Irene Mary Sikes, 91, passed away April 27, 2017, in Cortez, Colorado. Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m., May 7, 2017, at the funeral home. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., May 8, 2017, at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery.
Irene was born in Riomedina, Texas, to the late Joseph Benjamin F. Sittre and Josephine Karm Sittre. Irene married Odis Robert Sikes on January 25, 1949, and was a homemaker raising their children. She worked for Hagger Slacks during the mid-1960s and went back to school to receive her GED and then went to nursing school at Navarro College and worked as a nurse in private home care and at the Leisure Lodge Nursing Home.
She was preceded in death by her husband Odis Robert Sikes Sr.; brothers: Jacob Sittre, Robert Sittre, and Walter Sittre; and sister, Marguerite Todd.
Survivors include her sons, Odis Robert Sikes Jr., of Yellow Jacket, CO, and Billy Mack Sikes and wife, Deborah, of Corsicana; grandchildren: Kristina Inabinet, Kimberly Hutchins, Mary Matteson Sikes, Jordan Kaiser, Joshua Sikes, Matthew Sikes, and Sophia Gray; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and extended family members. L5
Irene was born in Riomedina, Texas, to the late Joseph Benjamin F. Sittre and Josephine Karm Sittre. Irene married Odis Robert Sikes on January 25, 1949, and was a homemaker raising their children. She worked for Hagger Slacks during the mid-1960s and went back to school to receive her GED and then went to nursing school at Navarro College and worked as a nurse in private home care and at the Leisure Lodge Nursing Home.
She was preceded in death by her husband Odis Robert Sikes Sr.; brothers: Jacob Sittre, Robert Sittre, and Walter Sittre; and sister, Marguerite Todd.
Survivors include her sons, Odis Robert Sikes Jr., of Yellow Jacket, CO, and Billy Mack Sikes and wife, Deborah, of Corsicana; grandchildren: Kristina Inabinet, Kimberly Hutchins, Mary Matteson Sikes, Jordan Kaiser, Joshua Sikes, Matthew Sikes, and Sophia Gray; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and extended family members. L5
Irene Mary Sikes, 91, passed away April 27, 2017, in Cortez, Colorado. Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m., May 7, 2017, at the funeral home. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., May 8, 2017, at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery.
Irene was born in Riomedina, Texas, to the late Joseph Benjamin F. Sittre and Josephine Karm Sittre. Irene married Odis Robert Sikes on January 25, 1949, and was a homemaker raising their children. She worked for Hagger Slacks during the mid-1960s and went back to school to receive her GED and then went to nursing school at Navarro College and worked as a nurse in private home care and at the Leisure Lodge Nursing Home.
She was preceded in death by her husband Odis Robert Sikes Sr.; brothers: Jacob Sittre, Robert Sittre, and Walter Sittre; and sister, Marguerite Todd.
Survivors include her sons, Odis Robert Sikes Jr., of Yellow Jacket, CO, and Billy Mack Sikes and wife, Deborah, of Corsicana; grandchildren: Kristina Inabinet, Kimberly Hutchins, Mary Matteson Sikes, Jordan Kaiser, Joshua Sikes, Matthew Sikes, and Sophia Gray; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and extended family members. L5
Irene was born in Riomedina, Texas, to the late Joseph Benjamin F. Sittre and Josephine Karm Sittre. Irene married Odis Robert Sikes on January 25, 1949, and was a homemaker raising their children. She worked for Hagger Slacks during the mid-1960s and went back to school to receive her GED and then went to nursing school at Navarro College and worked as a nurse in private home care and at the Leisure Lodge Nursing Home.
She was preceded in death by her husband Odis Robert Sikes Sr.; brothers: Jacob Sittre, Robert Sittre, and Walter Sittre; and sister, Marguerite Todd.
Survivors include her sons, Odis Robert Sikes Jr., of Yellow Jacket, CO, and Billy Mack Sikes and wife, Deborah, of Corsicana; grandchildren: Kristina Inabinet, Kimberly Hutchins, Mary Matteson Sikes, Jordan Kaiser, Joshua Sikes, Matthew Sikes, and Sophia Gray; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and extended family members. L5
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