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Reverend Martin Nicholas Williams was the only child born to Helen Viser Williams and Raymond Williams. He entered this world on Feb. 20, 1932, in Browns Chapel, Texas. After surviving conditions doctors found miraculous for a man of his advanced years, he quietly slipped away on his own terms Monday, April 3, 2023. He attended J.A. Greene School in Schulenberg, Texas, then graduated with a BS and MS in Agricultural Education and a certification in guidance and counseling from Prairie View A&M University. He faithfully served at St. Paul United Methodist Church (UMC) in various capacities, including becoming a lay leader, a lay speaker, and eventually the interim pastor.
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Margaret Jane McCane (Rutherford) was born in Amarillo, Texas and lived a long, eventful life, passing at age 89 in Houston, Texas on March 24, 2023. Jane had a warm spirit that drew people to her and she thrived when interacting with others from clerks at the department store to family and friends she knew all her life. She never met a stranger! She had a lively sense of humor that shone in the twinkle in her eyes and the warmth of her smile.
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Nancy Louvenia Blumer Anderson passed away April 2, 2023. She was born to Bertram Bruce Blumer and Adella Marie Kirby Blumer on Oct. 18, 1941 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. She attended school there, graduating in 1959.
Read moreMartha Bowser Hastedt, born Jan. 2, 1938, died April 1, 2023 after a long illness. She and Robert were married Nov. 28, 1959. She is survived by husband Robert, sister-inlaw Jan Fry of San Antonio and Jan’s sons, Stephen, Casey and Joel and their families.
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Jason Edward Smith, 56, passed into the arms of the Lord suddenly on March 17, 2023, at his residence in Crandall, TX. Jason was born on March 7, 1967 in Eagle Lake to the late Sandra and Edd (Richard) Smith.
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Annie Margaret Girndt Moore, 87, of Rock Island, Texas, passed away on March 24, 2023, in Eagle Lake, Texas. She was born on May 2, 1935 to Lawrence Girndt and Bertha Carpenter in Rock Island, TX. On June 17, 1967 she married Michael William Moore, and they were proudly committed for 56 years.
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Mary Lucille Sarkozy was born in Jackson, Mississippi on Monday, Aug. 31, 1931, and passed away peacefully of natural causes, in Houston, Texas, on March 1, 2023. “Mary Lu” was 91 years old.
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Robert Arthur “Bobby” Zajicek, 83, of Columbus, Texas, entered into Eternal Rest on March 23, 2023.
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