Recent Obituaries

Sep 14, 2007

Michael Allen Hammack, 53, of Brenham, died Sept. 14, 2007, near Chappell Hill. Mr. Hammack was born Nov. 12, 1954, in Bellville, Austin County, Texas, to Robert Westernman and Geraldine McDaniel Hammack. He was baptized at First Baptist Church of Bellville. He enjoyed camping, fishing, cooking, collecting antiques and watching the Dallas Cowboys and Western movies. Mr. Hammack was...

Sep 11, 2007

Mrs. Edna Rosenbaum Saeger, 91, of Brenham, and the widow of Charles Louis C.L. Saeger, Jr., died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007 in Trinity Medical Center.

Mrs. Saeger was born July 10, 1916 in Industry, Texas, the daughter of William Rosenbaum and Emma Dippel. She was baptized in Industry and confirmed at Grace Lutheran Church in Brenham by...

Sep 8, 2007

Robert Allen Yaeger, Jr., son of Robert Yaeger and Dollye Baldree, died Saturday, September 8, 2007 at Trinity Medical Center. He was born October 17, 1953 in San Antonio, Texas. He resided at Brenham State School from March 19, 1974 to August 23, 2000, and then resided at D&S Residential Group homes until he passed away. Robert attended Sunday...

Aug 30, 2007

Leona Hohlt Kalbow, 80, of Brenham, died August 30, 2007, at Bluebonnet Hills Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Kalbow was born April 26, 1927, in the Prairie Hill community of Washington County, Texas, to Edwin F. and Bertha Quebe Hohlt. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John Lutheran Church of Prairie Hill. Mrs. Kalbow attended Prairie Hill and...

Aug 29, 2007

Lanis Blitz Jaeger, 51, of Burton died Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at his home. Mr. Jaeger was born January 12, 1956 in Brenham to Henry, Jr. and Lillie Neumann Jaeger. He was baptized November, 1959 by Pastor Brunotte and confirmed in April, 1970 in Our Savior Lutheran Church of Houston. Mr. Jaeger attended Sam Houston High School in Houston,...

Aug 24, 2007

Douglas Doug John Stepan, 50, of Hempstead, died Aug. 24, 2007, at his residence. Mr. Stepan was born May 29, 1957, in Pasadena, Texas, to Allen John and Dorothy Jeanie Meyer Stepan. On May 24, 1980, he was married to Diana Cone in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Chappell Hill. Mr. Stepan was a ranch supervisor for Chappell Hill...

Aug 23, 2007

After a courageous fight with breast cancer, Jeannie Ann Massey, 56, of Brenham, went home to her Father on Thursday, August 23, 2007. Mrs. Massey was born July 24, 1951 in Fairfax, Oklahoma to Delmar Francis and Loraine Woods Buxton. She accepted Christ on September 25, 1960 at the First Osage Baptist Church of Fairfax, OK. She attended Fairfax...

Aug 21, 2007

Carl F. Meier, 80, of Burton, died Aug. 21, 2007, in a Columbus nursing home. Mr. Meier was born June 6, 1927, in Burton, to Charles and Mathilda Oevermann Meier. He was baptized July 10, 1927, in St. John s Evangelical Church in Burton by Pastor Adolph Walton and was confirmed March 29, 1942, in St. John s Evangelical...

Aug 20, 2007

Lillian Evelyn Lankford Harper fondly known to her friends as Dee , 87, of College Station, died August 20, 2007 in College Station Medical Center. Mrs. Harper was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on March 19, 1920 to Walter Bertram and Clara Fern Johnson Lankford. She attended business college in Chillicothe, Missouri. On February 16, 1940 she married Rayburn...

Aug 18, 2007

Edna Mae Hilton Bray was born Jan. 18, 1918 in Simonton, Texas. She was baptized at St. John s United Church of Christ in Houston, Texas. She married Winfred V. Bray on December 6, 1937 in Houston, Texas. Edna was preceded in death by her husband and her parents. She is survived by three children: daughter, Geraldine Kinser of...

Aug 18, 2007

Dorothy Ann Knolle Routt Tillman passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 18, 2007 at her family home in Brenham, Texas at the age of 79 years. Dorothy Ann was born December 30, 1927 in Brenham to the late Dr. Waldo Austin and Lillian Mae Navratil Knolle. She was baptized, confirmed, and a member of the First United Methodist Church...

Aug 18, 2007

Jesse Ray Stainer, 71, of Carmine, the husband of Vera Joyce Jones Stainer, died Saturday morning at his family residence. Mr. Stainer was born October 5, 1935, in Baytown, Harrris County, TX the son of Jesse John and Ida Caroline Sjoldander Stainer. He was a welder for Brown & Root for 25 years. He was a member of Martin...

Aug 15, 2007

Floyd Fred Sommer, son of the late Fred C. Sommer and Hattie Pohlmeyer Sommer, died Wednesday, August 15, 2007. He was born on January 16, 1928, and was baptized by the Rev. C.J. Appel on February 19, 1928, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, William Penn. He was confirmed at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Sandy Hill on May 26, 1940, by...

Aug 14, 2007

William Welsh Telford, 88, of Brenham, died Tuesday, August 14, 2007 in Trinity Medical Center. Mr. Telford was born March 29, 1919 in Clio, South Carolina to Johnson Lee and Henrietta Welsh Telford. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina. On October 6, 1945, he married Eloise Wheeler in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Telford served in the U.S. Navy...

Aug 13, 2007

Margie Ruth Layton Reeves, 83, died Monday, August 13, 2007 in Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village in Brenham. Mrs. Reeves was born August 4, 1924 to Tom and Julia Mae Spence Layton. in Smithville, Texas. She married Eddie Reeves on May-19, whom she met at Camp Swift during WW II. After the war, they moved to San Benito, Tx., before...

Aug 13, 2007

Lydia Meischen Weinert, 85, of Shelby, died Monday, August 13, 2007 at Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village in Brenham. Lydia was born October 30, 1921 in the Shelby area, in Austin County, to Louis and Theresa Eckhoff Meischen. She remained a resident there her entire life. She was baptized into the Lutheran faith on June 25, 1922 and confirmed on...

Aug 12, 2007

Fred Ponfick, 81, died Sunday, August 12, 2007 in Triumph Hospital in Tomball. Mr. Ponfick was born August 6, 1926, in Carmine, Texas to Freida Roemer and Fred Fede Ponfick, sr. He was baptized February 27, 1927 in Carmine and confirmed in St. John s UCC in Burton. He was drafted into the U.S. Army on Nov. 1, 1945...

Aug 11, 2007

Floy Sybil Bates, 79, of Brenham died August 11, 2007. Mrs. Bates was born January 4, 1928 in Gilmer, Texas to James Sidney and Dollie Mae Moore Bartlett. She was baptized July 8, 1979 at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Rehburg. She was a graduate of Luther Stark High School in Orange, Texas. On December 29, 1945 she married...

Aug 4, 2007

James Neal Thomason, age 87, of Brenham, the husband of Marilyn Maddox Thomason, died August 4th, 2007 at his home following a lengthy illness. Jim Thomason was born March 28th, 1920 in Brownwood Texas to Arthur Neal and Laura Leona Griffin Thomason. He was baptized and attended the Christian Church of Brownwood. He attended Brownwood schools graduating in 1937,...

Aug 2, 2007

Joyce M. Marburger, 68, of Brenham, wife of Henry J. Marburger, died Thursday, August 2, 2007 in St. Joseph Regional Hospital in Bryan. Mrs. Marburger was born November 19, 1938 in Bellville, Texas to Erwin and Hilma Nelius Kaase. She was baptized in the First United Methodist Church of Bellville, and confirmed in St. James Lutheran Church of New...