Wade Frazier

Wade Frazier of Kosse passed away on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest in Waco following an unexpected illness.

Visitation will be held on Friday, November 14, 2025, from 5:00 – 7:00 PM in the Groesbeck Funeral Home Chapel.

Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2025, at 2:00 PM in the First Baptist Church in Kosse, with Pastor Ricky Waller officiating. Burial will follow in Ebenezer Cemetery.

Wade was born April 28, 1932, in Grant, Oklahoma to J. B. Frazier and Ethel (Bayless) Frazier. He lived there through graduation from High School. After working a few different jobs, Wade enlisted in the U. S. Army in January 1953 and served through January 1955. This was during the Korean war, but Wade served in the United States, moving eleven times in two years, living out of his duffel bag.

After his honorable discharge, Wade went to work for J. Ray McDermott, out of New Orleans, on offshore construction.

Wade was united in marriage to Birda Katie Hamilton on May 29, 1956, in Lovington, New Mexico, and they made their home in Pasadena.

He switched employment to Brown and Root Inc, out of Houston, and worked the rest of his career installing drilling and production platforms in waters all over the world. His work was performed off derrick barges and ships, and included production in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, North Sea, Gulf of Paria between Venezuela and Trinidad, and other locations. Birda kept the home and raised the children in Pasadena while Wade was gone on the job locations for weeks at a time. Wade took Birda on a special trip on their 25th anniversary to St. Lucia for 10 days while he was also working there. Wade worked his way up in the company to be the Marine Manager for the last twenty years of his career. He felt he had the best job in the world, in spite of a huge amount of responsibility. As a supervisor he felt he had really good people working with him.

Wade retired after thirty years with Brown and Root and he and Birda moved to Kosse. They had previously bought some land from seeing an advertisement, and while looking at the land in Kosse, bought it the same day. It was Birda’s idea to build their home on the land.

Wade spent his retirement years adjusting to rural Kosse after working around the world and enjoyed raising some cattle on his ranch. They enjoyed having their family visit their Kosse home. They joined the First Baptist Church in Kosse, where Wade served as a deacon, and they loved their church family.

Wade was preceded in death by his parents; some of his siblings; his wife Birda Frazier in 2008; son, Jimmy Ray Frazier in 2009; and son, Billy Dale Frazier in 2017.

He is survived by his son, Sammy “Sam” Kiah Frazier of Richmond, Virginia; grandson, Nicholas Frazier of Pennsylvania; grandson, Troy Michael Frazier and wife Miranda Frazier of Seabrook; grandson, Cory Whitney Frazier and wife April Frazier of Houston; great grandson, Colton Wade Frazier of Houston, Dylan James Frazier of Seabrook; great granddaughter, Emma Jean Frazier of Seabrook; sister, Norma Sumrall of New Orleans, LA; and numerous nieces and nephews.