Local Obituaries for Beeville, Three Rivers, and George West, Texas
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Arthur Zander, Sr.
Dec 31, 2010
Arthur H. Zander Sr., 91, of Beeville, died Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Mr. Zander was born on Aug. 6, 1919, in Lee County, to Fred and Ida Mae (Schroeder) Zander. He married Agnes Thelma Hill in Luling on June 14, 1939. He was a gauger in the oil and gas business by profession and was a member of First...
Rosemary Hoing
Dec 22, 2010
Rosemary (Jones) Hoing, 72, of Berclair, died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Mrs. Hoing was born Oct. 25, 1938, in Raymondville to Arlo Eddie and Gale (White) Jones. She married Neil Hoing and earned her doctorate degree from Baylor University. She was retired from Pettus ISD as special education director and also formerly worked for Corpus Christi ISD. She was...
Edith Hopkins
Dec 21, 2010
Edith Marie (Oujesky) Hopkins, 91, of Pettus, died Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Mrs. Hopkins was born March 2, 1919, in Houston, to Joseph Elenor and Frances (Milburger) Oujesky. She married Orville Eugene "Buzz" Hopkins on Aug. 12, 1939, in Houston and was a homemaker and a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church. She was the director of Head Start...
Thomas Heitman
Dec 16, 2010
Thomas John Heitman, 75, of Beeville, died Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Mr. Heitman was born on May 16, 1935, in Fort Worth to John Charles and Nannie Lou (Ellis) Heitman. He married Darla Dean Lucas on July 23, 1953, in Corpus Christi. He was the owner/operater of H&H Air Conditioning and Bush Country Flea Market, an entrepreneur and attended...
H.O. Pipkins, Jr.
Dec 6, 2010
H. O. "Sonny" Pipkin died Monday, Dec. 6. Sonny moved to Refugio in 1961, working in the oilfield. Shortly after, he started his own company, Thor-Jet, Inc. In the years that followed, he started and bought several other businesses. In 1999, he semi-retired and realized one of his retirement dreams -that of raising miniature horses. Sonny was also on...
Harold Herrmann
Dec 5, 2010
Harold Lee Herrmann, age 90, passed away on December 6, 2010. He was born on June 11, 1920, in Skidmore, Texas, to F.J. and Mary Vavrusa Herrmann. He served in the Army Air Corps and was a World War II veteran. He married Doris Harrison on November 13, 1947, in George West, Texas. He retired from Central Power &...
Joe Mcgee
Dec 4, 2010
Joe T. McGee, 68, of Beeville, died Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. Mr. McGee was born Aug. 5, 1942, in Monte Vista, Colo. to James Alvis McGee and Opal November McGee. He married Peggy Turner on June 22, 1973, in Beeville. He served in the U.S. Army and was a driller by profession. He was preceded in death by his...
Elton Schumann
Dec 2, 2010
Elton L. Schumann, 96, of Skidmore died Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Mr. Schumann was born Oct. 25, 1914, in Jerrell, to John and Helen Dhoer Schumann. He married Anita Elizabeth Faktor on Jan. 6, 1936, in Skidmore and was a rancher and farmer. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his...
James Taylor
Nov 29, 2010
James Thomas Taylor, Jr., 88, passed away on November 29, 2010. He was born to James Thomas Taylor, Sr. and Jessie Staples Taylor on May 19, 1922. James served in the United States Army. He married Juanita Brown in Garden City, Kansas. He was a rancher and a member of First Baptist Church in Pawnee. He is survived by...
Margaret Dietz
Nov 28, 2010
Margaret Talkington Dietz passed away quietly and peacefully on November 28th, 2010, in Houston, Tx. She was born in Laredo, Texas on June 9th, 1926, to longtime Beeville residents, Vernon L. and Gracie Talkington. Margaret is survived by: Her 2 sisters, Betty Ann Berger of West Hartford Connecticut, and Kathleen LaCour of Bishop, Tx, Her 3 children-Laraine Peterson of...
Helen Allen
Nov 27, 2010
Helen Madeline Buttery Allen, 88, died Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. Mrs. Allen was born April 30, 1922, in Crossville, Ill. to Alvin and Hallie Poole Buttery. She married Harold L. Allen on Aug. 18, 1953, in Kingsville. She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Frieda Ippolito. Survivors include her husband, Harold Allen Sr. of Victoria;...
Anita Linnstaedter
Nov 10, 2010
Anita Lynn (Evans) Linnstaedter, 51, of Beeville, died Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Mrs. Linnstaedter was born Nov. 7, 1959, in Oak Harbor, Wash., to Mary Ann (Perez) and Vernon R. Evans. She married Joe Linnstaedter on June 10, 1988, and was a homemaker and a member of Faith Lutheran Church. She enjoyed cooking and worked with the Faith Lutheran...
Frances Dahl
Nov 9, 2010
Frances Dahl My Sou Tex.Com 6 days ago | 372 views | 0 | | 4 | | Frances Dahl, age 77, passed away on November 9, 2010. She was born to Douglas Angus and Irene Redmond McKay in Christchurch, New Zealand on January 10, 1933. Frances McKay and Forrest Atherton Dahl met in New Zealand and were later...
Rosa Hirst
Nov 9, 2010
Rosa Lee Hirst My Sou Tex.Com 16 days ago | 472 views | 0 | | 4 | | Rosa Lee Hirst, a Beeville resident for more than 73 years, died at Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi on November 2, 2010, at the age of 102 years. She had resided at her long-time home in Orangedale until...
Louis Hollingsworth
Oct 20, 2010
L.R. Hollingsworth Jr., 87, of Beeville, died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. Mr. Hollingsworth was born to Louis Robert Hollingsworth Sr. and Martha Eleanor Campbell in the Rio Grande Valley on Nov. 5, 1922. He married Cecelia Anne Boyd of Dallas on April 28, 1956. He was educated in the public schools of Harlingen and attended Southern Methodist University, majoring...
Otilia Rubio
Oct 16, 2010
Otilia (Padilla) Rubio, 97, of Mount Pleasant, formerly of Beeville, died Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. Mrs. Rubio was born April 10, 1913, in Beeville to Cecilia (Rubio) and Michael Padilla. She married Sostenes A. Rubio and was a homemaker and a Catholic. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Sostenes A. Rubio; two daughters, Lydia and...
W. Whitenton
Oct 8, 2010
W.H. "Bill" Whitenton, 89, of Beeville, died Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. Mr. Whitenton was born March 23, 1921, in Berclair to Nora (Adcock) and David Williams Whitenton. He married Marjinel Wharton in Beeville on June 13, 1942, and served in the U.S. Air Force. He worked for Hunt Auto Company and Roberts & McKenzie Hardware and retired from Exxon...
George Ray, Iii
Oct 7, 2010
George A. "Trace" Ray III, 65, died Oct. 7, 2010. Mr. Ray was born on Jan. 24, 1945, in San Antonio. He married Cynthia Hogan on July 4, 2005, in Live Oak County. He was a member of Providence Presbyterian Church in Beeville, a multi-generation rancher, member of Beefmaster Breeders Association, former director of First National Bank and former...
Eudelia Delrosario
Oct 6, 2010
Eudelia "B.G." (Garza) DelRosario, 70 of Beeville died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Mrs. DelRosario was born on Dec. 8, 1939, in San Antonio to Maria Garcia Martinez and Alfredo Garza. She married Bayani "Pat" DelRosario in Sinton on Sept. 1, 1961. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and of Our Lady of Guadalupe...
William Gunderman
Oct 5, 2010
William Kenneth Gunderman, 60, of Corpus Christi died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Mr. Gunderman was born Aug. 20, 1950, in Beeville to Billie Marie (Williamson) and Kenneth Franklin Gunderman. He was a Baptist and a truck driver by profession. He was preceded in death by his father, Kenneth Franklin Gunderman; and two sisters, Anna and Patricia Gunderman. Survivors include...




