Obituaries

It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of our beloved wife, mother and grammy, Rosa Waters Garcia, who went to be with her Lord and Savior on Dec.2. Praying of the Most Holy Rosary and Mass were held on Saturday, Dec.

A memorial service in honor of Joseph Alexander Osborne will be held at First Baptist Church Alpine’s fellowship hall on Thursday, Dec. 22, at 4 p.m.

Dorothy Mai Leavitt, 92, of Pilot Point, Texas passed away Friday, Nov. 25.

Angelita Torres, 86, of Alpine passed away on Nov. 30, in Alpine.

It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of Rosa Waters Garcia, who went to be with her Lord & Savior, Dec. 2.

Joseph “JD” Alexander Osborne has moved to his permanent home, in Jesus’ arms, in Heaven. Joseph left on angel’s wings Saturday morning, Nov. 26, from Bell County, Texas, leaving behind his grieving family and friends.

Dr. Dan Mitchell Petrosky, Sr.

Wilmuth McCarty Skiles, 91, of Langtry and Midland, passed away on Nov. 20. Wilmuth was born in 1931 in Mertzon, to Tillman and Ruby Rosser McCarty and lived her childhood at Mertzon. Following high school graduation, she attended Sul Ross State University where she met Jack Skiles, of Langtry. They married on Sept. 1, 1951, in Mertzon. She obtained a B.S. degree in 1952 and an M.A. degree in 1958.

Dorothy “Dottie” Hocker Smith died peacefully in her home in Alpine on Saturday, Nov. 12 after a long battle with ALS. She was surrounded by her family and her loving caregivers. Born April 4, 1943, to Walter and Pansy Hocker in Corpus Christi, she graduated from Irvin High School in El Paso before enrolling at Sul Ross State College in Alpine. At Sul Ross, she met her future husband, Milton R. Smith, Jr of Alpine and they married in May of 1963. Together they moved to College Station where Milton attended graduate school at Texas A&M, and Dottie enrolled to continue her undergraduate studies.

Born on March 28, 1927, in Oberlin, La, Julie grew up in Eunice, La, where she was the oldest of 11. Julie passed away Nov. 1. She played basketball and sewed for her family. At the age of 21, she moved to Houston, where she taught dance lessons at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio. One of her students became the love of her life and she would marry Tom Knight in 1951. They lived in several places before settling in Pearland to raise their three children.