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

Randy Bishop
Feb 24, 2013
Randy Bishop, 41, of Beeville, died Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Mr. Bishop was born July 2, 1971, in Albuquerque, N.M., to Daniel and Betty J. (Jackson) Tierney. He served in the U.S. Army and was a truck driver by profession. He volunteered with Beeville Emergency Medical Services and the Beeville Volunteer Fire Department. He also worked as a truck...

Melodye Davis
Feb 10, 2013
Melodye Sue Davis was born on April 2, 1959. She left this earth on February 10, 2013. She is survived by her parents, Naida and P.E. Davis Jr.; her sister Denise and husband F.E. Fenner, daughter Brandy Steele and children Conner and Chloe Steele; her brother Jay S. Davis, wife Christine, children Amanda Davis, Danica Salinovich and son Landon...

Alvin Wernli
Feb 9, 2013
Alvin "Sonny" Wernli, 92, of Three Rivers, passed away Saturday, Rebruary 9, 2013. He had been a faithful, active member of Our Savior Lutheran Church for many years. He spent many hours helping the church, as well as, the Ray Point BBQ Fund Raisers. He was born to the late Erwin and Ida Wernli, December 2, 1920 in Pawnee,...

Jack Umphres
Feb 7, 2013
Jack Dortch Umphres, 90, passed away on February 7, 2013. She was born September 12, 1922 in Houston, Texas, to Clyde Buckner and Pearl (Welborn) Dortch. She married Charles Oscar "Chily" Umphres in San Antonio, Texas on February 11, 1942. She was a member of First Baptist Church and retired as office manager for Prudential Insurance in Corpus Christi,...

Grady Harrison, Jr.
Feb 6, 2013
Grady Henry Harrison Jr., 85, of Beeville, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. Mr. Harrison was born April 28, 1927, in San Antonio to Ruth (Watson) and Grady H. Harrison Sr. He served in the Army Air Corps and married Betty Ford in Beeville on Sept. 10, 1948. He was a photographer by profession and a Methodist. He worked for...

Robert Horton, Sr.
Feb 3, 2013
Robert Horton Sr., 74, of Beeville, died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. Mr. Horton was born May 9, 1938, in Richards to Ada Aline (Brister) and Clinton Forrest Horton. He married Gwendolyn Duplessis in Reno, Nev., on Aug. 30, 1958, and served in the U.S. Navy. He was a truck driver, an avid fisherman and outdoorsman and a member of...

Reginald Morgan
Feb 3, 2013
Reginald Morgan, 86, of Beeville, died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. Mr. Morgan was born Feb. 12, 1926, in Midwest, Wyo., to Ada Ethel (Miller) and Willie Edward Morgan. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, receiving the victory medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign medal, American Campaign medal and the Philippine liberation ribbon. He married Lola Neyland on...

Pascual Cour
Jan 30, 2013
Pascal R. La Cour, 76, of Beeville, died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Mr. La Cour was born April 25, 1936, in Woodsboro to Loyd B. and Mary Elizabeth (Stockton) La Cour. He married Mary Ellen Ince and was a newspaper carrier for the Corpus Christi Caller Times. He was a member of First Baptist Church. He was preceded in...

Jo Gibson
Jan 22, 2013
MATHIS, TEXAS Jo Ann Gibson, 74, died Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at her home in Mathis, Texas. Jo Ann was born June 14, 1938 in Bruni, Texas. She was a baptist and a homemaker. She was a fabulous cook and enjoyed gardening. Jo Ann was the life of the party and children adored her. Jo Ann was preceded in...

Ida Copeland
Jan 16, 2013
Ida Belle Copeland, 84, passed away on January 16, 2013. She was born on June 29, 1928, in Sinton, TX to T. C. and Oma West Moreland Hill. She married Joe Lando Copeland in March 1947 in Campellton, TX. She was a member of First Baptist Church and taught Sunday school for years. She was a member of the...

Joan Guyton
Jan 15, 2013
Joan Bernice (Clark) Guyton, 72, of Somerville, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Mrs. Guyton was born April 4, 1940, in Berclair to Willie L. and Carrie Bernice (Robinson) Clark. She served in the U.S. Army and was a nurse by profession. She was a member of Word of Life Pentecostal Church in Marino Valley, Calif. She was a mother...

Mary Pearce
Jan 13, 2013
Mary Ellen Pearce was born on January 20, 1922 in Normanna, Texas to August Charlie and Ollie Noemi (Roberts) Voss. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert S. Pearce of Normanna. Mary passed away on January 13, 2013 at age 90 in Alvin, Texas. Mary is survived by four children and spouses, Melvin and Frankie Pearce of...

Grace Sullivan
Jan 9, 2013
Grace Ellen Sullivan, 83, died on Wednesday, January 9, 2013. She was born on November 4, 1929 in Victoria, TX to Robert Oliver and Ann Seger Oliver. She married David William Sullivan on September 8, 1949 in Beeville, TX. She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Immaculate Heart of Mary Confraternity, St. Peregrine Society and was a...

Mike Mylnar
Jan 2, 2013
Mike Mylnar, 50, of Beeville, Texas formerly of Corpus Christi, Texas passed away on January 2, 2013. He was born on July 23, 1962 in Corpus Christi, Texas to Richard Dean and Pasty (Clark) Mylnar. He married Katheryn Watson on March 10, 1984 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He was a member of Blanconia Baptist Church and a welding instructor...

Margaret Boils
Dec 30, 2012
Margaret Ann (Shinn) Barr Boils, 85, of Taft, died Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Mrs. Boils was born Aug. 15, 1927, in Hurley, N.M., to Bena (Ball) and Ditzlar Shinn. She was a retired supervisor for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Garland Barr and Leon Boils; brothers, Gene and Elmer Shinn; and...

Joella Mcguill
Dec 28, 2012
Joella (Waggoner) McGuill of Refugio passed away Friday, December 28, 2012. She was born on July 28, 1929 in Texarkana, Arkansas to Inez and George Ray Edmondson. She married Pat McGuill on July 27, 1949 at Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church in Refugio. She attended school in Palacios and Refugio. She was a devoted member to Our Lady...

Maurine Davis
Dec 24, 2012
Maurine Katherine Guthrie Davis, 102, passed away on December 24, 2012. She was born September 8, 1910 in Berclair, Texas, to Shed Marion and Sophie Matilda (Lutenbacher) Guthrie. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas A & I University with a degree in teaching. She married Thomas Worth Davis on August 18, 1939. They lived in the Berclair area...

Hollis Bryan
Dec 18, 2012
Hollis Edward Bryan, age 90, of Beeville, Texas. Loving husband and father went home to be with our Lord God on Tuesday, December 18, 2012. Hollis was born January 20, 1922, to Edward Floyd and Ruby Emmie (Evans) Bryan in Pecan Gap, Texas. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Joyce Bryan; son, Travis Alan Bryan, and...

Julius Helm
Dec 10, 2012
Commissioner Julius Robert Helm, 84, passed away on December 10, 2012 from complications from pneumonia. He served the members of his community as a Bee County Commissioner from 1979 through 1986. He was born February 8, 1928, in Tynan, Texas, to the late William Carl and Josephine Helm and lived in Bee County for most of his life. On...

Nell Wilkinson
Dec 3, 2012
Nell Wilkinson, 81, went to be with our Lord on December 3, 2012. She was born in Waelder, TX on February 22, 1931 to William Allie Sherry and Maggie Jane Popps Sherry. She married Ted Wilkinson and resided in Skidmore. Nell was an avid gardener, a member of The First Baptist Church, and was also the church custodian. She...