Recent Obituaries

Edwin Breddin
Feb 19, 2008
Edwin Rudolph Breddin, 91, of Brenham, passed away February 19, 2008 in Trinity Care Center. Mr. Breddin was born December 29, 1916 in the Wonder Hill community to Willie and Malinda Schaeffer Breddin. He was baptized at St. Paul''s Lutheran Church of Phillipsburg, and also later confirmed there. He was educated in the Wonder Hill School. On December 22,...
Stanley Flisowski, Sr.
Feb 17, 2008
Stanley Flisowski, Sr., 86, of Brenham, passed away February 17, 2008 in Kruse Village. Mr. Flisowski was born June 16, 1921 in Brenham to John and Josephine Gurka Flisowski. On October 27, 1942, he married Helen Lewandowski in Chappell Hill. She preceded him in death July 15, 2005. Mr. Flisowski served in the U.S. Army during World War II....

Stanley Flisowski
Feb 17, 2008
Stanley Flisowski, 86 of Brenham, husband of Helen Flisowski, passed away February 17, 2008 in Kruse Village in Brenham. Funeral arrangements are pending at Memorial Oaks Chapel 1306 West Main St. Brenham, 979-836-4564

La Neinast
Feb 17, 2008
La Nell Neinast, 83 of the Rehburg community, died February 15, 2008 at her residence, after a courageous battle with cancer. Mrs. Neinast was born September 19, 1924, to Herbert and Elsie Kasten Nienstedt. She was baptized at St. Paul''s Lutheran Church in Brenham and confirmed at St. John''s United Church of Christ in Burton on April 14, 1938....

Lanell Neinast
Feb 15, 2008
LaNell Neinast, 83 of the Rehburg community, died February 15, 2008 at her residence, after a courageous battle with cancer. Mrs. Neinast was born September 19, 1924, to Herbert and Elsie Kasten Nienstedt. She was baptized at St. Paul''s Lutheran Church in Brenham and confirmed at St. John''s United Church of Christ in Burton on April 14, 1938. She...

Frank Schramm
Feb 14, 2008
Frank Schramm, 100, of Shelby, husband of Marie Lehmann Schramm, passed away February 14, 2008 in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mr. Schramm was born July 25, 1907 in Skull Creek, Austin County, to Willie and Anna Marie Dunkel Schramm. He was baptized and later confirmed at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Shelby. He was educated in Skull Creek...

Minnie Ellermann
Feb 12, 2008
Minnie Wehring Ellermann, 86, of Brenham, passed away February 12, 2008 in Brenham Rest Home. Mrs. Ellermann was born May 1, 1921 in William Penn to Henry and Minnie Loesch Wehring. She was baptized and confirmed in Bethlehem Lutheran Church of William Penn. Mrs. Ellermann was educated in William Penn schools and was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church,...

Florence Harmel
Feb 11, 2008
Florence B. Harmel, 88, of Brenham, died February 11, 2008, at Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Florence was born on August 14, 1919 in Washington County, Texas to William and Louise Landua Korthauer. Florence was a lifelong member of St. Paul Lutheran Church of Rehburg. She became a child of God through the sacrament of Holy Baptism on November...

Wanda Schmidt
Feb 6, 2008
Wanda Kenjura Schmidt, 92, of Brenham, passed away February 6, 2008 in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Schmidt was born August 18, 1915 in Anderson, Texas to Joe and Kathryn Warchesik Kenjura. She was baptized in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church of Anderson, and later confirmed at St. Mary''s Catholic Church of Brenham. Mrs. Schmidt attended Wiedeville School and...

Edward Ruemke
Feb 5, 2008
Edward Louis Ruemke, 69, of Brenham, husband of Dorothy Bosse Ruemke, died February 5, 2008 in Tomball Regional Hospital in Tomball. Mr. Ruemke was born September 16, 1938 in Washington County to Louis H. and Ida C. Peters Ruemke. He was baptized November 6, 1938 in Greenvine by Pastor Carl L. Ziehe and confirmed on April 6, 1952 in...
Nelda Schlottmann
Jan 31, 2008
Nelda Spinn Schlottmann, 92, of Brenham, died Jan. 31, 2008, at her residence. Mrs. Schlottmann was born Nov. 17, 1915, in the Cedar Hill community of Washington County, Texas, to Gus and Louisa Gindorf Spinn. She was baptized Jan. 9, 1916, at St. John Lutheran Church of Prairie Hill and was confirmed April 13, 1930, in the same church....

Louise Derrick
Jan 30, 2008
Louise Derrick, 97, of Burton, widow of Hugh A. Derrick, passed away January 30, 2008 in Brenham Rest Home. Mrs. Derrick was born January 1, 1911 in Burton, Texas to Julius Edward and Pauline Wolters Felder. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Paul''s Lutheran Church of Rehburg Rev. H. Weber. She was educated in the Burton schools. On...

Pauline Foley
Jan 27, 2008
Pauline Walton Loesch Foley, 85, widow of John Thomas Foley, passed away January 26, 2008 in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Foley was born December 18, 1922 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Allen Lee Walton and Cora Lee Walton. She was baptized, as an infant, into the Baptist faith and converted to Catholicism in 1968. In 1942 Pauline married...

Charles Smith
Jan 26, 2008
Charles Donald Smith, 74, husband of Mary Jane Cullum Smith, passed away January 26. 2008, in Trinity Care Center, in Brenham. Mr. Smith was born June 17, 1933 in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Thomas Richard Smith and Mary Josephine Brunini. He served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict and in the Army Reserves, he was decorated with...
Pearlie Weiss
Jan 24, 2008
Pearlie Helma Drews Weiss, 88, wife of Gilbert Weiss, passed away January 24, 2008 in Kruse Village in Brenham. Mrs. Weiss was born March 10, 1919 in the Latium Community of Washington County. She was baptized in Greenvine Lutheran Church of Greenvine, and later confirmed there. On January 26, 1941, she was married to Gilbert Weiss by Rev. Hartmann....

Ben Schroeder
Jan 23, 2008
Bernhard Ben Christian Schroeder was born in Phillipsburg, Texas on June 9, 1910. He went home to be with the Lord on January 23, 2008, in Franklin, Texas. He lived 97 years, 7 months, and 14 days. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. II Timothy 4:7. Ben grew up...

Amanda Glaesmann
Jan 23, 2008
Amanda Glaesmann, 86, of Brenham, died January 23, 2008, at her residence. Mrs. Glaesmann was born June 25, 1921, in William Penn, Texas, to Martin and Henrietta Boenker Klussmann. She was baptized and confirmed in Bethlehem Lutheran Church of William Penn and attended William Penn School. On Nov. 11, 1942, she was married to Erwin Glaesmann in Bethlehem Lutheran...

Mary Brown
Jan 20, 2008
Mary E. Brown, 88, of Chappell Hill, died January 20, 2008, at Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Mrs. Brown was born March 30, 1919, in Detroit, Michigan, to Peter Burns and Edith Marion Harrison Wilson. She earned a bachelor of commercial science degree from Detroit Business University. On April 23, 1940, she was married to Theodore Roger Brown...
Eleanor Hall
Jan 20, 2008
On Sunday, January 20, 2008 at Scott/White Hospital in Temple, Texas, Jean Hall entered into eternal rest. Eleanor Jean Hall was born August 29, 1931 to Alma and Hershel Wilson, in Chandlerville, IL. Jean attended Woodruff High School and Peoria Business College in Peoria, Illinois, and subsequently worked for Caterpillar Tractor Company. While working for Caterpillar, she met Ron...

Annie Hahn
Jan 20, 2008
Mrs. Annie Mae Shelburne Hahn passed away on January 20, 2008 in Brenham, Texas. Annie Mae Shelburne was born on May 15, 1919 in Somerville, Texas to George Bell Shelburne and Miley Christenek Shelburne Eickenhorst. Annie Mae was raised in the Methodist faith, but after marriage she joined St. Paul’s Evangelical Church in Brenham. Annie Mae kept mindful the...