Local Obituaries for Beeville, Three Rivers, and George West, Texas
Recent Obituaries
Roy West
Feb 27, 2019
Roy E. West, 94, of George West, Texas, passed away Wednesday, February 27, 2019. Roy was born January 29, 1925 in Mission, Texas, to Zach and Gwendolyn (Harris) West. He married Vivian McCumber on December 12, 1990. He was a drilling superintendent in the oilfield business. He was a member of the Baptist church. Roy loved fishing, drinking coffee...
Guadalupe Quintanilla
Feb 27, 2019
Guadalupe "Lupe" E. Quintanilla of George West, Texas, passed away Wednesday, February 27, 2019. He was 81. Lupe was born April 6, 1937, in Live Oak County to Jesus and Simona (Escamilla) Quintanilla. He was employed as a truck driver with Acme LP Gas Inc. in George West for more than 40 years. He was a member of the...
Larry Denning
Feb 26, 2019
Larry T. Denning Sr., 68, of Beeville, Texas, passed away Tuesday, February 26, 2019. Larry was born November 24, 1950, in Beeville to C.H. and Lila Lois (DuBose) Denning. He was a retired tool pusher and member of the Baptist church. He loved farm work, tractor work, cattle, fishing and hunting. He was a people person and adored his...
Manuel Benavidez
Feb 22, 2019
Manuel Lorenzo "Lencho" Benavidez of Tuleta, Texas, passed away Friday, February 22, 2019. He was 84. Manuel was born in Bee County on September 4, 1934, to Teofilo Benavidez and Tomasa (Duran) Benavidez. He married Tomasita Abrigo at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Beeville, Texas, on March 22, 1969. He was a mechanic and member of St. Joseph Catholic...
Brent Roed
Feb 22, 2019
Brent Avery Roed, 20, of Beeville, Texas, passed away Friday, February 22, 2019. Brent was born January 14, 1999, to Kelly Wadley in San Antonio, Texas. He married Michelle Stribling November 30, 2018, in Corpus Christi, Texas. He was a gauger in the oilfield business. He enjoyed fishing and hanging out at the beach. He was preceded in death...
Barbara Kopplin
Feb 18, 2019
Barbara Jean Wolff Kopplin, age 86, passed away February 18, 2019. She was born January 16, 1933 to Earnest Sr. and Ella Tetens Wolff in Pawnee, Texas. As she was strong in her faith, she was baptized and confirmed in the Pawnee Lutheran Church. She married Hilbert Henry Kopplin on September 23, 1950. They resided in Ray Point where...
Amy Ortiz
Feb 11, 2019
Amy Lea (Irby) Ortiz, 52, of Goliad, Texas, passed away Monday, February 11, 2019. Amy was born Oct. 28, 1966, in Beeville, Texas, to Seymour and Lynece (Richardson) Irby. She was a farmer and rancher and a member of the Presbyterian church. She enjoyed cooking for family and friends and loved to entertain. She was the life of the...
Floyd Latham
Feb 11, 2019
Floyd Carl Latham of George West, Texas, passed away Monday, February 11, 2019. He was 92. Floyd was born June 20, 1926, in Bruni, Texas, to Walter Latham and Mattie Geary. He proudly served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He married Mildred Hunt in Falfurrias, Texas, on July 15, 1952. He was foreman and manager of...
Edebelia Garza
Feb 8, 2019
Edebelia G. Garza, 79, of George West, passed away Friday, February 8, 2019. Mrs. Garza was born Aug. 8, 1939, in George West to Guillerma (Fuentes) and Ramiro Garcia Sr. She married Arnulfo T. Garza on May 25, 1958 in Seminole. She was a housewife, enjoyed cooking and was a member of the Catholic faith. She was preceded in...
Eddie Molina
Feb 8, 2019
Eddie Molina, 53, of San Antonio, Texas, passed away Friday, February 8, 2019. Eddie was born January 28, 1966, in Beeville, Texas, to Vidal Valdez Molina and Irma (Amador) Feagin. He was a terminal manager in the oil and gas and trucking business. Raised in George West, Texas, he was a member of St. George Catholic Church. He loved...
Mary Neff
Feb 7, 2019
Mary Gentry Neff, 92, of Corpus Christi and formerly of Three Rivers, passed away Thursday, February 7, 2019. Mrs. Neff was born July 11, 1926, in Junction to Tom and Jessie Bell (Hammonds) Gentry. She married Thomas Lee Neff in 1947 in Junction. She was a member of the Baptist church, a homemaker and enjoyed quilting, ceramics and sewing....
Susan Jostes
Feb 3, 2019
Susan (Winsauer) Jostes, 63, of Tynan, Texas, died Sunday, February 3, 2019. Mrs. Jostes was born March 7, 1955, to Delroy and Elizabeth (Person) Winsauer in Sinton, Texas. She married Glenn Jostes on February 4, 1978, in Mathis, Texas, and was a dental hygienist. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Mathis and enjoyed cooking and...

Chester Zimmerman
Jan 30, 2019
Chester "Don" Zimmerman, 81, of Rockport, Texas, passed away Wednesday, January 30, 2019. Mr. Zimmerman was born September 12, 1937, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Chester Howard and Florence (Strelecki) Zimmerman. He married Bobby Staples in Rockport on December 23, 1977. He proudly served in the U.S. Navy and was owner/operator for 30 years of Bea's Bait Stand in Rockport....
Donald Hoaglin
Jan 30, 2019
Donald Wayne Hoaglin, 82, of Beeville, died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. Mr. Hoaglin was born March 23, 1936, in Pike County, Illinois, to Roy Freeman and Florence Marie (Carroll) Hoaglin. He married Beverly Ann Schwierzke on Feb. 25, 1960 in Beeville. He served in the U.S. Navy for 23 years and retired from AT&T after 23 years. He was...
Dolores Cunningham
Jan 28, 2019
Dolores Ellen (Kennemer) Cunningham, 84, of Three Rivers, Texas, passed away Monday, January 28, 2019. Dolores was born January 14, 1935, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Clarence and Goldie (Benton) Kennemer. She married Harold Cunningham on February 2, 1953. She was a real estate agent and helped her husband in the construction business. She was a faithful member of First...
David Hurt
Jan 22, 2019
David Arthur Hurt, 77, a lifelong resident of George West, Texas, died Tuesday, January 22, 2019. Mr. Hurt was born April 30, 1941, to Walter Harry "Jack" and Priscilla (Traynham) Hurt in Pleasanton, Texas. He proudly served in the U.S. Navy from 1959 to 1962. He married Imogene Adams in George West on February 14, 2010. He was a...
Nell Marshall
Jan 17, 2019
Nell Marshall, 95, a longtime resident of Beeville, passed away early Thursday morning on January 17, 2019 in La Garita, Costa Rica. She was born on January 7, 1924 in Hubbard, Texas to the late Travis Cuvier and Mary Ann Freeman Montgomery. She and her husband, the late Clarence William "Toots" Marshall, were married on December 20, 1947 in...
Eddy Blankenship
Jan 10, 2019
Eddy "E.D." Blankenship, 66, passed away Thursday, January 10, 2019, at his home in Beeville, Texas, surrounded by his wife and family. He was born March 25, 1952, to Cicero J. and Sarah Helen (Pledge) Blankenship in Poteet, Texas. He proudly served in the U.S. Navy. Ed is survived by his wife, Jean; their daughter, Jaime; son-in-law, Haskell Lutke;...
Cathy Park
Jan 9, 2019
Cathy Park, 69, passed away peacefully in Austin, Texas, on January 9, 2019. She was born April 28, 1949, in Corpus Christi, Texas, to A.H. "Isaac" and Isabel Habib. Cathy was a Kindergarten teacher at Skidmore-Tynan Elementary for more than 20 years and loved her students and coworkers. She enjoyed Christmastime and watching sports, but most of all cherished...

John Lewis
Jan 9, 2019
John Clinton Lewis, 92, of Beeville, died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. Mr. Lewis was born Oct. 13, 1926 in Borger to John Cook and Phaye (Williams) Lewis. He married Frances Carroll in Borger on Sept. 1, 1950. He retired as an aircraft painter and served in the U.S. Army in World War II. He was a Christian. He was...