Recent Obituaries
Willie Ligues
Dec 6, 2013
Willie Ligues, 69, of Brenham, died December 6, 2013, in Hospice Brazos Valley Inpatient Facility in Bryan. Visitation will be from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 10 at Memorial Oaks Chapel. The funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 11 at Memorial Oaks Chapel with Rev. Robert Hofmann and Jesse Meschwitz officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill...
Melissa Jacobs
Dec 5, 2013
It has pleased Almighty God on the evening of December 5, 2013, following a long battle with cancer, to call to Himself out of this vale of tears the soul of Melissa Dianne Griffin Jacobs. Melissa was born on January 24, 1953 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Travis Clyde Griffin Jr. and Billie Jean Hames Griffin. Melissa was baptized...

Nancy Baldwin
Dec 5, 2013
Nancy Joiner Baldwin, 92, of Lakeway, Texas, died Dec. 5, 2013 in Brenham. A Memorial Service to honor her life is scheduled for 12 noon, Saturday, December 14, 2013 at Memorial Oaks Chapel, with W. Brent Hampton officiating. Mrs. Baldwin was born May 24, 1921 in Dallas to Webb B. and Leah Elizabeth Stuart Joiner. She was baptized and...
Lorene Riechers
Dec 3, 2013
Lorene "Sis" Roese Riechers of Brenham passed away on December 3, 2013 at Scott and White Hospital, after a brief illness. She was born January 23, 1928 in Washington, Texas. She was baptized by Rev. F. W. Braun on February 1, 1928 and confirmed on April 18, 1943 by Rev. Paul Piepenbrock at Friedens United Church of Christ at...
James Eldred
Dec 2, 2013
James C. J.C. Eldred, 84, died December 2, 2013. A graveside service is scheduled for 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, December 5th, at Prairie Lea Cemetery in Brenham, with visitation at 9:30 Thurs. morning. J. C. was born in Brenham on December 19, 1928, to William G. and Anita Felscher Eldred and was a graduate of Brenham High School. After...
Otto Landua
Dec 2, 2013
Otto Charles "O.C." Landua, age 94, passed away Monday, December 2, 2013, in the Brenham Rest Home. O.C. was born March 23, 1919, to Otto Landua and Mamie Larsen Landua in the Charlesville community, Burton, Texas. He had lived his entire life on the family farm except for the past seven months that he spent in the Brenham Rest...
Willie Ramsey
Dec 2, 2013
Willie Mae Remmert Bowman Ramsey, 85, of Brenham, formerly of Bryan, and widow of J.D. Ramsey, was called to her Lord on Dec. 2, 2013. She was born on August 2, 1928, in Brenham to Wilhelm Louis Johannes Willie John and Anna Emilie Ludwig Remmert, and was raised in New Wehdem. She married Frank Bowman on January 12, 1952,...

Burnie Schulze
Dec 1, 2013
Burnie Henry Schulze, age 87 of Shelby, passed away on December 1, 2013 at Sendera Ranch Assisted Living in Magnolia, Texas. He was born on October 28, 1926 in the Shelby community to Herbert Carl and Frida Reuter Schulze. He was baptized on February 27, 1927 in Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top and confirmed in the Lutheran faith...
Richard Stegemeier
Nov 29, 2013
Richard Michael Stegemeier, 59, of Burton, died November 29, 2013, at Scott and White Hospital in Brenham. The family will receive visitors from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Monday, December 2 at Memorial Oaks Chapel. The funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 3 at Memorial Oaks Chapel with Rev. Glen Schoeneberg officiating. Rick was born February 20, 1954...

Virginia Loewe
Nov 25, 2013
Virginia Ann Loewe, 61, died November 25, 2013 in Brenham Nursing and Rehab in Brenham. Funeral services are scheduled for 1 p.m., Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at Memorial Oaks Chapel, with Pastor Pat Lehrer officiating. Burial will follow in Calvary Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 until 8 p.m. Tuesday evening at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Virginia Loewe was...

Carl Kolajajak
Nov 25, 2013
Carl Ray Kolajajak, 59, of Chappell Hill, died November 25, 2013, at his residence. Mr. Kolajajak was born September 19, 1954, in Houston, TX, to Leon John and Stephanie Verna Jozwiak Kolajajak. He was a graduate of Waltrip High School. Mr. Kolajajak was a machinist for Daniel Industries for 38+ years. A loving father and grandfather, he enjoyed hunting,...

Juanita Harvill
Nov 25, 2013
Juanita Sheen Harvill of Burton, Texas, passed away Monday, November 25, 2013 in Bellville, Texas. Juanita was born May 3, 1922 in Montague County, Texas to William David and Eva Dell Dunn Sheen. She married Cecil Eugene Harvill on December 23, 1939, in Marietta, Love County, Oklahoma. She raised her family in Paris, Texas where she worked alongside her...

Reece Reimer
Nov 21, 2013
Reece James Reimer, infant son of Neal James Reimer and Alison Mikeska, was born and passed away November 21, 2013 in Scott and White Hospital in College Station. A graveside service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday November 23, 2013 at St. Peter''s Lutheran Church Cemetery of Gay Hill, with Pastor Alan Kethan officiating. Surviving are his parents, Neal...
Sandra Fincher
Nov 20, 2013
Sandra Lynn Fincher, 49, passed away November 20, 2013 in Bryan. A graveside service is planned for 11 a.m., Saturday, November 23, 2013 at Oak Hill Cemetery in Burton. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday evening at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Sandra Fincher was born January 2, 1964 in Golden Meadow, Louisiana to Ray and Evelyn Emily...
Reinhardt Kramer
Nov 16, 2013
Reinhardt Fritz Kramer, 97, died November 16, 2013. Born at home on August 2, 1916, he was baptized and confirmed at St. John''s United Church of Christ in Burton. He was educated at Hohenwalde School and later completed a home education course. In 1937, Mr. Kramer went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad, and was promoted to Locomotive Engineer...

Steve Budnik
Nov 14, 2013
Steve Mike Budnik, 85, of Somerville, died November 14, 2013, at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Visitation will be from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 with a Rosary recited at 7:00 p.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel in Brenham. The funeral Mass will be offered at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19 at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary...

Sue Harris
Nov 14, 2013
Sue Nell Howard Harris died peacefully of heart failure while sleeping November 14, 2013 in Jacksonville, Fla. She had happily celebrated her 89th birthday two days before while attending family reunion events in Glennville and Savannah, Ga. Funeral services are to be held at Memorial Oaks Chapel in Brenham, Texas at 10:00 a.m. Friday morning, 22 November 2013. Burial...
Frank Bender
Nov 14, 2013
Frank William Bender, 83, of Brenham, husband of Audrey Louise Bender, passed away November 14, 2013 at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Funeral services are scheduled for 10 a.m., Monday, November 18, 2013 at Memorial Oaks Chapel, with Pastor Ross Shelton officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park in Wharton, Texas. Visitation will be held from...
Beverly Rice
Nov 13, 2013
Beverly Denton Rice, 60, died Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at her home in Brenham. She was born in East Bernard, TX, June 5, 1953, and shares her birth date with two of her beautiful granddaughters. Beverly graduated from Lamar High School and soon after in 1973, she married her soul mate, Ben Rice. Together they raised three children in...
Addie Glaser
Nov 10, 2013
Addie Mae Perkins Glaser of Kenney, Texas, 93, went home to be with her Lord Sunday, November 10, 2013 in Bryan. She was born May 12, 1920 in Buckhorn, Texas to Elbert and Georgie Acock Perkins. She was baptized and confirmed on December 29, 1946 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Houston, Texas. Addie Mae married Arthur Glaser on February...