Odessa M. Hunt
Oct 9, 2005
Odessa M. Hunt, 81, of Bay City died October 9, 2005 at Matagorda General Hospital. She was born October 18, 1923 in Jamestown, TX to the late James Knox and Nellie Gray Moore. Mrs Hunt was a resident of Bay City the past 5 years a former 50 year resident of Palacios. She was a member of the Trinity Baptist...
Alta Savage Cox
Oct 8, 2005
Alta Savage Cox, 84, of Carthage, Texas died October 8, 2005 in Longview, Texas. She was born December 29, 1920 in Yoakum, Texas to Charles W. Savage and Hattie Douglas Taylor Savage. She attended Bertram Schools and Baylor University. Alta married Theodore Inman Cox on Sept. 17, 1939 and together they celebrated 51 years of marriage before his death in...
Otis "Butch" Birkner
Oct 8, 2005
Otis Henry "Butch" Birkner, 80, of Bay City passed away Saturday, October 8, 2005 in Bay City, TX. He was born November 19, 1924 in Manchaca, TX to Joe Birkner, Sr. and Mabel Green Birkner. Butch was a life long resident of Bay City and member of the First United Methodist Church. He was a quiet, sensitive man who was...
Guadalupe Leija
Oct 7, 2005
Guadalupe Leija, 95, of Bay City died October 7, 2005 at the Matagorda House. She was born February 15, 1910 in Chile, Mexico to the late Roque and Amelia Garza Navarro. Mrs. Lieja was a resident of Bay City the past 5 years and a former longtime resident of Palacios. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Survivors include:...
Steve Roe, Sr.
Oct 6, 2005
Steve Roe, Sr., 51, of Bay City, passed away, Thursday, October 6, 2005. He was born September 22, 1954 in Wharton, TX to John Henry Roe and Hilda Johnson Roe. He was a lifelong resident of Bay City and a member of the Baptist church. He is survived by his son: Steven E. Roe, Jr. and wife Alyson of Houston;...
Pete Garay
Oct 4, 2005
Pete Garay, 60, of Bay City died October 4, 2005 at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX. He was born October 11, 1944 in Bay City, TX to the late Anastacio and Olivia Torres Garay. Mr. Garay was a lifetime resident of Bay City and was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Survivors include: wife: Margaret Escamilla...
Stephanie Milich Hlavinka
Oct 3, 2005
Stephanie Milich "Steffie" Hlavinka, 81, of Bay City died October 3, 2005 in Bay City. She was born June 12, 1924 in Czechoslovakia to Emil and Anna Milich. She was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church and had been a resident of Bay City for 60 years. She is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Linda and Johnny...
Jean Karen Nohavitza
Oct 3, 2005
Jean Karen Nohavitza, 73, of Bay City died October 3, 2005 at the Katy Medical Center Hospital in Katy, TX. She was born September 6, 1932 in Ada, Kansas to the late Martin and Hazel Mauk Nelsen. She was a member of the Lutheran Church and was a resident of Bay City the past 50 years. In 1995 she retired...
Dorothy Mae Brewer
Oct 3, 2005
Dorothy Mae Brewer 73, of Palacios died October 3, 2005 at her residence. She was born March 9, 1932 in Gidings, TX to the late Charles and Irene Martha Daniels Redkey. Mrs. Brewer was a resident of Palacios since 1967 and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Gidings. Survivors include: husband: John H. Brewer of Palacios; daughters...
Bethany Ann Bartosh
Oct 2, 2005
Bethany Ann Bartosh, 18, of Bay City died October 2, 2005 in El Campo, Texas. She was born November 22, 1986 in Wharton, Texas to James Edward and Ruth Ann Wind Bartosh. She is survived by her parents, James E. and Ruth Ann Bartosh of Bay City; by her maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Wind of Marble Falls, Texas; her paternal...
Frances Adair Haas
Oct 2, 2005
Frances Adair Haas, 93, died October 2, 2005 at Bay Villa Nursing Home in Bay City. She was born September 15, 1912 in Union Town, Alabama to Gordon Cunningham and Weir Lessie Cunningham. She had been a resident of Bay City for 10 years and was a member of the Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband,...
Zaragoza Gonsalez Salinas
Oct 1, 2005
Zaragoza Gonsalez Salinas, 92, of Palacios, passed away Saturday, October 01, 2005. He was born August 17, 1913 in Benavidas, TX to Mauricio Gonsalez Salinas and Bartola Gonsalez Salinas. He was a resident of Palacios since 1936, a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church and a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He is survived by his wife: Maria...
Sue Ann Arnold
Sep 28, 2005
Sue Ann Arnold, 44, of Bay City, passed away Wednesday, September 28, 2005. She was born September 26, 1961 in Bay City to Wilhelm Henry Arnold and Wanda Lynn Hairston Arnold. She was a life long resident of Bay City. She is survived by her daughter: Erica Faye Cloud of West Columbia; her parents: W. H. "Sonny" Arnold of Bay...
Francis Ray Butter
Sep 25, 2005
Francis Ray Butter, 73, of Wadsworth died September 25, 2005. He was born June 6, 1932 in Francisville, Texas to Frank Lawrence Butter and Katie Ryman Butter. He was a lifelong resident of Wadsworth, a farmer and the former owner of Butter's Cut Rate Liquor Store. He is survived by his wife, Lothell Marie Culver Butter of Wadsworth and by...
H. B. Howard
Sep 17, 2005
H. B. Howard, 96, of Palacios died at his residence September 17, 2005. He was born February 24, 1909 in Goose Rock, Clay Co., KY to the late Jesse and Elizabeth Asher Howard. Mr. Howard was a resident of Palacios the past 10 years, a former resident of Point Comfort, and Mexia, TX, and was a member of the Point...
Rosemary K. Colvin
Sep 16, 2005
Rosemary K. Colvin, 82, of Bay City passed away Friday, September 16, 2005 at her home in Bay City. She was born November 5, 1922 in Sullivan, IL to the late Frank Prior and Maude Marie Rose Kirk. Mrs. Colvin was a former resident of Groves for 47 years, a resident of Bay City for the past ten years and...
Alma Moorman Coppock
Sep 15, 2005
Dear Friends and Relatives, Our beloved mother, Alma Moorman Coppock, passed from this life to be with our Heavenly Father and others who have gone before at 4:00 AM on September, 15, 2005. Mother was born in an East Texas oil town, Votaw, Texas, on July 23, 1914. Early on, her family moved to Daisetta, Texas, where her father worked...
Lorraine Renfro
Sep 15, 2005
Iva Lorraine Renfro, 88, died September 15, 2005 in Salem, Oregon. She was born December 23, 1916 in Hamlin, Texas to Hoyt B. Hamilton and Iva Mae Jones Hamilton. She was a longtime resident of Bay City, taught 3rd grade in the Bay City ISD for 30 years and was a member of the First United Methodist Church. In 1972...
Ernette C. Sanford
Sep 15, 2005
Ernette C. Sanford, 89, of Palacios passed away Thursday September 15, 2005 at her residence. She was born on October 16, 1915 in Natchitoches, LA to the late Ernest Franklin and Olah Case Courtney. She grew up in Shreveport and graduated from Fair Park High School in 1932 at the age of 16. She then went to Louisiana Tech and...
James Donald "Coach Don" Haley
Sep 13, 2005
James Donald " Coach Don" Haley, 88, of Bay City died September 13, 2005 at Matagorda General Hospital in Bay City. He was born July 26, 1917 in Broad Ford, PA to the late Anthony J. & Bridget Grace Haley. Mr. Haley was a resident of Bay City since 1948 and a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church. He was...
