Freddie Ross

FUNERAL SERVICES: 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, November 21, 2012, at Comanche Funeral Home Chapel. BURIAL: Newburg Cemetery in Comanche County. VISITATION: 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Tuesday evening. LUNCH: Family will have lunch at First Baptist Church at 12:00 Noon on Wednesday. MEMORIALS: First Baptist Church, 407 N. Houston, Comanche, Texas 76442; or Veterans of Foreign Wars, 2300 Stephen F. Austin Avenue, Brownwood, Texas 76801. Freddie Freeman Ross, age 88, passed away on Monday, November 19, 2012, in Comanche, Texas. He was born on January 29, 1924, in Comanche, to Tula Calvin and Mauda (Farrar) Ross. On June 6, 1942, Freddie married Mary Ruth Hicks in Comanche County and to this union was born two daughters, Sherian Ross, and Pamela Ross Bates. He was a WWII veteran, serving in the Battle of the Bulge, Remagen, Rhineland and Ruhr Pocket in Germany. During his lifetime he owned a dairy, farmed, ranched, worked for Gulf and Chevron, and in 1957 he founded Ross Petroleum in Comanche. Freddie was a devoted husband, father and grandfather and loved showing his grandchildren his cows and tractor. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Comanche. He is survived by his two daughters, Sherian Ross of Comanche and Pamela Ross Bates and husband Eugene Bates of Comanche; four grandsons, Kenneth Fisher and wife Rebecca, Kevin Fisher and wife Angela, Justin Bates and wife Amber, and Jarrett Bates and wife Alyssa; one granddaughter, Kriss Hirsch and husband Otto; seven great-grandsons and six great-granddaughters; one great-great-grandson and one great-great-granddaughter; and one sister, Wanda Curbo. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Ruth Ross; his parents, Tula Calvin and Mauda Ross; two brothers and two sisters.