Obits

Alvena Letha Biggs Braziel Brasuel

May 12, 1921 ~ Sept. 29, 2016

Alvena Letha Biggs Braziel Brasuel left this earth Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 at the age of 95.

For the last year of her life she was a resident at Kingsland Hill Care Center.

The staff there and the ladies with Seton Highland Lakes Hospice were her special angels.

A very special Thank you to each and every one of you.

Alvena was born May, 12, 1921 at Oatmeal, to Benjamin and Arie Biggs with her twin brother Alvin during a thunder storm.

Twins were a surprise to the parents and to the community as well.

She was preceded in death by two husbands; five brothers; one sister, and one grandson.

Patsy Ruth (Reese) Foreman

Sept. 12, 1942 ~ Oct. 5, 2016

Patsy Ruth (Reese) Foreman died on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 of a broken heart.

Pat was born Sept. 12, 1942 in Brownwood, Texas to Entis and Birdie Lancydane Reese.

She moved to Eunice, New Mexico for her Daddy to go to work in the oil fields when she was three years old.

After graduating from Eunice high school she attended “Beauty” school in Lubbock.

One weekend when she was headed home to Eunice on the Greyhound bus, a GI (named Stanley Franklin Foreman), got on the bus and took the very last seat, which happened to be right next to her.

That meeting was the start of a short, whirlwind courtship that culminated in them eloping to Mexico to get married.

Her parents had the last laugh as Stan and Pat had to get married again on US soil in order for the marriage to be recognized by the U.S. Air Force.

They were a team in life and now are reunited.

James “Brian” Frasier

Oct. 19, 1932 ~ Oct. 8, 2016

James Brian Frasier (83) of Marble Falls passed away Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016 at Granite Mesa Health Center.

Brian was born Oct. 19, 1932, in Double Horn community of Burnet County to Carl and Lillie Hood Frasier.

He attended Double Horn School and graduated from Marble Falls High School in 1949.

He is survived by his sons Jeff Frasier and wife Pennie of Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Bruce Frasier of Grosse Tete, Louisiana; three grandchildren Sarah and husband Harold Schepian, Amy and husband Josh Fortenberry, Brett and wife Whitney Frasier and nine great-grandchildren, Thomas Schepian, Nathanael Schepian, Owen Schepian, Elizabeth Schepian, Abigail Fortenberry, Lucy Fortenberry, James Fleet Frasier, Caleb Frasier, Asa Frasier and sister-in-law Norma Frasier.

Velma Bradshaw Leavell

Aug. 27, 1915 ~ Oct. 6, 2016

Velma Bradshaw Leavell died at the age of 101 on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. 

Born on Aug. 27, 1915 to Elsie Allen Smith (grandniece of Mary Jane Brown, who with her husband Frank J. Brown, founded Friendswood in 1895) and William T. Smith (County Commissioner of Galveston Co. Mainland who died in 1932 never having been defeated).

Velma was born in Friendswood, Texas just after the 1915 storm.

Velma went through the 8th grade in the Friendswood School and graduated from Webster High School.

She married Edward W. Bradshaw who had moved to Galveston to open Bradshaw's

Florist and Garden Center and Landscape Dept. at 27th and Broadway.

They were in business 40 years from 1932 – 1972.

Eddie Bradshaw died in 1966 and she sold the florist and garden center six years later.

Charles Henry Ulbricht

March 17, 1936 ~ Oct. 7, 2016

Charles Henry Ulbricht, 80, passed away on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016.

He was born March 17, 1936 in Twin Sisters, Texas.

He was preceded in death by his parents Tuska and Edmund Ulbricht, and brother Hans Richard “Jim” Ulbricht.

Charles served our country, enlisting in the Air Force in 1954 and was honorably discharged in 1958.

He met Mary Warren at the fillin’ station when she stopped in Burnet in July of 1960, he filled up her car with gas and he then asked her to join him at his family reunion.

Just a few months later they wed in November to be followed by 55 years together.

Orville Notice Hart

Nov. 27, 1929~Oct. 1, 2016

Orville Notice Hart, 86 of Granite Shoals, Texas passed away on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016.

He was born to Victor Floyd and Rosa Ethel (Rush) Hart on Nov. 27, 1929 in Briggs, Texas.

Mr. Hart proudly served is country in the United States Army.

Orville distributed newspapers and also worked other jobs and helping his wife raise their four sons.

He enjoyed camping, fishing, sports, especially football and baseball, hunting and raising animals.

Orville is survived by his sons, Jeffery Allen Hart of Granite Shoals, Texas, Alvin Dayton Hart of Granite Shoals, Texas, Michael J. Hart of Granite Shoals, Texas, five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; sisters, Cleda Thomas of Louisiana, Cassie Simpson of Amarillo, Texas, Ethel Watts and her husband Velton of Leander, Texas, and Doris Whitely of Belton, Texas.

Rynda Lere´ Brown

1962 ~ 2016

Rynda Lere’ Brown, loving wife, sister, mother and grandmother, passed away in the loving arms of her husband on September 26, 2016 at the too young age of 54 after a courageous and hard fought battle with myelofibrosis and leukemia.

Barthel Lewis Oxley

Barthel Lewis Oxley was born April 23, 1928 in Broxton, Oklahoma to John Thomas and Sylven Marion Young Oxley.

Bart attended school in Broxton, Oklahoma where he graduated.

He attended college at Frank Phillip College and received an electrical engineer degree from the University of Houston.

Bart grew up on his family farm near Apache, Oklahoma, where he learned to do many trades as part of keeping a farm operating.

After marrying, he moved to Borger, Texas, to work for Phillips Petroleum.

He worked for Phillips for 38 years in many different roles.

Bart was a "jack-of-all-trades", with talents he demonstrated by building four homes during his lifetime.

He was very active into his later years, helping his sons and others on projects where he could utilize his many skills.

Edker Miller Jr.

April 19, 1940 ~ Sept. 23, 2016

Edker Miller Jr., 76, of Marble Falls past from this life on Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 at home surrounded by family.

Edker was born on April 19, 1940 to Edker and Myrtle Brazell Miller and survived by his loving wife, Donna Miller.

Edker was a welder by trade and worked for Larry Crawford Welding company for many years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two daughters, Kristi and Tina and one grandson, Stephen and two sisters, Shirley and Glenda and numerous Aunts and Uncles.

He survived by his wife and children, Linda Fields and husband Mike of Lubbock, Stacy Mycue and husband Brent of Seguin and Corey Miller of Lincoln, Nebraska and ten grandchildren and six great grandchildren and brother Dale Miller and wife Kim of Roosevelt, OK sister, Donna of Florida.

Donn Martin Baumgartner

April 30, 1960 ~ Sept. 7, 2016

Donn Martin Baumgartner passed from this life on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, in Livermore, California.

After graduating from Judson High School in Converse, Texas, Donn continued his education at Rice University, Houston, Texas, having earned a scholarship there.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Computer Science.

Among other accomplishments, Donn was an inventor, and in June of 1997 registered a patent for “synchronizing audio and video data streams in a multimedia system”.

He worked for the IBM and Dell Corporations, and continued private contract work for several software companies during his life.