Una Hewett

Funeral services are scheduled for 1:30 P.M. Thursday, May 30, 2013 at Grace Community Church for Una Hewett, 84, who passed away on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at Mission Arch Care Center. Pastor Rick Hale of Grace Community Church will be officiating. Burial is scheduled for 1:00 P.M., Friday, May 31, 2013 at Resthaven Memorial Park in Midland, T.X. Mrs. Hewett will lie in state on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M. at Ballard Funeral Home.

From the time she was a little girl to the time she graduated to heaven Una embraced and loved people from every walk of life. She had a heart of gold and a twinkle in her eye and could always make you laugh. Una loved playing practical jokes and was quick to the punch line all through her school years including her years at Texas Tech. The happiest time in her life, other than marrying Buddy, was having and raising her four children. She loved being a mother, raised all her kids in church and raised them all with the example she showed of being a kind and generous person. She also loved being a grandmother and a greatgrandmother.

She began working for the Oil Gas Commission in Artesia in the 1960s while her kids were still in diapers. After the kids were grown, and while residing in Roswell, Buddy was appointed Chief Highway Commissioner by then Governor Bruce King. They moved to Santa Fe where Una worked for the Oil Gas Commission again and at the Bank of Santa Fe. Afterwards Una Buddy returned to Roswell where she went to work for the Chaves County Assessors Office. Upon retiring from the County in April of 1986 she continued her career at Pioneer Bank where she worked until the mid1990s. She made many friends while working and she kept up with most of them until her death.

The stories of Una making people laugh and making everyone she met feel better about themselves are numerous. Even the week before she passed away and for the two years she was at Mission Arch, she touched the lives of many of the residents, several of them calling her Their Angel. One example of this was on this past Mothers Day, when she received four large bouquets of flowers. The first thing she did, after thanking everyone for the flowers and while barely being able to talk, was to instruct her children that they were to give some of the flowers away to some residents who had no family that came to see them. This is a perfect example of who Una was. Many of the aides and nurses also have funny stories about Una and her antics. She will be missed but we know that heaven is a more joyful place with Una there.

Una was preceded in death by her parents her husband Joe J. Buddy Hewett Jr. and her daughter Christi Hewett of Roswell. She is survived by her son, Bud Hewett and his wife Jackie of Roswell, N.M., her daughters Susan E. Fuller and her husband Ed of Albuquerque, N.M., Maggie L. Ingram and her husband Joe of Richmond, V.A., brothers John R. Scott and his wife Joanie of Dallas, T.X., nephews John Howard Scott, Conrad Dorsey, and a niece, Vici Mac Intosh. Grandchildren Julie Elizabeth Watson and husband Kelly, Emilie Deveraux and her husband Ryan, Ben Fuller and his wife Kimberly, Jessica Hewett, Cheyenne Hewett, Rob Burttram, Sarah E. Gilsdorf and husband Tommy and Matthew J. Ingram. Her great grandchildren Lucy Belle Watson, Hannah Watson, Sam Watson, Thomas Deveraux, Hunter Fuller, Jack Fuller and Katelyn Fuller.

The family would like to thank all the aides, the nurses, the administrators and Hospice at Mission Arch for taking good care of her for the past two years. We would especially like to thank Anna Aguirre and Mary Duarte for their exceptional loving care for her over the past few weeks.

The family request that memorial contributions be made to the Roswell Humane Society, 703 E. McGaffey, Roswell, NM 88203.

Visitation

Ballard Funeral Home
910 S. Main
Roswell, NM  88203
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
12 pm to 7 pm

Service

Funeral Service

Grace Community ChurchH
935 W. Mescalero
Roswell, NM  88201
Thursday, May 30, 2013
1:30 pm

Cemetery

Resthaven Memorial Park
4616 N. Big Spring Street
Midland, TX  79705

Memorial Contributions

703 E. McGaffy St.
Roswell, NM  88201