Recent Obituaries
Anna Kern
Aug 21, 2010
Anna Bette Kern, 91, widow of Hickman Kern, died August 21, 2010 in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Funeral services will be held Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel, with Rev. Steve Ponder officiating. Interment will take place in Forest Park, Lawndale in Houston. Anna Kern was born January 2, 1919 in Purcell,...
Mary Davidson
Aug 11, 2010
After a long battle with illness, Mary Helen Davidson issued her final request: Take me home! Helen has returned home this August 11, 2010. As she passes into the arms of her Lord, we honor her life and spirit with this homecoming remembrance. Helen was born September 29, 1942 in Normangee, Texas to Mary and Herman Sanders. She graduated...
Philip Schulte
Aug 9, 2010
Philip D. Schulte, husband of Verline Kunkel Schulte, died August 8, 2010 in Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village. Mr.Schulte was born to Eddie and Mary Engelmohr Schulte on July 2, 1929 in Greenvine, Texas. He married Verline Kunkel on May 5, 1990 in Martin Luther Lutheran Church in Carmine. Philip served his country in the U. S. Army during the...
Barbara Baranowski
Aug 7, 2010
Barbara Ann Winkelmann Baranowski, 52, the wife of Max Baranowski, Jr. of Round Top, Texas died in their residence on Saturday afternoon, August 7, 2010. Born in Brenham, Texas on August 25, 1957, Barbara was the daughter of Lee Roy & Delores Dippel Winkelmann. She was baptized and confirmed in St. James Lutheran Church of New Wehdem. She graduated...
Robert Nesbit
Aug 6, 2010
Robert Donald Nesbit, 66, of Welcome, died August 6, 2010 at ChristusDubuis Hospital in Bryan. The family will receive friends and relatives at Memorial Oaks Chapel beginning at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 10, 2010, with a memorial service following at 2:00 p.m. with Reverend Jim Harrell officiating. There will be a celebration of life to follow at the Welcome...
Gladys Schilling
Aug 5, 2010
Gladys Mertz Schilling, 78, wife of Delphine G. Schilling, died August 5, 2010 in Kruse Memorial Village. Funeral services will be held Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Paul s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brenham. Pastors Lawrence Bade and Phillip Fenton will officiate. Burial will follow in the Greenvine Cemetery. The family will receive friends and...
Alvera Siemsglusz
Jul 26, 2010
Alvera Siemsglusz was called from this life to her eternal home and rest on Monday morning, July 26, 2010. She spent her last week at St. Joseph s in Bryan, Texas, receiving loving and tender care and the visits of her family, her doctors and the nursing staff. Alvera was born July 9, 1914 in Pilger, Nebraska. Her parents...
Susan Hill
Jul 11, 2010
Susan Elaine Kieke Hill. Age 58, of Brenham, Texas passed away at 1:55 AM on Sunday, July 11th. Her and her husband Johnny D. Hill, of 20 years were riding home from the popular Downtown Brenham Hot Nights, Cool Tunes, which they would attend yearly. The crash happened at the corner of Pleasant Hill School Road and Hwy 36,...
Elsie Meyer
Jul 11, 2010
Elsie Linda Wiesepape Meyer, 90, of Brenham, died Sunday, July 11 at The Care Center of Brenham. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, July14 at 10:00 a.m. at Eben-Ezer Lutheran Church of Berlin with Kenneth Weiss officiating. Interment will be in Prairie Lea Cemetery in Brenham. The family will receive friends and relatives at Memorial Oaks Chapel Tuesday, July...
Evelyn Lorenz
Jul 2, 2010
Evelyn Horstmann Lorenz, 86 of Brenham, the widow of Alvin Lorenz, died in a Bryan Hospital, Friday night. She was born February 3, 1924 in William Penn, Washington County to Lonnie Horstmann and Selma Buerger Horstmann. Evelyn was baptized on March 10, 1924 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church by Rev. H. F. Hellmann, confirmed April 10, 1938 at St. Matthews...
Floyd Grebe
Jun 30, 2010
Floyd B. Grebe, 83, of Brenham, died June 30, 2010, in Trinity Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 3 in St. John Lutheran Church of Prairie Hill with Pastor David Hansen officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive visitors from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday evening at Memorial...
Anna Bilski
Jun 27, 2010
Anna L. Bilski, 80, widow of Florian Bilski, died June 27, 2010 in Memorial Hermann, Memorial City Hospital in Houston. Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in St. Mary''s Catholic Church in Brenham. Father David Ivey will officiate. Interment will follow in St. Stanislaus Catholic Cemetery in Chappell Hill. The family will receive...
Leona Lehmann
Jun 24, 2010
Leona Lehmann, 100, of Brenham, died June 24, 2010 in Kruse Village. Funeral services will be held Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 2:00p.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Pastor Lawrence Bade will officiate. Burial will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery. Miss Lehmann was born September 4, 1909 in Burton to Albert J. and Mary Schawe Lehmann. She was baptized in...
Margaret Wensel
Jun 23, 2010
Margaret I. Miiller Wensel, 83, of Brenham, widow of Edwin Wensel, died June 23, 2010. Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in St. John''s United Church of Christ in Burton, with burial following in the church cemetery. Greg Felder will officiate. The family will receive friends and relatives Friday evening from 6:00 until...
Willie Mertz
Jun 12, 2010
Willie Ernest Mertz, 85, of Burton, husband of Vernell Schilling Mertz, died Saturday, June 12, 2010, in Trinity Medical Center. Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Greenvine, with Pastor Rich Nelson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives Monday evening...
Rodney Fuhrman
Jun 11, 2010
Rodney Lee Fuhrman, 47, of Brenham, died June 11, 2010 in Richmond Hills, Georgia. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel. Pastor Darren Donaldson will officiate. Burial will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery. Rodney was born May 10, 1963 in Wichita Falls, Texas to Eugene F. Fuhrman and Lorraine Goettman...
Christin Romero
Jun 10, 2010
Christin Audrey Carroll Romero, 35, of Trinidad, Colorado, died June 10, 2010 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mrs. Romero was born December 15, 1974, in Bryan, TX to Arthur Vane Carroll, Jr. and Judy Rogers Carroll. She was baptized into the Christian Faith on January 15, 1978 in Christ Lutheran Church in Brenham, and confirmed on June 7, 1987 at...
Gladyola Jeske
Jun 8, 2010
Gladyola Louise Linnstaedter Jeske, 89, widow of Glenn L. Jeske, died June 8, 2010 in Trinity Care Center. Funeral services will be held Friday, June 11, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at St. John Lutheran Church of Prairie Hill. Pastor Virgil Pecht will officiate. Interment will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives Thursday evening...
Herbert Faithauer
Jun 6, 2010
Herbert Faithauer, 94, of Brenham, widower of Linda Mae Hodde Faithauer, died June 6, 2010 in Brenham Rest Home. Herbert was born in Washington County on April 20, 1916 to William and Emma Hahn Faithauer. He attended Washington County area schools, and on Sept. 14, 1947, he married Linda Mae Hodde in Immanuel Lutheran Church of Wiedeville. For 27...
Margie Perkins
May 28, 2010
Margie Perkins, 100, of Houston, died May 28, 2010, in Plaza Specialty Hospital in Houston. A graveside service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 2 at St. Peter''s Lutheran Church Cemetery at Gay Hill with Pastor Virgil Pecht officiating. Miss Perkins was born April 17, 1910 to Henry and Nora Sims Perkins in McCrory, Arkansas. She received...

