Benito W Longoria
Mar 23, 2011
Benito Webb Longoria, 81, of Cuero, went to his eternal rest on March 23, 2011. He was born on Aug. 22, 1929 to Julio and Hilaria Webb Longoria. He was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and he was a Guadalupano. He worked for Clyde Christian for 30 years as a jukebox/amusement machine technician. He created a partnership...
Loraine Sutherland
Mar 19, 2011
Loraine Sutherland, 86, of Smiley passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 19, 2011. She was born October 26, 1924 to the late Harvey M. and Hettie Elizabeth Bolton Cathcart. She married Ray Kenneth Sutherland on February 15, 1945 in Phoenix, Arizona. Loraine was a bookkeeper and a member of Westhoff Baptist Church. She is survived by her loving husband of...
Hector Ramirez
Mar 16, 2011
Hector Ramirez, 54, of Cuero, passed away Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in San Antonio. He was born Feb. 10, 1957, in Cuero, to the late Mercedes Ramirez and Virginia Ramirez. He graduated Cuero High School in 1975 and served in the U.S. Army from 1975 to 1980. He served overseas in Germany and received the Good Conduct Medal and Marksman...
James W. Ancarrow
Mar 15, 2011
James Willis Ancarrow, 82, of Thomaston, passed away at 1:40 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Victoria. He was born Nov. 14, 1928, in Richmond, Va., to the late Jessie Willis Ancarrow and Catherine (Gertie) Gray Ancarrow. He married the late Juanita Taylor Ancarrow on Sept. 6, 1949, in North Carolina. He attended John Marshall Military High School and...
Mildred Calhoun
Mar 15, 2011
Mildred Calhoun, a long-time resident of Alice, passed away Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at Grace Presbyterian Village in Dallas, Texas where she had lived for the past four years. The oldest child of Walter and Minnie Williams, she was born in Piggott, Arkansas on May 27, 1917. In the late 1930's Mildred came to Alice to visit a girl friend...
Elizabeth Bennett
Mar 13, 2011
Elizabeth Lee Bennett, beloved mother and devoted friend, passed away peacefully at the age of 63 on March 13, 2011. Elizabeth was a free spirit with a zest for life who loved animals, music, and dancing. Her sharp wit and broad sense of humor brought joy to all who knew her. Her love of travel will surely continue from this...
Charles Shea Cockrum
Mar 8, 2011
Charles Shea Cockrum, 57, of Cheapside passed away Tuesday, March 8, 2011. He was born January 30, 1954 in Portsmouth, Virginia to James Luther Cockrum and the late Peggy Adele Lord. He married Ruth Sakiestewa in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Charles was an optical coating engineer and a US Domestic and Foreign consultant for optical engineering. He enjoyed raising fresh water...
George Irving Middaugh
Mar 7, 2011
George Irving Middaugh passed away Monday, March 7, 2011. He was born on November 29, 1922 in St. Mary's, West Virginia to the late Rev. Irving Seely and Lorene Taylor Middaugh. A 1949 graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York with a B.S. in Agriculture and a 1958 graduate of St. Mary's University with a B.S of Law. He...
Victor Vasquez, Sr.
Mar 6, 2011
Victor M. Vasquez Sr., 87, of Cuero went to be with the Lord on Sunday, March 6, 2011. He was born May 9, 1932 in Nordheim to the late Louis and Leonarda Martinez Vasquez. He is survived by his daughters, Mary Jane Quintanilla and husband, Ray, of Victoria and Esther Gonzales and husband, Umberto, of La Feria; sons, Rev. Joe...
Marlene Ann Digiantomasso
Mar 5, 2011
Marlene Ann Ruschhaupt DiGiantomasso, 78, of Cuero passed away Saturday, March 05, 2011. She was born March 8, 1932 in Meyersville to the late Marcus Alfred and Florine Marie Hasdorff Ruschhaupt. She married Vincent J. DiGiantomasso on December 21, 1952 in Cuero. Marlene worked for Bell Telephone as an operator and East Detroit School System as a food manager for...
Walter Oscar Egg
Mar 4, 2011
Walter Oscar Egg, 98, of Meyersville, passed away Friday, March 4, 2011, in Yorktown. He was born Dec. 19, 1912, in Meyersville, to the late Rudolph Egg and Melanie Jacob Egg. He married Elvie Otillie Egg on Feb. 12, 1935, in Meyersville. Walter had a garage where he was a mechanic for many years, then opened a dairy before becoming...
Albert Wade
Mar 4, 2011
Albert 'Big Daddy' Wade, 79, of Cuero passed away Friday, March 4, 2011. He was born October 26, 1931 in Placedo to the late Rev. Albert Wade Sr. and Thelma Wade. He married Adlaida Edolia McNary Wade on June 19, 1955 in DeWitt County. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War and was a maintenance supervisor...
Rosa Henderson
Mar 3, 2011
Rosa Lee Henderson, 83, of Cuero, passed Thursday, March 3, 2011, in DeWitt County. She was born Sept. 7, 1927, in Thomaston, to the late Cato M. Jackson Sr. and Julia Barnes Jackson. She married the late Chester Henderson in Cuero. She was a domestic worker. Rosa Lee worked for Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Aronstein for 65 years. She also...
Nancy Heil
Mar 1, 2011
Nancy T. Garza Heil, 44, of Cuero passed away Tuesday, March 1, 2011. She was born in Cuero on November 5, 1966 to Robert and Martha Trevino Garza. Nancy married Brian Heil on February 14, 1987. She was a Licensed Vocational Nurse at TLC Staffing in Victoria and has been in nursing for 23 years. One of Nancy's joys in...
John Gus 'J Gus' Jank
Feb 26, 2011
John G. "J Gus" Jank 82 of Meyersville passed away Saturday, Feb 26, 2011, He was born July 10, 1928, in Ander to the late August and Julia Jank. He married the late Iris Ann Rangnow Jank, February 25, 1951. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and brother. He was a member of Meyersville Volunteer Fire Department,...
Geneva Polasek
Feb 24, 2011
Geneva Polasek, 90, of Cuero passed away Thursday, February 24, 2011. She was born January 3, 1921 in Koerth to the late O.E. and Sophie Boehm Hermes. She married her late husband, August J. Polasek in March 2, 1948 in Hallettsville. She was s professional softball player, a fisherman, a rancher, a member of the St. Michaels Catholic Church and...
Ellen Graham
Feb 22, 2011
Ellen Graham, 78, of Cuero passed away Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Freund Funeral Home, 361.275.2343.
Ernest Meier
Feb 22, 2011
Ernest L. Meier, 92, died Tuesday, February 22, 2011. He was born in Winters, Texas, the son of Rev. Eugene Meier and Julia Trimpler Meier, and grew up in and around Arneckeville where his father was the Lutheran pastor. After military service in World War II, he was employed by Continental Oil Company in offices in Yorktown, El Campo, and...
Fay Weber
Feb 21, 2011
Fay Fischer Weber passed away Monday, February 21st at Cuero Community Hospital. She was born in Cuero on August 4th, 1913 to Arthur and Mary Will Fischer. She was a great cook and seamstress, and loved to work in her garden. Also she was an avid fisherman, weaver, and talented artist and never missed an athletic event that her son...
Dorothy Lee Vaughn
Feb 18, 2011
Dorothy Lee Vaughn, of Cuero, Texas, passed away on Friday, February 18, 2011. She would have turned 85 on Thursday, February 24, 2011. She was born in Weslaco, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley to Alva Eugene and Ruby Hooser Geraughty. She was the second child born out of nine children. She was preceded in death by her parents, Alva...
