Recent Obituaries
Alma Gaskamp
Feb 5, 2004
Alma Gaskamp, 89, of Washington, TX, died Feb. 5, 2004, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mrs. Gaskamp was born Oct. 14, 1914, in the William Penn community of Washington County, TX, to Ernest and Henrietta Loesch Hinze. She was baptized in Bethlehem Lutheran Church in William Penn by Pastor Iverson and was confirmed in the same church by...
Louis Bugaj
Feb 5, 2004
Louis Joseph Bugaj was born on September 12, 1925 in Chappell Hill, Washington County, Texas, the son of John & Hedwig Bilski Bugaj. He was baptized in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church and was later confirmed there. He attended the parochial schools of St. Stanislaus in Chappell Hill and St. Mary s in Brenham as well as Brenham High School...
Charles Wolff
Feb 1, 2004
Charles William Wolff, 79, of Brenham, passed away Feb. 1, 2004, after a short illness, in the Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Mr. Wolff was born to Edwin G. and Erna Hannes Wolff in Burleson County, TX, on June 13, 1924. He was baptized August 17, 1924 in St. Thomas in Old Dime Box, TX and was confirmed...
Kenneth Nixon
Jan 31, 2004
Kenneth Lee Ken Nixon, 86, of Carmine, died Saturday morning in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center, Brenham. Mr. Nixon was born April 18, 1917, in Brown County, Texas to Thomas Lee and Bessie Lynn Thomas Nixon. He served in the US Army during World War II and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the EAMC Campaign Medal with 5...
Eugene Seeker
Jan 29, 2004
Eugene C. Seeker, 74, of Brenham, died Jan. 29, 2004, at his residence. Mr. Seeker was born Jan. 18, 1930, in Brenham, TX, to Adolph and Emma Stegemueller Seeker. He was baptized March 2, 1930, in St. John Lutheran Church in Prairie Hill by Pastor Paul Gogolin and was confirmed April 2, 1944, in the same church by the...
Irene Lehmann
Jan 28, 2004
Irene Johanna Lehmann, 90, of Brenham, died Jan. 28, 2004, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Miss Lehmann was born March 30, 1913, in the Salem community of Washington County, TX, to Herman A. and Meta Schawe Lehmann. She was baptized June 29, 1913, in Salem Lutheran Church in Salem by Rev. Mgebroff and was confirmed April 1, 1928,...
Carolyn Wolverton
Jan 27, 2004
Carolyn Kay Gibert Wolverton, 60, of Burton, died Jan. 27, 2004, in her home after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Mrs. Wolverton was born April 24, 1943, in Mount Enterprise, TX, to Albert and Louise Phillips Gibert. On Dec. 29, 1961, she married Billy T. Wolverton. She was preceded in death by her father, Albert Gibert; stepfather, Harlon...
Bonnelle Landua
Jan 24, 2004
After a short battle with leukemia, Bonnelle Heine Landua, 89, of Brenham, died Jan. 24, 2004, in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Landua was born April 23, 1914, in the Rehburg community of Washington County, Texas, to F.H. and Dorothea Neinast Heine. On Sept. 20, 1942, she was married to Alfred Charles Landua in St. Paul Lutheran Church...
Catherine Zeiss
Jan 21, 2004
Catherine Moran Zeiss passed away January 21, 2004. She was born July 27, 1958, in Houston, Texas. Catherine was confirmed at St. Cecilia s Catholic Church and attended parochial schools in Houston, graduating from St. Agnes Academy in 1976. She attended Blinn Jr. College and later graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a Bachelor of Science...
Joseph Sykora
Jan 19, 2004
Joseph Jacob Sykora, 78, of Burton, died Jan. 19, 2004, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Sykora was born Nov. 4, 1925, in Stamford, TX, to John E. and Lillie Muehlstein Sykora. He was baptized and confirmed in Stamford and served in the U.S. Coast Guard. On Aug. 20, 1960, he married Joan J. Rodeck in Immaculate Conception...
Walter Jozwiak
Jan 16, 2004
Walter Frank Jozwiak, 68, of Chappell Hill, died Friday, January 16 in the Spring Branch Medical Center in Houston. Walter was born October 15, 1935, in Chappell Hill, to Walter J. and Martha Bilski Jozwiak. He was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic faith in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church of Chappell Hill, and attended the Wonder Hill School. On...
Bettye Wolverton
Jan 13, 2004
Bettye Jackson Wolverton, 90, of Burton, died Jan. 13, 2004, in Bluebonnet Hills Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Wolverton was born July 5, 1913, in Mt. Enterprise, Rusk County, Texas, to T.C. and Rebecca Davis Jackson. In February, 1932, she married Hollis Wolverton. Mrs. Wolverton was a member of First Baptist Church in Mt. Enterprise. Survivors include her son...
Jeraldyne Weisler
Jan 12, 2004
Jeraldyne Lehde Weisler, 64, of Brenham, died January 12, 2004, at her home. Jerry was born on October 29, 1939, in Houston, Texas, the only child of Helmus Daniel and Nola Balke Lehde. She was baptized December 17, 1939 and was confirmed March 29, 1953, at Zion Lutheran Church in Houston, Texas. Jerry graduated from Texas Lutheran University in...
Laclaves Kapchinski
Jan 12, 2004
Laclaves Archie Louis Kapchinski, 67, of Brenham, died Jan. 12, 2004, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Kapchinski was born Dec. 7, 1936, in Stoneham, TX, to Joe and Hattie Urbanosky Kapchinski. He was baptized in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Anderson. In 1975, he was married to Aissia Nichols. Survivors include his children and their spouses, Randy...
Billie Stegmann
Jan 8, 2004
Billie H. Stegmann, 59, of Brenham, died January 8, 2004, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mr. Stegmann was born October 21, 1944, in Brenham, Texas, the son of Otto Sr. and Lillie Gajeske Stegmann. He was baptized in Zion Lutheran Church of Zionsville by Rev. R.J. Weber and was confirmed in the same church. Mr. Stegmann was a...
Robert Mills, Sr.
Jan 8, 2004
Robert Franklin Mills, 85, of Brenham, TX, died Jan. 8, 2004, in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center in Brenham. Mr. Mills was born Dec. 28, 1918, in Athens, TX, to George Burton and Maybella Darby Mills. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mr. Mills was retired from Dallas Power and Light and was a member of...
Milady Henske
Jan 3, 2004
Milady Wiecker Henske, 87, of Bleiblerville, and the widow of Otto Henske died early Saturday morning in Trinity Care Center. Mrs. Henske was born March 16, 1916 in Wesley, Texas, the daughter of Charlie and Ella Schultz Ripple. She was baptized and confirmed in the Welcome Lutheran Church of Welcome. She was a member of Salem Lutheran Church of...
Hattie Pieper
Jan 2, 2004
Hattie Emma Schomburg Pieper, 88, of Brenham, and the widow of Herbert Pieper, died Friday evening in Trinity Care Center of Brenham. Mrs. Pieper was born September 3, 1915, in Kenney, Texas, to Henry and Henrietta Richter Schomburg. She was baptized and confirmed in St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church and received her education in the Travis Community School grade...
Angelina Bednar
Dec 29, 2003
Angelina Bednar, Mrs. Frank Bednar, Angie, Granny, died quietly in the Brenham Rest Home early Monday morning, December 29, 2003, with her daughter Cornelia at her side. Fr. David Ivey from St. Mary s Catholic Church performed the Anointing of the Sick the evening before, with a roomful of Angelina s children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and their spouses participating. Angelina...
Russel Kilgore
Dec 28, 2003
Russel Elmer Kilgore, 90, of Brenham, died Dec. 28, 2003, in Diagnostic Hospital in Houston. Mr. Kilgore was born Dec. 19, 1913, in Coalmont, Tennessee, to Samuel and Lucy Kilgore. He was a graduate of Oklahoma State University. On Dec. 24, 1936, he married Ruby Pearl Justice in Checatah, Oklahoma. He was retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture....

