Recent Obituaries
Hilda Sander
Oct 24, 2003
Hilda Selma Rose Riechers Sander, 86, died October 24, 2003 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, near Brenham, following a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on May 12, 1917, in the Phillipsburg community of Washington County, the youngest child of Fritz and Anna Prahl Riechers. She was baptized on July 1, 1917, by Rev. A.A....
Milton Neumann
Oct 24, 2003
Milton Neumann, 80, of Shelby, died Oct. 24, 2003, in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Mr. Neumann was born Nov. 7, 1922, in the Winedale community of Washington County, TX, to Arthur and Anna Neumann. He was baptized Dec. 31, 1922, in Winedale Lutheran Church by Rev. A.H. Falkenberg and was confirmed Sept. 20, 1936, in the same...
Annie Brending
Oct 22, 2003
Annie Kmiec Brending, 81, of Brenham, died Wednesday, October 22, 2003 in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Annie was born July 17, 1922 in Chappell Hill, TX to Pete & Hattie Kmiec. She was baptized in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Chappell Hill and confirmed on October 24, 1940 in the same church. On July 3, 1948 she married...
Melvin Steinkamp
Oct 18, 2003
Melvin Steinkamp, 87, was granted eternal peace by his heavenly Father on October 18, 2003. A celebration of his life will be held at St. Paul s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brenham at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 21, 2003, with Pastor Lawrence Bade and Pastor Kim Little-Brooks officiating. He will be laid to rest at Prairie Lea Cemetery....
Delphine Hinze
Oct 9, 2003
Delphine Robert Hinze, 84, of Burton, died Oct. 9, 2003, in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mr. Hinze was born Jan. 28, 1919, in the Round Top-Carmine community, to Gustav and Alma Krause Hinze. He was baptized and confirmed in the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top. Mr. Hinze married Rosa Lee Leonhardt in Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round...
Clabourne Vaughan
Oct 8, 2003
Clabourne Walter Vaughan, 68, of Brenham, TX, died October 8, 2003, at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. He was born in Gonzales County on June 16, 1935, to Scott and Persia King Vaughan. He was a retired truck driver. He is survived by his wife, Rozell; two daughters, Lenise Wilson and fiancé Duncan Little of Seabrook and...
Theodore Rau
Oct 3, 2003
Theodore Otto Rau, 87, of Brenham, died Oct. 3, 2003 in College Station Medical Center in College Station. Mr. Rau was born July 17, 1916, in Wiedeville, TX, to Fritz Sr. and Louise Kalkhake Rau. He was baptized Oct. 1, 1916, in Immanuel Lutheran Church in Wiedeville and was confirmed March 29, 1931, in the same church. He attended...
Marty Brodnax
Sep 30, 2003
Marty Brodnax was born on February 6, 1933 in Rusk, Texas, the daughter of William & Josephine Weems Denman. The widow of A.C. Curly Brodnax, Marty died at her home in Burton on September 30, 2003. A free-lance writer, Marty was fun loving, free spirited and true to her friends and family. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Roger...
Dorothy Zuehlke
Sep 30, 2003
Dorothy Wiesepape Zuehlke, 84, of Brenham, died Sept. 30, 2003, in Bluebonnet Hills Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Zuehlke was born June 18, 1919, in the Wiedeville community of Washington County, TX, to Charlie and Clara Bosse Wiesepape. She was baptized July 27, 1919, in Immanuel Lutheran Church of Wiedeville by Pastor K. Mueller and was confirmed March 25,...
Marguerite Dement
Sep 25, 2003
Marguerite Walters Dement, 95, of Brenham, TX, died Sept. 25, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mrs. Dement was born Dec. 9, 1907, in Starks, LA, to James Clark and Garnet Rose Mazilly Walters. She earned her bachelor s degree from Sam Houston State University and her master s degree from Southwest Texas State University. On May 26,...
David Howard
Sep 20, 2003
David Shane Howard, 36, of Brenham, TX, died Sept. 20, 2003, near Beaumont, TX. Mr. Howard was born Feb. 26, 1967, in Houston, TX, to Larry and Gwen Chatterton Howard. He served in the Air Force in support of Operation Desert Storm. On Aug. 20, 1988, he married Robyn Ker. Mr. Howard was a professional pilot and was a...
Travis Heins
Sep 18, 2003
Travis F. Heins, 75, of Brenham, died Sept. 18, 2003, at Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Heins was born Oct. 28, 1927, in the Greenvine community of Washington County, Texas, to Eton and Lena Oevermann Heins. He was baptized and confirmed in St. John s United Church of Christ in Burton. Mr. Heins attended Burton School and served...
Herman Wagner
Sep 18, 2003
Herman D. Wagner, 80, of Marietta, Georgia, the widower of Ladell Wagner, died Sept. 18, 2003, in Georgia. Mr. Wagner was born July 31, 1923, in Brenham, Texas, to August and Mary Bentke Wagner. Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Deanna Wagner of Marietta, Georgia; daughter and son-in-law, Sharon and Bruce Dugey of Houston; grandchildren, Dean Wagner,...
Barbara Hackemack
Sep 16, 2003
If you ever visited Hackemack s Hofbruhaus at New Ulm/Frelsburg, Texas during the late 80s and most of the 90s, chances are that you were Greeted and Seated by the smiling face of Barbara Hackemack. Barbara Hackemack, age 55, passed away at her home near Brenham, Texas on her husband s birthday, September 16, 2003, after conquering the difficulties...
Raymond Platzer, Sr.
Sep 16, 2003
Raymond Culver Platzer Sr., 91, passed away on September 16, 2003, in Brenham, Texas. Services will be held Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003, at 11:00 a.m. at Memorial Oaks Chapel in Brenham, Texas. Pastor Henry A. Sanders of Faith Outreach Christian Center in Navasota, Texas, will be officiating. Burial will be at Wesley Brethren Church Cemetery in Wesley. Raymond Platzer...
Estella Schoenst
Sep 11, 2003
Estella Ida Schoenst, 86, of Carmine, TX, died Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mrs. Schoenst was born March 17, 1917, in Shelby, TX, to Theodore and Mary Quade Neumann. She was baptized on March 24, 1918 in Shelby and was confirmed Sept. 18, 1932 in Winedale. On Jan. 10, 1937, she married Fritz Schoenst,...
Mary Deal
Sep 9, 2003
Mary Louise Deal, age 72, was born in Birmingham, Alabama on November 20, 1930. She passed away peacefully on September 9, 2003 at her home for the past nine years, Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village in Brenham, Texas. She was surrounded and comforted by her husband of 50 years and her four children. While Alzheimer s disease took her memory...
Concordia Manuel
Sep 9, 2003
Concordia Connie Manuel, 59, of Brenham, died Sept. 9, 2003, in St. Luke s Hospital in Houston. Mrs. Manuel was born August 14, 1944, in Santa Maria, Philippines, to Benjamin Gungon and Agatona Gimeno. She was baptized and confirmed in the Philippines. She earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the College of San Juan De Dios...
Viola Wieghat
Sep 6, 2003
Viola A. Wieghat, 73, of Brenham, died Sept. 6, 2003, in Select Specialty Heights Hospital in Houston. Mrs. Wieghat was born to Alfred and Frieda Meyer Brauner on April 23, 1930, in the Greenvine community of Washington County. She was baptized June 29, 1930, in the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Greenvine and was confirmed in the same church on...
Edward Murski
Sep 5, 2003
Edward J. Murski, 77, of Houston, Texas, died Sept. 5, 2003, in a Houston hospital. Mr. Murski was born Dec. 19, 1925, in Brenham, Texas, to Frank and Mary Kasprowicz Murski. He attended Brenham High School and was to be inducted into the BHS Cub Football Hall of Honor. Mr. Murski served in the Army during World War II...
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