Obituaries
Michael Leonard Cruz, Jr.
May 3, 2013
Michael Leonard Cruz, Jr., age 18 of Weatherford passed away Friday, May 3, 2013 in a Fort Worth area hospital following a brief illness. He was born on October 11, 1994 in Houston, Texas to parents, Michael Cruz and Stacey Jimenez. Mikey had been a longtime resident of Wharton having obtained his diploma from Wharton High School in 2012. Mikey...
Tiffany Marie Rodriguez
May 1, 2013
Tiffany Rodriguez, age 27, and her daughter, Aaliyah Peters, age 6, both of Boling, passed away Wednesday evening, May 1, 2013, due to injuries sustained in a multi car accident just South of Wharton. Tiffany was born on November 20, 1985, a daughter of Alfonso Rodriguez and Diana Amador Ruiz. Tiffany Marie Rodriguez was born in El Campo and raised...
Aaliyah Marie Peters
May 1, 2013
Tiffany Rodriguez, age 27, and her daughter, Aaliyah Peters, age 6, both of Boling, passed away Wednesday evening, May 1, 2013, due to injuries sustained in a multi car accident just South of Wharton. Tiffany was born on November 20, 1985, a daughter of Alfonso Rodriguez and Diana Amador Ruiz. Tiffany Marie Rodriguez was born in El Campo and raised...
Geronimo (Ronny) Cantu
May 1, 2013
Geronimo Cantu Mr. Geronimo (Ronnie) Cantu, age 33 of Bay City died Wednesday May 1, 2013 in an automobile accident in south of Wharton. He was born on June 14, 1979 in Bay City, TX the son of Geronimo Arthur Cantu and Lydia Castillo Cantu. Mr. Cantu worked in Construction and enjoyed BBQ, being with family and friends, especially his...
Dan Medrano
Apr 27, 2013
Dan Medrano, age 93 of Wharton, passed away on Saturday, April 27, 2013, in a Sugar Land hospital following an extended illness. He was born on March 31, 1920, in Manchaca, Texas a son of the late Jose F and Santos Reyes Medrano. Dan married Susie Mora in Bay City on February 5, 1941. Dan worked as a heavy equipment...
Patricia Ann Hurst
Apr 27, 2013
Patricia Hurst, age 55, of East Bernard and formerly of Ohio, died Saturday, March 27, 2013 in a Sugar Land hospital following a lengthy illness. She was born on February 2, 1958 in Canton Ohio, a daughter of Jack and Velma Smith Mayes. Patricia was raised in Ohio and graduated from Stuutzenberger college in 1977. She married Haggard Hurst in...
Lucy Talas
Apr 26, 2013
Lucy Talas, age 90 of East Bernard, passed away on Friday, April 26, 2013, in Sealy following an extended illness. She was born on December 3, 1922, a daughter of the late Joe and Emilie Vaclavik Orsak. Lucy married Joe F. Talas, Sr. on September 17, 1945 in East Bernard. He preceded her in death on March 29, 1995. She...
Rebecca Ruth Norrell
Apr 25, 2013
Rebecca Ruth Norrell, age 82 of Wharton, passed away on Thursday, April 25, 2013, at a wharton nursing center following an extended illness. She was born on January 19, 1931, in Comanche, Texas, a daughter of the late Glenn Brown and Ruth Emert Grant and Wyatt Grant. Rebecca was raised in the Stephenville area and graduated from school there, she...
Lillian E McKee
Apr 24, 2013
Lillian E. McKee Mrs. Lillian Evelyn McKee, age 89 of Wharton died Wednesday, April 24, 2013 in Wharton following a sudden illness. She was born on October 2, 1923 in Crescent, TX the daughter of the late Anton Cerny, Sr. and Frances Baklik Cerny. Mrs. McKee has been a resident of Wharton for the past seventy years and was a...
Bobby Joe Myers, Sr.
Apr 23, 2013
Bobby Joe Myers, Sr. Mr. Bobby Joe Myers, age 84 of Wharton and a former resident of Springhill, LA. died Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in a Houston Hospital following a brief illness. He was born on July 23, 1928 in Taylor, Arkansas the son of the late James Aswell Myers and Laura Elizabeth Frame Myers. Mr. Myers has been a...
Jacqueline Jansky
Apr 23, 2013
JACQUELINE RENEE JANSKY Mrs. Jacqueline Renee Jansky, age 47 of Boling died Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in Houston following a brief illness. She was born on February 14, 1966 in Ft. Campbell, KY the daughter of Bradley Nelson Wheeler and Sharon J. Wheeler. Jacqueline has been a resident of Boling since 1978 and was Baptist by Faith. She graduated from...
Steven Geminder
Apr 16, 2013
Steven Mark Geminder, age 58, of Wharton, died on April 16, 2013 at a hospital in Sugar Land, after a sudden illness. He was born on June 28, 1954, in New York, New York, son of Herbert Geminder and Bertha Cherry Geminder. Steven had been a resident of Wharton for the past ten years. He graduated from James Madison High...
Adeline Marie Schindler
Apr 15, 2013
Adeline Marie Zatopek Schindler of Wharton, TX left this world for her heavenly home on April 15, 2013 at the age of 97. She was born in La Grange, TX on Feb 2, 1916, the oldest child of Frank and Sophie Strnadel Zatopek. Adeline attended school in Ellinger, TX through the 8th grade, when her family moved to the Louise...
Felipe R. Miniel, Jr.
Apr 13, 2013
Mr. Felipe R. Miniel, age 93 of Wharton died Saturday, April 13, 2013 in a Wharton Nursing Home following a brief illness. He was born on October 17, 1919 in Berclair, TX the son of Felipe Miniel and Refugia Rivera Miniel. Mr. Miniel has been a resident of Wharton for over sixty years and was a member of Bethel Pentecostal...
Joshua Lee Haynie
Apr 12, 2013
Joshua Lee (Josh) Haynie, age 32 of Wharton died Friday, April 12, 2013 near Lane City, TX in an automobile accident. He was born on June 11, 1980 in St. Louis, MO the son of Gary Lee Haynie and Karen Lizenbee Haynie Smith. Joshua had been a resident of Wharton County for the past twenty years and was Christian by...
Edward Emil Chumchal
Apr 11, 2013
Edward Emil Chumchal, age 92 of College Station, passed away on April 11, 2013 at his residence. He was born on August 30, 1920 in Hungerford, Texas, a son of the late Joe and Mary Knesek Chumchal. Edward was raised in the Wharton-Hungerford area and attended school there. He worked as a row crop farmer and loved the outdoors. He...
Lillie Katherine Horelica
Apr 8, 2013
Lillie Katherine Kramr Horelica was born November 25, 1913 in La Grange, Texas to Louis and Julia Kramr. Lillie had one brother, Alvin Kramr and three sisters: Clara Davis, Della Wright and Esther Mathews. On July 14, 1937, Lillie married her best friend, Alfred Horelica. The two of them would enjoy forty-eight years of marriage filled with many joyful times...
Sandra Spano
Apr 5, 2013
Mrs. Sandra Spano, age 74 of Wharton died Friday, April 5, 2013 in a Wharton Hospital following a sudden illness. She was born on January 18, 1939 in Seminole, OK the daughter of the late Melvin Frauenberger and Gladys Waters Frauenberger. Mrs. Spano was a long-time resident of Wharton and a member of the First Baptist Church in Wharton. She...
Fr. HENRY RACHUNEK
Apr 3, 2013
Rev. Henry C. Rachunek Reverend Henry Charles Rachunek, age 80 of Beasley and formerly of Hungerford, TX died Wednesday, April 3, 2013 in a Houston Hospital following an extended illness. He was born on May 14, 1932 in Hungerford, TX. Father Rachunek’s assignments included Houston, East Bernard, Rosenberg, Hungerford and Beasley. He served at St. John’s Catholic Church in Hungerford...
Dennis Cunningham
Apr 3, 2013
Walter Dennis “DD” Cunningham, age 61 of Wharton, passed away on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at his residence in Burr following an extended illness. He was born on October 24, 1951, in Palacios, Texas, a son of the late Gerald and Clara Jean Armstrong Cunningham. DD was raised in the Wharton area and attended school there. He worked for many...
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