Recent Obituaries
Julia Means
Apr 20, 2004
Julia Means, 83, of Brenham, died April 20, 2004, in Bluebonnet Hills Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Means was born Jan. 8, 1921, in Brenham, to Joseph and Victoria Pribilski Przyborski. She was baptized and confirmed in St. Mary s Catholic Church in Brenham. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her sons and daughters-in-law, Ted and Barbara Zientek of...
Wilma Kelm
Apr 19, 2004
Wilma Sophie Emma Delion Kelm, 85, of Burton, TX, died Monday, April 19, 2004, in Bluebonnet Hills Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Kelm was born June 6, 1918, in Industry, Austin County, TX, to Willie and Bertha Sonnenberg Delion. She was baptized Sept. 6, 1918, in the United Methodist Church in Industry by Pastor Wm. Sievers. She attended Industry...
Lilia Hertel
Apr 18, 2004
Lilia Lena Marie Hertel, 87, of Brenham, TX, died Sunday, April 18, 2004, in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Hertel was born May 9, 1916, in Greenvine, TX, to Adolph and Lena Marie Steffen Mackenroth. She was baptized June 18, 1916, in Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Greenvine by Pastor L. Hoefer and was confirmed March 29, 1931, in...
Heather Sharp
Apr 18, 2004
Heather Lynn Sharp, 23, of Brenham, died April 17, 2004, near Evadale, Texas. Ms. Sharp was born June 13, 1980, in Brenham, to Donald E. and Joan Supak Parker. She attended Brenham schools and loved to write poetry. Survivors include her children, Cheyanne Sharp, Rusty Kay and Lane Garrett Sharp; mother, Joan Meschwitz of Brenham; father, Donnie Parker of...
Caroljean Rice
Apr 15, 2004
Caroljean Kuuipo Rice, 49, of Pascagoula, Mississippi, died April 15, 2004, in Pascagoula. Mrs. Rice was born March 1, 1955, in Montebelle, California, to Ernest and Betty Borrlise Reyher. She was baptized in 1974 in Bellflower, California. On May 14, 1971, she was married to Cecil Rice in Norwalk, California. Survivors include her husband, Cecil Rice of Pascagoula, Mississippi;...
Mildred Hahn
Apr 14, 2004
Mildred Hahn, 87, of Brenham, TX, died Wednesday, April 14, 2004, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Miss Hahn was born May 26, 1916, in the Prairie Hill community of Washington County, TX, to Herman and Emily Fischer Hahn. She was baptized and confirmed in St. John Lutheran Church in Prairie Hill and attended Prairie Hill School. Miss Hahn...
W. Meinkowski
Apr 10, 2004
W. H. Buddy Willie Meinkowsky, age 86, of Round Top Carmine, died April 10, 2004 at Monument Hill Nursing Center in La Grange. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at St. John s United Church of Christ in Burton with Pastor Glen Schoeneberg officiating. Burial will follow in the Church cemetery. The family...
William Starling
Apr 9, 2004
William "Bill" Floyd Starling, 61, of Brenham, the father of Revillie Dawn Dobbs of Brenham died Friday, April 9, 2004, at his daughters residence. Mr. Starling was born January 7, 1943, in Laredo, Texas, to William Wesley and Lillian Revillie Daniels Starling. He enlisted in the U.S. Army, 1 March 1961 and was stationed in Germany for three years....
Adell Galle
Apr 6, 2004
Adell Petrich Galle, 91, of Brenham, died April 6, 2004, in Trinity Care Center in Brenham. Mrs. Galle was born Aug. 27, 1912, in Greenvine, TX, to Edwald and Minnie Schilling Petrich. She was baptized Sept. 12, 1912, in Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Greenvine and was confirmed April 10, 1927, in the same church. She attended County Line School....
Mellie Wisnoski
Apr 6, 2004
Mellie Grassmuck Wisnoski, 89, of Giddings, formerly of Brenham, died April 6, 2004, in Giddings Health Care Center. Mrs. Wisnoski was born Oct. 15, 1914, in Burton, TX, to John and Katherina McKenzie Grassmuck. She was baptized April 10, 1927, in Salem Lutheran Church by Pastor William Utesch and was confirmed April 13, 1930, in the same church. Mrs....
Duane Thomas
Apr 6, 2004
Duane Lester Thomas, 43, of Brenham, a resident of the Brenham State School died Tuesday, April 6, 2004. Survivors include his parents, Virginia and Lester Thomas of Houston, and sister, Luanne Grigsby of Houston.
Edith Mckissock
Apr 6, 2004
Today we come to honor Edith Johnson McKissock, born in Schenectady, NY on May 19, 1911 and deceased in Houston, TX on April 6, 2004. She is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 54 years, William Thompson McKissock; her grandson, William Thompson McKissock III; her parents, Oscar and Victoria Johnson; and her brother, Milton Johnson. She was...
Evelyn Shaw
Apr 5, 2004
Evelyn Gray Henderson Shaw passed from this life on April 5, 2004, in Burton, Texas. She married outstanding Texas A&M athlete and Representative to the 53rd Texas Legislature R.W. Jitterbug Henderson of Houston in 1942. She raised her family in the Houston Heights from 1946-76 and was a life underwriter with American General Life Insurance Company. Mrs. Shaw married...
Gloria Herzog
Apr 3, 2004
Gloria Herzog, 74, of Brenham, died Saturday, April 3, 2004, in Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Mrs. Herzog was born July 16, 1929, in the New Wehdem community of Washington County, Texas, to Theodore and Erna Haevischer Winkelmann. She was baptized Aug. 25, 1929, in St. James Lutheran Church in New Wehdem and was confirmed in 1944 in the...
Doris Rodgers
Apr 1, 2004
Doris Maxine Rodgers left this earth during the early morning hours of April 1, 2004. She was born October 20, 1926, in Koenton, Alabama, to Henry Conner and Addie Bell Wright Wilkins. She grew up in Bastrop, TX. She attended Bastrop schools where she met her future husband. She also attended Weatherford Junior College. She remained married to Floyd...
Donald Schwartz
Mar 29, 2004
Donald Charles Bender Schwartz, 79, of Brenham, passed away on Monday, March 29, 2004, at Trinity Medical Center in Brenham. Donald was born August 18, 1924, in Houston, TX, the youngest of six children of Dr. William Henry and Maude Bender Schwartz. After his service during World War II, he graduated from the University of Houston. He was a...
Norma Ripple
Mar 23, 2004
Norma Hedwig Renz Ripple, 89, of Giddings, TX, died March 23, 2004, in Country Careplex in Giddings. Mrs. Ripple was born June 9, 1914, in the Long Point community of Washington County, TX to William and Anna Brauner Renz. She was baptized in St. Peter s Lutheran Church in Gay Hill and was confirmed in 1930 in Gay Hill....
Laverna Kuecker
Mar 22, 2004
Laverna Horstmann Kuecker, 77, of Brenham, TX, died Monday, March 22, 2004, at her residence. Mrs. Kuecker was born June 23, 1926, in the Sandy Hill community of Washington County, TX, to Lonnie and Selma Buerger Horstmann. She was baptized August 15, 1926, in Bethlehem Lutheran Church in William Penn and was confirmed May 26, 1940, in Sandy Hill...
Lorene Sohns
Mar 20, 2004
Lorene Kuck Sohns, 89, of Brenham, died Saturday, March 20, 2004, in Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village in Brenham. Mrs. Sohns was born January 12, 1915, at Yoakum, Texas, the daughter of Eilert and Bertha Sanitz Kuck. She was baptized into the Christian faith July 18, 1915, in Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Yoakum, Texas, by Pastor H.C. Wolfsdorff and confirmed...
Meta Marburger
Mar 12, 2004
Meta Emma Marburger, a longtime resident of Brenham, died on Friday night March 12, 2004 in Gazebo Terrace Convalescent Center at the age of 90. Born in Burton, Washington County, Texas on January 23, 1914, Meta was a daughter of Adolph & Martha Arndt Alaminsky. She was baptized in St. John''s United Church of Christ in Burton. She was...

