Recent Obituaries
Sherry Baker
Apr 27, 2019
Sherry Joan Baker, 68, of Kemah passed away on Saturday, April 27, at Methodist Hospital in Houston. At Sherry's request, no services will be held. Please remember her in your own way. Sherry was born February 24, 1951 in Selma, Alabama. She worked for American National for over 30 years, and loved to garden and travel, especially to the...
Sheila Barger
Apr 22, 2019
Sheila Rose Barger passed away Monday, April 22, 2019 and the age of 91. Funeral services will be held 3:00 p.m., Thursday, April 25, 2019 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Galveston Memorial Park. Visitation will be 2:00 -3:00 p.m., Thursday, April 25, 2019 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City. Sheila Barger was born August 4,...
Mary Pizzuto
Apr 14, 2019
Mary June Davis Pizzuto, 83, of Texas City, passed away on Palm Sunday, April 14, 2019, peacefully at home. Funeral services will be held at Emken-Linton Funeral Home Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 5:00 p.m., for family, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., for friends and 7:00 p.m., for services. Burial will follow at Mount Olivet Cemetery on Thursday, March 18,...
Steven Shipley
Apr 13, 2019
Steven Lane Shipley, 46, of Texas City, Texas, passed away Saturday, April 13, 2019 at Clear Lake Regional Hospital in Webster Texas. Steven was born September 19. 1972 in Lubbock, Texas. He was a teacher at Beta Academy in Houston and really loved all the students there. He was previously a pastor at a church in Lamesa, Texas. During...
Sharon Kemp
Apr 9, 2019
Sharon Irish Kemp of Friendswood, Texas, passed away on the morning of April 9, 2019, at the age of 71. Sharon was born August 23, 1947 to Sherman Irish and Margie O'Neal Irish in Ukiah, California. She settled in Texas as a child and attended La Marque High School. It was there that she met the love of her...
Kenneth Kraus
Apr 5, 2019
Kenneth Kolt Kraus, 56, of Texas City, passed away Friday, April 5, 2019. A visitation will be held from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Thursday, April 11, 2019, at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City, Texas. Graveside services will be held 11:00 a.m., Friday, April 12, 2019, at Hayes Grace Memorial Park. Kenneth Kraus was born April 25, 1962, in...
Joanne Nessler
Mar 30, 2019
Joanne Marie Schneggenburger Nessler, 83, of Tiki Island, Texas, passed away Saturday, March 30, 2019. Visitation will be at 1:00 p.m., Friday, April 12, 2019, at Emken-Linton Funeral Home, followed by a Memorial service at 2:00 p.m. Joanne was born May 31, 1935, in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, to Eligius J. Schneggenburger and Helen M. Lenahan. Her father was...
Juan Vazquez
Mar 28, 2019
Juan Vazquez, 80, of Dickinson, Texas, passed away Thursday, March 28, 2019 at Mainland Medical Center in Texas City. A Funeral Mass will be held 11:00 a.m., Friday, April 5, 2019 at St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal Catholic Church in Texas City. Burial will follow at Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Dickinson. Visitation will be 5:00 p.m. -...
Carolyn Boatright
Mar 27, 2019
Carolyn N. Boatright, formerly a long-time resident of La Marque, Texas, passed away on March 27, 2019 at her residence at Village on the Park, Friendswood, Texas. Carolyn was born on October 3, 1936 in Muldoon, Fayette County, Texas to Parker and Violet Nite Brown. She moved to La Marque with her parents in the early 1940s, where Carolyn...
Violet Churchill
Mar 27, 2019
Violet Joyce Ober-Churchill, age 89, of La Marque, TX passed away peacefully and surrounded by family on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. Violet was born on July 4, 1929 to Charlotte and Alfred Ober. She graduated from La Marque High School and went on to marry her beloved husband, Clyde Churchill in 1947. Violet and Clyde were active members of...
Charles Davis
Mar 22, 2019
Charles "Charlie" Lee Davis, 80, of Bedias, Texas, passed away Friday, March 22, 2019 at St. Luke's Hospital. Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home. Visitation will be held 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Monday, April 1, 2019 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City. Charles "Charlie" Lee Davis was born February...
Robert Himmel, Jr.
Mar 22, 2019
Robert Teel Himmel, Jr., 62, of Mont Belvieu, Texas for 13 years and La Porte, Texas 11 years prior to that, passed away Friday, March 22, 2019, at Harbor Hospice in Houston, Texas. Funeral services will be held 4:00 p.m., Saturday, March 30, 2019, at Emken - Linton Funeral Home. Visitation will be an hour prior, from 3:00 p.m....
Guadalupe Sauceda
Mar 17, 2019
Guadalupe "Lupe" Martinez Sauceda, 93, of Texas City went to be with our Lord on Sunday, March 17, 2019, at Mainland Medical Center. Funeral services will be held 12:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at Emken Linton Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Galveston Memorial Park. Visitation will be 11:00 a.m., March 26, 2019 at Emken Linton Funeral Home....
Brian Goodman
Mar 17, 2019
Brian Lee Goodman, 59, of LaPort, passed away Sunday, March 17, 2019, at Kingwood, Texas. Funeral services will be held 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 29, 2019, at Emken Linton Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Galveston Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 29, 2019 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City. Brian...
Cheryl Giddings
Mar 16, 2019
Cheryl Christine Reed, née Giddings,72, went to be with her Lord and Savior Saturday, March 16 at UTMB Jennie Sealy Hospital in Galveston, TX. Cheryl was born in the Heights of Houston, Texas in 1947 to the late Verbon Eugene "Rock" Giddings and Christine Jeannette "Chris" Giddings, née Woodruff. The family relocated to Texas City in 1958 where Cheryl...
Dolores Fields
Mar 16, 2019
Dolores Ann Fields, 77 years of age, of Texas City, passed away on March 16, 2019. Memorial services will be held 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 20, 2019 with a visitation from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m., at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City. There will be no burial services to follow per family request. Dolores was born on June 25,...
Jose Andrade
Mar 16, 2019
Jose Abraham Andrade, 45, of Texas City, was tragically killed in an automobile accident while driving to work on Highway 225 in Pasadena, Texas and passed away Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 4:00 a.m. Memorial services will be held 7:00 p.m., Friday, June 7, 2019 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City, Texas. Jose Abraham Andrade was born September...
Jose Hernandez
Mar 15, 2019
Jose M. Hernandez, 102 years, of Houston, TX, passed away Friday, March 15, 2019 at his home in Clear Lake City, surrounded by family. Mr. Hernandez was born in Morelia, Mexico on March 8, 1917, and proudly served in the US Army, deployed to Europe during World War II. As a Bazooka operator, Mr. Hernandez was one of the...
Jimmy Grigg
Mar 13, 2019
Jimmy Lee Grigg, 53, of Santa Fe, passed away Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Memorial services will be held 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 20, 2019 with a visitation from 12:00 -1:00 p.m., at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City, Texas. Jimmy was preceded in death by his father, Roy Grigg, Sr., grandparents, Louise Cope, Herman Tilitzki, Janie Grigg and Raymond...
Norma Miller
Mar 10, 2019
Norma J. Miller, 82, entered Jehovah's kingdom on March 10, 2019. Born on August 5th, 1936 to Naomi and Royal Knotts in Elwood, Indiana. She moved to Galveston in 1951 where she met the love of her life, Jack Miller; and started a family. She will always be remembered for the great care and love she gave children in...
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