All Obituaries

Funeral services for SFC (Ret) Gregory B. Smiley, 66, of Killeen, will be at 1:30 p.m. at Harper-Talasek Chapel in Killeen with  Reverend Sung Kim and  Reverend John Hallum officiating. Interment will follow at Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery. Mr. Smiley died January 8, 2020, in a Round Rock hospital.  He was born January 15, 1953, in Birmingham, Alabama. He is survived by his wife, Sonja Smiley of Killeen, Texas.

Services for Doris Norene Edwards, 97, of Killeen, will be Tuesday January 7, 2020 at 10 am at the Killeen Church of Christ, 400 W. S. Young Dr. Killeen, Texas 76543. Interment will follow at Killeen City Cemetery. Doris passed away peacefully at her home on January 2, 2020. Doris was born in Elijah, Texas on October 26, 1922, to Jeff and Margaret Allman. As a child she grew up in the Clear Creek Community and went on to play ladies fastpitch softball for the Killeen City Merchants. Doris...

Wayne Harvey Bacon, Jr., 88, of Killeen passed away December 22, 2019.Visitation will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, December 29, 2019, at Harper-Talasek Funeral Home in Killeen. A graveside service will be held at 11a.m. Monday, December 30, 2019, at Killeen Memorial Parkwith First Baptist Church Associate Pastor Tim McKeown officiating. Harvey was born in Killeen, Texas, on August 31, 1931, to Harvey and Eula Bacon. Until the age of five, he lived on a ranch, three miles from Palo...

Milagros Burgos Rivera was born November 29, 1947, in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Of Jose Burgos Rodriguez and Monserrate Rivera. She married Felix Torres Jr. April 19, 1969. She was a military spouse for 22 years. In May 1988, she started her career in child development field, attended Central Texas College to specialize in the field. She started caring for children at home and later established Tweedy Day Care in Killeen, which she operated until August 2013. Then she moved to Kinderland...

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Herman Sylvester Hawkins passed from this life on December 2, 2019 in Killeen, Texas. A visitation will be held at Harper Talasek Funeral Home from 11-12:30 on December 11, 2019. Funeral service will be held at Harper Talasek Funeral Home chapel at 12:30. Graveside will be held at Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery on December 11, 2019 at 2PM. He was born on June 16, 1948 to Jesse and Bernice Wilson in Birmingham, Alabama. Herman retired from the Military in 1994 then went to work...

Cornelia Jaramillo passed from this life on November 17th, 2019 in the comfort of her own home. Visitation services will be Thursday, November 21, from 6-8pm with a Rosary at 7pm at Harper-Talasek in Killeen. Final visitation 9:30-10:30 funeral services at 11am on Friday, November 22 at St. Joseph Catholic Church with burial to follow at Killeen Memorial Park. Cornelia was born on September 16th, 1936, in Bishop, Texas, to Eugenio and Francisca Salazar. Cornelia was “everybody’s...

Graveside services for Thomas A. Booker, 102, of McKinney, will be at 10:00 a.m. Monday at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Nolanville. Thomas Adrain Booker was born October 7, 1917, in Killeen, Texas. He graduated from Belton High School in 1936 and Texas A&M University in 1940. On August 15, 1940, he married Addie Mozelle Hanna. He became an Ag Teacher for the Holland ISD, then worked in outdoor vocations with great pleasure. Thomas finished his career managing ranches in Kerr County,...