Dan Hiett, Funeral Director

Karen Hiett, Funeral Director

Karen and I are both proud to now call Wills Point our home. I was raised in a small town community called Honey Grove, Texas, and a graduate of Harlingen High, in Harlingen, Texas in 1985.  I attended Dallas institute of Funeral Service and graduated in 1986.  I received my Funeral Director and Embalmer licenses in November of 1987. 

I worked for over fifteen years for a funeral home in Mesquite, Texas, where we served over three hundred families a year. I was very fortunate to have worked with loving and caring co-workers during which time I also received an abundance of training.

Karen was born and raised in Wichita Fall, Texas, and graduated from Rider High in 1982. Karen graduated with a Funeral Director degree from St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Mo., in June of 2006 and is also a Licensed Funeral Director in the state of Texas. She worked as a chair side assistant and also as co-office manager for Dr. Terry B. Adams in Dallas.

Funeral Director Assistant Weldon Powers

Weldon became a staff member in September of 2001. Weldon was born in McKamie Arkansas. He moved to Wills Point in May of 1955 while working for T & P Rail Road.


Weldon met Judy McLeod shortly after he arrived in Wills Point and married on December 16, 1955, he and Judy raised their two children Len and Janece in Wills Point, he worked for and retired from E Systems in Greenville, Texas on January 1, 1995 after 38 years of employment. 


He and Judy Attend Russell Memorial United Methodist Church in Wills Point, they enjoy traveling when they can and spending time with their two grandchildren, Laura and Evan.

Secretary
Donna Rankin WhiteHead

Donna joined the funeral home staff in April of 2004 as office detail secretary and assisting on funeral services. She previously owned and operated Country Florist in Edgewood, Texas.

Donna is a life long resident of Wills Point, she married her high school sweetheart, Randy Rankin, they moved to Dallas for a brief period of time, but chose to move back home to raise their children Pam Rankin Emerson and Rusty Rankin, both of Wills Point. Randy passed away in 1987. She later married her present husband Wayne Whitehead, although Wayne was not from Wills Point, it didn’t take him long to decide that this was where they would make their home.

Donna and Wayne are members of First Baptist Church of Wills Point and enjoy being involved with the activities of their five grandchildren

Donna will certainly help enrich our facility with her warm and genuine care shown to our families during their time of need.

Shirley Cupp joined our staff in 1995. She was born in Rockwall, Texas and moved to Edgewood in 1972. She retired from Texas Utilities in 1993 after thirty-seven years.

She and her husband, Dan, live on their farm north of Edgewood. They have three children, eight grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.

Shirley and Dan attend First Baptist Church of Edgewood and are involved in the Texas Baptist Men Disaster and Retiree Men’s Church Building Group.

 

Mary Harris