Recent Obituaries
Herbert Bender
Jan 30, 2007
Herbert Paul Buck Bender, 74, of the Wesley Community died Jan. 30, 2007, in a Bryan hospital. Mr. Bender was born Feb. 8, 1932, in the Wesley Community of Washington County, Texas, to Paul and Ernestina Brinkmeyer Bender. He was baptized and confirmed at Salem Lutheran Church of Welcome. Mr. Bender attended Wesley School and Blinn College. He served...
Travis Mackenroth
Jan 29, 2007
Travis Mackenroth, 68, of Burton, died Jan. 29, 2007, at Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Mackenroth was born July 19, 1938, in Austin County, Texas, to Willie and Hilda Muske Mackenroth. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Shelby. He was a 1958 graduate of Burton High School. Mr. Mackenroth served his country in...
O Lindsey
Jan 28, 2007
O.C. Lindsey, 71, of Brenham, died Jan. 28, 2007, in Methodist Hospital in Houston, surrounded by his loving family. Mr. Lindsey was born Dec. 9, 1935, in Groesbeck, Texas, to Charlie and Emmie Sanders Lindsey. On Jan. 6, 1964, he was married to Carol Jean Von Minden in Brenham. Mr. Lindsey was a driver for Oak Farms Dairy and...
Lynn Keenan
Jan 28, 2007
Lynn Eldred Keenan died January 28, 2007. He reached the miraculous age of sixty-four. He was born in 1942 with a serious heart defect, each and everyday that he lived was a Miracle granted by the grace of God. He was born in Beaumont, Texas to Eldred Samuel Keenan and Marie Clark Keenan on October 31, 1942. He spent...
Bettie Garrett
Jan 24, 2007
Mrs. Bettie Ethel Garrett, 100, of Brenham, died Jan. 24, 2007, in Houston. Mrs. Garrett was born Sept. 17, 1906, in Brenham, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Morris. She was a graduate of Pickard High School in Brenham. Mrs. Garrett was a retired licensed vocational nurse. She was a life member of Mount Zion United Methodist Church of Brenham....
Edwin Bethke
Jan 21, 2007
Edwin August Bethke, 83 of Burton, died Jan. 21, 2007, at Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Bethke was born Oct. 21, 1923, in the Sandtown community near Burton, to Ed and Emma Pfundt Bethke. He was baptized June 29, 1924 in St. John s United Church of Christ of Burton and was confirmed on Palm Sunday, 1939 in...
Erna Weckwerth
Jan 19, 2007
Erna Weckwerth, 92, of Brenham, died Jan. 19, 2007, at Brenham Rest Home in Brenham. Mrs. Weckwerth was born Dec. 28, 1914, in the Klump community of Washington County, Texas, to Kurt and Alma Franke Zwahr. She was educated at Klump School. On Dec. 22, 1931, she was married to Henry Neumann, Sr. Mr. Neumann preceded her in death...
Luster Allen
Jan 19, 2007
Luster N. Allen , Jr. age 85, of Chappell Hill, died January 19, 2007 in Colonial Belle Nursing Home, Bellville, Texas. Mr. Allen was born March 27, 1921, in Houston, Texas. His parents were Luster N. Sr. and Fannie B. Allen. He was educated at John H. Regan High School in Houston and Tarlton State University. Mr. Allen served...
Ronald Everhart
Jan 19, 2007
Ronald Gene Everhart, 64, of Houston, died Jan. 19, 2007, at Cy-Fair Hospital. Mr. Everhart was born Dec. 14, 1942, in East St. Louis, Illinois, to Robert and Melba Miller Everhart. He served his country in the Air Force. On Oct. 9, 1976, he was married to Gail Eldred in Houston. Mr. Everhart was a commercial electrical contractor. Survivors...
Hannah Henry
Jan 19, 2007
Hannah M. Henry, 88, former resident of Bolivar, Missouri, passed away January 19, 2007, in Brenham. Mrs. Henry was born February 25, 1918, in Olathe, Kansas to Herman and Mathilda Ewert Schwarz. Her husband, Myron B. Henry, passed away 25 years ago in a tragic drowning accident. She is also preceded in death by her parents, Herman and Mathilda;...
Annie Boehnemann
Jan 17, 2007
Annie Bathe Werchan Boehnemann, a longtime Burton resident, entered into eternal rest on January 17, 2007, at Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Annie will lie in state at Memorial Oaks Chapel in Brenham until 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 19, and then at Foehner Funeral Home in Burton until service time. Visitation with the family will be at Foehner...
Dorothy Gates
Jan 16, 2007
Dorothy Lamberth Gates, 90 years, died January 16, 2007. She was welcomed into heaven by her beloved husband of 70 years, James Edgar Gates who died August 21, 2004. Dorothy Gates was born, July 16, 1916 to Douglas D. and Rose Lamberth in Houston, TX. She attended Houston Public Schools, graduating from Jeff Davis HS in 1934. In the...
Aidan Arnold
Jan 15, 2007
Aidan Scott Arnold and Connor Mitchell Arnold, stillborn twins of Margaret Maggie McGrath and Richard David Arnold III of Burton, died Jan. 15, 2007 in St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Survivors include their parents; grandparents, Michael and Beverly McGrath of Burton and Richard Jr. and Janice Arnold of Lindon; and great-grandfather, Richard Arnold Sr. The funeral Mass...
Josephine Moore
Jan 14, 2007
Josephine Gelmuss Moore, age 93, passed away on January 14, 2007 at Trinity Care Center. She was born in Betygala, Lithuania on March 19, 1913 to Ona and Stanislavas Gelumbauskas. Her family immigrated to the United States that same year and later adopted the Americanized name of Gelmuss. She was raised and educated in Racine, Wisconsin. During World War...
Barbara Powell
Jan 13, 2007
Barbara June Powell died at Trinity Medical Center on January 13 as a result of a massive stroke. Barbara was born to Christian and Helen Leypoldt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 18, 1938. She and her family moved around the country as her father set up accounting departments for new RCA plants. In 1960, she earned her degree in...
Clara Dorcz
Jan 10, 2007
Clara Jozwiak Dorcz, 82, of Brenham died Jan. 10, 2007, in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Mrs. Dorcz was born June 17, 1924, in Chappell Hill, to Joseph and Frances Nowak Jozwiak. She was baptized and confirmed in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church of Chappell Hill and attended Wonder Hill School. On Sept. 24, 1946, she was married to...
Myrtle Ehrig
Jan 9, 2007
Myrtle Bernice Malkey Ehrig, 84, of Brenham, died Jan. 9, 2007, in St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Mrs. Ehrig was born Feb. 22, 1922, to Charlie and Lorena Wilkening Malkey in the Rehburg community of Washington County. She was baptized April 23, 1922, in St. Paul Lutheran Church of Rehburg by Pastor H. Weber and was confirmed...
Nora Wagner
Jan 8, 2007
Nora Wagner, 95, of Rosenberg died Jan. 8, 2007, at St. Mark s Medical Center in La Grange. Mrs. Wagner was born Jan. 5, 1912, in Carmine, Texas, to Fritz and Anna Althaus Marx. She attended La Bahia School. Mrs. Wagner was a member of Martin Luther Lutheran Church of Carmine and was a homemaker. She is survived by...
Lillian Gaskamp
Jan 8, 2007
Lillian L. Quinn Gaskamp, 74, of Brenham died Jan. 8, 2007, at College Station Medical Center. Mrs. Gaskamp was born Nov. 15, 1932, in Copeland, Williamson County, Texas, to August and Lillie Belle Thonig Quinn. On Jan. 11, 1953, she was married to Monroe Gaskamp in Bethlehem Lutheran Church of William Penn. She was a homemaker who loved her...
Timothy Ramey
Jan 2, 2007
Timothy Patrick Ramey, 32, of Houston, died Jan. 2, 2007, in Houston. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 13 at First Baptist Church in Chappell Hill. A meal will follow the service. Tim was born June 27, 1974, in Tyler. In 1975, he was adopted by Bobby and Dale Ramey and they resided in...
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