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Services for Olivia Villanueva will be held at 2pm Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at Brownfield Funeral Home with Ricky Tapia officiating. A family visitation will be held from 5pm to 7pm Monday, May 10, 2021 at Brownfield Funeral Home. Olivia was born on June 3, 1938 in Poteet, TX to Reyes and Sara Alcorta. She married Isidro Villanueva in Brownfield. Olivia was a good daughter, sister who loved her family with all of her heart. In her free time, she loved to go fishing. Olivia is preceded in death by her husband Isidro Villanueva; son, Raymundo Hernandez; parents, Reyes and Sara Alcorta; four sisters and five brothers. Olivia is survived by sister, Sara Tapia and husband Juan; brother Chris Alcorta; three grandchildren, Olivia, Coral, and Raul.
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Margie “Louise” Daughrity Sears, 95, of Brownfield passed away peacefully on May 6, 2021 at Covenant Medical Center. A viewing and visitation will on Monday, May 10, 2021 from 10am to 11:30 at Brownfield Funeral Home. A memorial service will be scheduled at a later date. Louise was born on June 17, 1925 in Marietta, Oklahoma to Ambrose Powell and Maud Daughrity. She was the youngest of 8 children. The family moved to Terry County in December of 1928, settling in the Gomez Community. Louise met Odell Sears, the love of her life, at Gomez. She attended the Gomez schools until she transferred to Brownfield Schools in her Junior year. She graduated in May 1942. Louise joined the Gomez Baptist Church in 1938 and was baptized in a stock tank. In 1943, she and her mom moved to town, and Louise began a career as a buyer for Latham’s Department Store and worked for Collins Department Store. Later during WWII, she worked in California at the Kaiser Shipyard. Odell returned from Europe in 1945 after WWII ended and they married on December 15, 1945. She and Odell began a life in Brownfield. In 1975 they bought Copeland Hardware and it became Sears-Copeland Hardware. They rebuilt the store after a fire in 1983 and renamed it Odell’s. They retired and closed the store in January of 1991. They had two children, Joe Sears and Susan Sears-Roberts. Their life was each other, their children, work, the First Baptist Church and Texas Tech Men’s basketball. Louise started teaching Sunday School at First Baptist Church in 1950, was a lifelong Democrat, served on the PTA and Terry County Historical Commission, and was a season ticket holder for 60 years of the men’s Texas Tech University basketball. Preceding Louise into heaven is her husband of 69 years, Odell; parents; brother; sisters and Odell’s 3 brothers. Louise is survived by her son, Joe Sears of Brownfield; daughter, Susan Roberts and husband Chris of Lubbock; Step-granddaughter, Alison Henry and husband Aaron; step-great-grandson, Ethan of Mobile, Alabama; many nieces and nephews from both sides of the family and many friends. A special thank you to Dr. Monzer Attar, a close family friend and her physician for many years. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to the Brownfield First Baptist Church at 219 W. Main Street, Brownfield, TX 79316, The Terry County Cemetery Association at 500 W. Main Street Room 104, Brownfield, TX 79316 or Morris Safe House Dog Rescue at 3240 Nightingale Road, Lubbock, TX 79407
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Poultry prices, especially prices for chicken breasts, have skyrocketed due to surging demand, tighter supplies and a transitioning supply chain, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.
Read moreU.S. President Joe Biden’s American Families Plan includes potential tax increases for agriculture.
Read moreProperty owners who disagree with the Terry County Appraisal District’s appraisal of their property for local taxes or for any other action that adversely affects them may protest their property value to the appraisal district’s Appraisal Review Board (ARB).
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It was not the beginning the Brownfield baseball team wanted when it hosted Tornillo in the first game of the Class 3A Bi-District round of playoffs. The two teams agreed to play a home and home best of threegame series, and Brownfield hosted on Thursday night, May 6. After six innings, the Cubs fell 15-2 and trail 1-0 to Tornillo. They will look to even the series on Saturday, May at Tornillo and possibly force a deciding game three later on the same day.
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