Recent Obituaries
Verlin Boecker
May 22, 2009
Verlin Boecker, 85, widow of Leroy C. Boecker, died May 22, 2009 in Trinity Care Center. Mrs. Boecker was born July 2, 1923 to Fritz and Emily Loesch Tiemann in the New Wehdem community of Austin County. She was baptized August 12, 1923 by Rev. H. A. Heineke in St. James Lutheran Church of New Wehdem, and confirmed there...
Helena Duch
May 20, 2009
Helena Duch, 86, of Brenham, died May 20, 2009, in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Duch was born February 7, 1923, in Washington County, Texas, to Willie and Ella Markwardt Meier. On April 27, 1939, she was married to Henry Duch in St. Matthew Lutheran Church of Sandy Hill. Mrs. Duch and her husband were owners of Brenham...
Johnnie Mueller
May 20, 2009
Johnnie Dewayne J.D. Mueller, 75, passed away on May 20, 2009 at Trinity Medical Center. J.D. was born on November 21, 1933 in the LaBahia Community to John A. Mueller and Ida Stebner Mueller. He was baptized on February 11, 1934 and confirmed his faith on March 21, 1948 at Martin Luther Lutheran Church in Carmine, Texas. J.D. began...
June Flavin
May 17, 2009
June Cameron Flavin, 83, of Brenham, died May 17, 2009, in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Mrs. Flavin was born June 17, 1925, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of John G. and Gladys Johnson Cameron. She was baptized and confirmed in St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She later became a member of Brenham Presbyterian Church...
Madge Yackey
May 15, 2009
Madge Elizabeth Hearne Yackey, 90, of Brenham, widow of Dwight Allen Yackey, died May 15, 2009 in Kruse Memorial Village. Born July 8, 1919 in Oskaloosa, Iowa to Charles Anson and Jennie Myrtle Carr Hearne, she attended high school in Oskaloosa and completed two years of college. On December 7, 1944, she married Dwight Allen Yackey in Warrensberg, Missouri....
Raymond Quade
May 12, 2009
Raymond Dean Quade, 83, of Brenham, husband of Adeline Adell Gruetzner Quade, died May 12, 2009, at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas. Mr. Quade was born in Wells, Minnesota, on September 7, 1925, to Gustav Fredrick and Frances Hubbard Quade. He was baptized and later confirmed in St. John Lutheran Church in Wells, Minnesota. On June 2,...
Erna Arndt
May 11, 2009
Erna Rosenbaum Arndt, 89, of Brenham, died May 11, 2009, at Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Arndt was born March 31, 1920, in the Gay Hill community of Washington County, Texas, to Fritz and Meta Duesterhoft Rosenbaum. She was baptized June 13, 1920, in Friedens United Church of Christ of Gay Hill and was confirmed September 30, 1934,...
Jesse Cooper
May 8, 2009
Jesse Billie Jean Cooper, 66, of Brenham, the wife of Russell Cooper Jr., died Friday May 8, 2009 at her residence. Mrs. Cooper was born in Hardin, Texas on December 30, 1942, the daughter of Daniel and Delma Alford Henderson. She graduated from Hardin High School and was employed at Arthur Anderson as a purchaser manager. Mrs. Cooper was...
William Kyle
May 8, 2009
William "Billy" Douglas Kyle, 29, died unexpectedly on May 8, 2009. Billy was born March 22, 1980 in Webster, Texas. He graduated from Brenham High School in 1998. He earned a bachelor''s degree in economics from Texas A&M University, Class of 2002. Billy was a proud member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, Squadron 16 "Falcon 16" and...
Bessie Surovik
May 4, 2009
Bessie Mikeska Surovik, widow of Daniel Otto Surovik, died May 4, 2009 in Trinity Medical Center. She was born February 1, 1925 in Abbott, Texas to Frank and Francis Hejl Mikeska. She was employed at Blinn College as a cafeteria worker. Bessie is survived by her son, Tom Surovik of Brenham; a granddaughter, Kara Surovik Thompson and husband Josh,...
Marjorie Kennedy
May 4, 2009
Marjorie "Marj" Hopkins Potter Kennedy, 87, of Brenham, died peacefully in her sleep May 4, 2009 in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham, Tx. Born June 8, 1921 to Lewis Merle and Mildred BarbaraHopkins Potter in Bradford Woods in Marshal Township, Pennsylvania, Mrs.Kennedy was a registered nurse. She served her country in the U. S. Army during World War II...
John Behne, Sr.
Apr 30, 2009
John Louis Behne, Sr., 84, widower of Chloe Marie Pierce Behne, died Thursday, April 30, 2009 at Trinity Medical Center. John was born at home on June 24, 1924 to Leo Theodore and Mary Elizabeth Lange Behne in Fairbanks, Tx. He attended Fairbanks Elementary School, and graduated in 1943 from Cypress-Fairbanks High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy...
Marlene Bonds
Apr 27, 2009
Marlene Kriewald Bonds died at her home in Brenham on April 27, 2009. She was born in Robstown, Texas, on June 15, 1935 to Bruno and Alvina Kriewald, who were South Texas cotton farmers. Marlene graduated from Robstown High School in 1954 and entered Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, where she had a distinguished undergraduate academic career. One highlight...
Esther Klussmann
Apr 26, 2009
Esther Schroeder Klussmann, 94, widow of Martin F. Buster Klussmann, died April 26, 2009 in Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village. She was born in William Penn, Washington County, To Rudolph and Mathilda Loesch Schroeder on June 16, 1914. Mrs. Klussmann was baptized and confirmed in Bethlehem Lutheran Church of William Penn, and she married Martin Klussmann on November 29, 1939...
Gustav Foerster, Jr.
Apr 26, 2009
Gustav Foerster, Jr. 83, husband of Georgie Tschiedel Foerster, of Burton, died April 26, 2009 in Trinity Medical Center. Born October 3, 1925 to Gus F. L. and Bessie Melcher Foerster, he was baptized in the Swiss Alp Lutheran Church on December 26, 1925, and confirmed there on April 2, 1939. In the same church, he married Georgie Tschiedel...
Melvin Henry
Apr 24, 2009
MELVIN E. HENRY, age 70, passed away April 24, 2009 at St. Luke''s Hospital, Houston, Texas. Melvin was born August 21, 1938 in Olathe, Kansas to Myron B. Henry and Mathilda Schwarz Henry, both of whom predeceased him. He retired to Brenham in 2002 from Houston where he had been a plumbing contractor. He was so happy these last...
Marilyn Carter
Apr 23, 2009
Marilyn Ann Carter, 64, of Brenham, died April 23, 2009 in Brenham. Marilyn was born June 30, 1944 to Tommie Boyd and Helen Mae Green Carter in Los Angeles, CA. Survivors include her sister Sharon and husband Jerry Allen of Brenham; nieces Lisa Allen of Boulder Co., Jennifer Treadway and husband Scott of Temecula, Ca., and Heidi Doe and...
Carry Wellmann
Apr 22, 2009
Carry Mae Steinfeld Wellmann, 85, of Brenham, widow of Raymond Wellmann, Sr., died April 22, 2009 in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center. Mrs. Wellmann was born August 18, 1923 to Charlie Sr. and Lillie Gaskamp Steinfeld in Washington County, Texas. Mrs. Wellmann was a homemaker. She was an expert quilter, and enjoyed sewing and playing dominoes. Carry and Raymond Sr.,...
Donald Hollar
Apr 18, 2009
Donald Darwin "Polly" Hollar, 72, of Brenham, died April 18, 2009 in Trinity Medical Center. Polly was born in Guthrie, Texas to E. W. Dub and Vera Dove Flippin Hollar on September 8, 1936. He was baptized in the South Wichita River in Guthrie. In 1959, he received a B.S. in Animal Husbandry from Texas Tech University. Polly was...
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