Recent Obituaries
Isabel Sehlke
Nov 12, 2003
Isabel A. Sehlke, 92, of Burton, died Nov. 12, 2003, in Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village in Brenham. Mrs. Sehlke was born Jan. 28, 1911, in Washington County, TX, to Charles and Otillia Draeger Lamp. She attended Burton schools. On Feb. 12, 1931, she married Edward Louis Sehlke in St. Peter s Lutheran Church in Gay Hill. Mrs. Sehlke was...
Herbert Ladewig
Nov 12, 2003
Herbert Hugo Ladewig, 89, of College Station, died Nov. 12, 2003, in College Station. Mr. Ladewig was born Jan. 31, 1914, in Colorado County, TX, to Louis and Hattie Ladewig. On Nov. 24, 1938, he married Emma Christensen in Danevang Lutheran Church in Danevang. Mr. Ladewig was retired from Texas A&M University maintenance in the animal science department and...
Joel Franke
Nov 11, 2003
Joel Lee Franke was called to his heavenly home on Tuesday morning November 11, 2003. Mr. Franke was born September 20, 1941, in New Ulm, Texas to Henry and Elinor Howe Franke. He was christened at the Frelsburg Lutheran Church and was confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church. He attended La Marque public schools. After graduation from La Marque High...
Ira Zuehlke
Nov 11, 2003
Ira Dement Schatz Zuehlke was born September 26, 1903 at the home of her beloved parents, Bethel and Emma Black Dement in Burton, Texas. Ira taught school in Gay Hill, Texas and helped operate Red & White Grocery Store and the Washington County Hatchery in Burton. Ira was the first woman in the state of Texas to serve as...
Russell Coile, Jr.
Nov 10, 2003
Russell Cleven Coile, Jr., one of the nation s top healthcare management consultants, died Nov. 10, 2003, of complications from brain cancer. He was 60. Coile was a pioneering health futurist, spotting trends and advising hospitals, physicians groups and health plans across the country for more than two decades. In 2002, he was named one of the top 100...
Abie Lesser, Jr
Nov 1, 2003
Abie Lesser, Jr. , 78, of Brenham, died Saturday evening, November 1, 2003 at Trinity Medical Center. Mr. Lesser is the husband of Dorothy Crawford Lesser and the father of Patsy Lesser Hermann of Brenham. Born October 12, 1925 in Brenham, Texas, Abie was the son of Abie Lesser, Sr. and Faye Thomas Lesser. He received his education in...
Elsie Kelm
Oct 31, 2003
Elsie Schroeder Kelm, 93, a native of Washington County, Texas, died on October 31, 2003 in the Spring Shadow Pines Nursing Facility in Houston, Texas. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, November 4 at 2:00 p.m. in St. Peter s Lutheran Church of Gay Hill with Pastor Virgil Pecht officiating. Interment will be in St. Peter s Lutheran...
Larry Higgins
Oct 29, 2003
Larry Ray Higgins, 58, of Brenham, died Oct. 28, 2003, in St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Mr. Higgins was born Jan. 6, 1945, in Houston, to William F. and Jessierae Southard Higgins. He was baptized April 10, 1955 in First Methodist Church in Lockhart and was confirmed May 15, 1966 in Salem Lutheran Church of Salem. He...
Herbert Zuehlke
Oct 28, 2003
Herbert Zuehlke, 85, of Brenham, died October 28, 2003 in Bluebonnet Hills Care Center in Brenham. Mr. Zuehlke is the recent widower of Dorothy Wiesepape Zuehlke, who died on September 30 of this year. Born on March 30, 1918 in Old Washington, Texas, Herbert was the son of Paul & Olga Albrecht Zuehlke. He was baptized Friedens United Church...
Gerry Ginn
Oct 28, 2003
Gerry Suter Ginn, 71, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2003, in a Giddings nursing home. Mr. Ginn was born Feb. 29, 1932 to Paul D. Ginn and Laura Thomas Ginn in Brenham. He was baptized in the Baptist faith at age 10. He was educated in Brenham schools and Blinn College and served in the U.S. Army for two...
Virginia Schulz
Oct 27, 2003
Virginia Stegant Schulz was born on November 27, 1931 to Leon and Nancy Flisowski Stegant in Brenham, Texas. She was baptized in infancy by Rev. John Wesolek in St. Mary s Catholic Church and was later confirmed there. Virginia attended St. Mary s School and Brenham High School. A well-known, very well-respected LVN, Virginia s love of helping people...
Gloria Gibbs
Oct 27, 2003
Gloria Marion Gibbs, 80, of Brenham, died Oct. 27, 2003, in Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. Gloria was born July 22, 1923, in Akron, Ohio, to Albert G. and Marion Somers Humphrey. On Nov. 17, 1952, she was married to Raymond Gibbs, Sr. in Toledo, Ohio. She was a member of First Pentecostal Church in Brenham. Mrs. Gibbs had...
Hilda Sander
Oct 24, 2003
Hilda Selma Rose Riechers Sander, 86, died October 24, 2003 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, near Brenham, following a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on May 12, 1917, in the Phillipsburg community of Washington County, the youngest child of Fritz and Anna Prahl Riechers. She was baptized on July 1, 1917, by Rev. A.A....
Milton Neumann
Oct 24, 2003
Milton Neumann, 80, of Shelby, died Oct. 24, 2003, in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Mr. Neumann was born Nov. 7, 1922, in the Winedale community of Washington County, TX, to Arthur and Anna Neumann. He was baptized Dec. 31, 1922, in Winedale Lutheran Church by Rev. A.H. Falkenberg and was confirmed Sept. 20, 1936, in the same...
Annie Brending
Oct 22, 2003
Annie Kmiec Brending, 81, of Brenham, died Wednesday, October 22, 2003 in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Annie was born July 17, 1922 in Chappell Hill, TX to Pete & Hattie Kmiec. She was baptized in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Chappell Hill and confirmed on October 24, 1940 in the same church. On July 3, 1948 she married...
Melvin Steinkamp
Oct 18, 2003
Melvin Steinkamp, 87, was granted eternal peace by his heavenly Father on October 18, 2003. A celebration of his life will be held at St. Paul s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brenham at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 21, 2003, with Pastor Lawrence Bade and Pastor Kim Little-Brooks officiating. He will be laid to rest at Prairie Lea Cemetery....
Delphine Hinze
Oct 9, 2003
Delphine Robert Hinze, 84, of Burton, died Oct. 9, 2003, in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mr. Hinze was born Jan. 28, 1919, in the Round Top-Carmine community, to Gustav and Alma Krause Hinze. He was baptized and confirmed in the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top. Mr. Hinze married Rosa Lee Leonhardt in Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round...
Clabourne Vaughan
Oct 8, 2003
Clabourne Walter Vaughan, 68, of Brenham, TX, died October 8, 2003, at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. He was born in Gonzales County on June 16, 1935, to Scott and Persia King Vaughan. He was a retired truck driver. He is survived by his wife, Rozell; two daughters, Lenise Wilson and fiancé Duncan Little of Seabrook and...
Theodore Rau
Oct 3, 2003
Theodore Otto Rau, 87, of Brenham, died Oct. 3, 2003 in College Station Medical Center in College Station. Mr. Rau was born July 17, 1916, in Wiedeville, TX, to Fritz Sr. and Louise Kalkhake Rau. He was baptized Oct. 1, 1916, in Immanuel Lutheran Church in Wiedeville and was confirmed March 29, 1931, in the same church. He attended...
Marty Brodnax
Sep 30, 2003
Marty Brodnax was born on February 6, 1933 in Rusk, Texas, the daughter of William & Josephine Weems Denman. The widow of A.C. Curly Brodnax, Marty died at her home in Burton on September 30, 2003. A free-lance writer, Marty was fun loving, free spirited and true to her friends and family. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Roger...
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