Recent Obituaries

Virginia Perez

Feb 17, 2019

Virginia H. Perez, 90, passed away from this life on Sunday, February 17, 2019 at her home in Texas City, Texas surrounded by her family. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., February 21, 2019, at St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Mt. Olivet. Visitation will be 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Wednesday,...

Ezequiel Villarreal

Feb 15, 2019

Our loving father Ezequiel Villarreal was born October 19, 1933 in a ranch called "El Alamo" outside the city of Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. His mother Juanita Villarreal later married but became a widow at a young age and decided to move to Texas with her three young children; Ezequiel, Margarita and Lupe. There she met and married...

Thomas Ketchum

Feb 13, 2019

Thomas Barret Ketchum, 61 of Texas City, Texas went home to heaven on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at Harbor Hospice in Houston, Texas surrounded by his loving family. Memorial services will be held 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 13, 2019 with a visitation from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City, Texas. Tommy was born on...

Octava Bridges

Feb 9, 2019

Octava Long Bridges, 101, of Texas City, Texas passed away Saturday, February 9, 2019 at Elmcroft of the Mainland. Octava Bridges was born May 11, 1917 in Downsville, Louisiana. She was a housewife, except for a few years she packed bullets in an ammunition plant during World War II. Funeral services will be held 12:00 p.m., Thursday, February 14,...

Lorraine Stubblefield

Feb 6, 2019

Lorraine Stubblefield, 94, of Texas City, passed away peacefully in her home with her son by her side on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. Funeral services will be held 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 13, 2019, at Memorial Lutheran Church in Texas City with a visitation between 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Burial will follow at Hayes Grace Memorial Park. Lorraine Stubblefield...

Richard Harrison, Sr.

Feb 5, 2019

Richard Gerald Harrison Sr., 58, of Galveston, passed away Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at his home. Memorial services will be held at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 13, 2019 with a visitation between 5:00 -7:00 p.m., at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City, Texas. Richard Gerald Harrison, Sr. was born September 29, 1960 in Dallas County, Texas. He was an...

Sairanne Albanese

Jan 31, 2019

Sairanne Albanese, 82, passed away January 31, 2019 at Mainland Medical Center In Texas City. Full obituary to follow

Visitation Emken-Linton Funeral Home 5100 Emmett F. Lowry Expressway Texas City, TX  77591 Monday, March 25, 2019 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Service Memorial Service Emken-Linton Funeral Home 5100 Emmett F. Lowry Expressway Texas...

Helen Decker

Jan 27, 2019

Helen Ann Krell Decker, 69 years young, left all her ailments of body behind and took her zest for life to her new home in Heaven on January 27, 2019. Born to Eulogia Solis and Albert Raymond Krell she entered this world as the oldest of four children on April 4, 1949. Along with her siblings Marie, Raymond and...

Evelyn Preston

Jan 26, 2019

Evelyn M. Preston, 61, of Hitchcock, Texas, passed away Saturday, January 26, 2019 in Galveston, Texas at Jennie Sealy UTMB Hospital. Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m., Saturday, February 2, 2019 at Austin Temple First Church of God in Christ, 6713 Backstrom Street Hitchcock, Texas. Burial will follow at Barbours Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be 10:00 a.m., Saturday...

Sabrina Dempsey

Jan 23, 2019

Sabrina Marie Dempsey, 28, a homemaker of Liverpool, Texas passed away January 23, 2019 in Hitchcock, Texas. Due to a car wreck, alongside her fiancée, Bradley Holcomb. Funeral Services will be held Saturday February 2nd at 4:00pm at Allison Memorial Chapel in St. Marys, Georgia. Sabrina was born August 26th, 1990 in Jacksonville, Florida to Annmarie Waggoner and Jerry...

James Niebuhr

Jan 21, 2019

James Robert (Jim) Niebuhr, 83, long time resident of La Marque passed away Monday, January 21, 2019 at his residence in League City, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at First United Methodist Church of La Marque, 1825 Howell. Burial will follow at Galveston County Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be held...

James Reynolds

Jan 14, 2019

James "Jim" Aubrey Reynolds, 99, of Texas City, Texas passed away Monday, January 14, 2019. Jim was born on August 8, 1919 in Edmonson County, Kentucky to Raymond Reynolds and Gertie Jane (Martin) Reynolds. Jim was a retired Army Major, who served his country fighting in the Pacific during World War II, and also served during the Korean War....

Sara Busbee

Jan 13, 2019

Sara Aline Slaughter Busbee, 81, of Texas City, passed away Sunday, January 13, 2019. Graveside services will be held 10:00 a.m., Friday, January 18, 2019 at Galveston Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Thursday, January 17, 2019 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City, Texas. Sally was born in Houston, Texas to Sarah Faye Johnson...

Mary Berg

Jan 2, 2019

Mary Sue Berg, 83, of Texas City, passed away January 2. 2018 at Mainland Medical Center in Texas City, Texas. Memorial services will be held 11:00 a.m., January 8, 2019 with a visitation from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m., at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City. Mary Berg was born June 6, 1935 in Bastrop, Louisiana. She was a Registered...

Dorothy Carroll

Jan 1, 2019

Dorothy Carroll, 89, of Houston, Texas passed away January 1, 2019 at Clear Lake Regional Hospital in Webster, Texas.

Service Graveside Service Restwood Memorial Park 1038 West Plantation Drive Clute, TX  77531 Thursday, January 10, 2019 1:00 p.m. Cemetery Restwood Memorial Park 1038 West Plantation Drive Clute, TX  77531

Stacy King

Dec 31, 2018

Stacy Renee King, 52, of La Marque Texas, passed away December 31, 2018 peacefully at home surrounded by family. She was a fighter and battled her breast cancer for close to 3 years. Memorial services will be held 12:00 p.m., Sunday, January 13, 2019 with a visitation starting at 11:00 a.m. at Emken-Linton Funeral home in Texas City. Stacy...

Glenda Murphy

Dec 27, 2018

Glenda O'Dell Murphy, 74, a long-time resident of Texas City, Texas passed away at her home on December 27, 2018. Glenda was surrounded by her children, sisters and grandchildren. Glenda was born December 11, 1944 to Edward P. and Agnes O'Dell in Galveston, Texas. After Catholic School in Galveston, the family settled in Texas City. Glenda attended Texas City...

Johnnie Rios, Jr.

Dec 27, 2018

Johnnie J. Rios, Jr., 75, of Texas City, passed away on December 27,2018 surrounded by his family in Texas City. Visitation will be at 10:00 A.M. on Friday, January 4, 2019, with the Funeral service to follow at 11:00 A.M. at Emken-Linton Funeral Home, 5100 Emmet F. Lowry Expressway, Texas City, with Deacon John Carrillo officiating. He will be...

George Mccoy

Dec 25, 2018

George H. McCoy, 91, of Marble Falls, Texas, formerly a longtime resident of Texas City, Texas, passed away December 25, 2018 at his residence. Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, January 5, 2019 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Hayes-Grace Memorial Park. Visitation will be at 10:00 a.m. Saturday January 5, 2019 at the funeral...

William Craig

Dec 24, 2018

William Lacy Craig born on October 26, 1921, passed away peacefully on December 24, 2018. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, December 29, 2018, with a visitation to begin at 12:00 p.m., at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City. Burial will follow at Hayes Grace Memorial Park. He is survived by his wife and soul mate...