Obituaries

Ruth Huey
Jan 1, 2011
Ruth A. Huey, age 87, of Corpus Christi, Texas passed away January 1, 2011. Visitation will be on Wednesday, January 5, 2010 from 10:00 A.M. to 12 noon at Sawyer-George Funeral Home. Graveside funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 2:00 P.M. in the Memory Gardens Cemetery. Interment to follow at Memroy Gardens Cemetery.
Elizabeth Cherry
Dec 27, 2010
Elizabeth Marion Haas Cherry, age 75, passed away on December 27th, 2010, after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was born August 3, 1935 in Umatilla, Florida to Marion and Frank Haas. She graduated from Mt. Dora High School and Florida State University with a degree in Education. She also graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a degree in...
Nicholas Houchin
Dec 27, 2010
Nicholas Lee Houchin, age 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas passed away December 27, 2010. He was born September 10, 1983 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He graduated from Calallen High School with academic honors, played basketball and ran track. He loved to go fishing with his dad and brothers, enjoyed music and spending time on the Frio River. At the time...
Mary Cox
Dec 19, 2010
Mary Louise "Love" Cox, age 64, of Corpus Christi, Texas went to be with the Lord on Sunday, December 19, 2010. She was born March 3, 1946 in Robstown, Texas to Gussie Alexander Pack, Sr. and Johanna Louise Henrietta Brand. Anyone who knew Mary was blessed by her loving and outgoing personality. She was truly the heart and soul of...
Matthew Whetstone
Dec 15, 2010
Matthew Thomas Whetstone, 38, of Corpus Christi, Texas, well loved son of Sheree Zonkel and step-father, Don Zonkel, went home to be with his Lord, Wednesday morning, December 15, 2010. He was born September 29, 1972 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He graduated from Calallen High School in 1991, earned his bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas, and taught...
Janice Cox
Dec 14, 2010
Janice Ruth Atkins Cox of Spring, TX passed away on December 14, 2010 with her family by her side. She was born on January 21, 1928 in Ingleside, TX and was a long time resident of Corpus Christi. Her parents were Augustus Floyd and Lottie Pollard Atkins. She is preceded in death by her loving husband, Minor Bartley Cox, infant...

Cecelia Dunn
Dec 12, 2010
Cecelia Marie Dunn passed away Sunday, December 12, 2010 at Mountain Home, Arkansas, at the age of 95. She was born August 11, 1915 in Hammon, Oklahoma, the daughter of Medie and Mabel Roby Jones. She married Jack Dunn on January 16, 1979 at Jourdanton, Texas, and was a homemaker. Cecelia lived in Mountain Home, Arkansas since March of 2010...
Lester Maywald
Dec 11, 2010
Lester Cleveland Maywald. age 87, of Corpus Christi, Texas passed away December 11, 2010. He was born October 12, 1923 in Ft. Worth, Texas to Grover and Beulah Maywald. Mr. Maywald was a member of Jackson Woods Presbyterian Church, worked for American Smelting and retired from ASARCO at an early age of 62. Later in life he transported cars for...
Rowena Hanshaw
Dec 8, 2010
Rowena Hanshaw peacefully went home to meet our Lord on December 8, 2010. She was born November 20, 1928, in Velasco, Texas. She was preceded in death by husband, Melvin Curtis Hanshaw; mother, Ina Esther Wood; father, Cecil Posey and granddaughters, Brooke and Michelle Williams. Rowena was employed for thirty-six years with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company until her retirement in...
Hugh Vickers, Jr.
Dec 7, 2010
Hugh Vickers, Jr., age 88, entered into heavenly rest on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 with his loving family at his side. He was born on January 6, 1922 in Ranger, Texas to Hugh, Sr. and Ruby Vickers. Mr. Vickers served in the United States Navy in WWII in the Pacific Theater. He was honorably discharged in November of 1945. He...
Pfc Usmc
Dec 6, 2010
Orange Grove, Texas PFC Colton Wesley Rusk, USMC, age 20, passed away December 6, 2010. He was born in Corpus Christi, Texas September 23, 1990. He attended Orange Grove High School where he excelled in Varsity Sports such as football and baseball. He was a 2 yr letterman in football where he was awarded honorable mention left tackle his Junior...

Lonnie Merritt
Dec 6, 2010
Lonnie C. Merritt, age 91, of Corpus Christi, Texas passed away December 6, 2010. Memorial services will be conducted on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 2:00 P.M. in the Sawyer-George Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 10:00 A.M. in the Runge Cemetery in Runge, Texas. In lieu of flowers the family request donations to...

Eric Schuemann
Dec 6, 2010
Eric Lee Schuemann, age 47 of Robstown, Texas passed away December 6, 2010 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He was born June 13, 1963 in Des Moines, Iowa to Douglas and Evelyn Schuemann. He was preceded in death by his father and is survived by his son, Chris (Ashley Davis) Schuemann; daughter, Jessica Schuemann of Indiana; mother, Evie (Mike) Barnes; sisters,...
Tim Little
Dec 1, 2010
Tim Little, 62, of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed away Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at his home. He was born November 7, 1948 in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Roy Miller High School in 1967 and earned his Master's Degree in Criminal Justice from Del Mar College. He had served as a police officer for the Portland Police Department for...
Emily Moore
Dec 1, 2010
Emily C. Moore, 83, of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed away Wednesday, December 1, 2010. She was born May 10, 1927 in Cocoa, Florida to Harold and Jennie Penfield Renneberg. Emily married Jack D. Moore on April 30, 1948 and they moved to the Annaville area in 1953. Emily was a faithful member of Grace United Methodist Church for over 57...
Doris Sharp
Nov 28, 2010
Doris Louise "Becky" Sharp, 85, of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed away Sunday, November 28, 2010. She was born March 4, 1925 in Pratt, Kansas to Royal Delbert and Lillian Hall Beck. She was a homemaker and a member of Norton Street church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, William Richard "Bill" Sharp. She...
Kenneth Miller
Nov 26, 2010
Kenneth W. Miller, 84, of Corpus Christi, Texas and a former longtime resident of Bishop, Texas, went to be with the Lord on Friday, November 26, 2010. He was born November 10, 1926 in Minburn, Iowa to Elza John Miller and Stella Smithers Miller. Kenneth was a U. S. Army veteran serving during WWII, a Pioneer Seed Dealer and a...
Ellen Townsend
Nov 21, 2010
Ellen A. Townsend, 97, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a former longtime resident of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed away Sunday, November 21, 2010. She was born September 7, 1913 in Stephens County, Oklahoma to Grover and Mary Elnora Morris Dillon. She was a homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ at Riverside. She was preceded in death by her husband,...
Paul Elsner
Nov 20, 2010
Paul E. Elsner, age 93, of Paris, Texas, formerly of Corpus Christi, Texas passed away November 20, 2010. Mr. Elsner was born December 27, 1916 in San Antonio, Texas to Paul Otto and Mary Annie Seerik Elsner. Mr. Elsner was a member of the Masonic Lodge, employed by B.D. Holt for twenty years and Alcoa Aluminum in Port Lavaca for...
Edmond Haught
Nov 15, 2010
Edmond L. Haught (Leroy), 81, passed away November 15, 2010 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He was born April 13, 1929 in Vernon, Texas to Albert and Opal Grimes Haught. Leroy was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Robstown Masonic Lodge #1062 A.F. & A.M., a member of the Al Amin Shrine Temple, Robstown Order of the Eastern Star,...