Recent Obituaries

Mar 27, 2003

Fred Ruemke, 78, of Brenham, died March 27, 2003, in a Houston hospital. Mr. Ruemke was born Sept. 16, 1924, in the Zionsville community of Washington County, TX, to Reinhardt and Emma Heins Ruemke. He was baptized March 8, 1925, in Zion Lutheran Church in Zionsville and was later confirmed in the Lutheran faith. He attended Greenvine Grammar School....

Mar 24, 2003

Gertrude Springer Bilski, 74, of Chappell Hill, TX, died March 24, 2003, in Colonial Belle Nursing Home in Sealy, TX. Mrs. Bilski was born Jan. 2, 1929, in Chappell Hill, TX, to Henry and Sophie Lewandowski Springer. She was baptized and confirmed in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Chappell Hill. On April 5, 1995, she married Victor Bilski in...

Mar 13, 2003

Ike Selvester Nowak, 80, of Cypress, died March 13, 2003, at his residence. Mr. Nowak was born July 30, 1922, in Chappell Hill, Texas, to Stanley and Mary Cegielski Nowak. He was baptized Jan. 31, 1922 in Chappell Hill and was confirmed in Richmond. Mr. Nowak was educated at Richmond High School. He served in the U.S. Air Force...

Mar 12, 2003

Ola Betts Casey died March 12, 2003, in Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village in Brenham, TX. She was born in Union County, AR, at Old Union Juno on June 11, 1902, to Sam Davis and Lizzie Perry Betts. She was the last surviving member of the Sam Davis Betts family. She was a longtime resident of Union County and El...

Mar 6, 2003

Dora Hohlt Engelbrecht was born the 9th day of October, 1911, in Long Point, Texas, the daughter of Theodore and Mary Hohlt. She entered into eternal rest on Thursday, March 6, 2003, at Fayette Memorial Hospital in La Grange, Texas. She was 91 years old. Mrs. Engelbrecht was educated in the Long Point School system. She was united in...

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...

Mar 4, 2003

Lawrence Arthur Schmidt, 83, of Burton, died March 3, 2003, in St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Mr. Schmidt was born May 22, 1919, in Burton, to Arthur and Elise Stork Schmidt. He was educated at the Greenvine School. On Oct. 13, 1940, he married Elvera Neutzler in Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Greenvine. Mr. Schmidt was a retired...

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...