(November 1, 1929 – August 9, 2026)
Billy Burle Baley, son of Charles Marvin Baley and Nora Lea
Cunnius Baley, was born on November 1, 1929 near Littlefield,
Texas. He was a worker. As a six-year-old child in Hobbs, New
Mexico, he put his first stucco on a house his father was
building. He was hooked, asking his father if he could have
some cement which he used to pour the foundation for a little
house he built from a wooden apple crate. As a teenager he
committed his life to Christ at a revival meeting at Duffau
Baptist Church and was baptized in the Duffau Creek. He
married Barbara LaNell McKnight in 1949. Bill and Nell
dreamed of having a farm. They worked hard to establish a
home for their children to experience farm life and learn to trust
Jesus. They loved the Dry Fork Community and were devoted
to serving the Lord through the Olin Baptist Church. He took
great pride in his craft of masonry, working all over Texas. His
most recent job was rocking his front porch posts in the triple
digit heat at age 92. He was his daughter’s first love and his
son’s first hero.
He is survived by: daughter, Barbara Gayle Kenley and
husband Paul; son, Billy Benjamin Baley and wife, Jan;
grandchildren, Barbara Nicole Kenley-Miller and husband, Andy
Miller, Blayne Baley and wife, Jessica, Courtney Morby and
husband, Grant; great grandchildren, Addison and Bennett
Baley, and Luke, Grayson, and Weston Morby.
Visitation will be held from 5 – 7 p.m. on Friday, August 14, at Harvest Hills Funeral Home in Hico. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 15, in the Harvest Hills Funeral Chapel in Hico.
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