Obituaries

1934-2023 Dessie (Melton) Melsted was born on January 21, 1934 in Howe, Texas. She She had an incredible sense of character, integrity and wit.

Melba Gloria Yankovich, of Sherman, passed away peacefully Tuesday, Feb. 14 after a brief illness.

1937-2023 Roy Lee Bass, 85, entered into eternal life Thursday, February 9, 2023, at Texoma Medical Center in Denison. Mr.

1929-2023 Jean Hughes of Pottsboro, TX, passed away peacefully on Monday, February 13, 2023, at Texoma Medical Center surrounded by her family. Jean was born on November 9, 1929, in Hagerman, Texas to parents, Howard and Opal Seat-Shires.

Billy Louese Hudgins, 92, former Whitesboro and Gainesville resident, died Sunday, February 12, 2023 at Brookdale Willows Assisted Living & Memory Care in Sherman, TX. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Joseph Patrick Reirdon died peacefully on February 11, 2023, in Durant, Oklahoma. Joe was the twin son of Jack Joseph Reirdon and LoRene Taliaferro Reirdon of Durant.

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Dr. John David “Buzz” Gebhard, periodontist, gardener, amateur forester and meteorologist, honorary admiral in the Texas Navy, husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and cousin passed away on February 9, 2023, surrounded by family after a brief illness. Buzz was born in Des Moines, IA to John and Esther, joining his older sister Joan. When he started to crawl, Joan proclaimed he looked like her toy Buzzy Bee, and the name stuck for the rest of his life. The family moved to Dallas and was joined by younger siblings, Bob, Bill, and Mary. The family returned to Iowa yearly and formed strong bonds with the Iowa family which continue to this day. In Dallas, Buzz attended St. Pius X Catholic School and Bishop Lynch High School. In 1969, he started at the University of Texas at Austin. In Austin, he met his future wife, Becky Boer, and won her over with his unique worldview, love of bizarre trivia, scruffy red beard and long hippie hair, and quiet fishing trips. One of their first dates was to a Vietnam War protest on the UT campus, soon after the bombing of Cambodia became public. The two married in 1973 and moved to Houston where he attended dental school at the UT-Houston Dental Branch. After dental school, Buzz matriculated to what was then Baylor College of Dentistry for post-graduate work in periodontics. The couple and a new baby moved to Sherman in 1979 so he could open the practice that he ran for 43 years. He was dedicated to the oral health of his patients, working right up until the day he had emergency surgery in mid-December and became too ill to return. He loved the patients he was privileged to serve. His patients tell fond stories of the songs he would sing (often original, hilarious, and mildly inappropriate parodies) and the stories he would tell as he worked with their mouths agape, unable to respond (but he still picked up many great stories and bits of trivia from his patients). Many of his stories were about his four intelligent, hilarious

William C. Gordon age 75, of Colbert, OK ascended to his eternal home Monday, February 6th at Plano Medical Center following a short illness.

1951-2023 Mary Ann Hamilton, age 71, of Denison, TX lost her long battle with cancer on February 12th, 2023. Mary was born on July 28th, 1951, to A.C.