Recent Obituaries
Lucille Peterson
Feb 19, 2003
Lucille Peterson, 95, of 406 Cottonwood St., Brenham, died Feb. 19, 2003, in Brenham Rest Home. Mrs. Peterson was born July 7, 1907, in Maxie, Louisiana, to Houston and Rosa Anna McClelland Stakes. She was number seven of 11 children and was raised on large rice farms. She walked or rode a horse-drawn buggy to school in Louisiana and...
Ella Hoefelmeyer
Feb 17, 2003
Ella Mae Hoefelmeyer, 81, of Brenham, died Monday, Feb. 17, 2003, in Bluebonnet Hills Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Hoefelmeyer was born April 26, 1921, in the Meyersville community of Washington County, TX, to Fritz and Martha Newman Schroeder. She was baptized June 12, 1921 in St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Sandy Hill by Pastor G. Czerkus and was...
William Smith
Feb 16, 2003
Waldo Smith, age 66, of Brenham, died Sunday, February 16, 2003, in a Houston hospital. Mr. Smith was born Sept. 17, 1936, in Brenham, TX, the son of Travis and Ivy Gummelt Smith. He attended Klump and Wesley Elementary schools and graduated from Brenham High School. In high school, he was active in FFA, serving as president of the...
Ralph Clarke
Feb 16, 2003
Ralph Burt Clarke, 89, of Brenham, died February 16, 2003, in Canton, Georgia. Dr. Clarke was born May 14, 1913, in Birmingham, Michigan, to George Burt F. and Zella Viola Heany Clarke. He served his country during World War II 1941-1945 as a time study and methods analyst with the Murray Corporation of Detroit, Michigan, which built the wings...
Emil Ganske, Jr.
Feb 15, 2003
Emil C. Ganske, Jr. died in Bluebonnet Hills Nursing Home in Brenham on Saturday night, February 15, 2003. Born on March 12, 1905 at Artesian Park, in Washington County, Emil was the son of Emil, Sr. & Johanna Zibilski Ganske. He was baptized on April 30, 1905 in Zion Lutheran Church at Zionsville by Pastor M. Haag. He was...
Clarence Lohmeyer
Feb 14, 2003
Clarence W. Lohmeyer , age 75, of Washington, Texas, and the husband of Rose Lee Loesch Lohmeyer, died Friday, February 14, 2003 in the Methodist Diagnostic Hospital, in Houston. Mr. Lohmeyer was born on October 29, 1927, in Washington, Texas to Henry and Ida Renn Lohmeyer. He was baptized and confirmed in the Friedens United Church of Washington. He...
Laverne Vash
Feb 11, 2003
LaVerne Vash, 80, of Brenham, died February 11, 2003, at her residence. Mrs, Vash was born March 8, 1922, in Brenham, Texas to Herman Sr. and Lydia Wehring Ahrens. She was June 25, 1922, in her home by Pastor Arthur Hartman and was confirmed September 4, 1938, in Eben-Ezer Lutheran Church in Berlin. On June 3, 1944, she married...
April Blackmore
Feb 9, 2003
Services for April Michelle Blackmore-Becraft, 31, will be at the Brenham State School Chapel on Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 1:00 P.M. Burial will follow in Prairie Lea Cemetery in Brenham. The Family will receive visitors from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Tuesday, February 11, 2003 in Memorial Oaks Chapel. April died February 9, 2003 in Brenham, Texas. She was...
Jeanine Alexander
Feb 8, 2003
Jeanine Cullen Alexander, 50, of Brenham, died Sunday, February 8, 2003, in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Ms. Alexander was born January 2, 1953, in Eku, Nigeria, West Africa, to Dr. Paul S. and Ida Wright Cullen. She was baptized in 1961 in Second Baptist Church in Houston. She was a graduate of Bellaire High School, attended Stephen...
Herbert Emshoff
Feb 6, 2003
Herbert Walter Emshoff, 83, of Brenham, and the husband of Ruth Henske Emshoff passed away Thursday, February 6, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Emshoff was born October 21, 1919, in New Wehdem, Austin County, Texas, the son of William and Henrietta Koester Emshoff. He was baptized December 14, 1919, and was confirmed March 25, 1934 in...
A. Carpenter
Feb 6, 2003
A.V. Carpenter, 77, of Brenham, went home to be with the Lord, Thursday, February 6, 2003, in Brenham. A.V. was born November 27, 1925 to Newton Van and Elgie Wilson Carpenter in Terrell, Texas. He graduated from Forney High School in Forney, Texas. He served in the Navy and Army. He married his wife, Freda Bounds Carpenter, on May...
Howard Matthies
Feb 4, 2003
Howard Herbert Matthies, 90, of Burton, died Feb. 4, 2003, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham with his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter by his side. Mr. Matthies was born on December 5, 1912, in the La Bahia community, near Burton. He was the fourth child of Ernst Theodore and Ida Emma Krause Matthies. He was baptized on March 2,...
Minnie Reno
Jan 12, 2003
Minnie Ollie H. Reno, 89, of Carmine, TX, died Jan. 12, 2003, at her residence. Mrs. Reno was born Nov. 11, 1913, in Huntington, TX, to Joseph Irvin and Martha Alice Ivy Donnell. She married Charles M. Reno, Jr. in Huntington and was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Charles M. Reno, Jr. of Carmine; sons and daughters-in-law, Joe...
Elsie Dannhaus
Jan 11, 2003
Elsie L. Emshoff Dannhaus, 92, of Brenham, died Jan. 11, 2003, in Bluebonnet Hills Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Dannhaus was born May 6, 1910, in New Wehdem, TX, to John and Henrietta Kochwelp Emshoff. She was baptized June 19, 1910, in St. James Lutheran Church in New Wehdem and was confirmed April 5, 1925, in the same church....
Dorothy Longbotham
Jan 10, 2003
Dorothy Mayer Longbotham, 71, of Round Top, TX, died Jan. 10, 2003, in Garland, TX. Mrs. Longbotham was born Aug. 12, 1931, in Round Top, TX, to Willie John Fritz and Irene Leona Muske Mayer. She was baptized in St. Paul Lutheran Church in Shelby and was confirmed in Fayetteville, TX. She was a 1950 graduate of Bellville High...
Larey Kieke
Nov 6, 2002
Larey Nelson Kieke, 91, of 609 Spinn St. in Brenham, Texas, passed away on November 6, 2002, at 12:51 p.m. He was born February 9, 1911, near Burton, Texas, the son of Henry Kieke Jr. and Alma Hinze Kieke. He was baptized in the Round Top Lutheran Church on June 25, 1911 and was confirmed in the Carmine Lutheran...
Robert Sehlke
Nov 5, 2002
Robert William Sehlke, 42, of Brenham, died Nov. 5, 2002, at his residence. Mr. Sehlke was born Aug. 24, 1960, in Brenham, to Edward W. and Ruby Schroeder Sehlke. He was baptized Oct. 2, 1960 in St. Paul Lutheran Church in Rehburg by Pastor Zimmermann and was confirmed in Faith Lutheran Church in Dickinson. He was educated in League...
Sue Ganske
Oct 26, 2002
SUE ANN SHANNON GANSKE, 60, OF BRENHAM, DIED AT THE TRINITY MEDICAL CENTER SATURDAY. MRS. GANSKE WAS BORN AUGUST 24, 1942, IN STUTTGART, ARKANSAS, TO JAMES ROY AND EVA LOUIS KELTNER SHANNON. SHE WAS BAPTIZED IN THE CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. ON JUNE 18, 1962, SHE MARRIED BERRY GANSKE IN THE BROADMOOR CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN HOUSTON, TEXAS....
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