Ed Sires

Funeral services for Ed Sires, age 79, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home Chapel, at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, May 29, 2008, with Brother Charles Rawlinson and Brother Sammie Porter officiating. Interment will follow at Cumby Cemetery , with Landon Self, Tony Gene Smith, Michael Howard, Jerry Maynard, Johnny Maynard and Sonny Pennington serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Hopkins County Memorial Hospice. Visitation will be 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 28, 2008, at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home.

Ed Sires passed away at his residence, Tuesday Morning, May 27, 2008. He was born in Fannin County , on November 24, 1928, the son of Merritt and Hattie Gill Sires. He married Mandy Wood. She preceded him in death in 1992. He then married Patsy Hadaway in 1994; she survives. Mr. Sires was retired from Rockwell Collins. He served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict.

Other survivors include: two sons, Robert Sires and wife, Judy, and Michael Gene Hadaway, both of Sulphur Springs; four grandchildren, Hope Hadaway, Casie Norris, Dana Self and Toby Sires, 24 step-grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by son, Jerry Hadaway; two brothers, Giles Sires and Sammie Sires; one sister, Ruth Sires and one infant grandson.