Recent Obituaries

Dec 27, 2008

Helen Krueger Loesch, 81 of Brenham passed away Saturday, December 27, 2008 at College Station Medical Center. She was the widower of Arno W. Loesch. Helen was born on Jan. 4, 1927 in Independence, Texas, the daughter of Otto and Sophie Schnieder Krueger. She attended Independence School, she worked in the retail business for a number of years. On...

Dec 26, 2008

Maurice Eugene "Shorty" Trostle passed away Friday, December 26, 2008 at his home. Funeral services will be held Monday, Dec. 29 at 2 p.m. at St. Paul''s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 305 W. Third, with Pastors Lawrence Bade and Phillip Fenton officiating. Interment will follow at Prairie Lea Cemetery in Brenham. The family will receive visitors from 4 to 6...

Dec 26, 2008

Maurice Eugene "Shorty" Trostle passed away Friday, December 26, 2008 at his home. Funeral services will be held Monday, Dec. 29 at 2 p.m. at St. Paul''s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 305 W. Third, with Pastors Lawrence Bade and Phillip Fenton officiating. Interment will follow at Prairie Lea Cemetery in Brenham. The family will receive visitors from 4 to 6...

Dec 26, 2008

Fred Myles Moorhead, Sr., 88, widower of Josie Self Moorhead, died December 26, 2008 in Trinity Medical Center. Mr. Moorhead was born September 21, 1920 in Durant, Mississippi to James Linder and Myrtice Weeks Moorhead. He served his country in the U. S. Army during World War II. On February 22, 1946 he married Josie Self in Durant, Mississippi....

Dec 26, 2008

A full obituary will be posted later.

Dec 20, 2008

Mike Mikolajewski, 80, of Chappell Hill, passed away December 20, 2008, at Colonial Bell Nursing Home in Bellville, Texas. He was born September 23, 1928 to Pete Mikolajewski Sr. and Mary Duschinski of Chappell Hill. He was a rancher and was in the United States Air Force. He is survived by brothers and sister-in-law, Charles and Joyce Mikolajewski of...

Dec 17, 2008

Lucy Adams Marks, 73, of Brenham, passed away December 17, 2008 in Memorial Hermann Hospital in Katy. Mrs. Marks, widow of Ricky Marks, was born May 6, 1935 in Poughkeepsie, New York to Mike Adams and Dinah Marks. On April 25, 1962, she was married to Ricky Marks. Mrs. Marks was a homemaker. Survivors include sons Ricky Marks and...

Dec 14, 2008

Elvira Venia Caudill Woodley of Brenham passed away December 14, 2008 in Brenham. Elvira was born January 2, 1923 to Samuel and Myrtle Caudill in Morehead, Kentucky. She completed her Registered Nurses training at Morehead State University, and completed her internship at John Hopkins Univeristy in Baltimore, Maryland. After completion, she moved to Houston and worked for a private...

Dec 6, 2008

Helen Rogers, 77, of Brenham passed away December 6, 2008 in Brenham Rest Home. Mrs. Rogers was born February 10, 1931 in Clay, Texas to Robert Spencer and Helen Farquhar Rogers. She was educated in Clay area schools and Brenham High School. Miss Rogers was a homemaker, and a member of the Independence Baptist Church for 62 years. In...

Dec 6, 2008

Albert Duane Ross, 59, of Brenham, husband of Holly Ross, died December 6, 2008 in Brenham. Mr. Ross was born December 16, 1948 to Albert Clifford and Willa Jeanette Roark Ross in Okmulgee, OK. He was baptized August 20, 1997 in Westside Foursqaure Church in Albuquerque. On October 8, 1992, he married Holly Bullard in Carson City, Nevada. Mr....

Dec 5, 2008

Rita D.Lange, 86, widow of Otto Lange, died in Trinity Care Center Friday afternoon, December, 5. Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m., Sunday, December 7, 2008, at St. Peter''s Lutheran Church Cemetery. Services are entrusted to Memorial Oaks Chapel, 1306 W. Main, Brenham, Texas.

Dec 4, 2008

Hilda Tegeler, 91, widow of Benhard Tegeler, died December 4, 2008 in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mrs. Tegeler was born December 24, 1916 to Herman and Lydia Wehring Ahrens. She was baptized and later confirmed in Eben-Ezer Lutheran Church of Berlin. On November 30, 1939, she married Benhard Herman Tegeler in Eben-Ezer Lutheran Church of Berlin. Mr. and...

Dec 2, 2008

Milton "Butch" Eckermann, Jr., 58, of Brenham, husband of Doris Eckermann, passed away December 2, 2008 at his residence on the evening of their 36th wedding anniversary. Butch was born May 14, 1950 in Brenham to Milton, Sr. and Helen Thiel Eckermann. He was baptized July 23, 1950 in Industry Methodist Church in Industry, and confirmed February 9, 1964...

Dec 2, 2008

Robert Lee Donnell, 86, of the Zionsville community near Brenham, passed away December 2, 2008 in Houston.

Mr. Donnell was born February 16, 1922 in Wichita Falls, Texas to Alfred Henry and Lettie Ann Davis Donnell. He attended Blinn College and received training in the military. He married Hedwig Heidi Hermine Wenz in Kitzingen, Germany, and they...

Nov 29, 2008

James Robert McSherry, Jr., age 50, of Brenham, husband of Paula Ramirez McSherry, passed away November 29, 2008 in Trinity Medical Center. Mr. McSherry was born December 31, 1957 to James Robert and Arlene Gorman McSherry, Sr., in El Paso, Texas. He served in the U.S. Army Reserves, and was employed as a Senior Service Operation Technician for Prosec....

Nov 26, 2008

Gone is a husband, father, father-in-law, brother, cousin, friend, democrat, writer, student, paperboy, KA, police officer, dry cleaner, gardener, fireman, beekeeper, dog lover, arborist, cattleman, chicken farmer, travel agent, Lion, soldier, government worker, art collector, traveler, wind rancher, bird watcher, Redskin, Astro, Longhorn, storyteller, listener, alderman and a man. William Deming Hornaday II, passed away November 25, 2008 in...

Nov 24, 2008

William G. Eldred, Jr., 84, of Brenham, died November 24, 2008, in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center. He was born January 29, 1924, to William G. Eldred and Anita Felscher Eldred. Mr. Eldred served in the U. S. Army in W.W.II, during which time he met and married Rose Anderson in Seattle, WA in 1945. After returning to Brenham, he...

Nov 23, 2008

Dorothy Frances Phillips, 65, of Brenham, passed away at her home in Brenham. Dorothy was born May 21, 1943 to James Roy and Frances Johnson Hightower in Holtville, CA. She was most recently employed at an area nursing home. Survivors include sons Darrell Gandy of Navasota; Rodney Sue Grandy of Brenham; Chad Gandy Nicole of Brenham; Robert Gandy Donna...

Nov 18, 2008

Anita Quebe Dallmeyer, 90, widow of Walter Dallmeyer, died November 18, 2008 in Trinity Medical Center. Mrs. Dallmeyer was born April 23, 1918 in Buckholts, Milam County, Texas to Charlie and Olga Kuehn Quebe. She was baptized June 18, 1918 in Hope Lutheran Church of Buckholtz by Rev. H. E. Daude, and confirmed April 9, 1923 in St. John...

Nov 14, 2008

Alma Wood Ferguson, affectionately known as Woodie, was born in Brenham, Texas on August 27, 1924. She left this life November 14, 2008. Woodie was preceded in death by her parents, Harry E. Ferguson and Mattie Reeves Wood Ferguson, by her beloved grandmother, Alma Wood, and by her sister Ellen Ferguson Van de Mark. She is survived by two...