Harry Phillips
Feb 18, 2011
Harry Lee Phillips, 85, of Cuero, passed away Friday, Feb. 18, 2011. He was born June 15, 1925, in Victoria. He married Peaches C. Phillips on Sept. 1, 1946, in Kingsville. He was a retired petroleum engineer. He was a WWII veteran with U.S. Army Air Corp and flew as a B-17 Armorer Gunner in Africa, Italy, and over Germany....
George T Ritter
Feb 18, 2011
George Thomas Ritter, 55, of Cuero, passed away Friday, Feb. 18, 2011. He was born Sept. 28, 1955 in Matagorda to the late Harley Max Ritter and Ethal Lucille Robbins Ritter. He was a diesel mechanic and a welder. He graduated from Victoria High School in 1974 and served in the U.S. Navy from February 1981 to April 1985. He...
Inez R Ortiz
Feb 14, 2011
Inez Ramirez Ortiz, 90, of Cuero, passed away Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, in Victoria. She was born Oct. 24, 1920 in DeWitt County to the late Francisco and San Juanita Ramirez. She was a housewife. She was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother whose priority was to keep the family together. She is survived by her daughters, Connie Aitkens...
Genevieve E Tam
Feb 14, 2011
Genevieve Kulik Tam, 68, of Cuero, passed away Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. She was born Jan. 2, 1943 to the late Alex Kulik and Agnes Mainka Kulik. She married Edward J. Tam on Dec. 26, 1960 in Yorktown. She retired from the CISD cafeteria and was a cook with White Leghorn. She was a former 4-H adult leader, past band...
Charles Dromgoole
Feb 13, 2011
Charles Ray Dromgoole, 62, of Austin, passed away Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011. He was born Feb. 2, 1949, in San Antonio, to the late Charles L. and Opal Dromgoole. Charles Ray loved to travel and take care of people on trips. He has traveled the world and had many adventures. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19,...
Bernard Lempa
Feb 13, 2011
Bernard John Lempa Sr., 83, died Sunday, February 13, 2011 in Cuero. He was born August 16, 1927 in Five Mile Community, DeWitt County, Texas to the late Vincent and Frances Dudlefski Lempa. Bernard was baptized at St. Michaels Catholic Church by Rev. Teofilo Arana on the 21st day of August, 1927. He married Helen Warwas on February 7, 1946...
Nettie Wilson
Feb 13, 2011
Nettie Wilson, 81, of Cuero passed away Sunday, February 13, 2011. Services pending at Freund Funeral Home, 361.275.2343.
Adam Denson
Feb 12, 2011
Adam Denson, 65, of Cuero passed away peacefully on February 12, 2011. He was born December 14, 1945 in Cuero to the late Spencer Jones and Lucille Denson. He worked for Groc-Weardon in Victoria for many years, and most recently retired from the Cuero Independent School District as a Custodian. Adam was a kind-hearted and fun-loving person. He loved people,...
Benny Williams
Feb 10, 2011
Benny A. Williams, 67, of Yorktown, formerly of Cuero, passed away Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. He was born in Palacios on Sept. 20, 1943. Benny worked for Davis Plumbing in Cuero for over 35 years. He was a great father and grandfather. He will be missed dearly. He was preceded in death by his father, Charlie Williams; mother, Ethel Williams;...
Aurora Estrada Orozco
Feb 9, 2011
Aurora Orozco, 92, of Cuero passed away Wednesday, February 9, 2011 in Austin. She was born May 8, 1918 in Cerralvo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to the late Lorenzo Estrada and Gertudis Toscano. She married Primitivo Orozco in 1950 in Mercedes, Texas. A 1938 graduate of Mercedes High School, Aurora attended the University of Texas at Austin, Extension Course in Business...
John Peter Tumlinson
Feb 5, 2011
John Peter Tumlinson, 57, of Cuero, passed away Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, in Victoria. He was born Aug. 18, 1953, in Hereford, to the late LB Owen and Ruth May Owen of Cuero. He married Roxanne Martinmaas on Feb. 15, 1974, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a retired service specialist with Halliburton. He served in the U.S. Navy on the...
Fern Elaine Pridgen Barron
Feb 3, 2011
Fern Elaine Pridgen Barron, 90, of Cuero passed away Thursday, February 3, 2011. She was born July 18, 1920 in Thomaston to the late Oscar Pridgen and Helen Wolter Pridgen Bosewetter. In 1945, Elaine was with the Civil Service and was dispatched to Hickam Field in Oahu, Hawaii where she met her husband. She wed her late husband, Ed Barron,...
Melvin Rabenaldt
Feb 2, 2011
Melvin E. E. Rabenaldt, 82, of Cuero passed away Wednesday, February 2, 2011. He was born June 26, 1928 in Yorktown to the late Fritz and Elnora Rabenaldt. Melvin served in the United States Army during the Korean War from October 6, 1950 to October 21, 1952. He married his late wife, Myrle Rabenaldt in Norheim and worked for Hix...
Mary Poenitsch
Feb 2, 2011
Mary Louise Oellers Poenitzsch, 94, of Cuero passed away Wednesday, February 2, 2011. She was born November 19, 1916 in Yoakum to the late Alex and Amelia Quast Oellers. Mary Louise married Jesse J. Poenitzsch in Cuero in 1932. She was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Cuero since 1931. She is survived by her son, Michael Poenitzsch...
Mitchell E. Goldman
Feb 1, 2011
Mitchell Everett (Mike) Goldman was born in Cuero on Jan. 22, 1937 and passed away Feb. 1, 2011, at the age of 74 years and nine days. Mike graduated from high school in Cuero and attended college for one month and decided that college was not for him. He was employed by Brown and Root as an electrician and was...
Paula Jane High
Feb 1, 2011
Paula Jane Grubb High, 86, of Cuero passed away Tuesday, February 01, 2011 in Cuero. She was born July 9, 1924 to the late Stanley and Eunice Mattie Vineyard Grubb. She married Dr. Harold Rutledge High on December 7, 1947 in Canton and they made Cuero their home in 1955. She received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of...
Hillard 'Bud' N Harryman
Jan 31, 2011
Hillard N. "Bud" Harryman, 71, of Cuero, passed away Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 at Warm Springs in Victoria. He was born Nov. 8, 1939, in Cuero, to the late Hillard J. Harryman and Velma Winslett Harryman. He married Ruby Wisian on Jan. 3, 1998 in Sweet Home. He was a retired mechanic and served in the U.S. Army. He is...
Hans Cheeks
Jan 24, 2011
Hans Cheeks, 58, of Cuero passed away Monday, January 24, 2011. Hans was laid to rest at a private ceremony at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio on Thursday, February 17, 2011. Freund Funeral Home, 361.275.2343.
Mary Lou Akins
Jan 24, 2011
Mary Lou Akins, 89, of Cuero passed away Monday, January 24, 2011. Services pending at Freund Funeral Home, 361.275.2343.
Consepcion Galindo
Jan 23, 2011
Consepcion M. Galindo, 71, of Cuero passed away Sunday, January 23, 2011. She was born on April 12, 1939 in Cuero to the late Consepcion and Leopoldo Gonzales, Sr. Consepcion married Andrew Galindo Sr. on May 5, 1958 in Cuero. She worked at Textile Industries and Gulf Bend for many years. She is survived by her husband of 52 years;...
