Doris Rhodes Collins
Nov 18, 2015
Doris Rhodes Collins was born on April 5, 1928 in San Perlita, Texas, and passed from this life on November 18, 2015 in Blanco. In 1944, upon graduation from high school at the age of 16, she immediately moved to San Antonio to attend Business College, and soon began applying her professional skills in a variety of businesses. She married...
Diana H. Davis
Nov 16, 2015
CELEBRATE ME AWAY! DIANA H. DAVIS passed from this world Monday November 16, 2015, in Dripping Springs, TX, at the age of 91. She died of complications due to old age. Diana was born to Frank J. Hafner and Katherine B. Kramer on November 19, 1923, in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was the third of five children. Diana was preceeded...
Elman Fuchs
Nov 15, 2015
Elman Fuchs, 91, passed away peacefully on November 15, 2015, surrounded by his family in Round Mountain, Texas. Elman was born on May 14, 1924, in Cypress Mill, Texas, to Hugo Paul and Gertrude Hyatt Fuchs. Elman started out as an entrepreneur in the gas station and trucking businesses until he found his passion of being a cowboy and a...
Gladys Bigden Stone
Nov 8, 2015
Gladys Bigden Stone, 107, of Fredericksburg, TX, formerly of Blanco, died peacefully Sunday, November 8, 2015. She was involved with Bigden Insurance Agency many years. She was a faithful member of First Baptist Church of Blanco until moving to Fredericksburg. She was an accomplished pianist, organist, and violinist. She played in the Fredericksburg Orchestra until she was 100. She was...
Cecil Joe Scott
Nov 4, 2015
Cecil Joe Scott, 80, passed away November 4, 2015 at his home near Johnson City, TX. He was born July 15, 1935 in Llano, TX to Marion Clifton Scott and Ethel Delilah Scott (Smith). Cecil Joe started his career working with JD and Eric Slator gathering cattle before going to Arkansas to work on one of the Slator Ranches. He...
Aline E. Slack
Oct 29, 2015
Aline Offer Slack, 92, passed away surrounded by her family October 29, 2015 in Waco, Texas. Aline was born March 24, 1923 in Aransas Pass, Texas to Eunice Maley Offer and Edwin Joseph Offer. She was preceded in death by her husband John R. Slack, her parents and her sisters Laura Grace Offer and Joyce Offer Hunt. She is survived...
Evelyn O. Hudgens
Oct 28, 2015
Evelyn O. (Honey) Hudgens, 95, passed away surrounded by her family October 28, 2015 in Corpus Christi, TX. Evelyn was born April 27, 1920 in Burnet, TX to Adolph Perry and Beatrice Reid Perry. She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, Floyd (Farmer), Henry, Daris, Jay, and Clayton (Tuffy), sister, Irene (Sissy), and daughter, Rita. Surviving her are...
Tommy C. Thurlkill
Oct 27, 2015
Tommy Cecil Thurlkill, born March 18, 1940, in Wichita Falls, Texas, and died October 27, 2015, in Johnson City, Texas. Tommy is survived by his wife of 37 years, Mary Deering Thurlkill, five children: Sherri Strickland and husband, LaWayne, Bruce Thurlkill and wife, Amy Nicole, Amy Lynn Thurlkill, Carlos Thurlkill and wife, Courtne, and Chris Thurlkill and wife, Sofi, seven...
Thomas Blaine Fine
Oct 24, 2015
Thomas B. Fine passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2015 in Llano, Texas. Thomas was born to Elbert E. Fine and Jimmie E Fine March 19, 1931, in Medina Texas. Mr Fine lived in Dripping Springs, Texas and then moved to Johnson City with his parents 1951. Then he moved to Llano Texas, where he resided with his Niece Elisca...
Caley Nell Klepac
Oct 12, 2015
Caley Nell Jones Klepac died peacefully October 12, 2015 at the age of 83. She is the beloved wife of 59 years to Robert John Klepac, Sr. She is survived by her sisters, Martha Ann Bartz and husband William Evans Bartz of Hammondsport, NY and Dorothy Dean Wright and husband Joe Ellis Wright of N. Little Rock, AK. She was...
Anna Josephine Phipps
Oct 11, 2015
Anna J. Phipps, 96, a resident of Blanco for 53 years passed away October 11, 2015 at Grace Care Center in Katy, Texas. Anna was born in San Antonio, Texas on November 29, 1918 to Ike and Annie Livingston. She married Tom Phipps on June 11, 1937. They were married for 58 years. She was a housewife, worked at Phipps...
Arthur Boyd Hineline
Sep 5, 2015
On the morning of September 5, 2015 Arthur "Bud" Hineline passed away at Vitas Hospice in San Antonio, TX at the age of 71. Arthur Boyd Hineline was born in Battle Creek Michigan on February 10, 1944. He was adopted by Vernon and Constance Hineline of Valparaiso, Indiana. Bud served his country with the U.S. Army as a mechanic. Before...
Clifford R. Baird
Sep 3, 2015
Clifford R. Baird Jr. passed away September 3, 2015, at the age of 81 after a long and valiant struggle with Parkinson's Disease. Cliff was born at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas on February 19, 1934. His father was in the Air Force and the family moved a great deal. Cliff went to many different schools, graduating from...
Mattie Marie (Smith) Giles
Sep 3, 2015
Mattie Marie (Smith) Giles passed away on September 3, 2015. She was born on September 10, 1926, the third of nine children of Felix and Martha Smith. The family included two brothers and six sisters. She was born in Blanco, Texas where she grew up. She was baptized in the Blanco River at the age of 13 and graduated Salutatorian...
Joyce Louise Tatsch
Aug 31, 2015
Dripping Springs, Texas- Joyce Louise Tatsch, 74 of Dripping Springs, passed away on Monday, August 31, 2015 in Austin, Texas. Visitation will be 10:00 AM Friday, September 4, 2015 with services to follow at 10:30 AM Friday at Crofts ? Crow Funeral Chapel in Johnson City, Texas. Burial will be in Phillips Cemetery in Dripping Spring, Texas. Joyce was born...
Donald Franklin Felps
Aug 21, 2015
Donald Franklin Felps, 83, of Johnson City, passed away Friday, August 21, 2015 in Fredericksburg, TX. He was born February 21, 1932 in Johnson City to Wylie Felps and Louella Barder Felps. Donald proudly served his country with the U.S. Air Force where he was a pilot, and then became a mechanical instructor of jet engines. Following his military career,...
Erwin Charles Westhause
Aug 6, 2015
Erwin Charles (Erv) Westhause was reborn into eternal life on his birthday August 6, 2015. He is preceded in death by his parents; Erwin Charles Westhause Sr. and Anita Sue Smith, by his nephew David Westhause Jr. by his wife Carey Westhause, and by his latest wife Velta Westhause. He is survived by his daughters Pam Woody and her husband...
William M. Thoe
Aug 5, 2015
William Marvin Thoe, 85, passed away Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at his home in Johnson City, TX. William was born in Brainerd, MN to Caleb and Evelyn Prosser Thoe. He was raised in Brainerd and following high school graduation William joined the U.S. Army, served nine years active duty. He went on to serve eleven years in the reserves from...
Alfred Z. Carvajal
Aug 4, 2015
Alfred Z. Carvajal, age 89, entered into eternal rest on August 4, 2015. He was born May 12, 1926 to Louis P. and Isabel Zepeda Carvajal. At age 17, Alfred enlisted in the U.S. Navy to fight in WWII. He served in the Pacific aboard the USS Newberry. He landed with the Marines on Iwo Jima and witnessed the raising...
Michael Houston Mcdonald
Jul 28, 2015
Michael Houston McDonald, 59 of Arlington, Texas passed away on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 after a lengthy illness. Services will be on Saturday, August 1, 2015 12:00 PM at Crofts ? Crow Funeral Chapel, 911 Mesquite St. Blanco, Texas. Burial will follow in the Blanco Cemetery in Blanco, Texas. Michael was born on December 23, 1955, in Houston, Texas to...
