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NEWSPAPER - THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE,  PO Box 1518, Victoria, Texas 77902,  Phone:  361-575-1451, The Victoria Advocate Web Site Online,  http://thevictoriaadvocate.com/ .  This historic newspaper has provided news service to the regional area for  over hundred years.  If there was a news making event, this newspaper probably recorded it.

 

NEWSPAPER - THE GOLIAD MESSENGER, THE GOLIAD ADVANCE , THE GOLIAD GUARD, THE GOLIAD WEEKLY GUARD, THE GOLIAD ADVANCE GUARD, represent the various newspapers published locally for Goliad County, Texas.  The years range from circa 1856-1941, with some missing issues.  Microfilm copies are available at three principle repositories.  The most principle source is the Goliad County Public Library, 320 South Commercial Street, P. O. Box 1025, Goliad, TX  77963, Phone:  (361) 645-2291.  Another source, The VC/UHV LIBRARY, 2602 N. Ben Jordan Victoria, Texas 77901, Phone: (361) 570-4177, and the VC/UHV LIBRARY , http://vcuhvlibrary.uhv.edu/libraryinfo/home.cfm , has many of the publications by year.  Another  principle source, The University of Texas at Austin, Collection of the Center for American History, Austin, Texas 78712, Phone:  512-495-4515, and their web site online, http://www.cah.utexas.edu/index.html

 

 

"W"  SURNAMES:  OBITUARIES AND OBITUARY ABSTRACTS OF GOLIAD COUNTY

WAITSCHIES,  EUGENE W

 

From Nov. 16, 1982 newspaper obit: Eugene W. Waitschies, Funeral services for Eugene W. Waitschies, 62, former resident of Victoria who died Saturday at his residence in Gulfport, Miss., after a long illness, will be held at 1;30 p.m. Thursday at Riemann's Funeral Home in Gulfport. Burial will be in the National Cemetery in Biloxi, Miss. A longtime resident of Mississippi, Mr. Waitschies was born Dec. 2, 1919 in Goliad, the son of the late Henny and the late Emma Natho Waitschies. A veteran of World War II, he was a member of the Lunteran Church. Survivors include his wife Lucille Necaise Waitschies of Gulfport; a daughter, Joyce Hart of Tucson, Ariz.; a son, Capt Gary Waitschies of Slicklerville, N. J.; a brother, Alvin Waitschies of Victoria; four sisters, Mrs. Herbert Post Sr. and Mrs. Edwin Martin, both of Victoria; Mrs. Joel Bego and Mrs. Roland Franke, both of Goliad; and----

 

WILHELM,  MRS. CECILIA 

 

Newspaper Obit: Goliad: Mrs. Cecilia Wilhelm, 82, of Goliad, died Monday evening in a Goliad nursing home. Born May 11, 1898, in Goliad County, Mrs. Wilhelm was a housewife and a member of the Lutheran church. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in St. John's Lutheran Church in Goliad with the Rev. Clarence Hagens officiating. Burial will follow in the Kilgore Community Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the church from 1 p.m. Wednesday until time for services. A prayer service will be held Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Colonial Funeral Home chapel in Goliad. The family requests that in lieu of the usual remembrances contributions be made to a favorite charity. Surviving are Mrs. Wilhelm's husband, Edwin Wilhelm of Goliad; two daughters, Mrs. Ewald Post and Mrs. Clarence Franke, both of Goliad; a son, Allen Wilhelm of Victoria; seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Stanley, Kenneth and Gary Post, Anthony Wilhelm, Darrell Franke and Lee Ray Wright.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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