ODESSA - Patricia Mae Hayes Franklin, 78, left for her heavenly home on January 14, 2010.
She was born January 4, 1932 at San Angelo, Texas to John H. and Mae Elizabeth Hayes. She graduated from high school in 1950 from San Angelo and attended North Texas State University on a music scholarship. She played the Bassoon for Symphonies in San Angelo, Tyler and El Paso, Texas.
In 1953, she attended a bullfight in Cuidad Acuna with relatives and fell in love with the grace and art of bull fighting. She began her training in Mexico City and took up the art of bull fighting for ten years. She fought in Mexico, Portugal and Equador. She was lauded as one of the best American Matadoras in the world and was known as the Grace Kelly of the Bull Ring because of her blue eyes and blonde hair. She was the only girl to ever appear in a bullring in Lisbon, Portugal during this time period. Then came a triumphant tour of Southern France and North Africa, which made Pat the bull-fighting queen of three continents.
She was a member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Odessa.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Richard Franklin; sisters, Lucille Farmer of Andrews, Doris Anderson of Midland, Florine Hensley of Odessa and Iraan, Dorothy Lowe of Sterling City; and brother, Bill Hayes of El Paso.
She is survived by her sister, Mary Wunderl of San Angelo; nephews, Malcolm Hensley and wife Marie of Odessa, Johnnie Wunderl of San Angelo; nieces, Jo Anna Pope and husband Robert of Marble Falls, Adele Waring of Austin, Sue Sims and husband Senator Bill Sims of San Angelo; and numerous great nieces and nephews, including Rene Burks of Boardman, Ohio, formally of Odessa.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 17, 2010, at Sunset Funeral Home Chapel in Odessa, Texas. Interment will be at 2 p.m. Monday, January 19, 2010 at Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas.
Arrangements are under the direction of Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. To sign the guest book, go to our website at www.sunsetodessa.com
Published in Odessa American from January 17 to January 18, 2010
She was born January 4, 1932 at San Angelo, Texas to John H. and Mae Elizabeth Hayes. She graduated from high school in 1950 from San Angelo and attended North Texas State University on a music scholarship. She played the Bassoon for Symphonies in San Angelo, Tyler and El Paso, Texas.
In 1953, she attended a bullfight in Cuidad Acuna with relatives and fell in love with the grace and art of bull fighting. She began her training in Mexico City and took up the art of bull fighting for ten years. She fought in Mexico, Portugal and Equador. She was lauded as one of the best American Matadoras in the world and was known as the Grace Kelly of the Bull Ring because of her blue eyes and blonde hair. She was the only girl to ever appear in a bullring in Lisbon, Portugal during this time period. Then came a triumphant tour of Southern France and North Africa, which made Pat the bull-fighting queen of three continents.
She was a member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Odessa.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Richard Franklin; sisters, Lucille Farmer of Andrews, Doris Anderson of Midland, Florine Hensley of Odessa and Iraan, Dorothy Lowe of Sterling City; and brother, Bill Hayes of El Paso.
She is survived by her sister, Mary Wunderl of San Angelo; nephews, Malcolm Hensley and wife Marie of Odessa, Johnnie Wunderl of San Angelo; nieces, Jo Anna Pope and husband Robert of Marble Falls, Adele Waring of Austin, Sue Sims and husband Senator Bill Sims of San Angelo; and numerous great nieces and nephews, including Rene Burks of Boardman, Ohio, formally of Odessa.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 17, 2010, at Sunset Funeral Home Chapel in Odessa, Texas. Interment will be at 2 p.m. Monday, January 19, 2010 at Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas.
Arrangements are under the direction of Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. To sign the guest book, go to our website at www.sunsetodessa.com
Published in Odessa American from January 17 to January 18, 2010
ODESSA - Patricia Mae Hayes Franklin, 78, left for her heavenly home on January 14, 2010.
She was born January 4, 1932 at San Angelo, Texas to John H. and Mae Elizabeth Hayes. She graduated from high school in 1950 from San Angelo and attended North Texas State University on a music scholarship. She played the Bassoon for Symphonies in San Angelo, Tyler and El Paso, Texas.
In 1953, she attended a bullfight in Cuidad Acuna with relatives and fell in love with the grace and art of bull fighting. She began her training in Mexico City and took up the art of bull fighting for ten years. She fought in Mexico, Portugal and Equador. She was lauded as one of the best American Matadoras in the world and was known as the Grace Kelly of the Bull Ring because of her blue eyes and blonde hair. She was the only girl to ever appear in a bullring in Lisbon, Portugal during this time period. Then came a triumphant tour of Southern France and North Africa, which made Pat the bull-fighting queen of three continents.
She was a member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Odessa.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Richard Franklin; sisters, Lucille Farmer of Andrews, Doris Anderson of Midland, Florine Hensley of Odessa and Iraan, Dorothy Lowe of Sterling City; and brother, Bill Hayes of El Paso.
She is survived by her sister, Mary Wunderl of San Angelo; nephews, Malcolm Hensley and wife Marie of Odessa, Johnnie Wunderl of San Angelo; nieces, Jo Anna Pope and husband Robert of Marble Falls, Adele Waring of Austin, Sue Sims and husband Senator Bill Sims of San Angelo; and numerous great nieces and nephews, including Rene Burks of Boardman, Ohio, formally of Odessa.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 17, 2010, at Sunset Funeral Home Chapel in Odessa, Texas. Interment will be at 2 p.m. Monday, January 19, 2010 at Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas.
Arrangements are under the direction of Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. To sign the guest book, go to our website at www.sunsetodessa.com
Published in Odessa American from January 17 to January 18, 2010
She was born January 4, 1932 at San Angelo, Texas to John H. and Mae Elizabeth Hayes. She graduated from high school in 1950 from San Angelo and attended North Texas State University on a music scholarship. She played the Bassoon for Symphonies in San Angelo, Tyler and El Paso, Texas.
In 1953, she attended a bullfight in Cuidad Acuna with relatives and fell in love with the grace and art of bull fighting. She began her training in Mexico City and took up the art of bull fighting for ten years. She fought in Mexico, Portugal and Equador. She was lauded as one of the best American Matadoras in the world and was known as the Grace Kelly of the Bull Ring because of her blue eyes and blonde hair. She was the only girl to ever appear in a bullring in Lisbon, Portugal during this time period. Then came a triumphant tour of Southern France and North Africa, which made Pat the bull-fighting queen of three continents.
She was a member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Odessa.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Richard Franklin; sisters, Lucille Farmer of Andrews, Doris Anderson of Midland, Florine Hensley of Odessa and Iraan, Dorothy Lowe of Sterling City; and brother, Bill Hayes of El Paso.
She is survived by her sister, Mary Wunderl of San Angelo; nephews, Malcolm Hensley and wife Marie of Odessa, Johnnie Wunderl of San Angelo; nieces, Jo Anna Pope and husband Robert of Marble Falls, Adele Waring of Austin, Sue Sims and husband Senator Bill Sims of San Angelo; and numerous great nieces and nephews, including Rene Burks of Boardman, Ohio, formally of Odessa.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 17, 2010, at Sunset Funeral Home Chapel in Odessa, Texas. Interment will be at 2 p.m. Monday, January 19, 2010 at Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas.
Arrangements are under the direction of Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. To sign the guest book, go to our website at www.sunsetodessa.com
Published in Odessa American from January 17 to January 18, 2010
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