Recent Obituaries

Thomas Simpson
Jul 13, 2004
Thomas Daniel Simpson, 56, of Brenham, died July 13, 2004, at his residence. Mr. Simpson was born Nov. 13, 1947, in Houston, to Thomas Durwood and Ruth Calvert Simpson. He was a graduate of the University of Texas at Harlingen. On April 20, 2000, he married Connie Gordon in Brenham. He was a sales manager at Auto Zone in...

Erwin Glaesmann
Jul 8, 2004
Erwin Henry Glaesmann, 86, of Brenham, died July 7, 2004, at his residence. Mr. Glaesmann was born March 13, 1918, in the Long Point community of Washington County, Texas, to Henry and Mary Herzog Glaesmann, He was baptized and confirmed in Zion Lutheran Church in Zionsville. He was educated at Long Point School and Blinn College. Mr. Glaesmann enlisted...
Sue Boehnke
Jul 6, 2004
Sue Ann Boehnke, 68, of Brenham, died July 6, 2004, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mrs. Boehnke was born Sept. 1, 1935, in Shreveport, Louisiana, to John Ulysses and Jewell Wynn Nelson. She was a graduate of Hawkins High School, where she was salutatorian of her graduating class and a member of the National Honor Society. Mrs. Boehnke...
Thomas Mcgraw
Jul 3, 2004
Thomas Edward McGraw entered the presence of God on July 3, 2004. Born on November 17, 1927, in Scottsbluff, NE, Tom has lived in Brenham, TX for the past 20 years with his wife of 53 years Ann Russell McGraw. He is predeceased by his father Earl Clyde McGraw, his mother Mildred Skoda McGraw and his brother Richard Lee...
Franklin Jasinski
Jun 26, 2004
Franklin Dewayne Schotts Jasinski, 57, of Brenham, died June 26, 2004, at his home surrounded by his family. Dewayne was born in Brenham, Texas, on November 3, 1946, the second of three children born to Frank John and Billie Marie Maynard Jasinski. He was baptized on November 29, 1949 and confirmed on November 13, 1960, at St. Mary s...

Herbert Korthauer
Jun 25, 2004
Herbert Korthauer, 90, of Burton, died Friday, June 25, 2004 at Trinity Medical Center. Mr. Korthauer was born December 31, 1913, in the Rehburg community to William and Louise Landua Korthauer. Mr. Korthauer was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith in St. Paul Lutheran Church, where he was a member all his life. He served on the church...

Josephine Cronk
Jun 23, 2004
Josephine Frances Cronk, 80, of Brenham, died June 23, 2004, in St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Mrs. Cronk was born Sept. 30, 1923, in Anadarko, Oklahoma, to John and Josephine Roller Pavlica. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Walt Moffett of Brenham; grandchildren, Mike Marino, Marc Marino, Lacey Moffett and Ronni...
Delphine Schulz
Jun 22, 2004
Delphine Henry Del Schulz, 76, of Brenham, died June 22, 2004, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Schulz was born April 2, 1928, in the Welcome community of Austin County, Texas, to Walter A. and Ophilia Thielemann Schulz. He was baptized and confirmed in Salem Lutheran Church in Welcome. Mr. Schulz attended Welcome school, was a graduate of...
William Harris
Jun 21, 2004
William A. Harris, 73, of Brenham, died, June 21, 2004, in Houston. Mr. Harris was born Feb. 4, 1931, in Newton, Kansas, to Harold R. and Ethel Dorhman Harris. He was a graduate of Lincoln High School and earned a degree in agricultural engineering from Kansas State. He served four years in the U.S. Air Force in Germany. On...

Paul Newton
Jun 19, 2004
Child of God, Paul Charles Newton, looked into the smiling face of his Lord on Saturday, June 19, 2004. Paul was born in Austin, Texas, on September 1, 1948, and is preceded in death by parents, Eldon and Rebecca Newton. From childhood, Paul was nurtured by caregivers at Austin, Travis, Brenham and Richmond State Schools. Though separated by miles,...
Lucille Stoughton
Jun 19, 2004
Lucille Marie Stoughton passed away on June 19, 2004 at her home in Brenham, Texas. She was born November 6, 1936 in Sparta, Michigan, the daughter of Fred and Augusta Nussdoefer Blush. Lucille was raised on the family farm in the Kent City area where she attended school. She graduated as salutatorian of her senior class and attended Western...
Bertha Koerth
Jun 19, 2004
Bertha Malinda Muehlbrad Koerth, 102, of Burton, and the widow of Edward O. Koerth, died Saturday June 19, 2004 at Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mrs. Koerth was born November 25, 1901, in the Burton community, Washington County, TX, to Emil and Wilhemine Krause Muehlbrad. She was baptized March 30, 1902in Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Greenvine by Reverend John...

Cleo Evans
Jun 19, 2004
Cleo Evans, 90, of Burton, wife of Ernest Evans, died Saturday, at Kruse Village in Brenham. She was born on October 4, 1913 in Yorktown, Texas, the daughter of Conrad and Ola Pearl Alexander Flowers. Mrs. Evans attended and received her Bachelors Degree from Incarnate Word College in San Antonio, Texas and her Masters Degree from St. Mary s...

Frieda Guelker
Jun 17, 2004
Frieda Mae Guelker of Burton, Texas, began her celebration into eternal life on June 17, 2004. Frieda Mae was born October 19, 1927, to Albert and Frieda Ponfick Kuehn in Burton. She was baptized into God s family by Rev. Walton in St. John s United Church of Christ in Burton on June 24, 1928 and was confirmed in...

Julia Schultz
Jun 15, 2004
Julia Schulz, 100, of the Gay Hill community, died June 15, 2004, in Austin. Mrs. Schulz was born Nov. 10, 1903, in Holman, Texas, to Herman and Julia Farek Meyer. She was baptized in the Catholic Church of Weimar and was confirmed in 1925 in the Lutheran Church in Needville. She attended Foster School in Needville. On Sept. 5,...
Gladys Krause
Jun 13, 2004
Gladys Jaster Krause, age 78, passed away June 13, 2004, in La Grange. She was born in Carmine, Texas, on Dec. 6, 1925, to Alfred Jim Jaster and Ida Emma Werner Jaster. She was baptized Aug. 11, 1926, at Evangelical Lutheran Church in Carmine by Pastor A.H. Falkenburg and was confirmed on Palm Sunday in 1939 by Pastor Henry...
Victor Bilski
Jun 7, 2004
Victor Valerian Bilski, 72, of Chappell Hill, Texas, died June 7, 2004, in Katy Memorial Hospital in Katy. Mr. Bilski was born Nov. 12, 1931, in Chappell Hill, Washington County, Texas, to Joseph and Mary Cegielski Bilski. He was baptized and confirmed in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Chappell Hill and attended Wonder Hill School. Mr. Bilski served in...
Esther Ehlert
Jun 6, 2004
Esther Hahn Ehlert, 92, of Prairie Hill, died Sunday, June 6, 2004, in Brenham Rest Home, where she had resided since experiencing a massive stroke in October, 2001. Mrs. Ehlert was born July 30, 1911, to Ernest and Rosena Boortz Hahn in Live Oak Hill, Washington County. She was baptized on Sept. 10, 1911, in St. John Lutheran Church,...
Clarence Krause
Jun 2, 2004
Clarence Otto Krause, 82, of Brenham, died June 2, 2004, in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Mr. Krause was born Nov. 8, 1921, in the Long Point community of Washington County, Texas, to Adolf August and Emilie Harmel Krause. He was baptized Jan. 15, 1922, in St. Paul Lutheran Church in Rehburg by Rev. Weber and was confirmed...

Mildred Buerger
May 29, 2004
Mildred Rodenbeck Buerger, 81, of Brenham, TX, died May 29, 2004, in Gazebo Terrace Nursing Center in Brenham. Mrs. Buerger was born Aug. 20, 1922, to Ed and Esther Hopman Rodenbeck. On Dec. 1, 1942, she married Charlie Buerger in St. Peter s Lutheran Church in Gay Hill. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Charlie Buerger of...