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Links to Recent Obituaries of Poly Parrots
Note: Obituaries are listed by decade, with the most recent at the top of the list. For other fallen classmates, go to the DECEASED page and search for your year.

1920's & 1930'S 1940'S 1950'S
Mary Helen Jones - 1938
Frances Fay Holden Hall - 1938
Judson Arnold "Jud" Cramer - 1939
John H. Potthoff - 1938
Francis Lucille Hostetter - 1938
Walter Farris Martin - 1935
Rachel Jane Barber - 1939
Margaret Elizabeth Boteler Metcalfe - 1939
C. L. Turner - 1935
L. D. Lewis - 1939
Louis John Hilscher - 1934
Mattie Lee Crowley Lawrence - 1939
Ruth Martel Barton - 1928
Opal Evelyn Elder Patterson - 1939
Lucile Trent Montgomery - 1935
Hallye E. Johnson Schwier - 1930
Sargent Hill - 1938
Mary Elizabeth Jordan Smith - 1938
Stephen B. Dunkelberg - 1947
Cleston "C.E." Stell - 1944
Barbara Dean Tharp Glosup - 1949
Earline Packwood Tucker - 1943
Eva Colleen Brown Zentell - 1946
Jack Garrett - 1941
Eva Lois Cochran Hoffman - 1940
Jessie Mae Hays Davenport - 1947
Harold Thomas Cluck - 1941
Lloyd Slawson - 1944
Thomas Earl Henderson - 1944
Billy Young Parker - 1948
Mary Jean Parker Knight - 1941
Gloria Belle Maxwell - 1945
Verna Lee Perkins - 1948
Alvin Langford - 1949
Eloise K. Wyatt - 1941
Martha Mae Nolen Jones - 1941
Albert Glenn McDowell - 1945
Herbert "Herb" Kee - 1949
Joe Earl Cromer - 1949
Robert Jean Troutt - 1948
James Lawrence Wood - 1941
Paul Wendell Reed - 1947
Charles Clayton Gilmer, Sr. - 1949
A. David Zuefeldt - 1946
Milton Pressler Oswalt, Jr. - 1949
James "Jay" Lawrence - 1949
Marvin Padgett - 1949
Robert Carter - 1945
David Edward Mason - 1948
Pat Kelly Barnett - 1947
Rojean Gay Boteler - 1948
Walter Clay Dixson - 1943
Patsy Jean Rogers Pritchard - 1947
Warren Earl Bodiford - 1949
Douglas Grady Cooper - 1941
Dr. John L. Harper - 1941
Patricia Ruth Pierson Stell - 1949
Billy Young Parker - 1948
Bill Paxton - 1941
Jeanette Norton Williams-Warriner - 1940
Carl W. "Bill" Buckman - 1947
William "Bill" Davis, Jr. - 1949
Betty Jo Tyson Middleton - 1947
Jacqueline Ferris Baker - 1949
Wanda Marie Rufner Page - 1948
Sidney Eckstein - 1949
Melba McLaughlin Wright - 1945
Clayton Culp - 1942
Morris Milton Tuggle - 1949
Floyd "Doc" Keen - 1942
June Miller McClung - 1942
Marian Scarborough Massey - 1949
Makacha Ann McCray Tucker Rossignoli - 1949
Alfred Bailey Nichols - 1948
Ray F. Rhodes - 1942
Dr. Yandall Clark Woodfin III - 1945
Billie Marie Malone - 1945
Jesse Lee Croxdale - 1940
James Francis "Jim" Grace, Jr. - 1948
Billie Irene Bukowski - 1945
Elizabeth Latshaw Allen Crawford - 1941
Glenn L. Cleaver - 1943
Don Wayne Boston - 1945
Martha Elizabeth Holt Huffstetler - 1943
Noel Echols Cox - 1948
Evelyn Marie Turner Atkinson - 1945
Virginia Ann Coffee Gidley - 1948
Daisie Lometa Garrett White - 1944
Louis Edwin Nabors - 1943
Dr. R. Donald Smith - 1944
Mary Ellen Huck Carmichael - 1942
Hilda Wagner Emmick - 1941
Clifford Arthur Taylor, Jr. - 1945
Bonnie Nell Keney Bradshaw - 1945
Mary Helen Henderson - 1941
Emogene J. Lawson Little - 1942
John Edward Lutz, III - 1949
Ray W. Wheeler - 1945
Herbert Arden Owens, Jr. - 1948
James Forrest "Jimmy" Park - 1948
Betty Jo Cannon - 1943
Clovis Wanzene Carmichael O'Connell - 1943
Rady G. McCormack - 1948
Bobbie Toal Dear - 1940
Dixie Dell Story Bradford - 1947
William Hardie Hay - 1951
Shirley Dixon Wilbanks - 1951
Betty J. Miller Norris - 1953
Irene Lawlis Owens - 1953
Nona Gail Jeffreys Shannon - 1953
Stephen Alan Wakefield - 1958
Joe William Abbott, Jr. - 1955
Bob D. Davis - 1953
Lester R. Bruner - 1953
Donnie B. McKennon - 1956
Anita Louise Hess Tippett - 1958
Gary Gene Wall - 1959
Janice Elaine Blair Weeks - 1956
James Arch Kilmer, Jr. - 1952
Annette Morgan McCollough - 1953
Alyce Mays Barnes - 1956
Don Strealy - 1954
John Joseph Biondi, Jr. - 1952
Beverly June Nelson McCauley - 1956
Danny Charles Simonton - 1959
Bill Zed Brock - 1954
Patricia Helen Wilson Falk - 1953
Richard McDuff - 1959
Teddy Lawrence "Ted" Riley - 1953
Billy Gene Baker - 1950
Mary Lee Fowler Harrell - 1951
Joyce Ann McLamore Wright - 1955
Robert Howard "Bo" Powell - 1955
Joe Gordon Huffman, Jr. - 1958
Max Elbert Kee - 1953
Dale Lynn Wilson Kiper - 1959
Martin "Pat" Patterson - 1950
Robert Harvey "Bob" Burke - 1956
Johnnie Betts - 1953
Glen David Montgomery - 1953
Patricia Ann Mays Justice - 1958
George E. Gunter, Jr. - 1954
Estha Louise Roberts Talley - 1955
Roger C. Hartung - 1955
Billie Louise Mitcham Polson - 1953
Dorothy Johnson "Anne" Hyde - 1950
Robert Wayne Groom - 1955
Lois Mozell Swaim Tatum - 1950
Mary Ann Fowler Boles - 1956
Mike Ferrell - 1959
Linda-Carole Clark Deere - 1959
Charles Lynwood McCauley - 1954
Betty June Buchanan Martin - 1953
Charles Richard Boston - 1950
Larry L. Stanfield - 1957
David Dunnagan - 1955
Charles Hirst Pearson - 1956
Robert Barton McCans - 1957
Cheryll Lea Brown Steele - 1957
Dorthy Jean Braswell Burke - 1957
Roscoe Conklin Ham, Jr. - 1952
Patricia Ann Cooper Driver - 1954
Richard "Ric" Ruby - 1959
Joe K. Dugger - 1952
Alf Landon "Lanny" Ham - 1954
L. Brent Watson - 1954
Rose Marie Westmoreland - 1952
Patricia Jane "P.J." Savage Crayton - 1957
David Robert Newell - 1958
Shirley Anne Caywood - 1952
Dr. Richard "Dick" O'Neal - 1953
Patricia "Pat" Hagler Renfro - 1955
William Dickson Barnett, Jr. - 1950
Rayanne Pinkerton Moseley - 1958
Rex Hill - 1955
1960'S 1970'S 1980'S
John Bentley - 1961
Rita Rhodes Panzera - 1965
D. Wiley Whitten, Jr. - 1963
Sandy Eakins - 1966
Heleodoro Joe "YoYo" Gonzalez - 1965
Colleen Colton - -1965
Jerry J. Blackwell - 1961
Mary Jo Howell Glasson - 1964
James William Harvey, Jr. - 1960
Donald Bounds - 1966
Georgia Carol Chasten DeBevoise - 1964
Rennie J. Mitchell - 1969
Rand Bailey Roach - 1964
Dave Braswell - 1964
Tommy Summers - 1965
Lynda Carol Baker Overstreet - 1960
Pam LeFan Hurd - 1969
Jerry Wayne Cassidy - 1960
Harold "Pops" Moore - 1965
Eileen Perrin White - 1965
Gary McCarley - 1965
Jerald Anthony Floyd - 1960
Michael Andrew Dodson - 1960
Gerald Wayne Dyson - 1960
John Lewis Bigler, III - 1964
Wilma Jean Moore Elliot - 1965
Calvin E. Wallace - 1968
Jay Michael Palmer - 1965
Floyd Eugene Moon - 1962
Thurburn Dale Key - 1963
James Allan Werner - 1966
Judy Carol Harris McGriff - 1964
Debbie Jarrett Cooper - 1969
Gwen Sargent Groze - 1965
Larry Kelly - 1965
Keith Huffman - 1965
Brenda Gale Treadway Rhue - 1965
Daniel R. Gonzalez - 1969
Nona Margaret Greever Story - 1966
Joseph Brinton Harris, Jr. - 1966
Don McCall - 1962
Betty Jane Evans Mosley - 1966
Barbara Bishop Cantrell - 1965
Terry Randall Nixon - 1962
Thomas P. Hoote II - 1965
Gary M. McGee - 1963
Bobby Joe Goode - 1966
George W. McGee, Jr. - 1960
Larry Stephen Wren - 1960
Joyce Ann Martin Broyles-Jackson - 1960
Patsy Landon Hooks - 1967
Malcolm Jack "Mac" Thomas - 1969
Susan Candace Wilhite Moses- 1968
Diana Carrol Brown - 1966
Ellen Rae Fish - 1966
Doug Tunnell - 1968
Pamela Faye Loar - 1967
Marsha Land Morris - 1965
LaDonna Marie Smothers - 1972
Arthur Robert "Barney" Schmitt - 1970
Lucian Chavez, Jr. - 1970
Stephanie Reniker Robertson - 1972
James Benoit - 1970
Ingrid Elaine Williams Plummer - 1975
Graylin Delon Smith - 1974
 
1990'S 2000'S FACULTY AND STAFF
    A. B. Truitt - Principal 1967-1978
James Corbett Miles - Teacher

Evelyn Martel
1904 - 2010

Evalyn Martel passed away Monday, March 15, 2010, a day after her 106th birthday in Dallas. Graveside service: Private in Greenwood Memorial Park.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to the charity of your choice in Evalyn's name.

Evalyn was born March 14, 1904, in Fort Worth to Eva Mae Haddix and William Benjamin Martel. She attended Central High School in Fort Worh, Texas Wesleyan College, and received her M.A. degree from Southern Methodist University. She taught school in Fort Worth at Sagamore Hill School and at Polytechnic High School where she remained for 43 years. She taught English, Spanish and French, was the dean of girls, and retired as Vice Principal in 1969


Evalyn was much lovd by her family. She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Maurine Martel, Maude Martel Ruff and Frances Martel Hale; and her beloved nieces, Elaine Irby Farrell, Ann Ruff and Jenny Ruff.

Survivors: Sister, Ruth Martel Barton; six nieces and nephews and their families, Dr. Fritz E. Barton Jr. and his wife, Barbara, Martel Ruff, Bailey and Connie Ruff, Kathleen Ruff and Bill McKinney, Hazael Hale Taylor, and Gayle Hale and Walt Bradburn; special great-nieces and great-nephews in the Barton family, with whom she lived most of her life, Kelly Barton and Steve Valenta and family, Fritz III and Jennifer Barton, Lisa Irby and Mark Edick and family, Bart and Michelle Irby and family; and numerous other great-nieces and great-nephews.


Contributed by: Marjorie Foreman