Cedarvale  -  Bay City Cemetery

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Edward W. Reynal, Jr.

Edward W. Reynal, Jr.
(October 22, 1924 - December 7, 2013)

Edward Werner Reynal, Jr., 89, of Bay City passed away December 7, 2013. He was born October 22, 1924 in Forney, TX to the late Edward Werner Reynal, Sr. and Ruth Davis Reynal.

He graduated from Bay City High School in 1942 then joined the United States Army Air Force. He attended flight school and was commissioned a Lieutenant and trained to pilot medium bombers. He served in the 380th and 345th Bomb Group in the South Pacific Theatre during WWII.

Upon returning home from the war, he attended and graduated from Texas A&M in 1951 with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He retired from Phillips Petroleum Company after 32 years as Sr. Design Engineer.

He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Bay City. He was past master of Bay City Masonic Lodge #865 AF&AM and of Matagorda Masonic Lodge #7 AF&AM; past commander of Bay City Commandry #74; past High Priest of Bay City Chapter 315; past TIM Bay City Council #251; and past patron Bay City Chapter 380 OES.

He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Billie Jean Harris Reynal; son Stewart Reynal and wife Sherry; brother Thomas J. Reynal; grandsons Jason Reynal and Shane Reynal and nephew Tom Reynal.

The family will receive friends and relatives from 6pm until 8pm Thursday at the funeral home. Funeral service will be 2:00 PM Friday, December 13, 2013 with Dr. Russ Munch officiating. Interment will follow at Cedarvale Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Robert F. Narin, Bert Smith, Frank Mihalik, Eddie Douglas, Calvin Ward and Bill Bona.

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Stanley L. Robison          Margaret M. Robison

Robison Rites Held Monday

Stanley Lee Robison, 60, died at his residence on Sixth Street Saturday at 11 a. m. Funeral services were set for 4 p. m. Monday at Taylor Brothers Taylor Home with the Rev. Leslie LeGrand and Rev. F. Parke Smith officiating. Interment in Cedarvale Cemetery.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Margaret Millican Robison, Bay City, one sister, Miss Roberta Robison, Santa Ana, Calif.; one brother Joe Robison of Austin.

Pallbearers, L. B. Luder, Rowland Rugeley, P. R. Hamill, Arthur Harris, Ken Horton and M. L. Hale

Daily Tribune, August 4, 1959

Margaret Millican Robinson

Funeral services for Margaret Millican Robinson, 86, of Bay City will be held 2 p. m. Tuesday at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in West Columbia officiating. Burial will be in Cedarvale Cemetery, Bay City.

Mrs. Robison was born June 7, 1903, in Quintana, Texas, to Andrew Horace and Margaret June Willis Millican, and died July 30, 1989.

She was a member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and the Bay City Country Club.

Survivors include two sisters, Edwina M. Witchell of Bay City and Blanche M. Duncan of Stuttgart, Ark.; two nephews, J. C. Duncan and his wife, Ginger of Lafayette, La., and John Loser of Shawnee Mission, Kan.; two great-nephews, Stephen and Charles Duncan of Lafayette, La.; a niece, Edwina Millican Brown of Dallas; and several great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews.

Pallbearers include Frank Hawkins, Beadle Moore, Wade Ashcraft, J. C. Duncan, Steve Duncan, Charles Duncan, Bert Steves, Carey Smith and Cecil Stripling.

Honorary pallbearers include Hugh Strickland, Bert Huebner, Homer Hunter, Bob Wilkins, Sherman Houck, Dr. R. B. Caraway and Dr. Robert Satterfield.

In lieu of the usual contributions, memorials can be sent to the charity of choice or St. Mark’s Episcopal Church.

Arrangements are with Taylor Brothers Funeral Home, Bay City.

Daily Tribune, July 31 or August 1, 1989
 

Floy Crebbs Rochefort

Mrs. E. Rochefort
 

Wednesday Noon at the Loos Hospital, Mrs. Ernest Rochefort, who has been in failing health for some two years or more, but seriously ill for two weeks, passed away at the age of 66.

Interment was in Cedarvale Cemetery Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock, the funeral being held from the family residence on Avenue F, Rev. John Sloan of Houston officiating.

Surviving Mrs. Rochefort: her husband, Mr. Ernest Rochefort; one sister, Miss Ella Crebs and one niece, Miss Bettie Blaiborne, both of Union, West Virginia; and a nephew, Mr. Will Crebs, Flatonia.

Mrs. Rochefort came of good West Virginia stock, being before her marriage, Miss Floy Crebs of Union, West Virginia. She came to Bay City in its early days with her husband and family, and during the years of her residence here, has faced life’s issues with courage and has done whatever she could for those about her. She was a devoted member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church of Bay City, and had many friends among our people who deeply regret her failing health and death. To her husband and family we extend our sympathy.

Matagorda County Tribune, August 6, 1925
 

William D. Rondthaler

W. D. Rondthaler Is Suicide Victim, Today
No Motive Known For Taking Life

W. D. Rondthaler, age 59 years, killed himself this morning about 4:30 o’clock about one mile east of Van Vleck on the Houston highway. A forty-five caliber pistol lay near his hand, under his crumpled body, in his Buick roadster which he had driven just off the pavement. One shell had snapped but the man, so intent on taking his life, pulled the trigger again and this time the gun did not fail his command. The large caliber lead bullet entered the right side of his head about an inch and a half above his ear and came out the other side of his head almost exactly the same distance above the left ear. The bullet was lodged in the side of his car.

The body was found lying in the seat of the car with his head on the right side of the seat and his body under the driver’s seat. His personal belongings were found intact. No reason for his motive was discovered, no note or indication of his contemplating taking his life was found.

He had packed his suitcase and had made his final preparations to leave for San Antonio. He appeared in good spirits according to his many friends who saw him on his departure.

He left Bay City last night in his automobile but according to Dr. E. E. Scott when the body was examined today, he had not been over three hours. The body was examined about eight o’clock which made the time of the suicide bout 4:30 or 5:00 this morning.

Mr. Rondthaler had been a resident of the city for eight years. He came here and was employed in the Herder Rice Mill for several years. He ran the Gulf Filling Station west of the post office for several months and then resumed his job as bookkeeper for the Herder Rice Mill which position he held until the disastrous fire of last winter which deprived him as well as many others of a job.

He made an unsuccessful race for the office of district clerk. Following his defeat he sold his personal belongings from his apartment in the A. J. Hardy apartment garage and prepared to leave. At the time of his departure it was rumored that he had accepted an offer for a position in Boston which would pay him $6000 annually. To some of his close friends he remarked that it was hopeless to think of the job as he believed that his eyes were going back on him.

He was a Shriner, a college graduate, a major in the World War. He is survived by three sisters and two brothers, according to his friends, none of whom were located at this writing and funeral arrangements are pending. Taylor Bros. are in charge.

Mr. Rondthaler was very reticent about his personal life but his closest friends felt a degree of sorrow in his life at times. Those who knew him well knew him as a man of wealth and position at one time. He told this writer that a fire had wiped him out at one time. This was told this writer on the morning of the Herder Rice Mill fire.

Daily Tribune, June 1, 1934

W. D. Rondthaler Is Buried Here

W. D. Rondthaler, age 58 years, 4 months, who took his own life Thursday morning early one mile east of Van Vleck, was laid to rest today at 10’oclock in Cedarvale Cemetery. Rev. Paul Engle conducted the services at the home of Mr. P. G. Huston. The Masonic order conducted services at the grave. Taylor Bros. morticians were in charge of the arrangements.

Arrangements were made by a sister in Chicago of the deceased through a wire to Taylor Bros., after she was apprised of the unhappy occurrence.

“Rondy,” as everyone, young to old, knew this happy go lucky individual, was laid to rest this morning with a large gathering of sorrowing friends present. He was truly a gentleman and a scholar, a man who made friends and kept them. He never bothered anyone, even his closest friends with any of his troubles and not even his closest friends believed he had any. There are many sorrowing friends to mourn the life of this man. Pallbearers were R. Lee Williams of Eagle Lake, C. G. Potter, E. W. Willenberg, Henry LeTulle, Dr. E. E. Scott and Esker McDonald of Bay City.

Daily Tribune, June 2, 1934
 

Emma L. Rother          Alois F. Rother

A. F. Rother

A. F. Rother, farmer, died at the Turner hospital in Houston last night following an illness of long duration. Mr. Rother was born in Breslau, Germany, April 6, 1861. He was within one day of being 68 years old. He moved to America in 1887 and to Matagorda county in 1896 where he had been until the time of his death.

The deceased is survived by one daughter, Mrs. J. F. Reeves, and two sons, John and Ted.

F. W. Taylor, of Taylor Brothers, returned last night with the body and prepared it for burial. The funeral will be Monday at 3 o’clock from the Episcopal church.

Daily Tribune?, April 6, 1929

Mrs. Emma Rother

Mrs. Emma Rother, wife of Mr. A. F. Rother, died at her home in this city this morning at 3 o’clock, after an illness of several days. Mrs. Rother’s death, however, had not been good for the past two or three years, but, at that, the family did not expect the sudden end.

The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock, the Rev. Paul Engle, rector St. Mark’s, officiating.

Mrs. Rother was 49 years of age. She was born in Illinois and moved to Matagorda County 36 years ago. She was a member of the Episcopal Church, a splendid neighbor and devoted wife and mother.

She is survived by her husband and two sons, John and Theodore, to whom is extended the heartfelt sympathies of neighbors and friends.

Daily Tribune?, September, 1927
 

Henry Joseph Sherrer          Mildred Herman Sherrer

Henry Joseph Sherrer

Funeral services for Henry Joseph Sherrer, 71, of Bay City will be held at 11 a. m. Tuesday at Taylor Brothers Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Bill Leedicker officiating. Burial will be in Cedarvale Cemetery.

Mr. Sherrer was born Dec. 12, 1913 in Bay City to John Joseph and Dora Theo Kyesel Sherrer and died Nov. 24, 1985, at Memorial Southwest Hospital, Houston.

He was a member of the Methodist church.

Survivors include his wife, Mildred Sherrer of Bay City; three sons, John Herman Sherrer of Roanoke, Texas, Henry Joseph Sherrer of Fort Worth and Major Van Craig Sherrer of Rome, N. Y.; three sisters, Henrietta Ann Bryant of Port Comfort, Lucille Hinds of Katy and Norma Ramsey of Bay City; a brother, LeRoy R. Sherrer of Destin, Fla.; and seven grandchildren.

Pallbearers include James W. Sirles, Manuel Denn, Coy Ramsey, Ed Lee, C. O. Mardis and Joel Morrow.

Honorary pallbearers include Alfredo Elizondo, Charles Stephenson, Bill Luder, M. S. Gauthier, John Hinds, Connie Johnson, Nick Flores, Tommy Bryant and Marvin Landry.

Arrangements are with Taylor Brothers Funeral Home.

The Daily Tribune, Monday, November 25, 1985

FORT WORTH - Mildred B. Sherrer, 92, of Fort Worth, formerly of Bay City, died Friday, Feb. 3, 2006.

She was born July 5, 1913, in Odell, Neb. to the late John and Lillian Spirk Herman. She was a teacher in Bay City.

Survivors: sons, Henry Sherrer Jr., John Sherrer, and Van Sherrer; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Preceded in death by: husband, Henry J. Sherrer; and one sister.

Visitation will be 6:30-8 p.m. tonight at Bay City Funeral Home chapel.

Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church chapel, the Rev. Pauline Harvey officiating.

Burial will be at Cedarvale Cemetery. Bay City Funeral Home, Bay City, 979-245-4893.

The Victoria Advocate, February 6, 2006
 

John J. Sherrer           Dora T. Sherrer

John Joseph Sherrer

John Joseph Sherrer, 87, of Bay city died at the Matagorda General Hospital Oct. 6. Long time resident of Bay City and member of the First Presbyterian Church. Survivors include: wife, Dora Sherrer of Bay City; 3 daughters, Mrs. Tommy Bryant of Point Comfort, Mrs. John Hinds of Houston and Mrs. Coy Ramsey of Bay City; 3 sons, Henry Sherrer of Bay City, Eugene Sherrer of Youngstown, Ohio and Leroy Sherrer of Titusville, Fla.; 2 sisters, Mrs. Albert Gest and Mrs. Ellen Gest both of Bay City; 13 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. Funeral service will be held at the First Presbyterian Church, Oct. 9, Wednesday at 10 a. m. with Rev. William O’Neal officiating. Interment will be at the Cedarvale Cemetery. Pallbearers,: John Sherrer, Henry Sherrer, Kenneth Sherrer, Frank Sherrer, Gary Hinds and Walter Mayer. Arrangements with Taylor Bros. Funeral Home.

The Daily Tribune, October 6, 1974