Julie Banks Smith, 51, of Early, passed away Sunday, January 31, 2021. A Celebration of her life will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, February 6, 2021 in the Heartland Funeral Home Chapel. The family has requested that masks be worn and social distancing be observed for everyone’s safety.
Julie was born November 19, 1969 in Brownwood to John and Sandy Banks. She graduated as valedictorian from Blanket High School in 1987 and received an Associate degree from Cisco Junior college in computers. Julie spent the last 15 years working as the office manager of Longhorn Auto Sales for the best boss, Glen Smith. She was a very active mother throughout her daughters lives. She came to everything and anything they got involved in, ball games, music performances. She could always be found cheering for her daughters in their accomplishments. Julie enjoyed spending time in the garden with her flowers, collecting Pioneer Woman kitchenware, sitting on her parents porch drinking coffee and watching
A graveside funeral service for Gerald Tunnell, age 85, of Blanket, will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, January 23, 2021 in the Blanket Cemetery, under the direction of Heartland Funeral Home. The family will receive friends at the Blanket First United Methodist Church from 10:00 AM until 1:30 PM on Saturday.
Gerald was born Bobby Gerald Tunnell in Blanket, Texas on August 17, 1935, in the living room of his grandparents’ home, to Raymond Delbert & Rhoda Letrice Eoff Tunnell. He was the eldest of their three children and became a lifelong resident of Blanket; living all 85 years in Blanket and having lived the last 26 years on the Tunnell family homeplace his grandparents settled on in 1875.