Recent Obituaries

Dr. Gonzalez

Dec 24, 2017

Dr. Fedora (Fay) González, 91, passed away December 24, 2017 in Lewisville, Texas. Funeral Services will be held at St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal Catholic Church, 1604 9th Avenue N. Texas City, Texas at 1:00 p.m. Friday, December 29, 2017. Burial will follow at Galveston Memorial Park in Hitchcock, Texas. Visitation will be at 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,...

Louise Hamrick

Dec 22, 2017

Louise Hamrick made her much anticipated arrival on Earth Nov. 3, 1942. As a child, her father was working at the Port of Texas City on April 16, 1947- commonly referred to as the Texas City Disaster. That day, she lost her father and her brother. Her mother re married, and her stepfather raised her and two other siblings...

Louise Palmer

Dec 17, 2017

Louise C. Palmer, 93, of Santa Fe, passed away Sunday, December 17, 2017 at Regent Care Center in League City. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday 21, 2017, at Trinity Lutheran Church in La Marque. Burial will follow at Hayes Grace Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at...

Dolores Gongora

Dec 14, 2017

Dolores Escalante Gongora of Texas City, Texas, formerly of Galveston, passed away Thursday, December 14, 2017. Dolores was born in Galveston, Texas on March 24, 1933 to Adrian and Aurelia Escalante. A Funeral Mass will be held Tuesday, December 19, at 10:00 a.m. at St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal Church in Texas City. Burial will follow at Hayes...

Raymond Lasoya

Dec 13, 2017

Raymond LaSoya, 71, of Texas City, passed away Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at Bay Area Reginal Hospital. Funeral services will be held 10:00 am., Saturday, December 16, 2017 at Emken Linton Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Forest Park East Cemetery. Visitation will be 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Friday, December 15, 2017 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City....

Susan Martin

Dec 7, 2017

Susan Elaine Martin, 29, of La Marque, passed away Thursday, December 7, 2017. She was born August 11, 1988 in Houston, Texas. Survivors include parents, Charles and Julie Martin; brother, Paul Martin; sister, Rachel Stryker; aunts, Mary Birckbichler, Laurie Buchanan and numerous other relatives and friends. Graveside services will be held 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at Galveston...

David Perez

Dec 7, 2017

David Albert Perez, 64, of Texas City, passed away Thursday, December 7, 2017 at his residence. Funeral services will be held 10:00 a.m., Friday, December 15, 2017 at St. Mary Miraculous Medal Catholic Church in Texas City. Burial will follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Visitation will be 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Thursday, December 14, 2017 with a rosary to...

Thomas Sledge, Jr.

Dec 2, 2017

Colonel Thomas Edward Sledge, Jr. (retired U.S. Air Force) took his final flight Saturday, December 2, 2017, at 8:30 am at Mainland Hospital in Texas City, Texas. The Colonel was born December 29, 1921, to Mildred Russell Sledge and Thomas Edward Sledge, Sr. in Louise, Mississippi. He spent his childhood in Shreveport, Louisiana with his mother and younger brother...

Theresa Stritz-Harris

Nov 30, 2017

Theresa Barlow Stritz-Harris, 91, of Texas City, was called home on November 30, 2017 surrounded by her loving family. Funeral services will be held 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home with Rev. Carl Strickland officiating. Entombment will follow at Galveston Memorial Park Mausoleum. Visitation will be 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Monday, December 4, 2017...

Margie Blackburn

Nov 24, 2017

Margie Cureton Blackburn went to be with her Lord on November 24, 2017 at 2:00 in the morning after a long struggle with breast cancer and Alzheimer's. Margie Neal was born August 8, 1921 in Nacogdoches county to Norman Alford Daniel and Mattie Mae Peacock. She is preceded in death by sisters, Lateen Hall, Malie Baugh, Merle Lanier; husbands,...

Joseph Saunders

Nov 24, 2017

Joseph Laird Saunders passed away peacefully on November 24, 2017 surrounded by his family Frances Acree Saunders and daughters Kim Saunders Hamilton and Karen Saunders. He was born to Oscar and Leola Saunders January 19,1937 in McPherson, Kansas. His family moved to Texas City where he grew up and graduated from LaMarque High School in 1956. He was a...

Tommy Briggs

Nov 23, 2017

Tommy Ray Briggs, beloved husband, dad, granddaddy, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend, passed away November 23, 2017, at the age of 81 years. He spent his last night on earth visiting and laughing with family and friends and died peacefully in his sleep next to the woman he loved and cherished. Tommy was born July 16, 1936, in Kosse,...

Pamela Wytovak

Nov 22, 2017

Pamela Wytovak, 58, of Texas City, Texas, passed away Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at Mainland Medical Center in Texas City, Texas. Memorial services will be held 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at Emken-Linton Funeral Home. Pamela was born October 7, 1959 in Texas City, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents, Clement and Lillian Pavlu. Survivors...

Felix Valusek

Nov 22, 2017

Services are pending. Obituary to follow.

June Elliott

Nov 21, 2017

Services are pending. Obituary to follow.

Joan Ireland

Nov 14, 2017

Joan Estelle Ireland, 85, of Texas City, Texas passed away on November 14, 2017 at Bay Area Regional Medical Center. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at the First Baptist Church located at 3210 Gulf Freeway in Texas City. Joan Ireland was born in Milo, Maine on November 27, 1931. She was a...

John Pinkston

Nov 12, 2017

John Robert Pinkston passed from this life on Sunday, November 12, 2017. John was born in Mercedes, Texas on October 31, 1937 to Edward Gregory Pinkston and Katherine (Kate) Alice Seidcheck. John graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. After a brief stint in the Army, John went to work...

Ronald Plackemeier

Nov 11, 2017

Ronald Frederick Plackemeier "Capt. Ron" left this world for his heavenly home on Saturday November 11th at the age of 65. Ron passed away peacefully in his sleep at his families' home in College Station simply referred to as "The Woods". Ron grew up in Houston, Texas, was a graduate from Texas A&M University in 1975 and received his...

Wayne Leopard

Nov 11, 2017

Visitation Emken-Linton Funeral Home 5100 Emmett F. Lowry Exp Texas City, TX  77591 Friday, November 17, 2017 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Service Memorial Service Emken-Linton Funeral Home 5100 Emmett F. Lowry Exp Texas CIty, TX  77591 Friday, November 17, 2017 11:00 a.m.

Wilbur Pettyjohn

Nov 6, 2017

Wilbur Eugene "Gene" Pettyjohn of Texas City passed from this life on Monday evening, November 6, 2017. Gene was born on April 19, 1927 in Three Sands, OK to Charles Mead and Louise Boyer-Pettyjohn both deceased by 1972. The baby of the family, he had three elder brothers, George, Glen, and Howard, also, all now deceased. Raised in Neodesha,...