Payne Gap Cemetery Directory

Hazel Revena [Barton] Sikes (1918-2004)

Names Detail

First Name

Hazel

Middle Name

Revena

Maiden Name

Barton

Last Name

Sikes

Birth and Death

Birth Date

May 2, 1918

Death Date

December 18, 2004

Age at Death

86 year(s), 7 month(s), 16 day(s)

Cemetery Location and Disposition

Cemetery Location

Row 06, Grave 12 | Map

Disposition Type

Cremation

Epitaph

Always in our hearts

Relationships to Others at the Cemetery

External Links

Notes

Obituary published in Wise County Messenger, December 23, 2004:

Funeral for Hazel Sikes, 86, of Paradise will be scheduled for a later date. Sikes died Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004, in Bridgeport. Born May 2, 1918, in Goldthwaite to Richard and Josephine (Hunt) Burton, she was a beautician. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gaylord and a daughter, Jo Sikes. She is survived by a daughter, Neva Hetfield; two grandchildren, Angela Quintana and Stacy Kline; three great-grandchildren, Andrea, Sarah and Alex Kline; and three sisters, Vera Hale, Miriam Whipple and Mary Alice Scroggins.

Hazel was married to Gaylord Derwin Sikes (1913-1957), a grocer [from] Odessa. They married on November 17, 1935. He died from a heart attack on February 24, 1957, while on a fishing trip at Lake Walk near Del Rio (Val Verde County, Texas). He is buried at the Odessa Cemetery (Ector County Cemetery), Odessa, Texas.1In a telephone conversation with Neva Sikes Hetfield on 2025-08-21, Neva shared that Gaylord ran a grocery store with his brother in Odessa called Sikes and Sikes Grocery. Gaylord was the butcher and his brother was the grocer.

Hazel passed away in a nursing home in Bridgeport, Texas, on December 18, 2004.

Images and Documents

Portrait
Gaylord Sikes Death Certificate
Gaylord Sikes Obituary, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 26, 1957
Headstone, 2025-07-01

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