. Cor­nett; four children, Cindi Roessler and husband Randall, Lee Cornett and wife Season, Jon Cornett and wife Jean, and her youngest son. Brian Cor­nett. She is also survived by grandchildren Ryan, AJ. and Colin Roessler, Fenix Cornett, Ross, Ava and Piper Cornett and special niece, Darlene Barber.

A memorial service will be held at the Salado United Methodist Church 10:30 a.m. June 30.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Salado Education Foundation, P.O. Box 771, Salado, TX 76571.

Thelma Bevers services held May 3 In Salado

Services for Thelma Jean Bevers, 76, of Salado, were held May 3 at First Baptist Church in Salado, with Rev. Randy Carder officiating. Burial followed in Salado Cem­etery.

Bevers died May 1, 2005 in a Temple hospital.

She was born in Odessa to Joseph Robertson Al­dridge and Katie Boland Aldridge. She married Tommy Bevers on July 18, 1953 in Odessa. Bev­ers had been a resident of Salado for the past seven years. Prior to her retire­ment, she was employed as a legal secretary and was a member of First Baptist Church of Salado.

Survivors include her husband, Tommy Bevers, of Salado; two sons, Steve Bevers, of Houston, and Bruce Bevers, of Clanton, AL; one daughter, Katie Nichols, of Carlsbad, NM; and seven grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Scott & White medi­cal research for diabetes,
2401 S. 31st St., Temple, TX 76508.

Thomson passes away March 9

Russell Thomson, of Salado, passed away in his home March 9, 2005.

Originally from Ball­inger. TX, he lived in Rockport for 27 years. He worked as a micropaleontologist for Exxon-Mobile for 30 years.

He is survived by his wife, Betty Miller Thom­son; stepson Jim Spillers; ten grandchildren, Shan­non Nix, James, Clayton, Ashlea, Parker, Spencer, Seth, Forrest, Colby and Hudson Spillers, all of West Monroe, LA; and one great-grandchild, Alyssa Nix.

Sheffield Funeral Home in Temple was in charge of arrangement. There were no services; the body was cremated.

Roy O. Cowan passes away March 11

Roy O. Cowan, 80, of Belton died March 11, 2005 in a Temple hospital.

Graveside services were held March 14 at North Belton Cemetery with Rev. Bobby Baggett officiating.

Cowan was born to Marvin and Lura Sand­erford Cowan in Artesia, New Mexico, Sept. 25, 1924. He was a lifelong resident of Belton. He married Susie N. Bradford in Belton on August 6, 1943. He was U.S. Army veteran of WWII, serving with the First Camry Division in the South Pacific Prior to his retirement in 1985, be was the Texaco consignee in Belton. Cowan was a member of the First Un­tied Methodist Church in Belton.

Survivors include his wife, Susie Cowan of Belton; one son Steve Cowan of Belton, four grandchildren and one great grandchild. He was preceded in death by his daughter Pam Lee in 1988.

Memorials are requested to be sent to First United Methodist Church, 205 E. 3rd Ave. Belton, TX 76513.

Heartfield Funeral Home in Belton was in charge of arrangements.

Patricia Fulford passed away March 7

Patricia M. Fulford, 61, of Salado, died in a Temple hospital March 7, 2005.

Funeral services were held March 11, at the Heartficld Funeral Home in Bellon with Rev. Billy Johnson and Rev. Joe Bentley officiating. Burial followed at the Salado Cemetery.

Patricia Fulford was born to R.B. and Laverne Tish McCauley Green in McAlester, Oklahoma on March 12, 1943. She married Bobby Fulford in Fort Worth on Aug. 4, 1969. She had been a resi­dent of Salado since 1972. She was employed as a postal clerk at the Salado Post office for 28 years.

Survivor include her husband Bobby Fulford of Salado; one son; Michael Chris Fulford, of Temple; one daughter. Lisa Mi­chelle Laird, of Salado: one brother. Darrell Wayne Green. of Mala­koff; and three grandchil­dren.

Memorials may be made to the Cancer Treat­ment Centers of Ameri­ca, 2520 Elisha Avenue, Zion, Illinois. 60099.

Heart field Funeral Home in Belton is in charge of arrangements.

Institute founder Harry Wilmer passes away

Dr. Harry Wilmer II, founder of the Institute for Humanities at Salado, passed away March 13, 2005 at the age of 88. A Jungian analyst, Dr. Wilmer introduced the practice of group therapy in North America.

He and his wife of 60 years, Jane, called Salado home for more than three decades. Salado old timers may remember how Harry would play golf at Mill Creek, with a fishing pole in his bag just in case he saw a nice spot to stop along the banks of Salado Creek to fish and sit and reflect. QC Kinetix is a regenerative medicine and pain clinic in Winston-Salem, NC. We offer non-surgical therapy for individuals dealing with various types of musculoskeletal pain, such as knee pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, sciatic nerve pain, arthritis, and other conditions. Pain in the arch of the foot can handle neatly only by professionals.  Our board-certified medical staff can provide you with advanced regenerative medicine solutions such as stem cell therapy via BMAC, PRP injections, A2M therapy, and other treatment programs for a rejuvenating experience proven to vastly improve our patients’ quality of life. With so many regenerative medicine therapies available, we make sure to discuss each option with our patients. While not all of our patients can be candidates for all treatments, our team will conduct a thorough assessment and guide you to make the most appropriate decisions regarding your condition.

His quiet sanctuary in the village of Salado led to a prolific career of writing hundreds of papers and articles and 15 books.

Dr. Wilmer’s quiet impact on the character of the village has spanned decades in his founding, directing and leading the Institute for Humanities at Salado, which is in its 25th year of existence.

Yet, Dr. Wilmer had a measurable impact on the field or psychiatry, begin­ning in the 1960s.

Dr. Wilmer introduced the practice of group ther­apy to North America at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland, CA. His book, Social Psychiatry in Action, was made into the 1961 Emmy-nominated TV docudrama “People Need People.”

Dr. Wilmer explored new avenues of prison reform as a consultant to the California state prison system in the mid 1960s. As professor of Psychia­try at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, he created the Youth Drug Ward, an innovative group therapy to help the drug casualties of the Haight Ashbury, utilizing the emerging technology of videotape.

Dr. Wilmer moved away from his Freudian roots in the late 1960s to became a Jungian analyst. He became professor of Psychiatry at the Uni­versity of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, where he cre­ated one of the first videos for the training of AIDS patient caregivers, as well as studying the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Dis-order in Vietnam veterans, assisting their recovery by listening to and analyzing the dreams and nightmares that haunted them. While there, he also founded and directed four annual International Film Festivals that brought in speakers from around the world to discuss medical and human issues.

When be retired from the University of Texas, Dr. Wilmer founded the Institute for the Humanities at Salado, bringing together many of the nation’s brightest educa­tors, artists and scholars, including many Nobel laureates to lecture and conduct workshops.

The Institute sympo­sium on Facing Evil was the basis of a Bill Moyers’ PBS program of the same name.

Among the speakers coming to Salado to participate in the Insitute lecture series during Dr. Wilmers’ 17 years as its director are names such as Barbara Jordan, Lee Marvin, Lunus pauling, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Robert Bly, Rollo May, Maya Angelou, John K. Galbrith, M. Scott Peck, Liz Carpenter, and Huston Smith.

The Institute for the Humanities gained a national reputation for its work under the direction of Dr. Wilmer who served as its director for 17 years. Even after his retirements from that position, he was a driving force in its continued success.

Some of his books include: How Dreams Help, Nuts and Bolts of Jungian Psychotherapy, Understandable Jung- The Personal Side of Jungian Psychology, and Huber the Tuber.

Dr. Wilmer graduated from the University of Minnesota, from which he earned BA, MB, Ph.D, and M.D. in degrees. He trained in psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic where he was also on the staff. He also has been on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University, Stanford, and the University of California, where he was professor of psychiatry before coming to Texas. He received his Jungian analyst training in Zurich on a Guggenheim Fellowship from 1955-57, he served as a Captain in the U.S. Navy, assigned to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland California and the National Naval Medical Research Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Wilmer was preceded in death by her sister Melanie Rosenbaum and a son, Harry A. Wilmer III. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Jane Harris Wilmer and children: John Wilmer, of San Francisco, Tom and Beth Wilmer, of Morro Bay, Calif., Jim and Linda Wilmer, of Seattle, Mary Wilmer Mills, of Los Altos, Calif., and daughter-in-Jaw Lynn Wilmer, of Dallas. He is also survived by five grandchildren and four step grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, donations are requested to be directed to The Institute for the Humani­ties at Salado, PO Box 537, Salado, TX 76571 or to VistaCare Hospice in Temple.

A public memorial service will be held June 4, the day before the Harry Wilmer III Lecture.

Details will be forthcom­ing.

Harper-Talasek Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.