Local Obituaries for Beeville, Three Rivers, and George West, Texas
Recent Obituaries

Barbara Hester
May 13, 2015
Barbara E. (Howell) Hester, 53, of Beeville, died Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Mrs. Hester was born Jan. 26, 1962, in Clovis, New Mexico, to LeNora Verlene Banta and Homer Everett Howell. She married Bobby Hester in Beeville on May 17, 2014, and was a retired LVN. She was a member of First Baptist Church and enjoyed bowling, playing pool...

Audelia Gutierrez
May 7, 2015
Audelia (Garcia) Gutierrez, 67, of Beeville, died Thursday, May 7, 2015. Ms. Gutierrez was born April 27, 1948, in Pawnee to Dominga (Pena) and Mauro Garcia. She was a retired cook and a Christian. She was preceded in death by her brother, Vidal Garcia. Survivors include a daughter, Denise (Rodrigo) Diaz; her parents, Mauro and Dominga Garcia; six sisters,...

Frances Carlisle
May 4, 2015
Frances Ann Carlisle, formerly Frances Ann Grizzle, was born to Harvey Hobson and Annie Harriet (Hobbs) Grizzle on November 4, 1928. Frances passed away at the age of 86 on May 4, 2015. She grew up in Beeville, TX and graduated from A.C. Jones High School in 1945. Frances was married on April 12, 1947 to Robert James "RJ"...

Pauline Valencia
May 3, 2015
Pauline (Moya) Valencia, 75, of Beeville, died Sunday, May 3, 2015. Mrs. Valencia was born Jan. 26, 1940, in Berclair to Amelia (Salazar) and Serapio Moya. She married Ernesto G. Valencia in Beeville on April 5, 1961, and was a medication aide by profession and a Christian. She enjoyed cooking and writing in her journal. She was preceded in...

Ausencia Cantu
Apr 25, 2015
Ausencia (Pena) Cantu, 82, of Skidmore, died Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Mrs. Cantu was born Aug. 8, 1932, in San Perlita to Eulilah (Sandoval) and Nieves Pena. She married Eliseo Cantu in Raymondville on Sept. 25, 1955, and was a homemaker and a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sinton. She was preceded in death by her parents....

Allen Bohac
Apr 24, 2015
Allen Lloyd Bohac, 86, of Skidmore, died Friday, April 24, 2015. Mr. Bohac was born Dec. 5, 1928, in the Olmos Community to Edna (Hanus) and August Bohac. He married Marjorie Nell Wilkinson in Robstown on Feb. 17, 1949, and served in the United States Army during the Korean War. He was a retired Civil Service Firefighter at NAS...

Laurie Massengale
Apr 21, 2015
Laurie Lynn Massengale, 43, of Beeville, died Tuesday, April 21, 2015. She was born April 26, 1971, to Erwin Massengale and Lana Nance Massengale in Corpus Christi. She was a 1989 A.C. Jones High School graduate. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Evelyn and Mack Massengale; and maternal grandparents, Buck and Barbara Nance. Survivors include her...

Rose Reed
Apr 20, 2015
Rose M. Reed, 86, passed away April 20, 2015. She was born on March 1, 1929 in Laredo, Texas to Jesus and Julia (Moreno) Garza. She married Hamilton Schvab Reed on December 11, 1963 in Seguin, Texas. She lived in Beeville most of her life. She was preceded in death by her parents; and her husband. She is survived...

Florentina Moya
Apr 20, 2015
Florentina V. Moya passed away on April 20, 2015. She was born June 20, 1938, to Jose Concepcion Verastigui and Martha (Nerios) Verastigui in Oakville, Texas. She had lived in George West all her life, until the last ten years ago, when she moved to Pleasanton. She was a member of St. Andrews Catholic Church. She is preceded in...

Carol Scarberry
Apr 18, 2015
Mrs. Scarberry was born Nov. 27, 1942, in New Hampshire to Ida (Gammon) and Walter Frank. She married William D. Scarberry in Beeville on July 12, 1975, and was a homemaker and a retired cook. She was a member of the Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her parents; a step-son, Douglas Allen Scarberry; and a...

Edward Rogers
Apr 17, 2015
Edward "Bub" Rogers, 43, of Beeville died Friday, April 17, 2015. Mr. Rogers was born Nov. 19, 1971 in Galveston to Billie Jean Rogers and Carla (Osborne) Rogers. He married Shannon Young on Dec. 14, 2011, in Cuero. He was owner and operator of Rogers Enterprises. He was preceded in death by his father, Billie Jean Rogers. Survivors include...

Virgil Wilkins
Apr 16, 2015
Virgil Wilkins, 85, passed away on April 16, 2015. He was born December 25, 1929 in Miranda City, TX to Virgil B. and Ola Mae (McCoy) Wilkins. He served in the United States Army Air Corp. Virgil married Louise Norman on May 21, 1948 in Alamogordo, NM. He was a member of Oakville Baptist Church. He is survived by...

Trinidad Elizondo
Apr 10, 2015
Trinidad Puente Elizondo passed away on April 10, 2015. She was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Mexico on July 20, 1919 to Isabel and Eibureia (Castillo) Puente. She married Favian R. Elizondo on September 11, 1937 in Karnes City. Mr. and Mrs. Elizondo raised their children and farmed in the ranching community of Nell, Texas. Upon retirement, she lived...

Bonnie Ricketts
Apr 9, 2015
Bonnie Bess Ricketts, 91, passed away April 9, 2015. She was born July 13,1923, in Denver, Colorado to Robert I. and Laveta Viola (Bonnell) Heydon. She married Eugene H. Ricketts on June 20,1942, in Anaheim, California. She was a member of First Christian Church and active years back in the republican party. She is survived by her husband, Eugene...

Regina Galle
Apr 2, 2015
Regina Katherine "Kathy" Dolan Galle, 71, of Beeville, died Thursday, April 2, 2015. Mrs. Galle was born March 7, 1944, in Sabinal to Regina (Dorow) and Michael O'Hara Dolan. She married William Earl Galle Sr. and was retired from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. She was preceded in death...

Cathleen Anderson
Mar 21, 2015
Cathleen Dycus - Hollan Anderson, 78, passed away on March 21, 2015. She was born to Hazelwood Dycus and Bernice Cook on January 7, 1937, in Beeville, Texas. She was raised in Sinton, Texas, by her mother and adopted father Gus Hollan. While growing up in Sinton she attended school there and after graduation Cathleen attended Del Mar School...

Ruth Marshall
Mar 20, 2015
Ruth Marshall, 93, passed away on March 20, 2015. She was born in Choates, Texas on March 22, 1921 to Eloise (Long) and Joseph Franklin Sciba. She married Thomas Ran (Peck) Marshall in Tuleta, Texas on March 3, 1940. She was a member First United Methodist Church and a resident of George West since 1955. She was preceded in...

Doris Smith
Mar 16, 2015
Doris Marie (Moore) Smith, 85, of Beeville, died Monday, March 16, 2015. Mrs. Smith was born Sept. 28, 1929, in Shallowater to Velma Mae (Blackwell) and James Travis Moore. She married O.R. "Buddy" Smith in Lovington, New Mexico on Jan. 7, 1950, and was an office manager for Smith Drilling Company. She was an active member of Adams Street...

Eloisa Mendoza
Mar 14, 2015
Eloisa (Gomez) Mendoza, 91, of Beeville, passed Saturday, March 14, 2015. Mrs. Mendoza was born Aug. 17, 1923, in Berclair to Andrea (Garza) and Higinio P. Gomez. She married Carlos Mendoza in Bee County on July 5, 1967. She was a beloved wife, mother and grandmother, and known in the community as an Avon representative for over 25 years....

Jack Mcbride
Mar 9, 2015
Jack Wiley McBride, 70, passed away on March 9, 2015. He was born on December 20, 1944 to Jack Wiley and Mary Margaret (Hoffpower) McBride in Houston, Texas. He married Sarah Smith on May 21, 1981 in Three Rivers. He was a member of First Baptist Church of George West, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Sarah; 3...