Recent Obituaries

Doris Eckert
Sep 26, 2012
Doris Louise Eckert, 80, widow of Richard Henry Eckert, died Sept. 26, 2012 at College Station Medical Center in College Station. Funeral services are scheduled for 3 p.m., Saturday, September 29, 2012 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Greenvine, with Pastor Rich Nelson officiating. Burial will take place in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives from...
Travis Weiss
Sep 23, 2012
Travis Austin Weiss, 34, died September 23, 2012 in Austin, TX. Travis was born April 7, 1978 in Houston, TX to Donald and Karen Cook Weiss. He was a musician and bass player for Austin bands Duke and Broken Teeth. Travis is survived by his parents, Donald and Karen Weiss; his fiancé, Shereen Lumabao; brother & sister-in-law, Corey and...

Delores Gummelt
Sep 22, 2012
Funeral services for Delores Gummelt are scheduled for 2 p.m., Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at Memorial Oaks Chapel, with burial to follow in Jaeger-Witte Cemetery. Rev. Rich Nelson will officiate. Delores passed away Sept. 22, 2012 in Bryan, at the age of 79. The family will receive friends and relatives Tuesday evening from 6 until 8 p.m. at Memorial...
Annie Henderson
Sep 20, 2012
Age 95 of Brenham, affectionately known as AB, our beloved mother, grandmother, great –grandmother, aunt, cousin. and friend, passed away peacefully on September 20, 2012. An ambassador bound for the heavenly realm left without notice. She was born December 19, 1916, to Thornton and Mamie Cheeks Mc Cowan she is preceded in death by her late Husband Walter Henderson...

Nelda Steinkamp
Sep 17, 2012
Funeral services for Nelda Greinert Steinkamp, of Brenham, are scheduled for 1 p.m., Friday, September 21, 2012 in St. Paul''s Evangelical Lutheran Church, with Pastor Kindlee Lund officiating. Interment will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives Thursday evening from 6 until 8 p.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Nelda passed away Monday, September 17,...

Irene Frye-Schroeder
Sep 4, 2012
Irene Bohne Frye-Schroeder, 87, of Brenham, died Sept. 4, 2012 at her residence. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m., Friday, September 7, 2012 at St. Matthew Lutheran Church of Sandy Hill, with Pastor Kris Brower officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives at St. Matthew Lutheran Church preceding the service...

Peggy Miller
Sep 3, 2012
Funeral services for Peggy Miller, 75, of Brenham, wife of L. W. Miller, Jr. are scheduled for 10:30 a.m., Friday, September 7, 2012 at Zion Lutheran Church, with Pastor Virgil Pecht officiating. Burial will take place in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives Thursday evening from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Peggy...

Richard Boll
Sep 2, 2012
Richard Alan "Dick" Boll, 73, of Brenham, husband of Sally Brock Boll, died Sept. 2, 2012 at his residence. A Memorial Service is scheduled for 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 at Memorial Oaks Chapel, with Pastor Brent Hampton officiating. Interment will take place in Prairie Lea Cemetery at 10 a.m. preceding the service. The family will receive friends...
Milton Fischer
Sep 1, 2012
Milton Lee Fischer, 79, of Carmine, the husband of Pauline Poehls Fischer, died September 1, 2012 in College Station. The funeral service is scheduled for 10 a.m., Thursday, September 6, at Martin Luther Lutheran Church, with Pastor David Tinker officiating. Burial will be in the Carmine City Cemetery. The family will be receiving friends and relatives Wednesday, September 5,...
Evelyn Meyer
Aug 31, 2012
Evelyn Meyer, 96, of Rehburg community, died August 31, 2012 in Oakland Manor Nursing Home in Giddings, Tx. Funeral arrangements are scheduled for Monday September 3, at 10:00 a.m. at St. Paul''s Lutheran Church in Rehburg, with Pastor Denise Seymour officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives Sunday from 5:00-7:00 p.m....

Vernon Burfiend
Aug 27, 2012
Vernon Alvin Burfiend, 80, husband of Charlene Burfiend, died August 27, 2012 in Brenham. Funeral services are scheduled for 10 a.m., August 29, 2012 at Memorial Oaks Chapel, with Pastor Larry Embry officiating. Burial will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery. Vernon was born November 26, 1931 in Noodle, Texas to Pete Compere and Belle Saphronia Rogers Burfiend. On September...
Thekla Riechers
Aug 21, 2012
Thekla Babe Kolkhorst Riechers, 87, passed away August 21, 2012 in College Station Medical Center. Funeral services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m., Saturday, August 25, 2012 in Friedens Church of Washington UCC, with Pastor Greg Felder officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 until 8 p.m. Friday at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Thekla Riechers...

Paul Fulton, Jr.
Aug 20, 2012
Paul Madison Fulton, Jr., 85, of Brenham, passed away August 20, 2012 at his residence. A graveside service will take place at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, at Chappell Hill Masonic Cemetery, followed by a Memorial/Celebration Service at 5 p.m., Friday at the First United Methodist Church, with Pastor Kay Reed officiating. Paul Fulton was born January 13, 1927...
Leonard Roeske
Aug 19, 2012
Leonard M. Roeske, 87, husband of Loraine Leschber Roeske, died August 19, 2012 in College Station. Funeral services are scheduled for 10 a.m., Wednesday, August 22, 2012, at Christ Lutheran Church, 1104 Carlee Drive. Pastor Walter Schindehette and Father Benedict Zientek will officiate. Burial will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives Tuesday evening...

Jimmie Weinman
Aug 19, 2012
Jimmie Klehm Weinman was born October 31, 1917 in Hempstead, Texas, to Otto and Annie Klehm. She passed away August 19, 2012 at Brazos Valley Hospice Care in Bryan. She graduated from Hempstead High School. Jimmie married Walter James Weinman on November 29, 1939. She was a homemaker and helpmate on the rice farm in Brookshire and on the...
Wilton Hodde
Aug 12, 2012
Wilton Clarence Hodde of Burton died Sunday, August 12, 2012 at the age of 88. He was known by family and friends as "Pop". Born February 29, 1924 to Henry and Annie Witschorke Hodde, he was raised in the LaBahia area of Washington County. He attended Boundary School and was a lifetime member of St. John''s United Church of...
James Harrell, Jr.
Aug 11, 2012
James Eugene Harrell, Jr., 92, of Brenham , TX passed on the morning of Saturday, August 11, 2012. He was the only child of James and Laura Stanley Harrell of Port Arthur, TX. He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Alice Worley Harrell, his sons J. Richard and Gary P. Harrell , his grandchildren Sherry Grumbles and...

Edna Moeller
Aug 5, 2012
Edna Mae Reue Moeller was born January 19, 1928 in Freeport, Texas to Robert Collins and Bernice Williams Collins. She departed for heaven on August 5, 2012. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Paul''s Episcopal Church in Freeport. She was married to Alfred Reue on December 11, 1949 at St. Paul''s Episcopal Church. She was a city girl...

Shirley Welker
Aug 5, 2012
Shirley Jean Rystrom Welker, 81, wife of Robert Welker, passed away August 5 , 2012 at her residence. A Memorial Services is scheduled for 11 a.m., Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at First Baptist Church in Somerville, with Pastors Larry Embry and Corby Brizendine officiating. Shirley Welker was born in York, Nebraska on Jan. 13, 1931 to Clayton Arthur and...
Don Chandler
Aug 4, 2012
Don Richard Chandler was born to Jack and Beda Chandler in Brady, Texas on June 23, 1924. He attended school in Fort Worth and Brady, graduating from Brady High School in 1941. While studying Industrial Aeronautical Engineering at University of Texas-Arlington, Don decided to enlist in the U.S. Navy in November 1942. Three and a half years of combat...