Obituaries

Oct 1, 2010

Sep 22, 2010

AGNES JEAN DALZIEL, died on Wednesday, September 22, 2010. after a valiant battle with lung cancer. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, September 29, 2010, at 5 P.M., at the Schmidt Funeral Home, 819 Waller Avenue, Brookshire, Texas 77423. Jean was born July 6, 1929, in Newark, New Jersey, to Agnes McGregor and Richard Matthew Regan. She graduated...

Sep 20, 2010

JOSHUA SCOTT GUIDRY, 30, of Brookshire, Texas, passed away at his home Monday, September 20, 2010. Josh was born August 1, 1980, in Crowley, Louisiana, the son of Scott Anthony and Bernadette (Guidry) Guidry. His early childhood years were spent in Louisiana. In 1987, the family moved to Waller, Texas. They have made their home in Brookshire since 1993 and...

Sep 9, 2010

JOHN GILBERT "JOHNNY" LYERLY, was born December 19, 1946, in Houston, TX, the son of Lloyd H. & Minnie Williams Lyerly. He graduated from St. Pius X High School in 1965 and then attended The University of Texas in Austin. John enlisted in the United States Air Force and served in the Vietnam Conflict and in Thailand and Guam. He...

Aug 15, 2010

CONWAY LLOYD WAAK, SR. was born in Bellville, Texas, on January 8, 1931 to William and Emma Grawunder Waak, Jr. He was baptized and confirmed in Bellville. He attended Piney School and Bellville High School. There he enjoyed playing football until graduating in 1948. He met his wife Helen Catherine Landrum at Coshatte Hall, and they were married on June...

Aug 12, 2010

KELLY JOSEPH RYAN, 52, passed away Thursday, August 12, 2010, at his home in Bellville, Texas. Kelly was born February 11, 1958, in Maquoketa, Iowa, the son of Donald and LaVonne Ryan. After high school, he spent three years in the United States Army. Afterwards, he moved to Houston, Texas, where he met his wife, Jackie. Kelly worked in many...

Aug 11, 2010

CAROL DOWNEY WILLIFORD passed away August 11, 2010, at her home in Waller County, Texas. Carol was born in Ennis, Texas to Henry and Ruby McCathern Downey on April 4, 1947, graduated from Ennis High School in in 1965 and Sam Houston State University in 1969. Carol began her thirty-year teaching career at Ennis High School for four years, seven...

Aug 5, 2010

MONROE BEN MEWIS, JR. was called home August 5, 2010. Born October 13, 1928 in Brenham, TX, he was the devoted son of Viola (Koerth) Mewis and Monroe Mewis, Sr. A lifelong Lutheran, Monroe was confirmed at St. John and attended Bellville schools where he was class president in 1946, his senior year. Love of country led him to join...

Jul 27, 2010

Suella Tipp Janszen was born August 24, 1932, in Bernardo, Texas, the daughter of Max and Alice Kveton Tipp. She grew up in Sealy and attended Cleveland Community School until the 2nd grade. She had to ride bareback on a horse with her brother, Dick. He often would make the horse buck her off and she would fall in the...

Jul 21, 2010

Otis Rodney Boyte was born June 13, 1954, in Hobbs, New Mexico, the son of George and Hazel Richardson Boyte. He grew up Mississippi and attended schools in Brookhaven. Otis moved to Texas in 1979, where he made his home in a small country community in Austin County, Buckhorn, Texas. Otis was united in marriage to Rose Rogers in the...

Jul 12, 2010

GLADYS GOEBEL SWEARINGEN was born August 9, 1922, in Bellville, Texas. The daughter of Reinhold and Selma Himly Goebel, she grew up in Cat Spring and Millheim, and attended the Millheim schools. Gladys married Wesley Swearingen in Bellville, Texas on July 2, 1940. They made their home in Millheim and were members of St. John Lutheran Church in Bellville. A...

Jun 28, 2010

Ernest Ward Snitkin, Jr. graduated to glory on June 28, 2010, in Bellville, after succumbing to a long and lengthy illness. Ernest was born to the late Ernest Ward, Sr. and Mary Lorine Bannon Snitkin in Dallas, TX, on March 15, 1935. His family moved to Schulenburg, TX where they made their home, before moving to Sealy, TX and then...

Jun 28, 2010

JOHN ROBERT McGEE, JR., was born December 1,1941, in Navasota, TX (6 days before the bombing of Pearl Harbour). Born to John and Clara Lou McGee, he was the fifth out of six children, the only boy. At the young age of six, his grandmother (Ackie-Mother), gave him the nickname Jackie, which he later shortened to Jack. In his early...

Jun 27, 2010

CLYDE HAROLD BRUBAKER, 83, longtime Pattison resident, passed away Sunday, June 27, 2010, at his home surrounded by his family, after a long, courageous battle with leukemia. Clyde was born January 4, 1927, in Clodine, Texas. The son of John Irvin and Mary (Maack) Brubaker, he grew up in Clodine and Richmond, and attended school in Missouri City. After graduating...

Jun 20, 2010

EDNA FLORENCE EHLERT ENGLAND, 94, longtime Brookshire resident, passed away Sunday, June 20, 2010, at her home. Edna was born Februay 23, 1916, in Pattison, Texas to parents Theodore Samuel and Mathilda Emelia Ebel Ehlert. She grew up in Pattison and attended the Pattison schools. After graduating from high school, she attended Texas Women's University in Denton, Texas. On November...

Jun 3, 2010

ERNEST ALLEN WILPITZ, 85, of Brookshire, passed away Thursday, June 3, 2010, in a Brookshire nursing facility. Born in Brookshire/Pattison, Texas, to Ernest William "Billy" Wilpitz and Daisy Patty Wilpitz, Ernest lived a long and full life as a husband, father and architect, spending much of it residing in Houston. In 2002, he returned to Brookshire, living in a new...

May 24, 2010

Clarence Alfred Zettel was born on February 4, 1937, in Austin County, Texas, the son of Alfred J. and Celia Shupak Zettel. He grew up in the Austin County area and attended Santa Anna elementary and Bellville High School. He then moved to Bleiblerville in 1971. A Brethren by faith, Clarence was united in marriage to Ruth Schroeder on March...

May 23, 2010

WAYMAN CLARENCE "MONK" TAYLOR, lifelong Pattison resident, passed away Sunday, May 23, 2010, in Katy, Texas at the age of 89. Monk was born February 11, 1921, in Pattison, Texas. The son of Sidney Montrose and Dora Ann Greek Taylor, he was raised in Pattison and graduated from Pattison High School in 1938. He then worked on his father's farm...

May 22, 2010

PATRICIA RUTH KRAWIETZ was born August 16, 1929, to Dionysius and Pauline Kowalik Krawietz in Falls City, Texas. She grew up and attended school in Falls City and graduated from Karnes City High School. At fifteen, Patsy was given money to enroll at Incarnate Word College. She travelled to San Antonio on the bus and enrolled in art school instead....

May 21, 2010

EVELYN M. (GOEKE) NEHRKORN, longtime Bellville resident, passed away Friday, May 21, 2010, in a Bellville nursing facility at the age of 85. Born July 15, 1924, in the Germania Community in Austin County, Texas, Evelyn was the daughter of Emanuel and Clara (Wesetzke) Goeke. She grew up and attended school in Austin County before moving to Galveston, and then...