Recent Obituaries

Elvis Jaster
May 9, 2007
Elvis F. Jaster, 85, of Brenham, died Wednesday, May 9, 2007 in Trinity Medical Center. Mr. Jaster was born October 6, 1921 in Fayette County, Texas to Fritz R. and Alma Plueckhahn Jaster. He was baptized April 22, 1922 in Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top, and confirmed September 29, 1935, also at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top....
William Rothermel
May 8, 2007
On Tuesday, May 8th our beloved Husband, Father, Grandfather and Friend, William Adolph Rothermel, 84, was called to his Heavenly home. He was born May 18, 1922 in Burton, Texas, the son of Bailleux E. and Nathalie Ponfick Rothermel. He attended Burton Public School and Brenham High School before joining the military service in World War II. He served...
Kathleen Smith
May 7, 2007
Kathleen R. Smith, 58, of Brenham, widow of Stephen A. Smith, died Monday, May 7, 2007 at her residence. Mrs. Smith was born March 23, 1949 in Fort Worth to Elton and Dorothy Brown Robinson. She attended New Braunfels area schools and later Southwest Texas University. On February 1, 1969, she married Stephen A. Smith in First Baptist Church...
Olita Prenzler
May 7, 2007
Olita Matthies Prenzler, 92 of Brenham, widow of Louis "L. C." Prenzler, died Monday, May 7, 2007, at Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Olita Prenzler was born October 19, 1914, in La Bahia, Washington County, Texas to Ernest and Ida Krause Matthies. She was baptized March 2, 1915, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Greenvine, and confirmed in the same...

Clemens Pribilski
May 4, 2007
Mr. Clemens C. Pribilski, 73, of Brenham died Friday, May 4, 2007 at his residence. Mr. Pribilski was born April 3, 1934 in the Wesley Community, Austin County, Texas to Frank Chester Pribilski and Valeria Clara Koniecnzy Pribilski. He was baptized at St. Mary s Catholic Church in Brenham, and later confirmed at St. Mary s Catholic Church. He...

Maggie Jankowski
May 2, 2007
Maggie M. Jankowski, 90, of Brenham, died May 2, 2007 in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mrs. Jankowski was born May 11, 1916 in Chappell Hill, Texas to William John and Pearl Wozniak Kubeczka. She was baptized and later confirmed at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Chappell Hill. On October 25, 1947, she married Stanley Ike Jankowski at St....

Donald Julian
May 1, 2007
Donald Ray Julian, 80, husband of Florence Lidstone Julian, died at the family residence in Brenham on May 1, 2007. Mr. Julian was born August 11, 1926 in Canton, Ohio, to Ovid Chris and Lura Olive Eller Julian. On December 8, 1978, he was married to Florence Lidstone in Akron, Ohio. Mr. Julian was a real estate broker. He...
Agnes Smith
Apr 30, 2007
Agnes Marie Smith, 83, of Brenham, died Monday, April 30, 2007 at Trinity Care Center. Mrs. Smith was born September 26, 1924 in Bay City, Texas to Ezra Allen Wycoff and Ruby Pearl Williams Wycoff. On January 10, 1944, she was married to Lavohn H. Red Smith. Mrs. Smith retired from Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. She was a member...

Walter Gamache
Apr 24, 2007
Walter William Gamache, 80, passed away April 24, 2007 at his home in Burton, Texas. Born in Bridgeport, CT. on Oct. 10, 1926, he was the youngest child of Louis Hormidas and Bess Mitchell Gamache. He was preceded in death by his brother Robert W. Gamache. He is survived by his sister, Jean Garrison; wife, Linda K. Gamache; children,...
Raymond Winkelmann
Apr 17, 2007
Raymond W. Winkelmann, 88, of Brenham, died April 17, 2007 at Trinity Medical Center. Mr. Winkelmann was born December 15, 1918 to Henry C. and Minnie Kettler Winkelmann. He was baptized February 9, 1919 in Zion Lutheran Church, and confirmed March 29, 1934, also at Zion Lutheran Church of Zionsville. He was educated at the Harrisburg School. Mr. Winkelmann...

Ruth Hobbs
Apr 15, 2007
Ruth Elizabeth Hobbs, 75, of Brenham, died April 15, 2007 in St. Joseph s Regional Hospital in Bryan. Mrs. Hobbs was born in Gay Hill in Washington County on October 4, 1931, to Ed and Martha Dietzmann Muery. She was baptized on January 16, 1932 at St. Peter s Lutheran Church in Gay Hill, and confirmed June 9, 1946...

Zelma Neidig
Apr 11, 2007
Zelma Mae Neidig, 85, of Round Top died April 11, 2007, at Silver Pines Nursing Facility in Bastrop. Mrs. Neidig was born Nov. 30, 1921, in Jackson Parish, Louisiana, to Wiley Lanis and Lou Retta Mercer Womack. She attended Chatham High School in Chatham, Louisiana. When she was 12 years old, she joined First Baptist Church in Chatham. She...
Anne Iles
Apr 10, 2007
Anne Frances Kenjura Iles, 79, died April 10, 2007 at Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mrs.Iles was born July 14, 1927 in Brenham to Steve and Mary Washerlesky Kenjura. She was a bookkeeper and office manager at Walgreen for over 40 years. Mrs. Iles was a member of St. Mary s Catholic Church in Brenham. Previously, she was a...
Deloris Burnham
Apr 10, 2007
Deloris I. Kiecke Burnham, 89, of Plano, TX, the widow of Herbert Burnham, died Tuesday, April 10, 2007 in a Plano nursing home. Deloris was born March 10, 1918, in Brenham, Texas to Louis and Annie Boeker Kiecke. She attended Brenham schools. On September 26, 1936, she was married to Herbert Burnham in Brenham. She was employed by Brenham...

Kyle Schulze
Apr 6, 2007
Kyle David Schulze, 15, of Houston went home to be with his Lord and Savior at 1:56 AM on Good Friday, April 6, 2007 at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was born on May 1, 1991, in Houston to Larry and Pat Hodde Schulze. He was baptized June...
Hildegard Tiaden
Apr 1, 2007
Hildegard Sophie Tiaden, 104, of Brenham, died April 1, 2007, at Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village in Brenham. Mrs. Tiaden was born July 25, 1902, in the Cedar Hill community of Washington County, Texas, to Edward and Bertha Krause Steinbach. She was baptized in the Christian faith on April 17, 1903 in St. Peter s Lutheran Church of Gay Hill...
Robert Mills
Mar 31, 2007
Robert Bobby Franklin Mills, Jr., 62, of Washington, died March 31, 2007, at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Mr. Mills was born Oct. 21, 1944, in Midland, Texas, to Robert Franklin Sr. and Maxine Kuykendall Mills. On Jan. 18, 1980, he was married to Oma Elizabeth Twiggs in Brenham. Bobby was employed as a security guard at...

George Reddoch, Jr.
Mar 31, 2007
George B. Reddoch, Jr. 72, of Brenham, died March 31, 2007 at Trinity Medical Center. Mr. Reddoch was born in Hereford, Texas on July 23, 1934 to George B., Sr. and Naomi K. Jackson Reddoch. He is survived by his sisters and brothers-in-law, Shirley and Donald Lowden of Killeen; Jacki Joy Johnson of The Woodlands, and Jo Ann and...