Recent Obituaries

Mar 4, 2003

Robert Preuss, Sr., 92, of Brenham, died March 4, 2003, in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mr. Preuss was born Sept. 27, 1910, in Washington County, Texas, to Willie and Louise Quebe Preuss. He was baptized in 1910 in St. John s Lutheran Church in Prairie Hill by Pastor Apfelbach and was confirmed April 10, 1927, in Zion Lutheran...

Feb 27, 2003

Virginia Wolfe, 78, of Brenham, died Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2003, at her residence. Mrs. Wolfe was born Feb. 11, 1925, in Houston, to Clifford T. and Pearl L. Walters McAlexander. She was a graduate of Jefferson Davis High School in Houston. In 1952, she was baptized in Garden Oaks Baptist Church. During World War II, she worked at the...

Feb 27, 2003

Robert Temple Effinger, Jr., Bob , a native Texan, was born in San Antonio, Texas on December 22, 1912 to Robert Temple Effinger Sr. and Faye Hall. His family transferred to Houston, Texas where Bob attended Hamilton Jr. High and Reagan High School. He worked nights at the Houston Public Library and excelled as an athlete. He worked his...

Feb 25, 2003

Peter Alexander Gurka, 49, of Chappell Hill, died Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Gurka was born July 2, 1953, in Houston, to Billie Anton and Irene Konieczny Gurka. He was baptized in St. Francis of Assisi Church in Houston and was confirmed in St. Mary s Catholic Church in Plantersville. Mr. Gurka was...

Feb 24, 2003

Lola Jean Eberhardt, 81, of Burton, passed away Monday, Feb. 24, 2003, at Trinity Medical Center. Born Lola Jean Knittel to Emojene and Arnie Knittel, she married Lawrence Eberhardt on Dec. 25, 1939. Together they had one daughter, three sons, a daughter-in-law, and four grandchildren. She is also survived by three sisters. She was preceded in death by her...

Feb 23, 2003

Alton R. Wendler, 80, of Brenham, died Sunday, Feb. 23, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Wendler was born April 20, 1922, in Washington County, TX to Herman H. and Alvina Jurchak Wendler. He attended Mill Creek School. On Oct. 21, 1947, he married Erna Mae Ludwig. She preceded him in death on March 26, 1972. On...

Feb 23, 2003

Erwin Otto Zibilski, 86, of Brenham, died Thursday, February 20, 2003 in a Bryan nursing home.

He was the last of seven children born to Carl and Anna Helm Zibilski on July 21, 1916 in Burton, Texas. Erwin was baptized October 16 , 1916, and later confirmed in St. John s United Church of Christ in Burton...

Feb 21, 2003

David Clarence Schlipf, 67, of Brenham, TX died peacefully at Gazebo Terrace. He was born in Rocky Ridge, Ohio. Dave worked for New York Central Railroad as a heavy equipment operator for eight years. After receiving a BS degree in civil engineering from Tri State College, Angola, IN in December 1963, he began a 25-year career with Alcoa Aluminium...

Feb 19, 2003

Lucille Peterson, 95, of 406 Cottonwood St., Brenham, died Feb. 19, 2003, in Brenham Rest Home. Mrs. Peterson was born July 7, 1907, in Maxie, Louisiana, to Houston and Rosa Anna McClelland Stakes. She was number seven of 11 children and was raised on large rice farms. She walked or rode a horse-drawn buggy to school in Louisiana and...

Feb 17, 2003

Ella Mae Hoefelmeyer, 81, of Brenham, died Monday, Feb. 17, 2003, in Bluebonnet Hills Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Hoefelmeyer was born April 26, 1921, in the Meyersville community of Washington County, TX, to Fritz and Martha Newman Schroeder. She was baptized June 12, 1921 in St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Sandy Hill by Pastor G. Czerkus and was...

Feb 16, 2003

Waldo Smith, age 66, of Brenham, died Sunday, February 16, 2003, in a Houston hospital. Mr. Smith was born Sept. 17, 1936, in Brenham, TX, the son of Travis and Ivy Gummelt Smith. He attended Klump and Wesley Elementary schools and graduated from Brenham High School. In high school, he was active in FFA, serving as president of the...

Feb 16, 2003

Ralph Burt Clarke, 89, of Brenham, died February 16, 2003, in Canton, Georgia. Dr. Clarke was born May 14, 1913, in Birmingham, Michigan, to George Burt F. and Zella Viola Heany Clarke. He served his country during World War II 1941-1945 as a time study and methods analyst with the Murray Corporation of Detroit, Michigan, which built the wings...

Feb 15, 2003

Emil C. Ganske, Jr. died in Bluebonnet Hills Nursing Home in Brenham on Saturday night, February 15, 2003. Born on March 12, 1905 at Artesian Park, in Washington County, Emil was the son of Emil, Sr. & Johanna Zibilski Ganske. He was baptized on April 30, 1905 in Zion Lutheran Church at Zionsville by Pastor M. Haag. He was...

Feb 14, 2003

Clarence W. Lohmeyer , age 75, of Washington, Texas, and the husband of Rose Lee Loesch Lohmeyer, died Friday, February 14, 2003 in the Methodist Diagnostic Hospital, in Houston. Mr. Lohmeyer was born on October 29, 1927, in Washington, Texas to Henry and Ida Renn Lohmeyer. He was baptized and confirmed in the Friedens United Church of Washington. He...

Feb 11, 2003

LaVerne Vash, 80, of Brenham, died February 11, 2003, at her residence. Mrs, Vash was born March 8, 1922, in Brenham, Texas to Herman Sr. and Lydia Wehring Ahrens. She was June 25, 1922, in her home by Pastor Arthur Hartman and was confirmed September 4, 1938, in Eben-Ezer Lutheran Church in Berlin. On June 3, 1944, she married...

Feb 9, 2003

Services for April Michelle Blackmore-Becraft, 31, will be at the Brenham State School Chapel on Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 1:00 P.M. Burial will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery in Brenham. The Family will receive visitors from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Tuesday, February 11, 2003 in Memorial Oaks Chapel. April died February 9, 2003 in Brenham, Texas. She was...

Feb 8, 2003

Jeanine Cullen Alexander, 50, of Brenham, died Sunday, February 8, 2003, in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Ms. Alexander was born January 2, 1953, in Eku, Nigeria, West Africa, to Dr. Paul S. and Ida Wright Cullen. She was baptized in 1961 in Second Baptist Church in Houston. She was a graduate of Bellaire High School, attended Stephen...

Feb 6, 2003

Herbert Walter Emshoff, 83, of Brenham, and the husband of Ruth Henske Emshoff passed away Thursday, February 6, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Emshoff was born October 21, 1919, in New Wehdem, Austin County, Texas, the son of William and Henrietta Koester Emshoff. He was baptized December 14, 1919, and was confirmed March 25, 1934 in...

Feb 6, 2003

A.V. Carpenter, 77, of Brenham, went home to be with the Lord, Thursday, February 6, 2003, in Brenham. A.V. was born November 27, 1925 to Newton Van and Elgie Wilson Carpenter in Terrell, Texas. He graduated from Forney High School in Forney, Texas. He served in the Navy and Army. He married his wife, Freda Bounds Carpenter, on May...

Feb 4, 2003

Howard Herbert Matthies, 90, of Burton, died Feb. 4, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham with his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter by his side. Mr. Matthies was born on December 5, 1912, in the La Bahia community, near Burton. He was the fourth child of Ernst Theodore and Ida Emma Krause Matthies. He was baptized on March 2,...