Recent Obituaries
Anna Bilski
Jun 27, 2010
Anna L. Bilski, 80, widow of Florian Bilski, died June 27, 2010 in Memorial Hermann, Memorial City Hospital in Houston. Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in St. Mary''s Catholic Church in Brenham. Father David Ivey will officiate. Interment will follow in St. Stanislaus Catholic Cemetery in Chappell Hill. The family will receive...

Leona Lehmann
Jun 24, 2010
Leona Lehmann, 100, of Brenham, died June 24, 2010 in Kruse Village. Funeral services will be held Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 2:00p.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Pastor Lawrence Bade will officiate. Burial will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery. Miss Lehmann was born September 4, 1909 in Burton to Albert J. and Mary Schawe Lehmann. She was baptized in...

Margaret Wensel
Jun 23, 2010
Margaret I. Miiller Wensel, 83, of Brenham, widow of Edwin Wensel, died June 23, 2010. Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in St. John''s United Church of Christ in Burton, with burial following in the church cemetery. Greg Felder will officiate. The family will receive friends and relatives Friday evening from 6:00 until...
Willie Mertz
Jun 12, 2010
Willie Ernest Mertz, 85, of Burton, husband of Vernell Schilling Mertz, died Saturday, June 12, 2010, in Trinity Medical Center. Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Greenvine, with Pastor Rich Nelson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives Monday evening...

Rodney Fuhrman
Jun 11, 2010
Rodney Lee Fuhrman, 47, of Brenham, died June 11, 2010 in Richmond Hills, Georgia. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Pastor Darren Donaldson will officiate. Burial will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery. Rodney was born May 10, 1963 in Wichita Falls, Texas to Eugene F. Fuhrman and Lorraine Goettman...
Christin Romero
Jun 10, 2010
Christin Audrey Carroll Romero, 35, of Trinidad, Colorado, died June 10, 2010 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mrs. Romero was born December 15, 1974, in Bryan, TX to Arthur Vane Carroll, Jr. and Judy Rogers Carroll. She was baptized into the Christian Faith on January 15, 1978 in Christ Lutheran Church in Brenham, and confirmed on June 7, 1987 at...

Gladyola Jeske
Jun 8, 2010
Gladyola Louise Linnstaedter Jeske, 89, widow of Glenn L. Jeske, died June 8, 2010 in Trinity Care Center. Funeral services will be held Friday, June 11, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at St. John Lutheran Church of Prairie Hill. Pastor Virgil Pecht will officiate. Interment will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives Thursday evening...
Herbert Faithauer
Jun 6, 2010
Herbert Faithauer, 94, of Brenham, widower of Linda Mae Hodde Faithauer, died June 6, 2010 in Brenham Rest Home. Herbert was born in Washington County on April 20, 1916 to William and Emma Hahn Faithauer. He attended Washington County area schools, and on Sept. 14, 1947, he married Linda Mae Hodde in Immanuel Lutheran Church of Wiedeville. For 27...

Margie Perkins
May 28, 2010
Margie Perkins, 100, of Houston, died May 28, 2010, in Plaza Specialty Hospital in Houston. A graveside service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 2 at St. Peter''s Lutheran Church Cemetery at Gay Hill with Pastor Virgil Pecht officiating. Miss Perkins was born April 17, 1910 to Henry and Nora Sims Perkins in McCrory, Arkansas. She received...

Perry Rudloff
May 26, 2010
Perry William Rudloff, 85, of Burton, husband of Elvera Rudloff, died May 26, 2010 in College Station Medical Center. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in Martin Luther Lutheran Church of Carmine, with interment following in the Shelby Cemetery. Pastor Paul Bohot will officiate. The family will receive friends and relatives at Memorial...

Hilmer Schmidt
May 26, 2010
Hilmer Clarence Schmidt, 85, of Brenham, widower of Nelda Faye Schmidt, died May 26, 2010. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Darrin Donaldson will officiate. Interment will follow at Prairie Lea Cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives Tuesday, June 1 from 5:30 until 8:00 p.m. at Memorial...
Earl Cass
May 25, 2010
Earl Byron Cass, 93, of Brenham, widower of Mary Frances Parker Cass, died May 25, 2010 in Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village. Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel, with burial following in Prairie Lea Cemetery. Charlie Matejowsky will officiate. The family will receive friends and relatives beginning at 10:00 a.m....

Sue Works
May 10, 2010
Sue Carlile Works November 8, 1936- May 10, 2010. Resident of Brenham, Texas. After a courageous 7 month battle with cancer, Sue passed away peacefully in Brenham. Sue was born and raised in southeast Kansas and graduated from Altoona High School. She was a registered nurse and extended her career by becoming a Certified Occupational Health Nurse. Sue loved...

Melvin Kettler
May 10, 2010
Melvin Henry Kettler, 93, husband of Elinor H. Kettler, died May 10, 2010 in Brenham. Melvin was born April 29, 1917 in the Zionsville Community of Washington County to Otto and Emma Holle Kettler, He was baptized July 1, 1917 in Zion Lutheran Church of Zionsville, where he was also confirmed on March 20, 1932. He attended the Harrisburg...

Janell Marek
May 7, 2010
Janell Ann "Tiny" Meyer Marek, 63, wife of Dennie Marek, died May 7, 2010 in St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Born on December 1, 1946 in the Latium Community to Benhardt and Elsie Schultz Meyer, Tiny was baptized in Greenvine and confirmed at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Shelby. On February 20, 1965, she married Dennie Marek...
Lyle Kirts
May 5, 2010
Lyle Dean Kirts, 77, of Burton, husband of Patricia Hayes Kirts, died May 5, 2010 in St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Funeral services will be held Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Paul s Lutheran Church of Rehburg, with Pastor Steve Cox officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive...
Lee Cook
May 4, 2010
Lee Flowers Cook passed away Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas from a sudden illness. The family will receive visitors from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, at Memorial Oaks Chapel, 1306 West Main Street, Brenham. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 7, 2010, at St. Paul's...

Otto Stegmann, Jr.
May 1, 2010
Otto W. Stegmann, Jr., 69, husband of Dorothy Flisowski Stegmann, died May 1, 2010 in Trinity Medical Center. Otto was born August 18, 1940 in Brenham to Otto W. Sr. and Lillie Gajeske Stegmann. Baptized and confirmed in Zion Lutheran Church of Zionsville, he attended Brenham area schools. Otto was a veteran of the U. S. Army, serving his...

Michael Myers
Apr 30, 2010
Michael James Myers, 53, of Pearland, beloved husband of Susan Horstmann Myers, died April 30 at his home after a lengthy illness. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, May 4, at Prairie Lea Cemetery in Brenham, TX, with Father David Ivey officiating. The family will receive friends and relatives Monday, May 3, from 5 to 7...