Recent Obituaries
Barbara Hackemack
Sep 16, 2003
If you ever visited Hackemack s Hofbruhaus at New Ulm/Frelsburg, Texas during the late 80s and most of the 90s, chances are that you were Greeted and Seated by the smiling face of Barbara Hackemack. Barbara Hackemack, age 55, passed away at her home near Brenham, Texas on her husband s birthday, September 16, 2003, after conquering the difficulties...
Raymond Platzer, Sr.
Sep 16, 2003
Raymond Culver Platzer Sr., 91, passed away on September 16, 2003, in Brenham, Texas. Services will be held Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003, at 11:00 a.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel in Brenham, Texas. Pastor Henry A. Sanders of Faith Outreach Christian Center in Navasota, Texas, will be officiating. Burial will be at Wesley Brethren Church Cemetery in Wesley. Raymond Platzer...
Estella Schoenst
Sep 11, 2003
Estella Ida Schoenst, 86, of Carmine, TX, died Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mrs. Schoenst was born March 17, 1917, in Shelby, TX, to Theodore and Mary Quade Neumann. She was baptized on March 24, 1918 in Shelby and was confirmed Sept. 18, 1932 in Winedale. On Jan. 10, 1937, she married Fritz Schoenst,...
Mary Deal
Sep 9, 2003
Mary Louise Deal, age 72, was born in Birmingham, Alabama on November 20, 1930. She passed away peacefully on September 9, 2003 at her home for the past nine years, Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village in Brenham, Texas. She was surrounded and comforted by her husband of 50 years and her four children. While Alzheimer s disease took her memory...
Concordia Manuel
Sep 9, 2003
Concordia Connie Manuel, 59, of Brenham, died Sept. 9, 2003, in St. Luke s Hospital in Houston. Mrs. Manuel was born August 14, 1944, in Santa Maria, Philippines, to Benjamin Gungon and Agatona Gimeno. She was baptized and confirmed in the Philippines. She earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the College of San Juan De Dios...
Viola Wieghat
Sep 6, 2003
Viola A. Wieghat, 73, of Brenham, died Sept. 6, 2003, in Select Specialty Heights Hospital in Houston. Mrs. Wieghat was born to Alfred and Frieda Meyer Brauner on April 23, 1930, in the Greenvine community of Washington County. She was baptized June 29, 1930, in the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Greenvine and was confirmed in the same church on...
Edward Murski
Sep 5, 2003
Edward J. Murski, 77, of Houston, Texas, died Sept. 5, 2003, in a Houston hospital. Mr. Murski was born Dec. 19, 1925, in Brenham, Texas, to Frank and Mary Kasprowicz Murski. He attended Brenham High School and was to be inducted into the BHS Cub Football Hall of Honor. Mr. Murski served in the Army during World War II...
Herbert Klaus
Sep 1, 2003
Herbert William Klaus, 70, of Burton, died Sept. 1, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Klaus was born Nov. 17, 1932, in Burton, TX, to Hugo and Elsa Geisler Klaus. From 1950 to 1962, he served in the Marines in Korea and Japan. He was a retired U.S. Government civil service employee. Mr. Klaus was a member...
R. Landua
Aug 31, 2003
R. Lee Landua, 86, of Brenham, died August 31, 2003, in Brenham. Mr. Landua was born May 21, 1917, in Rehburg, TX, to Paul and Olivia Broesche Landua. He was baptized July 8, 1917 in St. Paul Lutheran Church in Rehburg and was confirmed in the same church. He was educated in the Charlesville schools. On Nov. 10, 1940,...
Nancy Kartous
Aug 30, 2003
Nancy L. Kartous, 67, of Carmine, Texas died in her home on the evening of August 30, 2003. She was born on April 21, 1936 in Carmine, Tx, the daughter of Wayne Bishop and Dorothy Weyand Blackburn. She was a graduate of Carmine-Round Top School. She retired from the Pasadena, Texas Police Department in March of 1998. Survivors include...
Fritz Hermann
Aug 29, 2003
Fritz Robert Hermann, 96, of Brenham, died Aug. 29, 2003, in Brenham. Mr. Hermann was born June 7, 1907, in Brenham, TX, to Louis Ferdinand and Amalie Hoffmann Hermann. He was baptized April 17, 1910. On Nov. 22, 1934, he married Antonie Alma Hauck in St. Paul s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brenham. Mr. Hermann was a farmer and...
Elton Tonn
Aug 29, 2003
Elton E. Tonn, 96, of Brenham, died Aug. 29, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Tonn was born Sept. 29, 1906, in the Greenvine community of Washington County, TX, to Edward and Anna Pflughaupt Tonn. He was baptized Nov. 6, 1906 in Eben-Ezer Lutheran Church in Berlin and was confirmed in the same church. On Sept. 10,...
Andy Kammerer
Aug 29, 2003
Andy Kammerer, 89, of Brenham, died on Friday evening, August 29, 2003 in a local nursing home. Born in the Prairie Hill community of Washington County on April 14, 1914, Andy was the son of Herman and Lillie Boortz Kammerer. Mr. Kammerer was baptized in St. John Lutheran Church at Prairie Hill and was later confirmed in Zion Lutheran...
Landis Kamas
Aug 29, 2003
Landis Lanbert Kamas, 68, of Brenham died on Friday afternoon, August 29, 2003 in a Giddings, Texas nursing home. Born in the home of his parents, John Paul & Hermina Jurchak Kamas in the Nelsonville community of Austin County, Texas on February 20, 1935, Landis was baptized in the Nelsonville Brethren Church and attended school in Bellville, graduating from...
Joe Martinez
Aug 28, 2003
Joe Martinez, 43, of Brenham, died Aug. 28, 2003, in Scott and White Hospital in Temple. Mr. Martinez was born Sept. 13, 1959, in Houston, TX, to Jose R. Martinez and Jesusa De Los Santos. He was a carpenter. Survivors include his son, Michael P. Martinez of Brenham; mother, Jesusa Martinez of Brenham; brothers, Guadalupe Martinez, Juan M. Martinez,...
Erna Hahn
Aug 25, 2003
Erna Elvira Stroech Hahn, 78, of Brenham, died Aug. 25, 2003, in Brenham Rest Home. Mrs. Hahn was born May 14, 1925, in Greenvine community of Washington County, Texas, to Herman and Emma Jaster Stroech. She was baptized at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Greenvine and was confirmed April 2, 1939 in the same church. On May 12, 1946, she...
Travis Broesche
Aug 22, 2003
Travis Broesche, age 92, of Brenham, died at home on Aug. 22, 2003. He was born May 6, 1911, in Ellinger, Texas, the son of H.G. and Ida Ehlert Broesche. He was baptized into the Christian faith in Burton by his uncle, Rev. August Falkdenberg on March 24, 1912, and was confirmed on March 28, 1926, by Rev. Arthur...
Alvina Wehring
Aug 20, 2003
Alvina Sophie Wehring died on August 20, 2003 in College Station Medical Center at the age of 85. She was born April 15, 1918, to Otto G. and Annie Dieckmeier Wehring near Burton. She is survived by a brother, Gus A. Wehring and wife Jan of Burton; sister-in-law, Helen Wehring of Austin; nephew, Stephen W. Wehring and wife Vicki...
Dr. Kruse
Aug 11, 2003
Dr. Neil Howard Kruse, 45, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., entered into eternal rest Monday, Aug. 11, 2003 at his residence following a short and courageous battle with cancer. Dr. Kruse was born April 7, 1958 in Brenham, Texas, son of Ed. F. and Evelyn Tiaden Kruse. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1980 and University of Texas Health...
Tommy Endrade
Aug 7, 2003
Tommy Joe Andrade, 29, of College Station, died August 7, 2003, in College Station, Texas. Mr. Andrade was born May 26, 1974 in El Campo, Texas, to Richard and Janie Garcia Andrade. He attended the El Campo and Caldwell schools and was employed as a record producer. Survivors include his mother, Janie Garcia of Brenham; son, Tommy Joe Andrade,...
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